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Justin Baumgardner @jpbaumgardner.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Jett's Bagels at the Broadway Market knows what's up.

A sign depicting pepperoni pizza bagels and pierogi bagels.

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Justin Baumgardner @jpbaumgardner.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Use Rosenberg continuing to just make a billion games. Anyway, #PAXU Day 2 starts with Click A Tree.

Click A Tree main board, showing game tiles and a tree standee.

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Justin Baumgardner @jpbaumgardner.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Cute stars and space game, Twinkle Twinkle! #PAXU

A single player's board, completed with star/space acrylic tiles, for the board game Twinkle Twinkle.

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Justin Baumgardner @jpbaumgardner.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Wild lack of greenery through the first eight generations in the Terraforming Mars tournament game. Then trees showed up everywhere. #PAXU

A finished game state of Terraforming Mars, set up for five players.

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Justin Baumgardner @jpbaumgardner.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

First game of PAX Unplugged! Wispwood by Reed Ambrose:

Wispwood board and tiles, next to a box lid.

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Justin Baumgardner @jpbaumgardner.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I had a very nice pack in the starter deck I picked up.

Riftbound cards: Lee Sin, Centered; Darius, Hand of Noxus; Ahri, Inquisitive

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Justin Baumgardner @jpbaumgardner.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Played in February, including 12 new ones! Rebirth and Finspan were definitely the highlights on the table each of their game nights. (Split the grid between in-person and digital this time.) #boardgames #bgstats

BG Stats 4 x 4.
Star Wars: Unlimited;
Noobs in Space;
Unpublished Prototype;
Kites;
Spots;
River Valley Glassworks;
Finspan;
The Quacks of Quedlinburg;
Last Light;
Bunny Kingdom;
Rebirth;
New York Zoo;
Planted: A Game of Nature & Nurture;
The Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle-earth;
Skull;
Flip 7.

BG Stats 3 x 3.
Bunny Kingdom;
Cartographers;
Fromage;
Terraforming Mars;
Lost Ruins of Arnak;
Let's Go! To Japan;
Viticulture Essential Edition;
Tokaido.

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Justin Baumgardner @jpbaumgardner.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Some January 2025 #BGStats! First plays of Arcs, Last Light, and Stardew Valley were awesome. All that Harmonies play was both in-person and on BGA - I just wanted to keep playing it. #boardgames

BG Stats 5 x 5.
Total time played:
6h: Harmonies;
4h: Cartographers;
2h: Star Wars: Unlimited;
1h: River Valley Glassworks;
5h: Wyrmspan;
2h: Viticulture Essential Edition;
2h: Dune: Imperium;
2h: Wingspan;
1.5h: Splendor Duel;
1.5h: Flourish;
44m: Bunny Kingdom;
34m: Splendor;
3h: Root;
3h: Arcs;
3h: Last Light;
3h: Stardew Valley: The Board Game;
1.5h: Everdell;
1h: Kinfire Delve: Scorn's Stockade;
43m: Cascadia: Rolling Hills;
38m: Portals.

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Justin Baumgardner @jpbaumgardner.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

At some point, ask if the Mega-lorian is carrying too many gadgets. #StarWars

Star Wars Unlimited's "Follower of the Way" card with four upgrade cards under it.

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Justin Baumgardner @jpbaumgardner.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

While stats were only kept in the second half of 2024, I'm super happy with this Year in Review! A ton of new games played and some very cool people to play them with. #boardgames #bgstats

BG Stats 2024

Plays: 138
H-index: 6
Games: 52
New: 33
Players: 46
Locations: 17
Hours: 129
Days: 63

Terraforming Mars: 16.4h
Wingspan: 11.2h
Dune: Imperium: 8.9h
Wyrmspan: 8.8h
Star Wars: Unlimited: 5.3h
Splendor Duel: 4.9h
Everdell: 4.5h
Moonrakers: 4.1h
Cartographers: 3.5h

67 designers:
James A. Wilson: 7%
Clarissa A. Wilson: 5%
(Uncredited): 3%
Jordy Adan: 3%
Kevin Wilson: 3%.

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Justin Baumgardner @jpbaumgardner.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

#FirstPlay of Everdell Duo ended in a tie with 56 points each... and with @allayva.bsky.social taking the tiebreaker. #boardgames

Cards and rabbit meeples from the board game Everdell Duo.

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Justin Baumgardner @jpbaumgardner.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

An awesome month for #boardgames, with some recurring favorites and new games mixed in. Flourish landed on the table a lot, tried out Stamp Swap for the first time, and dug into Prelude 2 for Terraforming Mars. This will likely look much different after next week's #PAXUnplugged adventure.

BG Stats 4 x 4.
Total time played:
3h: Flourish;
3h: Star Wars: Unlimited;
8h: Dune: Imperium;
5h: Wyrmspan;
2h: Stamp Swap;
1h: Splendor Duel;
58m: Pokémon Trading Card Game;
5h: Warhammer 40,000 (Tenth Edition);
3h: Terraforming Mars;
2h: Everdell;
1.5h: Everdell Farshore;
1.5h: Star Wars: The Deckbuilding Game;
1h: Wingspan;
1h: Flamecraft;
32m: Cartographers Heroes;
32m: Skull.

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Justin Baumgardner @jpbaumgardner.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Friendly little dragons ready for an adventure in town! #boardgames #flamecraft

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Justin Baumgardner @jpbaumgardner.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Had a good time catching Wild Area Pokémon during the event yesterday with @allayva.bsky.social and a bunch of Buffalo's trainers! It's great to have enough people for those massive Gigantamax raids. #pokemongo

A group of people posing for a photo in the woods, holding a blue banner in the center that reads "Pokémon Go Community Ambassador Program."

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Justin Baumgardner @jpbaumgardner.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Game 2? Lost it, but look at these shiny rare stamps up in the corner.

Stamp Swap, the board game. Showing three rare stamps in the upper left corner of the player board.

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Justin Baumgardner @jpbaumgardner.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

First games of #StampSwap at the FLGS tonight! Game #1 ended in a tie, broken by a single rare stamp. #BoardGames

Stamp Swap board game instruction manual and board.

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Justin Baumgardner @jpbaumgardner.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

It was really fun! Only a few new Mars corporations, but we got really into the "theme" of the ones we picked to play. This was my favorite flavor text.

Terraforming Mars card, with flavor text that reads "Building infrastructure in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune to hurl asteroids and comets at Mars."

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Justin Baumgardner @jpbaumgardner.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

New corporations *think* they can thrive on Mars. First Prelude 2 playthrough tonight. #TerraformingMars #BoardGames

Box covers of Terraforming Mars Prelude 2, and Hellas & Elysium.

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Justin Baumgardner @jpbaumgardner.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

Quieter month of #BoardGames, likely due to playing nearly a dozen games of Dune: Imperium digitally. All the same, some awesome evenings!

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Justin Baumgardner @jpbaumgardner.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

#BoardGames played in September 2024. Camel Up was surprisingly funny, and especially great with seven players. Twilight Inscription and Project L were the first-plays I thought most about.

BG Stats 4 x 4.
Total time played:
1.5h: Star Wars: Unlimited;
1.5h: Camel Up (Second Edition);
48m: Project L;
2h: Nemesis;
2h: Flamecraft;
1.5h: Twilight Inscription;
43m: Star Wars: The Deckbuilding Game;
33m: Tofu Kingdom;
27m: Sushi Go!;
19m: Skull.

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Justin Baumgardner @jpbaumgardner.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Hey hey. Adding to the big news feed of numbers with this one.

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Justin Baumgardner @jpbaumgardner.bsky.social · 17/06/2024

The United Nations Mars Initiative prevailed, mainly on the back of botany and biodiversity.

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Justin Baumgardner @jpbaumgardner.bsky.social · 17/06/2024

It's the UNMI up against Cheung Shing Mars in Elysium.

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Justin Baumgardner @jpbaumgardner.bsky.social · 17/06/2024

Hello, from the other side of Mars!

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Justin Baumgardner @jpbaumgardner.bsky.social · 05/06/2024

After 12 generations, @allayva.bsky.social's Mining Guild overtook Robinson Industries in a score of 110 to 104. There was a clear steel vs science battle going on, helping Mars populate with its highest number of cities (at least in our memory.)

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Justin Baumgardner @jpbaumgardner.bsky.social · 05/06/2024

Today's corporate contenders: Robinson Industries vs Mining Guild!

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Justin Baumgardner @jpbaumgardner.bsky.social · 05/06/2024

Time for another exciting exploration into the many possible futures for Mars!

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Justin Baumgardner @jpbaumgardner.bsky.social · 27/08/2023

Third place in the 2023 Taskmaster Challenge. Not bad.

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Justin Baumgardner @jpbaumgardner.bsky.social · 11/08/2023

An absolutely WILD number of cards were played.

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