Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 04/09/2026A bit more on "Witchstone" from Reiner Knizia and Martino Chiacchiera. It has a BIG board where you're placing witches for area control, another section where you're moving around gathering bonuses or points. The central mechanism is Ingenious(the Knizia design) matching symbols for actions. 140
Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 03/09/2026August Game Plays Frenzy Falls was... Way faster than I expected. I really enjoyed Gold Country and LOVED Hanami. Witchstone was good, but really hard to teach, lots of things to introduce at the start before anyone knows what's going on. Diamonds is a classic, and so is Alhambra. 140
Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I might forget to post my plays, but I've been active. I enjoyed dnup, but Scout still shines. Propolis is a great design, I was surprised by how much game was in such a small box. 130
Reposted by Mike A.Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 22/08/2026thank you Love you🤍 I'm Trans gender ally🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Trans gender people is family✨ 322303451
Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I totally understand the frustration with Christopher Nolan's #TheOdyssey. How are people supposed to take this as a serious adaptation when there's NO SIGN of New Donk City? Not even a single reference to jumping rope or Mayor Pauline. 000
Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Hearing @alexhorne.bsky.social doing the scoring on the @gamechanger.dropout.tv Earwigs made me realize that @samreich.bsky.social is just TOYING WITH US about the eventual Full Crossover between Game Changer and Taskmaster. 032
Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 11/07/2026The most recent #GameNight had us playing Incan Gold, DNUP, Startups and (not pictured) Cockroach Poker. The pictured Temple for Incan Gold was what ONE player had access to after the rest of us all tried to grab the Unique Treasure at the same time. He easily won. He got 70 points, we got 5. 101
Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 11/07/2026My #BoardGame plays for June. Really loved Mille Fiori, Lord of things to think about. Always good to play 6Nimit. 150
Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 10/07/2026In May I made sure to make up for the lack of Knizia games in April. I really liked Avante Card, interesting take on a Deck Building Game and great production. I played Blue Moon City to prepare for Discworld: Readers Digested. Art Robbery remains a favorite recent find, quick and fun to lose. 000
Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 07/06/2026It turns out both @tmbg.bsky.social and The Sacramento Public Library want me to Meet James Ensor 000
Reposted by Mike A.Boo-ly, Little Ghost Bull 👻🐮 @bullythelsb.bsky.social · 02/06/2026The only creepy pasta I want is Ghostbusters Spaghetti-Os 19618
Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 29/05/2026New Podcast Idea: Jess McKenna plays a character that doesn't know every musical ever and everyone else is misquoting musicals and it's just an hour each week of her trying to stay in character and also trying to correct everyone as politely as possible. Also: maybe that's just Theater Major Hell. 000
Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 29/05/2026My favorite part of the @cbbworld.bsky.social Tour so far is that even Jess McKenna sees a guy who looks A LITTLE BIT like Paul F Tompkins and she has to share a picture with him, just like every Comedy Bang Bang Facebook Group I've ever been part of! 010
Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 17/05/2026If you lost a puzzle piece to a Pokemon puzzle I left it where I found it in the park at the Auburn Overlook. I think it's Pokemon. It looks kind of like Pikachu. Or maybe a Lego man. What's important is they're yellow and waiting for you. 010
Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 07/05/2026I'm so mad at @zaltzcricket.bsky.social for his joke on @thebugle.bsky.social "Sun Tzu's password would be 'ThePaintingOfFighting554BC' which is a twist on his best selling book 'The Art Of War' and the year of his birth." It's just such a good joke. And he didn't even use it, it went in the bin! 020
Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 29/04/2026With the last Tuesday now pay here is my April Board Game Night stats block. We replayed a lot of things this month, and I didn't get a single Knizia in! New to me was "Got Five!", which is a very fun deduction game that moves fast, even if I'm still pretty bad at it and Excalibur really good game. 000
Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 26/04/2026"Granny Next had three children herself" she narrated foreshadowingly. (I'm not saying that Jasper Fforde has planned a book 6 (Or was it 7?(I can't seem to remember...)) plot point in book 3, but I'm not putting it past him.) 000
Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 11/04/2026I was on Instagram and got a very strange algorithmic suggestion. 000
Reposted by Mike A.Luke Schuler 🍹 @lukospicturehouse.com · 10/03/2026Many tidings on this blessed Mario Day ⭐ #marioday 243463594
Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 02/03/2026February Board Game Stats #GameNight #BoardGameGeek #BoradGames 021
Reposted by Mike A.Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/02/2026roses are red violets are blue tom homan’s a bitch greg bovino, too 694463620
Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 12/02/2026In the past few weeks we've played the following at Game Night: Charioteer, For Sale, Cascadero, and Scholars Of The South Tigris. For Sale is a classic, Cascadero is a very fun Knizia design, Charioteer is something our whole group enjoys, Scholars was difficult to learn. 100
Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Yesterday's halftime show was the strangest adaptation of The Scottish Play I've seen. And I didn't know that they'd moved Dunsinane Hill all the way to Santa Clara. 000
Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 24/01/2026I got an ad for a Price Is Right game with @drewfromtv.bsky.social being played by comedian Kristen Key. 000
Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 17/01/2026I had a dream that I was writing a raddle.quest puzzle. Which is... Such a strange thing to dream. I don't remember what words I was putting in, but there were three words and one required two changes, which isn't how it works. Anyway: play Raddle, it's great.raddle.questRADDLEThe daily word transformation game 010
Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Video editing is getting closer and closer to making "The 'Men Without Hats' Conversation Channel" real. Has science gone too far? @teamcocopodcasts.bsky.social @brianstack153.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/Uv89c...youtube.comDoctor Who Sings - The Safety Dance #shorts #doctorwho #safetydance #dance #doctorwhosingsYouTube video by Doctor Who Sings 020
Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 04/01/2026I just thought of the dumbest category for a round of the Leonard Malton Game from @douglovesmovies.bsky.social The category is "I'll be there for you" and it's movies with cast members from 'Friends', but the movies are "Ocean's Eleven", "Ant-Man" and "Die Hard”. 200
Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Unlike Jason Mantzoukas, the secret casting of @kumail.bsky.social on @taskmaster.tv was actually a secret to me and I'm so excited! 020
Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 22/12/2025The biggest surprise from the "12 Guests Of Christmas" episode of Doug Loves Movies is that @sammlevine.bsky.social met Bruce Vilanch and his WIFE! 000
Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 19/12/2025This year's Time Travelers Convention has been postponed to last year. 000
Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 18/12/2025I decided to go back and listen to the James L Brooks miniseries of @blankcheck.bsky.social and on the Spanglish episode Griffin just said "By the time this comes out it's 2025" which was surprisingly accurate. 000
Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 09/12/2025This comes up in my Memories each year and I hope that someone out there made these They Might Be Giants Action Figures. @tmbg.bsky.social 010
Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 05/12/2025If I saw "Children Love The Red Hot Swamp Goo” in a @heathcliffthecat.bsky.social comic I'd think it was a flight if fancy, like The Meat Tank. But somehow it's real. 010
Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Watching Penn & Teller Fool Us"and during a trick I saw @erikaishii.bsky.social in the audience. I was nearly as excited to see them as they were to see their friends getting married on stage. 000
Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Played Botswana on 2025-11-12 boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/398 #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.comboardgamegeek.comBotswanaThis card game pits you against your opponents to collect the most valuable animals! 010
Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 15/11/2025Learning today that @samreich.bsky.social wrote the "Girl's Costume Warehouse" Sketch and is therefore responsible for "Sexy 1900's Steel Conglomerate Tycoon!” being stuck in my head every Halloween for almost 20 years is making me glad to be a @dropout.tv subscriber. 010
Reposted by Mike A.Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 26/10/2025Jim Henson & Frank Oz performed many double acts together, but here's a two-hander w/ Kermit & Grover that’s straight out of vaudeville. The timing puts Swiss clockwork to shame,& their interplay is incredibly kinetic, expertly delivering a lesson w/in the comedy. Jim’s timing at the end? Priceless. 611638
Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 05/10/2025For reasons unclear to me this fundraiser for an antique firetruck has given Every Attendant a bag with 6 plastic Jagermeister wristbands and one cloth rainbow Jagermeister wrist warmer. 020
Reposted by Mike A.Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Thei did the Mash; thei did the Monstere Mash. The Monstere Mash: beholde, sepulchral smash! Thei did the Mash, and it kaughte on moost fast - Hark, heare the Mash! Forsooth, the Monstere Mash! 624850
Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Happy Birthday Agatha Christie. Such a genuinely brilliant person. "... And Then There Were None" is such a masterpiece, despite an unfortunately Period Accurate Original Title. 000
Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Can someone come get Amazon? They're drunk and telling people that “Murder On The Orient Express” is a comedy. 010
Reposted by Mike A.LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 13/09/2025FINALLY. 516134622919
Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 13/09/2025What's that at Walmart? Pickled Rope Bologna? What it called that? Oh, ew. That's not MY Bologna. 010
Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Last Night we played "The Fox Experiment" a great board game about breeding foxes. You get to make your foxes and I named one "Crab Rangoon". Though technically it's name was "Baby, Baby, Crab Rangoon!" because of #HeyRiddleRiddle @erinkeif10.bsky.social @adalrifai.bsky.social 000
Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 26/08/2025The @alyankovic.bsky.social show was great. This is what you call Foreshadowing. 010
