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Mike A.

@maick.bsky.social
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Hey Nong Man! Mostly posting about board games, sometimes also liking NSFW posts.

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Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Paul Squirrel-tredies getting revenge on Baron Hoot-konnen.
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Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"The Grackles Of Grim' could be a seasonal "Sultans of Swing" parody.
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Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A surprisingly low amount of Knizia this month. But I got in Whale Riders The Card Game (first published as Trend). Bear Mountain Camping Adventure was interesting: a deck builder that's mostly about getting cards to get resources.
An Infographic showing games played in the month of September. 
Dominion, 7 Wonders, Got Five, 3 Chapters, Bear Mountain Camping Adventure, Elysium, Paperback, The Ticket Booth, Whale Riders The Card Game.
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Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Make a band edible: "Weird Al" Pastor
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Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It's a good game, but it's kind of a beast to explain. Each player has their own Personal Cauldron where they place pieces to take actions. Now that I've played it I look forward to playing again, and building a turn that lets you take several bonus actions was a lot of fun. #BoardGames #GameNight
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Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
A 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.
A classroom board with a bunch of tiles placed, the tiles all have different symbols like gems and magic pathways. There are also some plastic gems. At the top of the picture are green "magic pathway" pieces.Player screen, End Game Scoring cards and playing pieces. On the player screen is a map of the Crystal Ball in the middle of the main board showing the different types of spaces(red, blue, orange, green and tower). The main board with the Crystal Ball in the center. Near the bottom of the picture are the "Scroll Cards” at the top there's a "Shelves" section where players place gems when they come off the player board. Also at the top is a Pentagram. On the left side is the Want.
On the Crystal Ball there are many Magic Pathway pieces linking locations. There are also several witches on the Crystal Ball spaces. 
No, you're right, it's a lot.
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Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#Boardgames #Knizia #GameNight
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Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I forgot to hashtag #Boardgames #GameNighy
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Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
August 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.
Game Boxes for Alhambra, Diamonds, Frenzy Falls, Gold Country, Hanami and Witchstone.
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Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I 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.
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Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Who is George Foreman Senior Senior?
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Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Who's having Meatloaf for dinner to celebrate Tim Curry?
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Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I'm not going to get a tattoo. But if I ever got a tattoo, that panel of Three Alligators Attacking a guy would be a contender.
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Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
How was I not yet following you Chitan? You're in the top mascot list. You and Gritty.
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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 22/08/2026
thank you Love you🤍 I'm Trans gender ally🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Trans gender people is family✨
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Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I 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.
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Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Hearing @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.
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Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
What is magnetism?
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Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I always confuse it with Falk Park where the clones of Peter Falk spend all day reenacting The In-Laws, The Great Race, and The Princess Bride.
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Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
What is A Grammy?
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Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
The 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.
A run of cards from Incan Gold there's a 17 Treasure card, followed by a Fire Danger, 7 Treasure, 5 Treasure, and a Unique Treasure worth 5 points. These were shared by 5 players, 4 of whom all tried to get the Unique Treasure and banked 5 points each. The remaining player got the following cards on their own: 13 T(reasure), 14 T, 1 T, 15 T, 11 T and 11 T. Not seen: the next card was a Rocks Fall Danger, at which point the player Went Back To Camp and banked...70 points! And that 5 Point Unique Treasure.
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Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Oh, and Scout is maybe my favorite card game ever. DNUP does a good job of taking some of the elements of Scout and making it a little more accessible, but Scout is just a great game.
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Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Of the games played in June: probably Mille Fiori. We also played Thief's Market though it didn't make it in the graphic, it's very good. I think Moon Colony Bloodbath might be my favorite New To Me game of the year. Overall Favorite either Blue Moon City or Istanbul.
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Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
My #BoardGame plays for June. Really loved Mille Fiori, Lord of things to think about. Always good to play 6Nimit.
BG Stats Jun 2026

Plays: 12
H-index: 2
Games: 10
New: 3
Players: 9
Locations: 0

Escalation!: 2
Mind Up!: 2
6 nimmt!: 1
Above and Below: 1
dnup: 1
The Isle of Cats: 1
Mille Fiori: 1
Railroad Tiles: 1
Soda Smugglers: 1

9 designers:
Reiner Knizia: 30%
Dave Chalker: 10%
Frank West: 10%
Hjalmar Hach: 10%
Kei Kajino (梶野 桂): 10%.
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Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
In 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.
Board Game Covers for several games played in the month of May.
Art Robbery has a thief stalking a painting. Avant Carde had Avant Garde art. Blue Moon City has a shot of a large fantasy city. Foodie Forest has a raccoon making a stew. Istanbul has a merchant in the alleyways of Constantinople. Kariba is a multicolor striped background with an elephant. Keyflower is a big boat sitting in a harbor. 
There are also stats showing that 53% of the games were from designer Reiner Knizia. All other designer starts are single digit %s.
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Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I'm glad you found a home for the 2 headed 8 legged cat.
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Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I've been wanting to punch anytime who said anything bad about her BEFORE seeing this and this changes nothing.
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Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
✨We're One Minute From Midnight ✨ UWU ✨👉👈✨
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Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
There's some Starfy games that you can play on the GBA emulator on Nintendo Switch that are in Japanese, and I've used my phone to translate them, but it's... Not pleasant.
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Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I figured it would be a good idea to check the comments for any references to when he's buying an elephant for reference.
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Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
What is Hot Dog?
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Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I had to stop listening to Dune because every time they said "Dune" they said it with a ”liquid U" making it "Dooen" and if it caught my ear every time and I couldn't ignore it and I'd miss lines of dialogue because I was so distracted by it.
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Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
A very dedicated Ein cosplayer.
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Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
It turns out both @tmbg.bsky.social and The Sacramento Public Library want me to Meet James Ensor
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Boo-ly, Little Ghost Bull 👻🐮 @bullythelsb.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The only creepy pasta I want is Ghostbusters Spaghetti-Os
Heinz's The Real Ghostbusters pasta shapes.
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Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I hate to tell you this Bully, but a friend bought that and when they opened it a skeleton popped out!
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Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
New 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.
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Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
My 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!
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Dear Terfs: You suck.
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Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
If 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.
A hand holding a pen and a puzzle piece. 
The puzzle is mostly yellow with some black for an eye and a smiling face. The lower left corner has a bit of red.The ground. 
With a puzzle piece. 
View is roughly 5 1/2 feet off the ground.
The puzzle piece is very small, but fairly well centered.
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Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I'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!
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Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
With 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.
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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.)
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Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I was on Instagram and got a very strange algorithmic suggestion.
9 pictures in a collage. 
7 of them are the same picture, with 6 unique showing 1-6/40. The picture is a cartoon rooster that's also a priest with the same caption, partially cut off saying "I'm going to let God fix it because of I fix it..." The rest of the phrase being cut off by Instagram. There's also a picture of a pillow of a pillow with a screaming goat, and a picture of a large bottle of joints of marijuana (?).
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Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
A mad scientist making demands to New York City.
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Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
SNLUK-US live from Burbank.
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Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
You said nothing about not putting it in alt text.
media.tenor.com
a turtle is walking across a metal beam
Alt: a giant space turtle is spinning on a metal beam It is impressive. The giant space turtle is probably(but we as observers cannot guarantee if it's true) full of meat belonging to a giant space turtle. To try and be helpful to those with lower sight: The beam is bright yellow and is held between two ruined buildings that are grey. The dark green space turtle is spinning endlessly. Even in context this makes little sense.
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Luke Schuler 🍹 @lukospicturehouse.com · 10/03/2026
Many tidings on this blessed Mario Day ⭐ #marioday
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Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
The way BlueSky shows posts it looks like this is being sung by Brian Blessed, which works too, but for a different reason.
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Mike A. @maick.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
One Ring, One Ring, One Ring, One Rii-iing, My precious is part of the Dark Lord's plan!
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