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ryan @ryanisabird.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

and exclusive access to: customizable nub location

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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 27/06/2025

Curse Match is out and free to play in your browser! Drop blocks, match colors, and choose your curse each level. Survive with the help of bombs and spells as you rack up combos under ever-shifting circumstances until you escape or become cursed forever. davemakes.itch.io/cursematch

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ryan @ryanisabird.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

at least there's still a boba place in the holdout strip satellite of the new killing field where Collin Creek Mall used to be

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ryan @ryanisabird.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

this was devastating and important. they could have gone harder on incel culture, but the line-toe worked better for the narrative. cinematically, the one-takes were preposterous. I stood up dumbfounded at the drone transition. e3 stood out tho for performance

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ryan @ryanisabird.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

hell yeah, minnesota finally getting representation in the board game market

screenshot of wikipedia page on the state flag of Minnesota which includes an 8-point star

geographical outline of the state of minnesota

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ryan @ryanisabird.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

anyone looking for board game marketing model talent? 😘 babe got a new outfit and I immediately connected the color vibe :p #boardgames someone get 2tomatoes on bsky

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ryan @ryanisabird.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

whoops, this was from last Sunday, forgot to post 😬 and forgot to mention: the revolving tile supply is :chefkiss:

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ryan @ryanisabird.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Planet Unknown the one remains in my top ten! breezy but satisfying numbers-go-up polyomino optimization game I think the rover element is what really differentiates it<3 I did _horrible_ with my goals this time. whiffed all of them 😅 timing of the bad events was brutal #SoloYear #boardgames 32/

ryan posing in front of completed game of Planet Unkown board is a planet with polyominoes arranged on it.

completed game of Planet Unkown board is a planet with polyominoes arranged on it.

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ryan @ryanisabird.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

rubber cars, rubber ends to the popsicles, terrain! and then an optional "mission" module that adds points for things like going through the rainbow, encircling buildings and the like it's real good! it doesn't make the easier-to-buy-for-now editions any less good though, definitely recommend :)

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ryan @ryanisabird.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I've stopped crowdfunding except for friends' stuff but this was too good to pass up ; D

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ryan @ryanisabird.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Tokyo Highway: Rainbow City finally arrived! new edition of TC with rubberized cars and rubber road tips make things really stable! the solo mode is surprisingly effective? play 4 colors, colors are assigned direction limitations such as "road must go north" + Rainbow! #SoloYear #boardgames 32/

ryan posing in front of complete game of Tokyo Highway board game, tons of sticks and cars interlaced

Tokyo Highway solo game start, four player colors facing each other

Tokyo Highway early game, some highways crossing each other

close up macro shot of Tokyo Highway with many highways crossing each other

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ryan @ryanisabird.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

okay there's only SO MANY "Erik" bad cards in the deck and I had flopped a ton of them early putting me close to losing. great time to play the Ellefolk "scry 4, rearrange" right???? WRONG I drew nearly all of the rest of the "Erik" bad cards 😒 mind, I did rearrange them out of spite

ryan holding hand of four cards named "Gamble Erik" above table of game

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ryan @ryanisabird.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Skoventyr another whim pickup. cute light coop with scandi foklore! and great art! badgers as protagonists? hell yeah feels very Oniverse: Nautilion with the ring chase & Sylvion w/ forest health cardplay has tough tradeoffs and great risk pulls. I lost badly : p #SoloYear #boardgames 31/

Ryan posing with peace sign in front of Skoventyr board game

top down photo of Skoventyr end of game state. six cards with images of trees are in a ring to represent an abstract forest

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ryan @ryanisabird.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

(yesterday afternoon) I mostly prefer euros and train games nowadays compared to the ameritrash (affectionate) and crawlers I used to play more of. I have a soft spot for this one b/c Arkham Horror really drew me into the hobby. again, I got this on a great deal ; D

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ryan @ryanisabird.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Cthulhu: Death May Die my first crawler of the year. got a steal on the recent KS super clean compared to other crawlers the stronger-as-you-get-closer-to-loss player arc is exhilarating. <90 minutes to go from "this looks impossible" to "I am a god". last minute win >:D #SoloYear #boargames 30/

Ryan posing with peace sign in front of Cthulhu: Death May Die board game. board is made up oflarge monster miniatures and dungeon board tiles.

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ryan @ryanisabird.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Gloomhaven: Buttons & Bugs Truly impressive how they crunched the core GH experience into an iiitty bitty living space. I do with the full rules were printed tho 😒 I appreciate the GH system (I mostly finished JotL) but I get too loss-averse to fully enjoy it. #SoloYear #boardgames 29/

Ryan posing with peace sign in front of game Gloomhaven: Buttons & Bugs on the table

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ryan @ryanisabird.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

sick again and behind on posting just a few, but back at it! seeing if I can land 5 solos tonight >: D

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ryan @ryanisabird.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

nakedly apparent, but I lost my daily #SoloYear streak towards the end of Jan. add me to the study on new year's resolutions 🙃 had a rough personal start to feb but gaming again and I _think_ I can keep up to the 365 cadence by the end of march ; D I'm even saving my roll-and-writes for later :p

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ryan @ryanisabird.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Ginkopolis this is I think my favorite game and I don't know how it took me so long to try the solo! she's a bit _too_ easy to dodge since you choose which of your 4 cards to give and can usually dump an ineffective urbanization I trounced, but will try again w/ hard #SoloYear #BoardGames 28/

ryan posing with peace sign above board game Ginkpopolis midgame on table

close up photo of board game Ginkopolis midgame

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ryan @ryanisabird.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Solutions 1st play and I was surprised to see this was a kind of coop Timeline but with climate impact mitigation projects (try to place in order of efficacy) it's cute! best game I've seen yet for an educational setting! solo definitely lacked the intended discussion #SoloYear #boardgames 27/

ryan posing with peace sign in front of table with the board game Solutions displayed mid-game

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ryan @ryanisabird.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

oh yeah, I'm glad we _immediately_ noped that game ; D

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ryan @ryanisabird.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

me: hey! @nictringali.bsky.social! let's do something stress-free like a casual game of Can't Stop me: rolls a 12, followed by a `6,6,6,6` double 12 us: cool cool cool cool nic: crushes a really solid 6,7,8 first turn with so much safety in pushing a roll nic: rolls a 6,6,6,6 and busts us: wtf

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ryan @ryanisabird.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

now. this doesn't look anything like Come & See director Elem Klimov but I like now it added penises like how war and its consequences are frequently male-decided and male-glorified

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ryan @ryanisabird.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

oof. I... had not thought about it that way but. yes in a very specific instance that changed my life

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ryan @ryanisabird.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Sol lands somewhere in the "top 100 games I did not expect a solo mode for" but it works! this game is so cool 25/365

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ryan @ryanisabird.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

White Castle White Castle/Red Cathedral/Shinkansen/Flatiron all in January! someone mentioned a better fanmade solo bot for White Castle so I'll try that at some point, the official one seems capricious 24/365

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ryan @ryanisabird.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Shinkansen: Zero-Kei it's cute! probably would never grab it from the shelf for solo or mp tho 23/365

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ryan @ryanisabird.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Flatiron it's good! the physicality is so fun. I'm still ideating a chi river reversal project and I'd _love_ if it could have some sort of tokyo highway-esque spatial aspect to it, but it's probably too much 22/365

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ryan @ryanisabird.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Twilight Struggle: Red Sea it's good! 21/365

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ryan @ryanisabird.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Dual Powers I can't judge the 2p game based on solo because I think the secret objective selection is like.... kind of the whole point? and solo randomizes that so didn't love solo, but would def try 2p 20/365

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ryan @ryanisabird.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

The Wars of Marcus Aurelius killer solo lane defense 19/365

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ryan @ryanisabird.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Irish Freedom I didn't love it because it's centered on a small amount of _very_ consequential lo-fi die rolls. really appreciate the take on the topic though! I wish I could have gotten to the second game of the campaign. 18/365

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ryan @ryanisabird.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

DerrocAr I so wish we could take _half_ of the games about WWII and make them about literally any other historical thing. throw a dart at wikipedia! there's so much wild things we can game. david thompson is making an ACW game so I guess? that's progress? 17/365

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ryan @ryanisabird.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Jump Ship! probably my most egregious streak cheat : p 16/365

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ryan @ryanisabird.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Pocket Master Builder 15/365

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ryan @ryanisabird.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Samurai Spirit fun lil base defense coop! cardplay is mitigigable blackjack. you want enemies that _just_ meet your threshold, but you can/need to sideline some the variable powers are a good mix, and I'm a sucker for "losing? get more powerful" w/ the animal form bit #boardgames #SoloYear 26/

ryan posing with peace sign in front of game mid-play of Samurai Spirit

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ryan @ryanisabird.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Sol @prismofeverything.bsky.social orbital concepts are so seductive but sol is the only one that's has earned it for me solo is cute! I was surprised it existed. exceeded expectations multiplayer, this game is 💯 doppler effect applied to infra investment #SoloYear #boardgames #sologaming 25/

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ryan @ryanisabird.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I haven't, thank you for mentioning! <3 I'll take a look. I don't think I've peeked into the homebrew solo space when a game has official solo modes, but I can bet there's some out there way better than original solos

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ryan @ryanisabird.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

yeah idk if I'd say terrible _but_ the mechanism for deciding if it takes one or two activations leans arbitrary so I'd probably house rule a roll for that, weighted by how late in the turn it is I think expansion adds another die pool so the swinginess is mitigated by that a little

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