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SpielMas ⛄️ festival ➡️ Dec. 26-31 @spielmas.com · 22/09/2026

Spent the evening in Santa Cruz CA helping @themisplay.com promote their upcoming release “Under One Sky.” Follow on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/the... Hosted by @courtneylasch.bsky.social through her Game Night Collective (gamenightcollective.com). #boardgames

Courtney at the table with games and flyers.

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SpielMas ⛄️ festival ➡️ Dec. 26-31 @spielmas.com · 03/09/2026

The designer of Fox Flip is a friend, so I’ve been able to playtest over the last year. It won’t be available in time for the next #SpielMas ⛄️ but your 2027 will be much more enjoyable if you back his campaign. #boardgames

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Fox Flip by Ticket Booth Games - Gamefound

Fox Flip is a quick, easy-to-learn 2-4 player game of skill, luck, and timely flips. Play special fox cards to outfox your opponent and win the pile!

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SpielMas ⛄️ festival ➡️ Dec. 26-31 @spielmas.com · 01/09/2026

Over at @haoleboygames.com I’m working to publish a combustive solo adventure for @gamemarketwest.bsky.social called Pōpoki. So I snuck in some ads for the annual #SpielMas ⛄️ festival on the box art. #Popoki 🐈 #boardgames

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SpielMas ⛄️ festival ➡️ Dec. 26-31 @spielmas.com · 18/08/2026

Got to camp at Limekiln State Park in Big Sur CA. It’s been closed for three years due to slides on Highway One. Played DNUP, Mojo, Knarr, and Waypoints. #boardgames

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SpielMas ⛄️ festival ➡️ Dec. 26-31 @spielmas.com · 06/08/2026

Crafting! Bottom template will include some marketing for #SpielMas ⛄️. For the rest of the design, check @haoleboygames.com for my upcoming solo game about a feral cat who walks across an active lava flow field in Hawai’i. #Popoki 🐈 #boardgames

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SpielMas ⛄️ festival ➡️ Dec. 26-31 @spielmas.com · 02/08/2026

First time teach/learn for all four players in SETI took SIX hours, but it was glorious. It’s the most I’ve committed to game in a long time. And yes, I did stare directly at the (LED) sun. #boardgames

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SpielMas ⛄️ festival ➡️ Dec. 26-31 @spielmas.com · 29/07/2026

My GenZ daughter is finding her love of #boardgames again while in college but on her own terms. It means sewing your own board, collecting found objects, and playing outside with friends. GenX approves!

A homemade backgammon board of cloth and buttons.

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SpielMas ⛄️ festival ➡️ Dec. 26-31 @spielmas.com · 27/07/2026

So looking forward to seeing this crowdfund successfully after their visit to #GenCon this week. #boardgames KS: www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

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SpielMas ⛄️ festival ➡️ Dec. 26-31 @spielmas.com · 15/06/2026

Got to visit The Well Played Café in Asheville NC. Learned to play Sail, Kites, and Hanamikoji. What a cool spot! #boardgames

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SpielMas ⛄️ festival ➡️ Dec. 26-31 @spielmas.com · 25/05/2026

We played Hot Streak with new gamers, and it was a romp of a good time! #WhatDidYouPlayMonday #Boardgames

Initial card draw in the second round, before everyone has thrown in their card.

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SpielMas ⛄️ festival ➡️ Dec. 26-31 @spielmas.com · 03/05/2026

I feel like we should have played “Deep Regrets” from @tettix.bsky.social at this restaurant. #boardgames

THE FUEL DOCK
WOODWARD
MARINE MARKET
RESTAURANT
MOSS LANDING CA

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SpielMas ⛄️ festival ➡️ Dec. 26-31 @spielmas.com · 25/04/2026

Love Letter is back on Board Game Arena! ✍🏼👸🏻 #boardgames

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SpielMas ⛄️ festival ➡️ Dec. 26-31 @spielmas.com · 15/04/2026

Update: I was finally able to make reservations for August now that the park has opened back up since 4/1. It closed in January 2023 due to a slide on Highway 1.

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SpielMas ⛄️ festival ➡️ Dec. 26-31 @spielmas.com · 14/04/2026

Picked up “Otter” from @dylancoyle.bsky.social of Charming Games Collective at @gamemarketwest.bsky.social and couldn’t be more pleased after several three-person games. #boardgames BGG: boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/42...

Mid-game of Otter with three players. Three otters are in the middle, each with a stack of cards between their head and tail.

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SpielMas ⛄️ festival ➡️ Dec. 26-31 @spielmas.com · 11/02/2026

Big thanks for the follow from @redraccoongames.bsky.social! My Mom grew up on the South Side of Chicago in the 40’s, and I have good friends in Decatur, so this one is extra special for me. Looking forward to celebrating #SpielMas in southern Illinois!

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SpielMas ⛄️ festival ➡️ Dec. 26-31 @spielmas.com · 06/02/2026

What game would you play with friends or family this weekend if you weren’t watching the big HandEgg 🏈 game? #boardgames #SpielMas

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SpielMas ⛄️ festival ➡️ Dec. 26-31 @spielmas.com · 05/02/2026

Got to play “In The Footsteps of Darwin” by @sorrywearefrench.bsky.social at a game night this week, and loved it. Fast teach, quick to play, lovely art. But the mechanism of sailing the HMS Beagle around a 3x3 grid was so good. Can wait to get back out to sea again! #boardgames

End-game with my board nearly filled because of two filled columns and rows.

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SpielMas ⛄️ festival ➡️ Dec. 26-31 @spielmas.com · 01/02/2026

I got to play a four-person demo of Sanibel by @elizhargrave.bsky.social while at @gamesantacruz.bsky.social. Lovely to look at, very fun to play, and a part of the world unfamiliar to me. It’s what #boardgames should do: Take you away for 45 minutes to discover something novel!

Mid-game with a bad half full of shells as player moves the pawn along the beach in Florida.

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SpielMas ⛄️ festival ➡️ Dec. 26-31 @spielmas.com · 30/01/2026

Vote this up! It would add the ability to zoom in on the board, as you can in many other games in BGA. Bug report: boardgamearena.com/bug?id=194867 #boardgames

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SpielMas ⛄️ festival ➡️ Dec. 26-31 @spielmas.com · 28/01/2026

Played 7 Wonders Dice on #BoardGameArena and loved it. Very fast, although the details of the board are difficult to see in mobile. It felt like “Welcome To…The Wonders!” #boardgames

Beginning screen of the game with nothing crossed off in the different buildings.

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SpielMas ⛄️ festival ➡️ Dec. 26-31 @spielmas.com · 26/01/2026

Tried out the Duel mode for Symbiose and instantly wanted to improve on the randomness of the face-down cards in the river. We ultimately liked this “consult” variant: boardgamegeek.com/thread/35389... #boardgames

Two-person Symbiose with an IPA from Other Brother Brewery in Seaside CA.

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SpielMas ⛄️ festival ➡️ Dec. 26-31 @spielmas.com · 22/01/2026

Got to play Tokaido and Harmonies at my first IRL game night of the new year. All in preparation for the next #SpielMas ⛄️ festival! #boardgames

Mid game of Tokaido (near) and Harmonies (far) at a local cafe in Seaside CA.

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SpielMas ⛄️ festival ➡️ Dec. 26-31 @spielmas.com · 16/01/2026

The #SpielMas ⛄️ festival was born during a annual camping trip at Limekiln State Park during the summer of 2020, just south of this slide. We formed a bubble, played #boardgames, and celebrated our remarkable privilege in the face of a pandemic.

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Motorists speed through Highway 1 in Big Sur for the first time in 3 years

"I think psychologically it'll be a big lift."

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SpielMas ⛄️ festival ➡️ Dec. 26-31 @spielmas.com · 12/01/2026

Because of the generosity of Rio Grande Games during #Spielmas ⛄️, I have six sets of these titles to donate to a game group in the SF Bay Area to add to their library. Let me know if I can drive to your cafe/brewery where you play! #boardgames

How it’s going: I can donate six sets of nine titles valuing $564.55 (MSRP) including:

Coloretto
Zooloretto
Tobago
Dice Realms
Woodcraft
Shipyard
Concordia
Pictures
Beyond The Sun

How it started: 68 games, 10 titles, total of $4,296.60 (MSRP). All because of a post I made on Instagram that got their attention.

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SpielMas ⛄️ festival ➡️ Dec. 26-31 @spielmas.com · 04/01/2026

I so appreciate your celebration, and your #SpielMas ⛄️ display full of pieces is proof of a festive time. FYI I see games from @marcelineleiman.bsky.social and @stonemaiergames.com in that stack!

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FN_Webhead @webhead9920.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

on the sixth day of #spielmas I worked on New Years Eve. So I played games on my phone all evening!

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BinaryPretzel @binarypretzel.com · 01/01/2026

Day 6 of #spielmas found us hosting a New Year’s Eve party, but we managed to play a couple of games of Splendor before things got super busy. Thanks to @haoleboygames.com for hosting another great year of @spielmas.com and thanks to everyone who participated and shared your fun photos! #boardgames

A Splendor game box with a SpielMas display sitting on top with six meeples.

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Haole Boy Games @haoleboygames.com · 01/01/2026

Day 6 of the @spielmas.com ⛄️ festival found us under the microscope looking for Diatoms from @sabrinac.bsky.social @ludoliminal.bsky.social and @25thcentury.games. #SpielMas #boardgames

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trickvi @trickvi.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Last day of the year and the sixth and last day of #spielmas Three different games played. Two making a reappearance but one new. So concludes my first Spielmas. It's been fun and a very good way to end this spectacular year. #boardgames

A printed Spielmas display with three objects on a hexagonal space marked December 31: A plastic red haired cartoony queen, a dark circular token with a star shaped hole in it, a black and red card labeled 6.

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Board Game Beans @boardgamebeans.com · 31/12/2025

Our last board games of the year! Goodbye 2025, hello 2026. Wishing everyone a Happy New Year and many good moments with board games 💜🥳 #Spielmas #BoardGames

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FN_Webhead @webhead9920.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

On the fifth day of #spielmas my dear friends played with me... #dungeonsanddragons

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SpielMas ⛄️ festival ➡️ Dec. 26-31 @spielmas.com · 31/12/2025

As we close out the sixth-annual #SpielMas ⛄️ festival on Day 6, I hope you had fun. Take your celebrations and carry them into 2026. Make new connections with family and friends. And discover games all year long you’ll want play again during next year’s festival. Thank you for spreading your joy!

My 2024 celebration using the River and Stone deck of playing cards designed by @bethsobel.bsky.social. We’re playing a variant of Palace I designed exclusively for her deck.

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FN_Webhead @webhead9920.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

On the fourth day of #spielmas my true love played with me… #stardewvalleytheboardgame

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trickvi @trickvi.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Fourth day of #spielmas and what a day. Five different games played. We're gonna need a bigger hexagon. Size of game components does not reflect size of game but there are a few very obscure games this time around. #boardgames

A printed Spielmas display with five tokens on a hexagon marked December 29: A wooden token with a printed girl in a blue dress, a small wooden anvil, a red string with the ends clasped together, a card with a digital representation of the letter F made up of sticks with one end marked red, and a blue card number 31 with a paw icon and a big wolf on it.

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trickvi @trickvi.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Fifth day of #spielmas and I'm back at 3 different games but only one making a reoccurrence. Now there's only one day left of Spielmas and one day left of the year and then a big reveal as to why spielmas was pretty special to me this year. #boardgames

A printed spielmas display with three tokens on a hexagonal space marked December 30: A purple happy wooden dragon, a circular token with a galaxy on and the circular galacy token has a four cornered star hole through it, and a black and orange cardboard token pointing upwards labeled +1.

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Haole Boy Games @haoleboygames.com · 31/12/2025

It’s Day 5 of the @spielmas.com festival, and I had a variety of game play with friends. I was able to get in nine holes at a local disc golf course. Then later that night, I joined my weekly online gaming group who has been gathering since 2020 and were the inspiration for #SpielMas ⛄️.

Playing disc golf for the fifth day of SpielMas.

Waiting on Discord for my online gaming group.

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BinaryPretzel @binarypretzel.com · 31/12/2025

I was surprised for day 5 of #spielmas when my daughter, unprompted, grabbed Planet and Calico from my shelf and asked to play them. Planet has been sitting unplayed for a while, and I’d been wanting to teach my girls to play Calico, so we dove right in. #boardgames @spielmas.com

Game boxes for Calico and Planet sit on a table next to a SpielMas display with 5 meeples.

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BinaryPretzel @binarypretzel.com · 30/12/2025

Day 4 of #spielmas found me home alone for most of the day but I didn’t let that stop me from celebrating. I played an epic game of Final Girl that came down to the final health tokens. After dinner, everybody was pretty tired but we managed to play a quick game of Flip 7. #boardgames @spielmas.com

A Final Girl series 1 box, a Flip 7 box, and a SpielMas display with 4 meeples.

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Haole Boy Games @haoleboygames.com · 30/12/2025

Today is Day 4 of @spielmas.com , and I got to play Knitting Circle from @pinkhawkgames.bsky.social. As a fan of Calico, it all clicked really well. But omg it was still a brain burn. In a good way! Also got to use my @modernmeeple.bsky.social Gamey Susan! #SpielMas #boardgames

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trickvi @trickvi.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Third day of #spielmas and yet again three different games. One game makes a comeback from the first day of spielmas but the other two are new. #boardgames

A printed Spielmas display with three tokens on a hexagonal space marked December 28: A rather large purple plastic chevron, a red card labeled riddle card, and a speech bubble token with three exclamation marks in it.

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FN_Webhead @webhead9920.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

On the Third day of #spielmas my siblings played with me… #marvel #Cosmicinvasion!

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Board Game Beans @boardgamebeans.com · 29/12/2025

Day 4 of #SpielMas ☃️ Tonight we played a couple of nice shorter games, Second Chance, and Veggies 🎨🍄‍🟫 #BoardGames

The board game Second Chance being played, showing two partially filled in sheets with polyominio shapes we've coloured and styled differently, and the deck of small cards we're using that define what shapes we can use on any given turn.

The board game Veggies, showing our two player setup of "Market Stalls" made up from layering cards that feature of a 2x3 grid of squares and a variety of market items, like bananas, carrots, mushrooms, or even some sneaky mice hiding in boxes.

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BinaryPretzel @binarypretzel.com · 29/12/2025

We broke out a classic for #spielmas day 3. I haven’t played Carcassonne in 5 years so I sat down with my wife and kids and played a couple games. My youngest daughter won the first game and my eldest daughter won the second. #boardgames @spielmas.com

A copy of the Carcassonne Big Box with a SpielMas display holding 3 meeples.

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