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Tea and Games @teangames.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I just finished filming my 4th Channel Anniversary video!🎉 I'm about to start editing. It'll go live Monday morning, Sept 21st! #boardgames

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Tea and Games @teangames.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Morning sky through car window. (I was actually hoping the raindrops and streaks of rain on the window would show up, but I seem to have shot between the droplets💦🤷‍♀️) #SkySky

Looming bank of rain clouds on the right, with a long line of clouds just above the horizon going from left to right. Bottom of pic is the edge of street, a sidewalk and some fields an houses in the distance.

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Tea and Games @teangames.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

As soon as I saw this holofoil of Boredom, I thought, "Wait. Isn't this the opposite of boredom??" Or maybe I'm just easily thrilled by shiny🤣🤔 @doomlings.bsky.social #doomlings #boardgames

Doomlings holofoil card of base game card, Boredom. It show a basic doomling with a meh expression. The card is tilted in the light to show a spectrum of colors across the foil parts. It is a gray "colorless" card with 0 face value, but scores +2 for each colorless card in your hand at the end of the game. At World's End you draw 2 cards, so an extra shot at colorless cards.

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Tea and Games @teangames.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

New video is up! We had a French Medieval thematic board game weekend! First play and ❤️s for Orleans! #boardgames youtu.be/a75UDoT5z0Q

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Ep 144: A Thematic Game Weekend

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Tea and Games @teangames.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

What games, with a listed minimum playtime of 45 mins or more, have you played back-to-back without (much of a) break? For me: Space Base, Moon Colony Bloodbath, Taverns of Tiefenthal, Notre Dame (10th Anniversary Edition). #boardgames

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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

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Tea and Games @teangames.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

OMG! YAY!🎉🎉🎉❤️❤️❤️ #boardgames

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Tea and Games @teangames.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Capstone Games has some stuff on sale, including Orleans, a classic I've been thinking about getting. The sale price of thr bundle of base game + The Plague expansion is less than the sale price of the base game, so I got the bundle. Looking forward to playing the base game soon! #boardgames

On the left, base game of Orleans with a blue knight holding a shield facing a monk on the left, while another figure observes from the right. In the distance behind them are houses. On the right, the expansion box for Orleans The Plague, It says The 3rd Expansion under the title. The cover is dark, mostly black and dark gray with a plague doctor wearing pink, a beaked mask, black hat, holding a lit candle.

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Elizabeth Hargrave @elizhargrave.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

RIP Wendell Berry

The poem The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry superimposed on a picture I took of a Great Blue Heron standing in water at sunset.

The poem reads:
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

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Tea and Games @teangames.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We had a surprisingly excellent month of game playing! 2 new-to-us games, and a lot of favorites (Notre Dame 10th Anniversary Edition qualifies as both with the 1st play instantly making it a favorite!) #boardgames

BG Stats 5 x 5.
Play count:
7: Carcassonne;
6: Moon Colony Bloodbath;
6: Doomlings;
6: Dominion (Second Edition);
4: The Taverns of Tiefenthal;
3: Notre Dame: 10th Anniversary;
3: Herbaceous;
2: Alice's Garden;
2: Martian Dice;
1: Vantage;
1: Scrabble;
1: Shackleton Base: A Journey to the Moon;
1: Cottage Garden;
1: Obsession;
1: Ticket to Ride: Northern Lights;
1: Cartographers Heroes;
1: Century: A New World;
1: Tavern Masters.

BG Stats Aug 2026

Plays: 48
H-index: 4
Games: 18
New: 2
Players: 2
Locations: 1
Hours: 37
Days: 11

Carcassonne: 7
Moon Colony Bloodbath: 6
Doomlings: 6
Dominion (Second Edition): 6
The Taverns of Tiefenthal: 4
Notre Dame: 10th Anniversary: 3
Herbaceous: 3
Alice's Garden: 2
Martian Dice: 2

21 designers:
Donald X. Vaccarino: 11%
Alan R. Moon: 5%
Alfred Mosher Butts: 5%
Andrew Meyer (I): 5%.

30 artists:
Chris Quilliams: 11%
Julien Delval: 11%
Andrea Boekhoff: 5%
Anne Pätzke: 5%
Atha Kanaani: 5%.

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Tea and Games @teangames.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

New video is finally up! Shackleton Base hits the table, Taverns of Tiefenthal gets a much-needed component upgrade, and a look at Doomlings: Remastered (aka 3rd edition) #boardgames youtu.be/4kqfQuW6H6U

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Ep 143 Show and Tell With 3 Games

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Tea and Games @teangames.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I was going to do a video today then Something Bad happened & I'm laid up on the couch hurting all over. So I needed something to take me away & cheer me. Doing a very deep dive into @shelfstablecast.bsky.social I do this occasionally: dip into earliest episodes. I've got Ep 7 & 8 cued up.

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Tea and Games @teangames.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Anyone going to Essen? Kenny has a room for you⬇️ #boardgames

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Tea and Games @teangames.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

National Dog Day 2026. Bailey (elderly terrier-mix) on the left. Esme (chihuahua-mix) on the right. #dogsofbluesky #dogsofbsky #rescuedogs #chihuahua #NationalDogDay

Rough coated blonde-white terrier mix, ears down, head on floofy pink pillow.

White-blonde chihuahua-mix, ears up, on floofy pink pillow, with other pillows and dog in the background.

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Tea and Games @teangames.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

For some reason this made me think of the Vorlons. Been too long. Time for a rewatch! #Babylon5

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026

[Exit Queen.]

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Tea and Games @teangames.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Really long and excellent obit & overview of Dolly's life: www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...

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Tea and Games @teangames.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

FYI, Allplay is having an end-of-summer sale, tons of games discounted, some deeply discounted. #boardgames www.allplay.com

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Allplay | Board Games, Board Game Tables, Bags, Playmats, Shelves

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Tea and Games @teangames.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Learning Shackleton Base today!🌘👨‍🚀 #boardgames

Shackleton Base laid out on Game Topper with a space themed game mat. Corporations are above the board and box lid in upper left of pic. Beginner (first game) corporations are, left to right, Artemis, Moon Mining, and Selenium Research. Green player board is at the right of the pic and pink player is at the top of the pic. Some of the game's tuck boxes are used as bit holders.

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Tea and Games @teangames.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

So, I looked up the Extreme version and apparently it does NOT mean that some players are actually turned into werewolves. But Halloween parties may have just gotten more interesting🤔🐺 #boardgames

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Tea and Games @teangames.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Esme has taken to being our scorekeeper for Carcassonne. Sometimes she does not look happy at the state of the game😆 #boardgames #dogsofbluesky #dogsofbsky #rescuedog

White-blonde chihuahua-mix with tiny toes on the table rail, ears down, muzzle lightly resting on one paw. Yellow and green meeple on scoreboard track in foreground (out of focus).

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Tea and Games @teangames.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Yesterday my Bird Buddy suddenly started giving me weird green pics and video. When I check the livestream it looks normal🤷‍♀️ What happened and how can I fix it? #birdbuddy #birds

Feeder with a greenish cast to the pic and some distortion obvious on the white-winged dove. Black sunflower seeds are dominant in the mix. An orange is on the left for mockingbirds.

A stoll shot taken from livestream. Color is normal, possibly slightly muted due to time of day. Black sunflower seeds are dominant in the mix. An orange is on the left for mockingbirds.

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Tea and Games @teangames.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Oh, lookee! @marcelineleiman.bsky.social , new game studio, new games! Am following on Gamefound, looking forward to the reveals!

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Tea and Games @teangames.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Today I take a look at 2 games we've played for the first time recently. One I mentioned in my unplayed games video, and the other is a Stefan Feld classic we recently acquired! #boardgames Thanks for joining me! youtu.be/e6RQosWi6FU

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Ep 142: Two New To Us Games

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Tea and Games @teangames.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

OMG What has Moon Colony Bloodbath done to me?? I just referred to Dominion as Donald X. Vaccarino's *other* deck-building game🤦‍♀️🤣 #boardgames

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Tea and Games @teangames.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Another reminder that there's a GenCon feed on BlueSky!🎉 Pin it!📌 #boardgames

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Tea and Games @teangames.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Taking a look at some of the games we may (or may not) play between now and the end of the year, as well as why I bought some of them, and the role of favorite games in keeping these games off the table! #boardgames youtu.be/QzaQwPJORpU

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Ep 141: The Unplayed Games Shelf

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Tea and Games @teangames.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Found this for $14.99, new in shrink, at Half Price Books yesterday! Guess what were putting on the table first today?😁 #boardgames

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Tea and Games @teangames.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Reminder to #boardgames ppl, both those going to GenCon, and those (like me) who aren't... ...there's a GenCon feed that you can pin📌 to your feed! bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Tea and Games @teangames.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

My YouTube is not monetized. If you see ads I get nothing. My #boardgame vids are fun & casual, not professional. Ads are not good for me or my viewers. I recommend watching in DuckDuckGo browser, which has a built-in YouTube ad blocker. You can turn on ad blocker & DDGo Player in its settings.

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Tea and Games @teangames.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Question for those of you who who watch my YouTube channel: do you get ads interrupting my vids? You should NOT get ads on my channel! I went back and rewatched one of my vids from last month & was hit with 3 ads!🤬 My channel is NOT monetized. Please let me know if any ads are inserted! #boardgames

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Tea and Games @teangames.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Esme. First half of the World Cup final 2026. Apparently she's not a soccer dog. #dogsofbluesky #dogsofbsky #chihuahua #rescuedog

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Tea and Games @teangames.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Catching up on what we've been playing the past couple of weekends, including a new-to-us game! #boardgames youtu.be/sftUWMWSvMc

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Ep 139 Some Fun Weekend Games

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Tea and Games @teangames.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Male and female cardinal at my Bird Buddy❤️ They're a devoted couple! I've named them Kro-Bar and Lattis after that wonderful alien couple in @larryblamire.bsky.social 's Lost Skeleton of Cadavera. #birds #birdbuddy #film

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Tea and Games @teangames.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Sunday afternoon a friend taught us Bärenpark. My first bear park was...not square😆 And I actually got a better score than the second game where I made a nice square park🤷‍♀️ #boardgames

Final layout, first game of Bärenpark. 3-player game. My starting board was Bjornepark. All areas are completely filled. My bear tokens were 13, 12, 9, and 5 points. I got about the same amount in tokens in the second game, though slightly less total points. I won this game, despite the wonky layout.

Final layout, second game of Bärenpark. 3-player game. My starting board was Bjornepark. All areas are completely filled, and this time my park was neatly square. My bear tokens this time were 14, 11, 8, and 5. I think I had pretty decent total scores in both games🤷‍♀️

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Tea and Games @teangames.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

It's Postmark, so I'm definitely going to take a look! #boardgames

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Tea and Games @teangames.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

[Insert Elmer Fudd voice: "🎶 Kill the Wabbit, 🎶 Kill the Wabbit...🎶] Esme is such a happy dog❤️ Barking a challenge for me to come and get the rabbit, racing around the house with it. Pure unadulterated joy! #dogsofbluesky #rescuedog #chihuahua

White-blonde chihuahua-mix on rug with muted colors, brown stuffed rabbit in front of her. Dog's ears are at half-cocked angle and she looks ready to leap or bark!

White-blonde chihuahua-mix on rug with muted colors, brown stuffed rabbit in front of her. Tail is blurred in motion, head lowered,and back slightly bowed as if she's about to spring. She lets loose a sharp bark!

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Tea and Games @teangames.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Update from our Moon Colony adventures. Saturday I got another all-time high score (42!)...and I think this one may be impossible for me to top. I got the most big cards ever: both Domes and the Complex! More in Alt text. #boardgames

Game in-progress,with 3 big buildings intact, plus the Greenhouses on the left. 2 boxes on the Greenhouse, one each on the 2 Dome cards, and the new built Complex card on the right with no boxes. At this point I have 1 population on my board, 3 money, and 4 food. All Work actions have been taken. I knew that I'd be destroying the big buildings soon, so I stopped to take a pic. I may never be able to do this again! There were some money generating cards in the mix, which is the only way I was able to afford to do this!

My final board. Two of my three big buildings have been destroyed (which is why I have so much population on my board), leaving only one of the two Domes I'd built, and the Greenhouse, both of which have boxes on them. I have 15 pop on the board, 4 food, 7 money, and no Work actions taken in this shuffle when the game ended.

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Tea and Games @teangames.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I've gotten new followers who aren't into #boardgames #nature or #dogs. I post other stuff occasionally, but you really should read my profile before following😆 Boardgames. Nature. Dogs. I don't auto-follow. Happy to have you follow, but you were warned🤣 No hard feelings if you unfollow.

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Tea and Games @teangames.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

FYI I've switched to a different Mutuals feed for myself and the starter pack. Check my Boardgame Starter Pack to see what I'm using now.

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Tea and Games @teangames.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

OK, so things are less dire for my continued participation in BlueSky. I've got the VPN on my phone now so the app can bypass the privacy-violating @bsky.app age verification requirement for Texas. (Which no other site/app I use is enforcing.)

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Tea and Games @teangames.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I'm connecting to @bsky.app thru browser VPN because BlueSky has blocked all people in Texas from using it unless they submit to 3rd party unsafe personal-data collection "age verification". I absolutely will NOT give this info. I'll be here less, if at all. I hate this😢🤬 Overnight Blue became evil.

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Tea and Games @teangames.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I've got a Bird Buddy! The birds have found it and the app has a feature where you can give the birds names. I've decided to name them after characters in @larryblamire.bsky.social films, beginning with Mrs Cupcupboard, a White Winged Dove. (More in alt text) #birds #BirdBuddy

White Winged Dove perched on red landing, staring, with head slightly turned, at the camera. She does this a lot. It's like she knows there's a camera there. She also eats the sunflower seeds at the bottom of the frame. She has a black pupil in an orange eye, with a violet-blue ring around her eye. The edge of the white on the lower part of her wing is just visible on the side.

White Winged Dove perched on red landing, head down, considering which black sunflower seed to eat next. She has a black pupil in an orange eye, with a violet-blue ring around her eye. The edge of the white on the lower part of her wing is just visible on the side.

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