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Dirk 🔜 Spiel Essen | 4J500 @usefulmeeple.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#boardgames September Is in the books. Not that many plays due to a concert trip to Paris.

BG Stats Sep 2026

Plays: 49
H-index: 2
Games: 38
New: 2
Players: 12
Locations: 6
Hours: 40
Days: 22

Welcome to the Moon: 3
Moon Colony Bloodbath: 3
Die Ameisen von Amyra: 2
Northgreen: 2
Passt nicht!: 2
Otter: 2
One Card Wonder: 2
Duel for Cardia: 2
Oh! Meow! Bow! ‍⬛: 2

55 designers:
Andreas Odendahl: 7%
Alan Paull: 2%
Alexis Allard: 2%
Andrea Robbiani: 2%
Andrii Yanovskiy: 2%.

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Dirk 🔜 Spiel Essen | 4J500 @usefulmeeple.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

🤦‍♂️ es wird immer abstruser in diesem Land 🥴

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Dirk 🔜 Spiel Essen | 4J500 @usefulmeeple.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Grüße aus der Spielepause von unserer kleinen Runde durch Süddeutschland. Greetings from our gaming break, cycling through southern Germany.

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Cliquenabend @cliquenabend.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Am letzten Wochenende waren wir auf dem Herner Spielewahnsinn 2026 und haben dort einige Spiele testen und natürlich auch Videos zu diesen drehen können. Unser erstes Video ist zu Northgreen, welches im Herbst bei The Game Builders erscheint. www.cliquenabend.de/news/692110-...

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Dirk 🔜 Spiel Essen | 4J500 @usefulmeeple.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

#boardgames month March is in the books. The numbers are dominated by #LeiriaCon, lot’s of prototypes, small games played on the journey, as wells as many new to me games. #bgstats

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Dirk 🔜 Spiel Essen | 4J500 @usefulmeeple.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

#LeiriaCon was again a blast. Great games, interesting prototypes and a wonderful time with people you mostly only meet once or twice a year. #boardgames

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Dirk 🔜 Spiel Essen | 4J500 @usefulmeeple.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

February was again a good month for #boardgames with a lot of new to me games #bgstats #brettspiele

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Dirk 🔜 Spiel Essen | 4J500 @usefulmeeple.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Utrecht hat auf 100 m entlang der Oudegracht 4 herrliche #Brettspiel Läden 😳 Jeder auf seine eigene Art großartig 😍

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Dirk 🔜 Spiel Essen | 4J500 @usefulmeeple.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Erste zwei Partien #DieAmeisenVonAmyra gestern gespielt. Tolles Spiel, aber verdammt, zieht da das Tempo auf einmal an. Ganz neue Timing Probleme 🤯 #brettspiele #boardgames

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Dirk 🔜 Spiel Essen | 4J500 @usefulmeeple.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Januar is always a good #boardgames month due to our annual board gaming weekend with friends.

BG Stats Jan 2026

Plays: 86
H-index: 4
Games: 55
New: 8
Players: 14
Locations: 4
Hours: 74
Days: 31

Dune: Imperium – Uprising
Clans of Caledonia
Great Western Trail: New Zealand
Passt nicht!
Speakeasy
Millennia: Tracks of Time
Galactic Cruise
Men-Nefer
Caylus

70 designers:
Andreas Odendahl: 3%
Uwe Rosenberg: 3%
Adam Kwapiński: 1%
Alexander Pfister: 1%
Ben Rosset: 1%.

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 26/01/2025

Of all the Dutch children in this 1943 photo only the girl in the white dress, Felice Polak, survived the war. All the others were murdered in concentration camps. Felice spend many years visiting schools to tell her and their story, she died in 2019.

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Dirk 🔜 Spiel Essen | 4J500 @usefulmeeple.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

What a nice start into the new #biardgames year 🥰 Tomorrow back to work.

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Dirk 🔜 Spiel Essen | 4J500 @usefulmeeple.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Back in Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 at Yr Wyddfa after quite some time and it was great to be back. 🥰 And yes, it rained a lot again. #Snowdonia #boardgames with @karinaw.bsky.social @tonyboydell.bsky.social

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Dirk 🔜 Spiel Essen | 4J500 @usefulmeeple.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

December was another great month to play wonderful #boardgames with friends. #bgstats

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Dirk 🔜 Spiel Essen | 4J500 @usefulmeeple.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

2025 is history. Concerning politics, we better forget about this one 🤬But concerning #boardgames, it was fantastic 🥰 Most games (81%) where 2 player games with @karinaw.bsky.social, thank you my love 😍 for beeing with me.

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Dirk 🔜 Spiel Essen | 4J500 @usefulmeeple.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Todays #boardgames in our end of the year rally. There could have been much more, but #Gloomhaven is always a time waster. #brettspiele @karinaw.bsky.social

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Dirk 🔜 Spiel Essen | 4J500 @usefulmeeple.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

#DuelForCardia is another great game Santa 🧑‍🎄 brought to @karinaw.bsky.social. Only a few cards but a lot of fun (and headache) 🥰

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Dirk 🔜 Spiel Essen | 4J500 @usefulmeeple.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

#MountainGoats from out friend #StefanRisthaus published by @ostiaspiele.bsky.social is brilliant little dice game. And Santa 🧑‍🎄 brought @karinaw.bsky.social a nice insert.

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Dirk 🔜 Spiel Essen | 4J500 @usefulmeeple.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

The weather was terrible yesterday, so we didn’t go outside, but travelled into space with #Ceres, #NewFrontiers, #ShackletonBase and #LunaBase. #boardgames with @karinaw.bsky.social

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Dirk 🔜 Spiel Essen | 4J500 @usefulmeeple.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

#boardgames November was dominated by the Essen releases. Especially outstanding are the 2-player games from @boardgamecircus.bsky.social #Naishi is brilliant and #Instinkt is my favourite new game so far 🥰 #bgstats #brettspiele

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Dirk 🔜 Spiel Essen | 4J500 @usefulmeeple.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Playing the best game of all time #PuertoRico and a wondeful newbie to our collection this weekend #Ceres #Boardgames with @karinaw.bsky.social

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Dirk 🔜 Spiel Essen | 4J500 @usefulmeeple.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Another #boardgames month is in the books. And we event played games at #Spiel this year 😊 #bgstats

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Dirk 🔜 Spiel Essen | 4J500 @usefulmeeple.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

As with every year, we had a #BGStats 10x10 Challenge called FETE (From Essen to Essen), which included all the games we acquired at Spiel’24 or later. Yesterday, five days before Spiel’25, we made it!

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Dirk 🔜 Spiel Essen | 4J500 @usefulmeeple.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Another #boardgames month has passed, so it’s #bgstats time 🙃 Not that many plays but some especially great ones.

BG Stats Sep 2025

Plays: 49
H-index: 3
Games: 36
New: 4
Players: 12
Locations: 4
Hours: 47
Days: 26

Carnegie: 3
Die Blumenstraße: 3
High Season: Grand Hotel Roll & Write: 3
Star Realms: 3
Sea Salt & Paper: 2
Friedrich Ebert: Der Weg zur Demokratie: 2
Pixies: 2
Tic Tac Trek: 2
Oh! Meow! Bow! ‍⬛: 2

45 designers:
Dani Garcia: 5%
Stefan Feld: 5%
Virginio Gigli: 5%
(Uncredited): 2%
Abraham Sanchez Hermida: 2%.

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Dirk 🔜 Spiel Essen | 4J500 @usefulmeeple.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Playing the good ol’ #Endeavor version #AgeOfSail again (naturally with the U expansion) after 17 plays of #DeepSea. Damn, this version is so much better. 😍🥰

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Dirk 🔜 Spiel Essen | 4J500 @usefulmeeple.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

After a much too long break we played the brilliant #Coimbra again. Still 😳🤩🥰😍 #boardgames

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Dirk 🔜 Spiel Essen | 4J500 @usefulmeeple.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Tension is rising, heads are smoking. First 4-player game of #StuporMundi #Boardgames

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Dirk 🔜 Spiel Essen | 4J500 @usefulmeeple.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

June traditionally is the worst month #boardgames wise but the nicest one for cycling. Only 29 plays but therefore 23 days and 1.800 km on our bike. 🥰 #bgstats

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Dirk 🔜 Spiel Essen | 4J500 @usefulmeeple.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

25 year old game #CarolusMagnus and “chain reaction - the game” #WildSpace today. Rest of the day was barbecue and doing nothing because of the heat. @boardgames with @karinaw.bsky.social

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