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Get Something In Your Chest
Given that I know nothing about Minecraft and find the voxel aesthetic repulsive, you may wonder why I picked Minecraft Explorers , that...
Zerbique
Aug 27, 2024
401 views
2 comments


The Daily Dilly-dally
Back to daily posts.
JW
Apr 1, 2024
137 views
6 comments

Kickstarter spotlight - Boardquest: Tales of Liria
If Boardquest: Tales of Liria doesn’t make you think of Warcraft III, then you either don’t know Warcraft III, or you don’t know...
Zerbique
Mar 8, 2024
265 views
10 comments

Crowdfunding spotlight: Steam Power
Steam Power is our crowdfunding pick of the week.
Zerbique
Mar 2, 2024
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0 comments

Kickstarter spotlight - Fate: Defenders of Grimheim
Our Kickstarter spotlight of the week - and my personal back this month, incidentally - is Fate: Defenders of Grimheim, and it was about...
Zerbique
Jan 31, 2024
314 views
10 comments


Another 2023 Ceremony Award - Casual Category
Zerbique reflects on the 2023 published games he played - and he even liked some of them.
Zerbique
Jan 20, 2024
287 views
14 comments

End Times 2023: Game of the Year Awards
Best board games and expansions of 2023.
JW
Dec 30, 2023
400 views
24 comments


A Year of Slacking - JW Pledges 2023
So, crowdfunding became an expensive hobby. Shipping, VAT and customs push most campaigns out of my reach. I take my chances of games...
JW
Dec 22, 2023
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3 comments

A Year of Backing - Snow Pledges 2023
I’ve been saying at the beginning of the year that I won’t back much, mostly expansions. I also have a set of eight rules that I tend to...
SnowDragonka
Dec 21, 2023
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5 comments

A Year of Backing - Zerbique Pledges 2023
We are December 17th and it's reasonable to assume that I won't be backing any new project in the following two weeks. So I can call the...
Zerbique
Dec 17, 2023
286 views
17 comments

Kickstarter Spotlight: Diatoms
Zerbique rambles about his new favorite abstract game.
Zerbique
Oct 13, 2023
191 views
1 comment

Random thoughts on Midhalla
Why? No, really, why? What is wrong with me? So far this year I’ve backed one small game, two small expansions and a deck of cards. Doing...
JW
Aug 15, 2023
264 views
24 comments

A Top 20 of sorts - Zerbique's solo picks (Part Two)
Part Two of the 2022 Zerbique's Top 20 Solo games
Zerbique
Dec 13, 2022
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A Top 20 of sorts - Zerbique's solo picks (Part One)
A Top 20 Solo games selection for the year 2022
Zerbique
Dec 5, 2022
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13 comments


But wait, there's more! (Bare Essen-tials, part 2)
Yeah. Another year we’re not going. But if I was, these are some of the games I’d check out at Essen Spiel 2022. I am not someone who...
JW
Sep 24, 2022
609 views
25 comments


Bare Essen-tials
JW reminded me that Essen Spiel is going to take place at the very beginning of October this year, so I went through the BGG preview list...
Athena
Sep 21, 2022
507 views
11 comments

Three Cheers for our Baby
Three years! Who'd have thought our hobby website would last this long. Who'd thought the world would last this long, for that matter....
JW
Aug 14, 2022
222 views
7 comments


Grove is the New Agropolis
Stop the presses! This just in. The Solitaire Times Official Revisioned Recommendation for 18-card tile laying games. I know it's just...
JW
Jul 10, 2022
309 views
5 comments


End Times 2021: The Best of Solitaire Times
2021 is the year our website turned in on itself. Kind of fitting for another year of curfews and lockdowns and rain over here in Europe....
JW
Dec 30, 2021
620 views
1 comment


Solitaire Times, they are a-changing
It's been a long time coming, so to most of you this won't be a surprise. We cannot keep up the website according to our vision....
JW
Nov 17, 2021
488 views
22 comments


Hit and miss
"Oh, crap. Now I'm stuck with it", I uttered as soon as I saw the Kickstarter email that notified me Senjutsu has successfully funded and...
Athena
Nov 14, 2021
362 views
11 comments


Essener Delikatessen
Since neither JW nor I are going to Essen this year, we decided to do some online Spielunking and unearth the games we might be...
Athena
Oct 10, 2021
306 views
13 comments


Celebrating two magical years
Update August 22: You may wonder by now who has won the contest. After an exhaustive discussion, the jury unanimously came to the...
JW
Aug 22, 2021
230 views
8 comments

Closed for holidays
It's time for us to take a summer break and recharge. We'll be back with renewed energy on August 13, just in time to celebrate the 2nd...
JW
Aug 4, 2021
177 views
12 comments

1.000 Posts Old
At the beginning of this week we published our 1.000th post. And our website has not even been live for 100 weeks yet. Athena wrote 72%...
JW
Jun 27, 2021
108 views
18 comments

Mid-year raiders
How time flies. Six months left in 2021, and I'm still not broke. I need to try harder. Inspired by Athena's radar post, I'll see what...
JW
Jun 17, 2021
258 views
7 comments


Mid-year radar
It is the middle of 2021 already, which means, time to pause, look back on the games acquired so far, but mainly look forward at what is...
Athena
Jun 16, 2021
308 views
21 comments


Best of the Best (2020 Edition)
This week, the 1 Player Guild Gaming Awards for 2020 were announced. As were the Golden Geek Awards on Board Game Geek. Wingspan won in...
JW
May 6, 2021
807 views
11 comments

You're no rock 'n' roll fun
I'm an impulsive buyer. I don't like watching videos, most written reviews are way too long (no, I don't need you to copy the publisher's...
JW
Feb 1, 2021
508 views
5 comments

Since I left you / I found the world so new
I don't have the collector's mentality with regard to my games collection. Lack of space is a decisive factor and also a will to...
Athena
Feb 1, 2021
486 views
6 comments

Greatest Hits 2020
At Solitaire Times we know what we like, and we do as we like. But one day every year, we listen to you. What do you like, dear reader?...
JW
Dec 22, 2020
434 views
2 comments


Games of 2021 I'm curious about
One of these days I'm going to post a list of games that are expected to launch on Kickstarter next year, both here and in the 1PG. For...
Athena
Dec 11, 2020
504 views
9 comments


Five small card games for compulsive play
I didn't compile a list of favourite solo games this year. My top ones are Spirit Island and Terraforming Mars which makes said list the...
Athena
Dec 9, 2020
782 views
35 comments


Sign o' the Times - JW's Top Solo Games in 20/20
Every year solo gamers are asked to send in their twenty all time favourite games, so a Top-200 can be compiled. You'll find my selection...
JW
Oct 10, 2020
1,194 views
3 comments


Anniversary contest winners
For our first anniversary, we held a giveaway last week. Entrants on this website and on Facebook were asked to post their favourite solo...
JW
Aug 21, 2020
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0 comments


Solitaire Times is one year old! Celebrate with us and win games!
It was around this time last year that I semi-jokingly discussed the idea of a solo games website with JW, and he didn't change the...
Athena
Aug 15, 2020
589 views
48 comments


Year One Stats
The first year is over, first 600 posts done! Writing took us about 24 hrs a week, then there's the research and the playing of games in...
JW
Aug 15, 2020
435 views
7 comments


The Mob Rules
In With a Smile & a Gun you play the leader of a criminal gang during the Prohibition Era. You try to control parts of the city's illegal...
JW
Jul 31, 2020
287 views
3 comments


Mid-year Radar
Half of this horrible year is thankfully gone, with still another 5 months of uncertainty ahead of us. I had compiled a similar 'Radar'...
Athena
Jul 18, 2020
249 views
2 comments


Welcoming you to Loners Lounge
After some consideration, JW and I decided to create a separate area in our website where members can interact with each other and post...
Athena
Jul 13, 2020
170 views
0 comments


Hot Zone in my Pocket
The portable Pandemic: Hot Zone - North America is available right now, and timing couldn't be better. Fight the spread of a dangerous...
JW
May 21, 2020
336 views
4 comments


The new black
This month Marvel Champions helped me through lockdown. To be honest, I was more in the DC camp growing up. But the films are good fun...
-
Apr 24, 2020
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It's good to be back
Gloom of Kilforth was one of the very first Kickstarter games I bought. It looked like a cool adventure game, but the stunning artwork...
-
Mar 12, 2020
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4 comments

Don't let me down, Kukurito
Testament features an unlikely set of heroes. Kukurito is a little boy cleric who looks uncannily like a little girl. Together with a boy...
Athena
Feb 26, 2020
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0 comments


The Diversity of Life
Our Solitaire Select for January is APEX Theropod Deck Building Game: Collected Edition. The reprint campaign is on Kickstarter right now...
-
Jan 22, 2020
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0 comments


The best of times
This Summer I asked Athena if she could start a website as I would like to find all solitaire board game news in one place. She agreed,...
-
Dec 31, 2019
438 views
5 comments


Cream of the crop 2019
We look ahead most of the time, and think of what next to buy or drool over. But at the end of the year it's kind of nice to look back...
-
Dec 31, 2019
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0 comments

12 Solo Games for Christmas
Beginning our Solstice Countdown! I know we buy games for ourselves all year round but... it's Christmas! And Christmas is all about...
Athena
Dec 12, 2019
641 views
2 comments


Not a cup of sorrow (spoiler-free)
I am sharing my impressions on Tainted Grail mid-campaign. It will probably take me another week to finish the 15 chapters, I am...
Athena
Dec 9, 2019
520 views
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Intruder's happy in the dark
Nemesis is available in shops now, and those patient enough to wait until the second wave of shipping also received their Kickstarter...
-
Nov 20, 2019
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