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Zerbique
- Mar 9
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...
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Zerbique
- Mar 2
Crowdfunding spotlight: Steam Power
Steam Power is our crowdfunding pick of the week.
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Zerbique
- Jan 31
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...
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Zerbique
- Jan 20
Another 2023 Ceremony Award - Casual Category
Zerbique reflects on the 2023 published games he played - and he even liked some of them.
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JW
- Dec 30, 2023
End Times 2023: Game of the Year Awards
Best board games and expansions of 2023.
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JW
- Dec 22, 2023
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...
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SnowDragonka
- Dec 21, 2023
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...
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Zerbique
- Dec 18, 2023
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...
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Zerbique
- Oct 13, 2023
Kickstarter Spotlight: Diatoms
Zerbique rambles about his new favorite abstract game.
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JW
- Aug 15, 2023
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...
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Zerbique
- Dec 13, 2022
A Top 20 of sorts - Zerbique's solo picks (Part Two)
Part Two of the 2022 Zerbique's Top 20 Solo games
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Zerbique
- Dec 5, 2022
A Top 20 of sorts - Zerbique's solo picks (Part One)
A Top 20 Solo games selection for the year 2022
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JW
- Sep 24, 2022
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...
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Athena
- Sep 21, 2022
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...
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JW
- Aug 14, 2022
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....
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JW
- Jul 11, 2022
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...
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JW
- Dec 30, 2021
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....
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JW
- Nov 17, 2021
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....
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Athena
- Nov 14, 2021
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...
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Athena
- Oct 10, 2021
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...
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JW
- Aug 22, 2021
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...
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JW
- Aug 4, 2021
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...
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JW
- Jun 27, 2021
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%...
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JW
- Jun 17, 2021
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...
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Athena
- Jun 16, 2021
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...
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JW
- May 6, 2021
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...
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JW
- Feb 1, 2021
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...
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Athena
- Feb 1, 2021
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...
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JW
- Dec 22, 2020
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?...
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Athena
- Dec 11, 2020
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...
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Athena
- Dec 9, 2020
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...
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JW
- Oct 10, 2020
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...
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JW
- Aug 21, 2020
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...
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Athena
- Aug 15, 2020
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...
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JW
- Aug 15, 2020
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...
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JW
- Aug 1, 2020
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...
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Athena
- Jul 18, 2020
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'...
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Athena
- Jul 14, 2020
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...
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JW
- May 21, 2020
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...
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- Apr 24, 2020
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...
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- Mar 12, 2020
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...
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Athena
- Feb 26, 2020
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...
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- Jan 22, 2020
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...
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- Dec 31, 2019
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,...
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- Dec 31, 2019
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...
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Athena
- Dec 12, 2019
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...
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Athena
- Dec 9, 2019
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...
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- Nov 20, 2019
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...
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- Oct 11, 2019
Hitting a perfect strike
It's here! A second expansion for my top-3 favourite Legendary Encounters: An Alien Deck Building Game: Legendary Encounters: Alien...
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