Don't Eat the Meeples
Matt MontgomeryA weekly in-depth newsletter about board games and card games
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Why are great flicking games hard to come by?
It’s Tuesday night (and Wednesday afternoon) as I write this, having just returned home yesterday evening from a long excursion to Salt Lake City, where I spent a fair amount of time with friends and family. Some of that time, of course, wa...
Flip 7, Looot stand out among 2025 Spiel des Jahres nominees
This year’s nominees for the most prestigious prize in board games, the Spiel des Jahres, were announced yesterday. The timing couldn’t have been better: I’ve been trying to figure out what to write about, especially as I’m away from home a...
Looking back at 2005 in board games
We’re hopping in the Wayback Machine today and traveling to a distant time in board game history: the year 2005. Yes, 20 years ago was a long time — especially in the internet age — even if it makes me feel old to admit it, both to you, dea...
Risk as an essential feature in games
There are few certainties about what makes a game a game. Finding the definition of a game — not a dictionary definition, but something genuinely useful in games criticism — has proven controversial. It is perhaps best illustrated by the di...
How tariffs are impacting board game publishers
The impact of American tariffs on board game publishers remains a substantial threat to the longevity of nearly every publisher, from the most extravagant to the most studied and cautious. I wrote three weeks ago now, as the first wave of t...
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