bestof2012
aardvarchaeology | January 2, 2013Here are the ten boardgames I played the most over a year with about one gaming session a week.
Innovation (2010)
7 Wonders (2010)
For Sale (1997)
Glory to Rome (2005) *
Lost Cities (1999)
Verräter (1998) *
Pergamon (2011, reviewed here) *
Telestrations (2009) *
Last Night on Earth (2007) *
Wok Star (2010) *
These are mostly short games that you can play repeatedly in one evening. The longer games that we played more than twice were Last Night on Earth and Yggdrasil. I played 74 different boardgames in 2012. Looking back since mid-2008, the number is 171.
Stats courtesy of Boardgame Geek.…
aardvarchaeology | January 1, 2013Here are my best reads in English during 2012. I read 50 books this year, six of which were e-books. I flirted with LibraryThing for a while, but lately I've found that Goodreads is more the kind of leisure reading database/community that I enjoy. Find me there.
Packing for Mars. Mary Roach 2011. Delving into space exploration history to get a perspective on the gritty realities of a future human-staffed Mars mission. (Let's first do sample return.)
My Early Life. Winston Churchill 1930. Scion of power spends his youth trying to get involved in war and trains as a cavalry officer as one of…