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General Posted onOctober 5, 2025August 30, 2025

A few favorite “O” games

I’m continuing my slow walk through the alphabet, looking at a few faves for each letter. Next up is O. Overbooked In Overbooked, players are […] Read More

General Posted onSeptember 21, 2025August 30, 2025

A to Z Gaming: Super Mega Lucky Box

We crossed out numbers to try for some mega combos in Super Mega Lucky box, the next game in our A-Z game shelf play-through. Super […] Read More

General Posted onAugust 27, 2023

A to Z Gaming: The Spill

We worked together to contain oil flowing from an offshore rig while saving the marine life in The Spill, the next game in our A-Z […] Read More

Right half is text saying: A Race to the Sun with Cubitos; Cosmic Game Connections. The left half has the sun in the background with a woman in front holding a copy of the game Cubitos
General Posted onJanuary 28, 2022July 18, 2022

A Race to the Sun with Cubitos

NASA recently announced that its Parker Solar Probe touched the Sun. But … what does that mean? Why didn’t it burn up? And, how does […] Read More

General Posted onJanuary 7, 2022January 6, 2022

Balanced Gamer Challenge Poster – January 2022 Update

It seemed like time to update the progress on our Balanced Gamer Challenge Poster! We managed a few more achievements, but we’re still a long […] Read More

Balanced Gamer Challenge poster with achievement tracks partially scratched off
General Posted onAugust 5, 2021July 27, 2021

Balanced Gamer Challenge Poster – Summer Update

We had a bit of a turbulent spring, so we didn’t try very hard to make progress on our Balanced Gamer Challenge Poster, but we’ve […] Read More

General Posted onFebruary 4, 2021February 2, 2021

Balanced Gamer Challenge Poster

One of the rewards from the 2020 Dice Tower Kickstarter was the “balanced gamer” challenge poster. This is a poster with areas that can be […] Read More

Remote gaming
General Posted onApril 28, 2020April 24, 2020

Remote Gaming

I know a lot of folks are finding creative solutions to still play games with friends during this time of physical distancing because of COVID-19. […] Read More

General Posted onMarch 26, 2019March 25, 2019

Unpub9 Playtesting

We spent our Sunday afternoon play testing games at Uupub9 – overall a fun way to spend the day while feeling like we contributed something to the hobby.

playing card reading: Every Dog Has Its Day, Go Up A Level. In the center is a cartoon of a dog in a king's robe and crown with two smaller puppies next to it.
General Posted onMarch 23, 2019March 23, 2019

#NationalPuppyDay

Did you know that March 23 is National Puppy Day? Well, now you do! In honor of that, I scoured my games for all the […] Read More

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I’ve been a lifelong gamer and an astronomer — I see the universe in everything I do.

Here I’ll be posting a collection of reviews, game night re-caps, and anything gaming I feel like writing about. I also create content for a YouTube channel, including videos where I connect astronomy and board games.

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