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selected blog posts about board games

An unnecessarily deep dive into the board game Gizmos

2024-12-31
very long (4270 words) gamesboard gamesmath

Gizmos is a nifty engine building game themed around collecting a bunch of little gadgets that work together. I would guess about 0.2% of the people reading this wonder about questions like "what's the maximum theoretically possible score?" or "what's the fastest theoretically possible game?" To those 0.2% of people... I'm so glad you asked!

Blood on the Exceedingly Large Clocktower

2025-04-20
very long (5170 words) gamesboard gamesmath

What if you took the popular social deduction game Blood on the Clocktower, and then you removed the social part, and then you also removed the deduction part?

other stuff

an extremely in-progress beginner's guide to atomic chess (as in, i wrote a tiny number of words in 2019 and probably will never get around to finishing it)

(more to come... maybe...)