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Board Games

Welcome to Yoki's gaming hangout — locally referred to as Holken.

I play boardgames as often as possible. I play as an escape, for the mental challenge, and for pure social enjoyment. Luckily my two daughters also love boardgames and we always enjoy company at our gaming table, so please don't be a stranger.

Learn About Board Games

Yoki's Recent Plays:

BoardGameGeek

BoardGameGeek.com is my favorite source for information on board games and by far the best social network for board gamers. By creating a BoardGameGeek Profile you can rate the games you have played, and the site compiles the top ranked games. You can also track your games on BoardGameGeek and sort them into all kinds of lists, such as my collection sorted by rank and my collection sorted by my ratings.

Wishlist

I keep a BoardGameGeek Wishlist of the games I desire the most, and this YouTube playlist complements it by featuring a series of reviews of games that I desire.

Family Games

Here is a playlist in the style of the above one, but over kids and family games. Games that I want to play with my family and friends who aren't hardcore gamer geeks.

So Where Can I Get These Games?

My wife pointed out that, while it was nice of me to link to my wishlist, she would also like me to link to places to where the games can be bought. Here are some of my favorite game stores:

Comparison Shopping

SpelSök (Sweden).
Brettspielsuche (Germany).
BoardGamePrices.com (US).
BoardGameSearch (US).

Online Stores

AlphaSpel (Sweden).
WorldofBoardGames.com (Sweden).
amazon.de (Germany).
Milan Spiele (Germany).
CosimShop.de (Germany).
ThoughtHammer (US).
amazon.com (US).
BoardGameGuru.co.uk (UK).
amazon.co.uk (UK).

Collection

My BoardGameGeek Profile lists my entire game collection, but here's a YouTube playlist of videos of some of my favorite games. They are sorted in descending order of how much I currently want to play them.

Tom and Melody's Top 100 Boardgames

Tom is without a doubt the most prolific game reviewer today. In 2009 he started publishing a video series of his and his then 9-year old daughter Melody's top top 100 boardgames. I highly recommend the series, and the 2010 version is currently being published on YouTube.

2010

2009

Internationale Spieltage SPIEL

SPIEL is the world's largest game convention and is held in Essen, Germany the last weekend of October each year. Here's a collection of videos that illustrate why all board game fans must attend the show at least once in their lifetime.