Author Archives: Talia Rosen

The Opinionated Gamers often have long and winding conversations.  This one started with Stefan Feld’s Civolution, about which different OG members are variously excited or horrified.  Civolution definitely seems to be a love it or hate it sort of concept … Continue reading →

Spiel des Jahres Week at The Opinionated Gamers ends today with our final ranking of the 45 games that have ever won the most impactful award in board gaming.  24 members of the OG voted with each person picking their … Continue reading →

Spiel des Jahres Week at The Opinionated Gamers takes a detour on this penultimate day of the week to explore and rank the 13 winners of the Kennerspiel des Jahres.  The Kennerspiel debuted in 2011 to honor Antoine Bauza and … Continue reading →

Spiel des Jahres Week at The Opinionated Gamers reaches its midpoint today with our least favorite winners of the award.  At the OG we review games on a scale from “not for me” to “love it” so today are the … Continue reading →

Spiel des Jahres Week at The Opinionated Gamers continues today with discussion of our favorite winners of the award of all time.  Since the first SdJ was awarded to Hare & Tortoise in 1979, there have been 45 games to … Continue reading →

Welcome to Spiel des Jahres Week here at the Opinionated Gamers!  We will be celebrating and discussing the biggest award in board gaming all week long.  Today, we will start with the new 2024 nominees that were just announced a … Continue reading →