Unboxed the Board Game Blog

In 2022 I played 23 new games, not all from 2022, in fact probably very few from that year, but I wanted to make a top 10 list of the best ones I played...

I have been painting now for around 25 years and I paint on average once a day, but even I sometimes burn out and go through periods where I feel uninspired to sit down and paint. So here are my top ten tips for upping your motivation and getting yourself pumped to paint.

We’ve always been Party Game people. Some of my earliest memories of family gatherings are us playing Trivial Pursuit, Dingbats or Charades. I remember going to parties at friends’ houses and discovering new party games we didn’t have like Pictionary, Boggle or Balderdash.

Another year has flown by and I have ratcheted up a cracking 32 “new to me” games for the year. Using Pub Meeple I dropped in the titles and ranked all the new games I’ve played this year. It’s worth noting that I only played 10 games from 2021, so this is not the best of 2021, but the best of the games I played that were new to me. That said the majority of the list comes from the last 4 years, with the outlier being Robinson Crusoe which is now a whopping 10 years old, and er… ooops, spoiler I guess.