I just got the ratings for my Ludum Dare competition game, Domain, written from scratch in 48 hours last month. They were good - this is th...

Spoiler warning, if it's possible to spoil a 150-year-old book or a 30-year-old musical. Pretension warning: I never write like this ...

OK, this isn't game related, but I just found a really great disk profiler.  I realized last night that my SSD is filling up on my main ...

BGG Ratings counts as of 2007, by BGG member Joe Grundy My last post , which discussed BGG ratings of a few games, got me wondering what...

Risk battles, thoroughly quantified.   Takeaway:  Even for evenly matched armies, the attacker gets more likely to win the more each side ...

XKCD has a neat image that lays out ideal Tic Tac Toe strategy .  The image is a little complicated to read at first, but once you figure ou...

Dale Yu at BoardGameNews.com has a column  on a (semi-silly) scoring system for how many of the most popular boardgames you have played and ...

I fixed (I hope) a nagging problem on my pinball machine today - replaced the opto sensor for the saucer trough so that it can detect balls ...

I learned last week that the makers of Stratego have reordered their pieces in the recent games, so that the good ones are now the higher nu...

Polyhedral dice are just way cool. I knew this when I was 13 or so, and the knowledge persisted until maybe 26-27, but when I started teachi...