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- Oct 17
The Cousins' War on Brain of Britain
Our game, The Cousins' War by David J Mortimer has hit the big-time! We have featured as a question in Heat 10 of the Brain of Britain...
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- Sep 25
It's nearly Spiel time again!
5-9 October 2023 Hall 3, 3A114 - Surprised Stare Games' stand COME AND SEE US! It's been a year already since Spiel '22, though that's...
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- Aug 15
War of the 3 Sanchos: last 2 days
We are about to enter the last couple of days of our Gamefound campaign for War of the 3 Sanchos. We have a bit of a sprint still to do...
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- Jul 18
War of the 3 Sanchos: Live on Gamefound!
Exciting news! After a long gestation period, War of the 3 Sanchos is now live on Gamefound... You can find out more about the game on...
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- Jul 10
War of the 3 Sanchos: Follower discount
As an acknowledgement of your extra help in supporting our project at the early stage, we are giving a Follower gift of £1 off your...
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- May 30
SSG at UK Games Expo 2023
It's Expo time of year again! Surprised Stare Games will be at the UK Games Expo, 2-4 June 2023 at the NEC in Birmingham. Do come and see...
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- May 15
Kingmaker on The Dice Tower
Today is the official retail launch day for Kingmaker: The Royal Re-launch. To mark this milestone, and my involvement as developer of...
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- Apr 1
How to set up Kingmaker the Second
I'm not an expert at making videos, as you can tell if you watch any of them. However, after making an unboxing video of the new...
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- Mar 26
Presents from Gibsons: Unboxing Kingmaker
A big hooray on Saturday 25 March 2023, when my long-awaiting package arrived from Gibsons. Here's a video about what happened next......
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- Mar 22
Pondering Mechanics with Bez: Sealed Bid Auctions
It's that time again! 10:00 today (Wednesday 22 March 2023), I'll be blethering about board game mechanics with Bez. This morning it's...
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- Mar 16
3 Sanchos and Bugs in Harrogate
A quick resumé of our outing to AireCon '23 at the Harrogate Convention Centre Charlie and I headed north in the snow on Thursday 9th...
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- Mar 8
Pondering Mechanics with Bez: Once Around Auctions
It's another Wednesday Bether for me with Bez Shahriari! We continue examining the different auction systems. A series inspired by...
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- Mar 6
AireMail
Surprised Stare Games will be at AireCon Thursday 9 March to Sunday 12 March! To be a bit more precise, we don't have a full exhibitor...
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- Feb 22
Blethering with Bez about Multi-Lot Auctions
Today (22 February 2023) at 10:00, I'll be blethering with Bez about Multi-Lot Auctions. We may touch on Keyflower, El Grande, and...
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- Feb 14
3 Sanchos: Now previewing on Gamefound
Please sign up to our Gamefound preview page at: https://gamefound.com/projects/ssg/3-sanchos. You can also find the page by going to...
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- Feb 8
Pondering Mechanics with Bez: Fixed Placement Auctions
This morning (Wednesday 8 Feb 23) at 10:00 UK time, I will be chatting about Fixed Placement Auctions with the terrifically talented Bez....
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- Jan 29
Just Desert
A review of Eighth Army Versus Rommel: Tactics, Training and Operations in North Africa This scholarly book by James Colvin analyses the...
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- Jan 2
Marching Across the Tabletop!
Very good to see my game, The March of Progress, in the Tabletop Gaming Magazine's Best Games of 2022! It was also available in the...
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- Jan 1
Bonding on the Western Front: a book review
https://www.helion.co.uk/military-history-books/survivors-of-a-kind-memoirs-of-the-western-front.php?sid=99fee03d3b638d9cbcc04f4ffc1a8a32...
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- Nov 23, 2022
A Trip to Notts - Retford Moot A
After a brief recovery from GridCon, Charlie and I headed north on the A1 to Nottinghamshire for the Retford Moot, a replacement for our...
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- Nov 16, 2022
Blethering about Auctions
In which Bez and I get an overview of auction mechanics through games such as Skull, Modern Art, For Sale, No Thanks!, High Society,...
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- Nov 15, 2022
On the Grid(Con)
Charlie and I went off to GridCon 3 last week. For the uninitiated, GridCon is Paul Grogan's south west annual board gaming convention....
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- Nov 3, 2022
Apparently, it's nearly Christmas... Soon time for an Advent Calendar?!
I've never been a great one for advent calendars - just give me a Topic (showing my age!) and I'm happy, rather than a daily dose of...
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