Jacob Bysshe Landrum

I am really irrationally bothered by this, but in looking up things while listening to @timclare.bsky.social talk about mancala games, I can’t believe how much nickernuts look like TICKS. What the hell!

Got a game you wanna show off? I'd love to hear about it. For the first time ever, I'm opening up game design submissions for Coin Flip Games! coinflip.games/submit-a-game

Playing Trifle with my partner & MIL. My partner won 2-1-1 😊 Design by @seandavidross.bsky.social Artwork by @saibep.bsky.social

My officemate and I had a very bad case of the Dontwannas this afternoon, so I made an Oware board with tape and beans. She trounced me in the first game (I only got 2), but I had a commanding win in the second match.

Vampire Crawlers has this mechanic I’m starting to encounter that I think I love. If you overuse a card in a single round, it breaks. When it breaks, these purple reapers come out and will murk you. It is a cool way to balance insanely OP builds.

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Last week’s plays! An interesting mixed bag. Very happy to have three tarocks at least. Good mix of good things!

For @proptartmn.bsky.social @byssh3.bsky.social and anyone else who is interested, the Iello Cribbage set looks like this when opened up. Like all their traditional card games, it comes with a nice booklet containing not only the rules but also a bit of history and some variants.

I love that my daughter, who is my dedicated game buddy and will play actually anything, is at a point where she can present a design she’s made to me, I can tell her some thoughts and feedback, and she’ll go run with that productively. It’s cool.

I am infinitely annoyed that someone gave me a big poker chip set didn’t want anymore and all of the chips have denominations written on them in sharpie. At least it’s funny that on some of them they wrote “A Billi”

I realized I was _really_ close to having all the rules on here, so I tried to add the few that were missing.

Collusion is a fun party style trick taker for 4p that you can play with a standard deck! Design by David Parlett. Source : www.parlettgames.uk/oricards/col...

It changed a little from this original idea but not very much. Coming soon to a deck of cards near you!

pronounced like the “c” in “Pacific Ocean”

And a cribbage board, and some dominos, and some dice, and tokens for scoring, and

Happy National Color Day! 🎨🫟🖌️ Colors inspire emotions and debates! In The Yellow House, Van Gogh and Gauguin argue over what makes great art. Shed cards to strengthen your argument or make bold claims to outwit your opponent and empty your hand first! -TV

When your board game can cheer for itself! (Having a blast at Essen.)

For any mahjong fans in the crowd, Taipa Supremacy: Quick Mahjong is really freaking good and quite spicy! You use the tiles themselves to keep track of score, so round by round the number of available tiles dwindle. It's very cool :)

Say what you will about the American Cribbage Congress’s choice of phone number, but it’s certainly memorable. I used to know everyone’s phone number by heart, but these days I only know mine, my partner’s, and, now, the American Cribbage Congress’s.

I decided that d4s should be more like d6s so I made these stubbier than usual barrel dice and they are perfect.

Love these types of maps, here is one about how different Dutch speaking regions say "fries" 🍟.

Great video on why we play games that involve luck & chance, that uses my book as a source (& does a fantastic job of crediting me) but adds plenty of original, interesting insights & context. Thrilled that my work played a small part. youtu.be/zTC-RJAsG-0?...

Taught a PnP copy of The Adventures of NitNit, Woo, Bid Coin, Shortstack. Love love love sharing all these games with my local TT / shedding group.

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Greetings all. I have put this off for some time now but I am struggling to pay an enormous printing debt to my current printers. Therefore I am asking for all your help. If you've ever enjoyed my games, please consider donating so I can continue to make them. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-neonr...

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In short, this is the book. If you love games, this is the one to read and to point others too. There are other books if there’s a particular facet you want to dive in to, but if you just love games in all their forms and history, there is nothing else out there like Tim’s book.

I’m a special kind of idiot lmao

10/15/2026 We’re officially married!! 💕 This was my favorite from a BTS set of photos our family took today—I’m so excited to get our professional photos!!

Me: What country do ghosts come from? 14 y.o. : AlaBAAAAAma Well that’s funnier than what I was gonna say.

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Did you know that the expression 'even a moron connects against a peep' comes from Go? I had no idea. As does 'don't make empty triangles' & 'the comb formation is alive'.

Now that 5 of a Kind is on BGG, I posted my design diary about the game. The game is my love letter to deckbuilding roguelites and traditional climbing/shedding games. It's a weird and wild game and I'm so excited for people to check it out. boardgamegeek.com/thread/37824...

Vampire Crawlers is stupid addictive. Absolutely bonkers.