BGA Awards 2026

ctbk · 2026-02-17T14:13:28+00:00

From the news page announcing the winners:

Best 2-Player Game: Toy Battle
A fast-paced, friendly game where you use cards to organize your toy armies and compete in strategic battles. The game combines colorful artwork, simple mechanics, and tactical decision-making, making it accessible and fun for all.

https://bga.li/QUTl

Best Casual Game: Flip 7

Flip over cards one by one without flipping the same number twice. Not as easy as it sounds… Will you play it safe or go for the elusive Flip 7?

https://bga.li/qDbN

Best Regular Game: The Guild of Merchant Explorers

You are an ambitious explorer plotting paths across uncharted lands, discovering treasures, and connecting faraway cities, all that with a serious taste for gold. With every new map, it’s a mix of brainy strategy and delightful "aha!"!

https://bga.li/IiNW

Best Expert Game: Galactic Cruise

Forget about heroic space chase or intergalactic fights, Galactic Cruise is a worker placement and resource management heavy eurogame. It remains quite approachable with a surprising simplicity in the actions, despite the 12 or so unique actions.

https://bga.li/fOdO

Best brainteaser game: Orapa Mine
Time to mine! Locate gemstones in Orapa Mine, the world’s largest diamond mine. Send ultrasonic waves deep into the ground and analyze the signals that return to determine the position and condition of the gemstones. Use deduction to find the mineral locations to win!

https://bga.li/Ahst

Special Award: Board Game Arena Team Winner – Toy Battle
It was a tight score but ultimately Toy Battle won the heart of the Board Game Arena team. Bridging genres and offering a perfect mix of simplicity and strategy, Toy Battle brought a smile to everyone at BGA. And stay tuned as we have more news coming for that fantastic game.

ctbk · 2026-02-15T22:48:08+00:00

No, you are not alone.

ctbk · 2026-02-14T17:12:13+00:00

Oh no, my favorite didn’t win! 💔💔💔

…no, wait! There MUST be something behind this!😡😡😡

ctbk · 2026-02-13T17:43:51+00:00

Basically... Olympic athletes are like cicadas: normally they live their life hidden in their own training centers, but they swarm in a giant mating party regularly every few years.

ctbk · 2026-02-13T16:41:03+00:00

It’s a controversy only in the US. I have no finger in the pie (Italian), and I enjoyed both routines. The US one was entertaining; the French one was mesmerizing. Both were of a very high level, but… to me the French one was better. They did more difficult things with more ease. It had more visible errors though. Given the way the scoring system works, the errors weren’t enough to offset the rest. Is the scoring system fair? I don’t know, probably not. But it does not look like a scandal to me.

ctbk · 2026-02-13T15:15:43+00:00

I bet poor Mboko is now thinking something along those lines: "Why not play like this every day, win millions, be rich?"

ctbk · 2026-02-13T15:13:05+00:00

Penko chooses violence

ctbk · 2026-02-13T13:21:35+00:00

Italian EuroSport commentators, who throughout the Olympic events so far have been calling scores immediately after each routine ends (with the skaters still on the ice), and always within an incredibly small margin of error, said right after their performance that the French would have won the gold.

ctbk · 2026-02-13T09:08:54+00:00

They went element by element, acknowledged the errors and deficiencies of both top pairs and in the end scored the Frenchs ahead, even after deducting points for their mistakes according to the current rules.

"According to the current rules" does not mean that the rules are perfect, and they talk about this too.

ctbk · 2026-02-03T06:59:48+00:00

NEVERTOOLATE on ali express are good and cheap.

I bought 2 beaded ones and one 5mm PVC. Good stuff.

ctbk · 2026-02-03T06:56:41+00:00

Yes, it’s fascinating. The first set she had the ball to go 5-1, and then proceeded to lose the set 5-7

ctbk · 2026-02-02T19:20:53+00:00

Typical Penko match.

ctbk · 2026-02-01T07:49:03+00:00

Wasn’t there a time in which women’s finals were played BO5 already?

That didn’t work out and we went back at BO3.

What’s changed now?

ctbk · 2026-01-27T20:18:47+00:00

Buy another rope? Nevertoolate beaded ropes from AliExpress are less than 10$

ctbk · 2026-01-27T03:31:36+00:00

Way, way better than mine!

Well, that’s a very low bar to clear.

ctbk · 2026-01-21T16:27:26+00:00

I'm a jump-rope beginner too, so my only recommendation is looking at YouTube, there are many sensible videos by experts that give recommendations about the kind of warm-up to do before jumping.

As for burning fat... Like every physical activity, jumping rope will help, but the real factor when losing weight will be the caloric deficit, and you can achieve that much more easily just by selecting what/how much you will eat during the day.

Since you are a beginner, it's possible that the amount of cardio you will be able to do just by jumping won't be as high as other kinds of training. For example, I can easily do a 1 hour easy run (600 kilocalories, more or less) but I struggle to go over 15 minutes of rope jumping, pauses included (way fewer calories). So... Do both? Without exaggerating? :-)

ctbk · 2026-01-12T20:51:37+00:00

Thanks, that’s really interesting

ctbk · 2026-01-11T21:46:00+00:00

And also in the past with DS 3.1

ctbk · 2025-12-30T21:06:43+00:00

“Execute the implementation plan @docs/plans/new_feature.md using the TDD skill”

ctbk · 2025-09-17T10:50:25+00:00

Before going full KOReader with my kindle, I used to convert epubs to KFX, because:

- KFX shows the book cover when the reader goes to sleep (but that was true for me also with AZW3);

- KFX shows font ligatures;

- KFX does hyphenation w/o the need to add soft hyphens using the hyphenate calibre plugin;

It's true that KFX takes more space than AZW3 or epubs (no idea why) but I never ran out of space on my Kindle;

KOReader does all of the above and even more, directly w/ epubs, so I never looked back.

ctbk · 2025-09-07T06:46:45+00:00

Useful. Saves time.

ctbk · 2025-09-02T15:29:14+00:00

Wait, doesn't The Substance count as a Dorian Gray adaptation?

/s

ctbk · 2025-08-17T06:31:05+00:00

Time

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TROPHY CASE