Random Boardgame Facts

Three times a week a new random fact, curated by @koenigvonsiam until he forgets or runs out of stuff. Or Tweet deck will be paid only.

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German news anchor Judith Rakers quit her job to pursue her other business. Among the projects: Collaborating on a boardgame based on her books.

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New comic! More @BoardgameFacts with @Koenigvonsiam. The Secret Service raided @SJGames which, according to the judge, saved the company!

This fact had to be done in @muskrat_john's style. 😁

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New comic! This month, we'll be sharing some @BoardgameFacts with @Koenigvonsiam. Did you know Wingspan is the reason a lot of the birds in the game now have an official Serbian name?

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Sadly, only existing wargames can win the Charles S. Roberts Award for best hypothetical wargame

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Scotland Yard was developed for the 100 year anniversary of Ravensburger by a team from all parts of the company: The head developer, a sales person, a technician, an illustrater and press person.

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Strohmann Games is a completly different publisher than Stothmann-Spiele

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New comic! The coming Mondays, we'll be sharing some fun @BoardgameFacts together with @Koenigvonsiam. This week, we learned about the origin of the name @beziergames.😁

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Firefly: Tenth year anniversary collectors edition will be coming out for the 11th year anniversary of Firefly

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New comic! In the coming weeks, together with @Koenigvonsiam, we'll be sharing some fun board game facts from @BoardgameFacts! Since we won't be able to cover all the board game facts, please share your favorite trivia below!

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@tshallberg But tbh its more likely that I will continue the partnership with @semicoop and will publish new facts via them.

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*** So LOl, there was an automated tweet today, so they are somewhere. I cant see or access them, so Idk what will happen. In June Ive sheduled tweets until september. Lets see how long we can still drink from that fountain that is underneath the ruins of Tweetdeck***

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@tshallberg Only if I find a feasonable way to manage future tweets. Tweetdeck is now only pay only so I have to find an alternative.

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@semicoop @Koenigvonsiam @BoardgameFacts The double-sided Ticket to Ride UK & Pennsylvabia board has one station that appears on both sides of the board - Reading! The designer of Ticket to Ride attended a release event for that set at Eclectic Games in Reading (England).

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Christoph Tisch, who has now llustrate several boardgames, started in the scene as an illustrator for a German bg fanzine. He was hired after sending in a voting card where each game, he voted for, was illustrated with a short sketch

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The rules of Thunder Road Vendetta clearly state that "choppers are not the same as cars"

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The City of Lauda-Königshofen is listed on BGG as a publisher because they are publishing a couple of medium-weight Eurogames about their city

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In 1990 the US Secret Service raided the office of Steve Jackson games because of their TTRPG GURPS Cyberpunk

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Eric Martin @BoardgameNews played his copy of Qwirkle with Thorsten Gimmler at an After Essen event in Berlin. Gimmler liked it so much that he signed it for Schmidt Spiele. It won Spiel des Jahres for them.

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Germanys Settlers of Catan and subsequent products made it clear that the Settlers where Vikings that settled on uninhabitated land in the Atlantic.
Mayfair changed the graphics and shifted the setting to the Game to North America.

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Among hte things you need to play Spaceship Unity is a hoover.

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1982 Risk was about to get a PG18 rating in Germany because of the militaristic content.

It was only avoided by changing the wording of the rules (for example "free" einstead iof "conquer" and claiming attack and defense are "diplomatic actions")