Solitaire Select

2021 is the year our website turned in on itself. Kind of fitting for another year of curfews and lockdowns and rain over here in Europe....

It's been a long time coming, so to most of you this won't be a surprise. We cannot keep up the website according to our vision....

"Oh, crap. Now I'm stuck with it", I uttered as soon as I saw the Kickstarter email that notified me Senjutsu has successfully funded and...

Since neither JW nor I are going to Essen this year, we decided to do some online Spielunking and unearth the games we might be...

Update August 22: You may wonder by now who has won the contest. After an exhaustive discussion, the jury unanimously came to the...

It's time for us to take a summer break and recharge. We'll be back with renewed energy on August 13, just in time to celebrate the 2nd...

At the beginning of this week we published our 1.000th post. And our website has not even been live for 100 weeks yet. Athena wrote 72%...

How time flies. Six months left in 2021, and I'm still not broke. I need to try harder. Inspired by Athena's radar post, I'll see what...

It is the middle of 2021 already, which means, time to pause, look back on the games acquired so far, but mainly look forward at what is...

This week, the 1 Player Guild Gaming Awards for 2020 were announced. As were the Golden Geek Awards on Board Game Geek. Wingspan won in...

I'm an impulsive buyer. I don't like watching videos, most written reviews are way too long (no, I don't need you to copy the publisher's...

I don't have the collector's mentality with regard to my games collection. Lack of space is a decisive factor and also a will to...

At Solitaire Times we know what we like, and we do as we like. But one day every year, we listen to you. What do you like, dear reader?...

One of these days I'm going to post a list of games that are expected to launch on Kickstarter next year, both here and in the 1PG. For...

I didn't compile a list of favourite solo games this year. My top ones are Spirit Island and Terraforming Mars which makes said list the...

Every year solo gamers are asked to send in their twenty all time favourite games, so a Top-200 can be compiled. You'll find my selection...

For our first anniversary, we held a giveaway last week. Entrants on this website and on Facebook were asked to post their favourite solo...

It was around this time last year that I semi-jokingly discussed the idea of a solo games website with JW, and he didn't change the...

The first year is over, first 600 posts done! Writing took us about 24 hrs a week, then there's the research and the playing of games in...

In With a Smile & a Gun you play the leader of a criminal gang during the Prohibition Era. You try to control parts of the city's illegal...

Half of this horrible year is thankfully gone, with still another 5 months of uncertainty ahead of us. I had compiled a similar 'Radar'...

After some consideration, JW and I decided to create a separate area in our website where members can interact with each other and post...

The portable Pandemic: Hot Zone - North America is available right now, and timing couldn't be better. Fight the spread of a dangerous...

This month Marvel Champions helped me through lockdown. To be honest, I was more in the DC camp growing up. But the films are good fun...

Gloom of Kilforth was one of the very first Kickstarter games I bought. It looked like a cool adventure game, but the stunning artwork...

Testament features an unlikely set of heroes. Kukurito is a little boy cleric who looks uncannily like a little girl. Together with a boy...

Our Solitaire Select for January is APEX Theropod Deck Building Game: Collected Edition. The reprint campaign is on Kickstarter right now...

This Summer I asked Athena if she could start a website as I would like to find all solitaire board game news in one place. She agreed,...

We look ahead most of the time, and think of what next to buy or drool over. But at the end of the year it's kind of nice to look back...

Beginning our Solstice Countdown! I know we buy games for ourselves all year round but... it's Christmas! And Christmas is all about...

I am sharing my impressions on Tainted Grail mid-campaign. It will probably take me another week to finish the 15 chapters, I am...

Nemesis is available in shops now, and those patient enough to wait until the second wave of shipping also received their Kickstarter...

It's here! A second expansion for my top-3 favourite Legendary Encounters: An Alien Deck Building Game: Legendary Encounters: Alien...

This month's Solitaire Select goes to the Donning the Purple: Votes & Virtue expansion, that is currently on Kickstarter. It adds fun new...

You already own Dungeon Degenerates: Hand of Doom, the Mean Streets expansion, and possibly some extra characters. So is there anything...