Shōbu (2019) feels like a game humans could have been playing for hundreds of years. You win by pushing all your opponents stones off any one of the four gameboards. The twist is that you get two moves on your turn, a passive move followed by an aggressive move. The passive move is setup, no pushing allowed. The aggressive move must involve a different stone, and must mirror how the passive stone moves. Pushing is permitted here. #boardgames

@Great Ghee Tastes delicious in coffee.

Signal (2025) is a cooperative game for 2+ players, which thematically reminds me of the film Arrival (2016). The humans supply the inputs (wooden pieces of different shapes and colors), then the alien moves them around according to certain hidden rules. The humans and alien win if the goal output is created after the alien manipulates the inputs. #boardgames

boop. (2022) is a two-player abstract strategy game where you try to be the first to line up three cats in a row (or get all eight of your cats onto the bed). But you start the game with only kittens, which then "graduate" into cats only after you have lined THEM up in a row of three. The twist though is that placing a piece bounces any adjacent pieces one space away, so lining up three is trickier than it looks. And yes, the box converts to a bed, and yes, your kittens can be "booped" off them. #boardgames