Top 10 Games Played at Origins 2022

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Origins 2022 is the first major convention I have attended since 2019. I’ve been to a few smaller “cons” here and there, but this is the first major one since… well you know. Even though things were a little different both overall and personally (Asmodee having a smaller presence and my first participation in a miniatures game demo as examples), it just felt good to be back in a setting where everyone is elated to walk around, emptying their wallets for new purchases, and playing games with both friends and strangers.

This year, I got to meet up with a podcast I have been listening to since its inception: the guys over at Hidden Gems. We gamed in quite a few capacities, playing new games and old favorites. So big thanks to them for allowing me to feel right at home in their game group. To piggyback off that, my list will not be exclusively Origins releases. They have an extensive library, and we brought our own games that we prioritized playing. Lots of reviewers, including myself, will be reviewing games that were released at Origins, and some may be featured here!

The first of four (yes, four) games from BoardGameTables.com, Mountain Goats is the one that feels most familiar. Similar to another game that will appear on this list, you are rolling four dice and attempting to reach the top of a row of numbers, here from five to 10. What makes Mountain Goats different from other dice games is that when you reach the final card on a number’s mountain, you take a point chit matching that number. And you don’t leave the summit once you reach the top until someone else bumps you off, so if you roll that number on your next turn and you still sit on the summit, you take another scoring chit that matches the number. I don’t