by Mark Johnson
Mark Johnson's occasional & opinionated podcast about family strategy boardgames
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April 1, 2025
<p>The annual voting/predicting competition called Mark Madness is now finished. The results are posted with the rest of the updates for episode 239, and here co-host Eryn Roston returns one last time to share the winners. Unconscious Mind was our collective favorite for game cover art, and Adam Brocker is this year's winner. The plan now is for Adam to help me run next year's Mark Madness, in 2026.<br /> <br /> Next, I share my time at Dice Tower West. This is the second year in a row that I've gone to this national boardgame convention. Is it national? I think so. It's certainly big. Held in Las Vegas every March, that's a destination I can reach by car. I join a bunch of friends there and we play most games together. Besides a number of fresh & new ones, the buddies I got to this con with enjoy focusing one entire day on old games. We define that as games more than 25 years old. Last year that went to 1999, and now we included other titles published in 2000.<br /> <br /></p> <div><a href="https://boardgamegeek.com/image/8801049" target= "_self"><img class="img-fluid" src= "https://cf.geekdo-images.com/l7mB28Q5XN9JR384qSTcjQ__medium/img/0VTTi-l9U6SdBXq-HndJxkg9lMQ=/fit-in/500x500/filters:no_upscale():strip_icc()/pic8801049.jpg" sizes="" srcset= "https://cf.geekdo-images.com/l7mB28Q5XN9JR384qSTcjQ__medium/img/0VTTi-l9U6SdBXq-HndJxkg9lMQ=/fit-in/500x500/filters:no_upscale():strip_icc()/pic8801049.jpg 1x, https://cf.geekdo-images.com/l7mB28Q5XN9JR384qSTcjQ__medium@2x/img/zSh0-e1StcXbjsdBo-Svol_M_pU=/fit-in/1000x1000/filters:no_upscale():strip_icc()/pic8801049.jpg 2x" alt="Indie Games Market at DTW" width="500" height="375" loading= "lazy" /></a> <a href= "https://boardgamegeek.com/image/8801046" target= "_self"><img class="img-fluid" src= "https://cf.geekdo-images.com/rey1l2DdxLZxx5yP0q9bDA__medium/img/b0d7JXEOD-2VmTeNREk6naIhDHo=/fit-in/500x500/filters:no_upscale():strip_icc()/pic8801046.jpg" sizes="" srcset= "https://cf.geekdo-images.com/rey1l2DdxLZxx5yP0q9bDA__medium/img/b0d7JXEOD-2VmTeNREk6naIhDHo=/fit-in/500x500/filters:no_upscale():strip_icc()/pic8801046.jpg 1x, https://cf.geekdo-images.com/rey1l2DdxLZxx5yP0q9bDA__medium@2x/img/5iAJwCAstIL6HBn2CAAK1QZC53s=/fit-in/1000x1000/filters:no_upscale():strip_icc()/pic8801046.jpg 2x" alt="A look at DTW" width="500" height="375" loading= "lazy" /></a><br /> <br /> <a href="https://boardgamegeek.com/image/8801047" target= "_self"><img class="img-fluid" src= "https://cf.geekdo-images.com/_tyl3HKvKxw17treqm1NkA__medium/img/szlcqsL3bmrMmb-rjROPykoWsnQ=/fit-in/500x500/filters:no_upscale():strip_icc()/pic8801047.jpg" sizes="" srcset= "https://cf.geekdo-images.com/_tyl3HKvKxw17treqm1NkA__medium/img/szlcqsL3bmrMmb-rjROPykoWsnQ=/fit-in/500x500/filters:no_upscale():strip_icc()/pic8801047.jpg 1x, https://cf.geekdo-images.com/_tyl3HKvKxw17treqm1NkA__medium@2x/img/4V93sxx7lXQp5MRZ7xT42Uq6F88=/fit-in/1000x1000/filters:no_upscale():strip_icc()/pic8801047.jpg 2x" alt="One of our game tables at DTW" width="500" height="375" loading="lazy" /></a> <a href= "https://boardgamegeek.com/image/8801048" target= "_self"><img class="img-fluid" src= "https://cf.geekdo-images.com/ytIUhSIY3q7wsG2n82L7mQ__medium/img/7Sd7fgAC-v9idQ5U1NsqWlxE4ak=/fit-in/500x500/filters:no_upscale():strip_icc()/pic8801048.jpg" sizes="" srcset= "https://cf.geekdo-images.com/ytIUhSIY3q7wsG2n82L7mQ__medium/img/7Sd7fgAC-v9idQ5U1NsqWlxE4ak=/fit-in/500x500/filters:no_upscale():strip_icc()/pic8801048.jpg 1x, https://cf.geekdo-images.com/ytIUhSIY3q7wsG2n82L7mQ__medium@2x/img/X7acGrYxnUo3zaeuuYWMz7vVkrw=/fit-in/1000x1000/filters:no_upscale():strip_icc()/pic8801048.jpg 2x" alt="Dinner" width="500" height="375" loading="lazy" /></a></div> <p><br /> <br /> <a class="postlink" href= "https://boardgamegeek.com/geekmail/compose?touser=MarkEJohnson"> -Mark</a></p>
March 28, 2025
<p>The Championship is now set!</p> <p> </p> <p> https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/354557/mark-madness-2025-game-cover-art-with-eryn-roston</p>
March 23, 2025
<p>Be sure to go vote at https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/354557/mark-madness-2025-game-cover-art-with-eryn-roston?itemid=11634552#11634552</p>
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