Herculean badge

I recently gained a new badge at BoardGameGeek - Herculean File Uploader. It was a newly introduced badge. Since I already qualified for it, the system automatically awarded it to me. I have uploaded about 300 files to BGG, and they are all concise reference sheets that I make. These are rule summaries. I started making them around 2004, when I lived in Taipei. I often visited Witch House to play boardgames, and prior to each visit I usually decided which games to try, and I read the rules beforehand. I made rule summaries. By the time I visited, I could sit down and start teaching, then play. I didn't start reading the rulebook only then. Saved me time.

I try to keep each concise reference sheet to just half a sheet of A4 paper. These rules are by no means complete, but I have all the key rules and the overall structure. I upload my concise reference sheets in batches to BGG once in a while. When I did this recently, I realised it had been about 3 years since the previous batch. The complete set of my concise reference sheets are here.

Currently only 10 people on BGG have the Herculean level badge, and only 2 have the Ultimate level badge, the highest rank. It feels good to own something so rare. Yes, I'm being a little childish.

This is my old profile picture. I have been using it for a long time. I rarely update my profile. The first icon in the bottom row is the Gold File Uploader badge. Previously this was the highest rank.

This is my new profile picture, now with the new Herculean File Uploader badge - the second one, green.

concise reference sheets updated

It has been a long time since I last uploaded any new concise reference sheet. Here are the games that I have made reference sheets for since the previous version.

1. 51st State (updated)
2. 7 Wonders: Duel
3. A Few Acres of Snow (updated)
4. Alchemists
5. Ark
6. Camel Up
7. Cheaty Mages
8. Coconuts
9. Epic: The Card Game
10. Giants (corrected)
11. Glory to Rome
12. Hoity Toity / Adel Verpflichtet
13. Meuterer
14. Poo: The Card Game
15. Russian Railroads
16. Saint Petersburg
17. Ships
18. Zombie Tower 3D

Download the reference sheets here.

The full list of games can be viewed here. I have 291 games in my collection of concise reference sheets now.

concise reference sheets updated

My collection of concise reference sheets continues to grow. See the full list of games for which I have done such reference sheets here (more than 250 of them). Download the latest set (version 20) here. Additions and updates since the previous version are as follows:

1. Alhambra
2. Axis & Allies: Guadalcanal (updated)
3. Cartagena
4. Glass Road
5. Hare and Tortoise (updated)
6. Heroes of Normandie
7. Historia
8. Imperial Settlers
9. Lewis & Clark
10. Machi Koro
11. The Message: Emissary Crisis
12. Morels
13. The Palaces of Carrara
14. Panamax
15. Pandemic: The Cure
16. Roads & Boats (updated)
17. Roll for the Galaxy
18. Samurai Spirit
19. Targi
20. Tragedy Looper
21. Virgin Queen
22. Wildcatters

concise reference sheets updated

I still often make rules summaries, but I do them in my own Powerpoint file, and accummulate a whole bunch of them before I make the effort to share them on BGG and here at my blog. Here are the latest additions, updates and corrections. I now have more than 250 games covered.

1. A Few Acres of Snow
2. Attika
3. Axis & Allies 1914 (enhanced)
4. Brass (enhanced)
5. Cargo Noir
6. Civilization (Gibson Games edition)
7. Cuba Libre
8. Dark Darker Darkest
9. Die Macher (enhanced)
10. Entdecker (corrected)
11. GiftTRAP
12. Hammer of the Scots (corrected)
13. In the Year of the Dragon (corrected)
14. Kemet
15. Paths of Glory (enhanced)
16. Roads & Boats
17. Robinson Crusoe: Adventure on the Cursed Island (enhanced)
18. Tokaido
19. Wilderness War (enhanced)

concise reference sheets update

It has been almost a year since I last shared these. Not that I have not been making such concise reference sheets, just that I never got around to tidying them up and releasing them. New games and updated / corrected games are listed below. Now I have close to 250 games in the package.

1. 1955: The War of Espionage
2. 1989: Dawn of Freedom (correction)
3. Agricola: All Creatures Big and Small
4. Android Netrunner
5. Aquaretto (corrected)
6. Axis & Allies Pacific 1940 (updated with Alpha 3 rules)
7. Axis & Allies Europe 1940 (updated with Alpha 3 rules)
8. Axis & Allies Global 1940 (updated with Alpha 3 rules)
9. Axis & Allies 1914
10. Clash of Cultures
11. CO2
12. Entdecker
13. Fearsome Floors (enhanced)
14. Flashpoint: Fire Rescue
15. Goa (enhanced)
16. God’s Playground
17. The Great Zimbabwe
18. Hare and Tortoise (updated)
19. Jamaica
20. Java (enhanced)
21. La Citta
22. Liberte (corrected)
23. River Dragons
24. Robinson Crusoe: Adventure on the Cursed Island
25. Seasons
26. Town Center (enhanced)
27. Tzolk’in
28. Ugg-tect

My goal is always to keep it to half a piece of A4 paper, like this. Sometimes for very simple games I can do it in a quarter, but nowadays when heavy Eurogames tend to be more complex rules-wise, I often need a full page.

concise reference sheets additions

Some additions, corrections and enhancements made to my concise reference sheets repository. I have 230 ref sheets now.

1. 1989: Dawn of Freedom
2. Chicago Express (correction)
3. Coney Island (correction)
4. Confetti
5. Corporation
6. Dominant Species: The Card Game
7. Evolution: Time To Fly
8. Fauna
9. Rommel in the Desert (correction)
10. Shinobi
11. Ticket To Ride: Asia (correction)
12. Town Center
13. Urban Sprawl (enhancement)
14. Vanuatu
15. Zombie! Run for your lives!

concise reference sheets updated

I have just added a batch of games to my concise reference sheets. New games added, and games updated are:

1. Antiquity (only typo correction)
2. Confucius
3. Hammer of the Scots (rules v2.0)
4. Nature of the Beast
5. Nightfall (rules v1.2 - with Blood County expansion)
6. Ninjato
7. Ora et Labora
8. Paths of Glory
9. Power Grid: The First Sparks (correction)
10. Rommel in the Desert (updated to include more details)
11. Sekigahara
12. Ticket To Ride: Asia
13. Tournay

new concise ref sheets

New reference sheets for games released. Download here. New / updated games are:

1. Airlines Europe
2. Antiquity
3. The Bottle Imp
4. Coney Island
5. Dungeon Petz
6. Famiglia
7. Jab
8. Manoeuvre (correction done)
9. Mondo
10. Power Grid: The First Sparks
11. Successors (3rd edition)
12. Undermining
13. Urban Sprawl

Full list of games is here.

concise reference sheets v14

I reached a milestone of having done 200 concise reference sheets. Visit this link to download the latest set. Updates are as follows.

1. 51st State (new)
2. Cavum (new)
3. Commands and Colors Napoleonics (new)
4. De Vulgari Eloquentia (new)
5. Evolution (new)
6. First Train to Nuremberg (corrected)
7. Great Fire of London 1666 (new)
8. Illuminati (new)
9. Labyrinth: the War on Terror (corrected)
10. Manoeuvre (new)
11. Maori (new)
12. Maria (new)
13. Nightfall (& Martial Law expansion) (new)
14. Pacific Typhoon (new)
15. Shipyard (corrected)
16. Tinners’ Trail (corrected)
17. Tobago (new)

concise reference sheets updated

I have uploaded a newer version of my concise reference sheets. I now have ref sheets for 187 games in my compilation. New games in this batch are:

1. 7 Ages
2. A la Carte
3. Aladdin’s Dragons Card Game
4. Chaos in the Old World
5. Dominant Species
6. Endeavor
7. Fast Flowing Forest Fellers
8. First Train to Nuremberg
9. Ikusa / Samurai Swords / Shogun
10. Labyrinth: the War on Terror
11. Liberte
12. Navegador
13. Tinners’ Trail
14. Wars of the Roses

concise reference sheets updated

I've released a new version of my concise ref sheets (follow this link to download page). New games / updates are:

1. 1960: The Making of the President (new in v12)
2. 7 Wonders (typo corrected in v12)
3. Axis & Allies Europe 1940 (new in v12)
4. Axis & Allies Global 1940 (new in v12)
5. Axis & Allies Pacific 1940 (enhanced in v12)
6. Carson City (new in v12)
7. Giants (new in v12)
8. Railways of the World (new in v12)
9. Shipyard (new in v12)
10. Sid Meier's Civilization: The Board Game (Fantasy Flight Games) (new in v12)
11. Struggle of Empires (corrected in v12)
12. Tikal II (new in v12)

Concise reference sheets

I often make rule summaries for games that I own or games that I want to play. It is a form of taking notes when I read game rules. It helps me get a grasp of the rules while reading, and when I sit down to play a game, the reference sheet also helps as a reminder. I use these reference sheets to teach games too. I always try to keep the rules to one A4 page, preferably even just half a page.

Over the years I have accumulated quite a number of reference sheets. I upload them to www.boardgamegeek.com once in a while, in batches. I want to make it available here at my blog too. This post will be where I keep the latest version of my reference sheets.

Download latest version here.

If you come across any error please drop a comment in this post, or send a message to my BoardGameGeek mailbox. My username is hecose. 

List of games (currently 300+) can be found here.