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boardgamehottakes.bsky.social
Dune Imperium Uprising, Joraku, and Ninjato on the table last night.
January 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
boardgamewire.bsky.social
Kicking off UK Games Expo in the now traditional manner, by getting my arse handed to me at Joraku
Four people sit around a table playing a board game.
May 28, 2026 at 3:06 PM
timclare.bsky.social
I enjoyed this @punchboard.co.uk review of Joraku, not just for the obvious reason but because it helped me see a game I love through new eyes. My influence on the tabletop scene is small but I genuinely think my obsession with this game has introduced it to hundreds:
punchboard.co.uk/joraku-review/
Joraku Review - Go West!
It’s a cliché to say that Japanese designers a) love trick-taking games, and b) do trick-taking better than anyone else, but when you play a game like Joraku you understand where it comes from.
punchboard.co.uk
July 2, 2026 at 7:56 PM
monolithx66.bsky.social
Board game extravaganza 4
Day 4, game 11.
Joraku.

#tabletopgames #tabletopgaming #boardgames #joraku
April 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
punchboard.co.uk
Oh boy oh boy oh boy - Joraku!
May 15, 2026 at 4:50 PM
timclare.bsky.social
Frigging love this game so. Darn. Much.
An image of the boardgame Joraku, shot from the side, showing wooden meeples of samurai & daimyo on horseback against a map of Japan in the Sengoku era
January 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM
timclare.bsky.social
Oh go on then. Fussy Joraku it is
The boardgame Arcs, a board with spokes radiating out showing tranches of space with coloured wooden ships sitting in them
September 27, 2025 at 10:14 PM
lilichin.bsky.social
Joraku and Hot Streak! #gamenight
A samurai-themed area control trick taking game. A game in which silly mascots race and we place our bets.
April 25, 2026 at 8:45 AM
boardgamewire.bsky.social
Delighted to share the wonderful birthday presents my family gave me this weekend - including not only the latest book from the outstanding @timclare.bsky.social, but also Joraku, which he was kind enough to enthuse about and play with me at UK Games Expo this year! Also: I get to be a fox feeder 😍
Board games Joraku, Werewords, Scout and A Fake Artist Goes to New York, book The Game Changes by Tim Clare, and a paper voucher with a picture of a fox, giving the opportunity for someone to be a fox keeper for a day
December 4, 2024 at 3:27 PM
timclare.bsky.social
And of course, naturally, I taught Joraku to someone new. I never tire of doing the Lord's work
The best boardgame ever invented, Joraku, with some wooden samurai meeples on a map of Sengoku era Japan
March 16, 2026 at 10:18 PM
timclare.bsky.social
The ongoing campaign to make everyone in the world play Joraku at least once continues...
August 30, 2025 at 9:46 AM
timclare.bsky.social
Joraku!
April 25, 2025 at 6:59 AM
roger1952.bsky.social
Buckwheat flowers and cluster amaryllis at Jorakuji Temple, Kanuma City, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan.
Framed by weathered stone gateposts (monbashira), this early autumn vista at Jōraku-ji Temple in Kanuma City, Tochigi Prefecture, presents a breathtaking realization of sacred landscape architecture and seasonal transformation. A straight stone pathway (sandō) bisects the composition, flanked on either side by dense, luminous ribbons of scarlet cluster amaryllis (higanbana / Lycoris radiata). The eye is drawn along the paved stone steps toward the temple’s main hall, nestled against a steep backdrop of dark, towering Japanese cedar (sugi) forest. The vivid vermilion of the blossoms creates a startling visual contrast against the muted greys of the aged masonry and the deep, shadowy greens of the surrounding woodland, while the overhanging leafy canopy softens the transition between the manicured temple grounds and the wild mountain environment. Affectionately known as the "Higanbana Temple" and famous for its proximity to blossoming buckwheat (soba) fields, Jōraku-ji becomes a site of intense pilgrimage during late September. In Japanese Buddhist traditions, the blooming of higanbana coincides precisely with Aki no Higan—the seven-day period surrounding the Autumn Equinox when the boundary between the physical world (shaku-do) and the ancestral spirit realm or Western Pure Land (anoyoshi) is believed to be at its thinnest. Because the plant’s bright red flowers bloom on bare stems long after its leaves have withered—and its leaves emerge only after the petals fade—the flower serves as a poignant motif for separation, reincarnation, and eternal memory.
September 1, 2026 at 9:00 PM
roger1952.bsky.social
Red spider lilies (Amaryllis Saka Higanbana). Jorakuji Temple, Kanuma City, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
Surging like an incandescent crimson tide across the shaded slopes of Jōraku-ji temple, a dense sea of red spider lilies (higanbana) transforms the quiet grove into a glowing landscape of scarlet. The delicate, thread-like umbels—characterized by sharply recurved petals and dramatically sweeping stamens—cluster tightly around the gnarled, dark silhouettes of ancient tree trunks. Caught in the cool, twilight light of early autumn, the vibrant vermilion blossoms form a stark visual contrast against the deep emerald moss and shadowy bark, creating an almost otherworldly luminescence that seems to radiate from within the earth itself. Nestled in Kanuma City, Tochigi Prefecture, Jōraku-ji—affectionately known as the "Higanbana Temple"—becomes a sanctuary of quiet pilgrimage during the autumn equinox (Aki no Higan). Planted historically around temple precincts, burial sites, and paddy embankments, Lycoris radiata carries profound spiritual weight in Japanese Buddhist tradition. The word Higan translates to the "other shore"—the celestial realm of Nirvana and ancestral spirits, distinct from Shigan, our secular world. Blooming with uncanny precision at the equinox, when the threshold between the living and the departed was believed to be at its thinnest, these flowers became eternal heralds of memory, quiet transition, and spiritual reflection. Aesthetically, this dramatic sea of red functions as a breathtaking, natural kekkai—a sacred visual threshold that segregates the physical temple grounds from the mundane world. The unique life cycle of the higanbana, in which the blossoms appear only after the foliage has entirely withered, and the leaves emerge only after the petals drop, embodies a poignant biological paradox where flower and leaf can never meet. This perpetual cycle of presence and absence serves as a profound visual metaphor for mono no aware, the bittersweet awareness of life's transience.
September 10, 2026 at 10:12 PM
byssh3.bsky.social
Having played Arcs a few times, and then Joraku the other day, @marcelineleiman.bsky.social was spot on I must say. Joraku is hella light Arcs, and I want to only play both of them every day.
September 27, 2025 at 10:56 PM
marcelineleiman.bsky.social
Deeply considered putting Durian, Startups, Pax Pamir, Samurai, Oceans, Railroad Ink, Bus, The Estates, and Joraku
November 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
timclare.bsky.social
- Joraku
- Terraforming Mars
- Age of Innovation
- Love Letter
- Caverna
- Agricola: All Creatures Big & Small
- Geisha's Road
- Forest Shuffle
- Netrunner
- Carcassonne
prozdishere.bsky.social SungWon Cho @prozdishere.bsky.social · Nov 15
board game enthusiasts of bluesky, what are your top 10 board games of all time
November 15, 2025 at 8:22 PM
chemapamundi.bsky.social
Uno de los efectos negativos de la actual saturación de oferta en juegos de mesa es que nos pasen desapercibidas joyitas como Joraku, que con muy poquitos elementos (pero muy bien mezclados) te da unos niveles majísimos de decisiones tácticas y diversión.
April 4, 2026 at 2:22 PM
timclare.bsky.social
The Moaideas stall has 4 copies of Joraku for £20 each. GO GO GO #UKGE
May 30, 2025 at 8:31 AM
chemapamundi.bsky.social
Se está convirtiendo ya en una tradición simpática que en cada convención en la que me encuentro el stand de Delirium Games me compre el juego que ellos me digan. Hoy en la Comic-Con ha tocado el Joraku este.
September 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
punchboard.co.uk
It's been a little while, thanks to some crazy times at work, but today I published a review. It's a few years old now, but boy, is Joraku good?! Find out why I like it so much right here - punchboard.co.uk/joraku-review/
Joraku Review - Go West!
It’s a cliché to say that Japanese designers a) love trick-taking games, and b) do trick-taking better than anyone else, but when you play a game like Joraku you understand where it comes from.
punchboard.co.uk
July 2, 2026 at 11:34 AM
giantbrain.co.uk
@timclare.bsky.social Joraku is featured in this episode!
August 30, 2025 at 6:27 AM
ceethefoxrun.bsky.social
Spent the last 3 days playing boardgames with friends! Including: Castle Combo, Faraway, SETI, Yro, Shipyard, LoTR Duel, Galactic Cruise, Tangram City, Ettin, Boitas, Joraku, Trickadee, Tzolk'in, Broom Service, Rebirth, Compile, Black Forest, Quashars and Watch... phew... #boardgames
Joraku. The central player board shows the current state of area control as per the amount of different colour player pieces. Broom Service. The central player board shows several witch meeples moving around various territories delivering potions.
September 17, 2025 at 8:27 AM
timclare.bsky.social
I have politely but immovably disagreed with self-styled purists who assert the only true games are folk abstracts. Nonsense. I love the historical undertow driving Joraku, the gut-wrenching stakes & rich texture of Votes for Women, the cutting satire driving you to armageddon in Twilight Struggle.
August 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
timclare.bsky.social
I've not attempted my top ten tabletop games before, I don't think, but here's roughly what mine looks like today. Er, probably.
1. Terraforming Mars
2. Joraku
3. Agricola: All Creatures Big & Small
4. Concordia
5. Age of Innovation
6. Forest Shuffle
7. Love Letter
8. Caverna
9. Avalon
10. Magic
August 14, 2025 at 8:22 AM