Recent News

01 Oct 2024 - My mother passed away three weeks ago. She lived with us so there has been a lot to do with arrangements, sorting, etc. I'm behind on emails and I'm so sorry if you have been waiting on a reply. I'll get caught up in the next few days.

30 Aug 2024 - We are caught up on orders! I have two games in process to finish out a couple orders, but everything else has been shipped or invoiced. It's SO NICE to be caught up.

I have some titles on the shelf ready to ship. Other titles may have a small delay while we make the games, but it will only be a week or two.

25 Jun 2024 - We are nearly caught up on orders! I've invoiced all but five of the orders in my queue. We are nearly up to real time shipping for the first time in many years. Once we get fully caught-up we'll pile some on the shelves and they will be available for immediate shipping. Won't that be nice?

I will NOT be answering emails or order inquiries during most of the month of July because, as I mentioned last month, I will be out of the country. But rest assured, production will continue and I'll catch up on everything when we get home.

22 May 2024 - The printer is back up and running. It, like me, has some years on it and it's not 100%, but close. Everything is printing well, but there are a few light stripes on a couple of the maps. They are perfectly playable and you hardly notice the imperfections, but I'll continue to try to chase that down and get it running well. I'm not in a position to spend thousands on a new printer.

On a good note, WE ARE SHIPPING 2024 ORDERS NOW. Woo! We are catching up and I anticipate we'll be caught up with all current orders this summer. Hopefully, more will flow in when there is no wait.

I'm going to be taking off most of the month of July. My daughter will continue cutting games, but I won't be shipping anything or replying to emails during that time. We'll be on a cruise to celebrate our 40th anniversary (which was actually last year). We'll be going the north route across the Atlantic, stopping in a few bucket-list places such as Newfoundland, Greenland, and Iceland. Then Scotland and England. One new province and several new countries for us.

29 Apr 2024 - Nothing ever goes smoothly. My printer is out of commission. The repair guy thinks he can get the part he thinks it needs (the black toner pump) and get it going again. I've printed 120K pages on it over the past 15 years and things do wear out. At this point I'm not sure I could justify spending a ton of money on a new one so I really hope this one can get repaired.

I have 16 games ready to ship and have invoiced most of them. I also have 16 games that are finished except for needing labels, but I can't print those so those will be ready to go shortly after my printer is repaired.

19 Mar 2024 - The queue is down to six months now. There will be a slight pause the first week of April as we travel to visit my brother in Texas and watch our second total eclipse of the sun. We anticipate being completely caught up this summer.

10 Mar 2024 - I'm back from vacation and came home with a souvenir--Covid-19. So fun. My wife and I both picked it up and we've been under the weather all week. I'm finally feeling semi-functional now and I have a pile of games here ready to ship, so invoices will be going out shortly. I'm invoicing orders from July of last year, so the queue is down to eight months now and it continues to shrink.

24 Feb 2024 - I will be gone on vacation to the happiest place on earth the week of Feb 28-Mar 3. I won't be responding to emails during that time. Game production will continue, so I'll be invoicing more orders when I return.

3 Feb 2024 - We are now invoicing orders from July, 2023. It wasn't that long ago that we were still doing 2022 orders There are only 27 orders in the queue (down from a high of over 100) and I anticipate we will be completely caught up in the next 3-4 months.

I hope that when we are fully caught-up that orders will increase so we can keep going. Won't it be nice to get a game right away instead of having to wait for it?

I'll be on vacation the last week of February so I won't be responding to emails. But the work will continue since my daughter cuts most of the games.

3 Jan 2024 - I will be coming to Chattanooga and can bring some games for delivery there. If you have an order in the queue, or want to order additional titles, let me know ASAP and I'll see what I can bring.

I had the flu (despite having gotten a flu shot) over the Christmas break so I didn't get much done in the past week, but I'm back on my feet and trying to catch up now. I have 25 games sitting here that are finished and ready to ship. My printer is acting up some which has slowed things down, but parts are on the way (after consult with a repair tech) and hopefully it will be back to full operation soon.

28 Nov 2023 - The queue is now less than one year long! I just invoiced up through 1 Dec 2022, and I have more games ready so the invoicing isn't done yet.

I updated the expected wait time on the website to say 3-6 months. I think that's realistic now that there are fewer than 50 orders in the queue. It feels so good to be catching up.

26 Nov 2023 - Even when the games are ready to go, the invoicing and shipping process still takes a bit of time. I've invoiced orders placed through Sep 2022, and I'll be invoicing the rest of the 2022 orders in the next couple weeks.

I'm having a higher percentage than usual of no responses, and that slows things down. I realize it's been over a year and plans may change, but I'd sure appreciate it if anyone I invoice will at least repond with a "No, thanks" if no longer interested.

A few of the maps I print get some blue streaking across the top, usually in the light blue areas representing water, but not on the hex areas. That's a printer software/hardware glitch that I can't always work around. I discard those that are really bad, but I do have to use some with light streaking. The games where this shows up sometimes are: 1812, 18Ardennes. 18EU, and 18FL.

I'm running low on a couple of the colors for the colored tokens (orange and purple). I've started the process to get more, but I may need to substitute white or natural color for those that I run out of. I do like the colors, but they are expensive. When my main supply starts to run low I may have to go back to wood-finish tokens. I have a huge supply of them. They are similar to, but nicer than, the ones we used in the past.

1 Nov 2023 - I have 75 games cut and ready to be boxed/labeled/shipped. That's going to take a while, but I'm getting to them as fast as I can. That's all the games ordered through about Oct 2022. I've printed the games ordered up to 3 Dec 2022 and they will be getting cut in the next few weeks.

Sometimes cutting the games is the backup. Sometimes it's the maps. Right now it's just getting them boxed and shipped--which is the problem most easily solved!

1 Nov 2023 - I'm caught up on emails. If you sent and inquiry or order while I was on sabbatical you should have received a reply from me now.

I've got about 50 games finished (except box labels and some maps) and I'm starting the process of invoicing. Expect to get an invoice in the next week or so if your order came in on or before Sep 2022. And I'll be getting to Oct 2022 orders pretty quickly too.

20 Oct 2023 - I'm back from my sabbatical trip. We drove about 7800 miles from Utah to Alaska, then back down the Alaska highway and east through Canada through BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba--picking up two new provinces for me (bringing my total to eight--I'm still two short). We then went south down through the Dakotas, spent a few days in Theodore Roosevelt National Park (recommended!), then drove home. We saw a lot of amazing things, but it's nice to be home.

We have about 60 games cut and ready to invoice. I need to make about a dozen maps for those games, but otherwise they just need to be boxed and labeled and shipped. I'll be sending out a LOT of invoices in the next few days. PLEASE REPLY if for some reason you are unable to purchase the games. Silence wastes a lot of valuable time so I'd rather know quickly if someone is no longer in a position to want the games they ordered.

I'll be invoicing orders up through early October 2022. This means we've caught up on about half the queue (we were almost two years out earlier this year). We hope to catch up the rest of the queue in the next six months.

13 Sep 2023 - I've invoiced orders up to 1 Apr 2022. We're catching up on the queue and hope to get to all 2022 orders by the end of the year.

I'm going to be gone on a work sabbatical for a month. My wife and I will be traveling across North America, driving through the southern Canadian provinces to the east coast (picking up three that I've never visited), then back to Utah through New England and the northern US. It's going to be an advanture!

GSG will be on hiatus during my sabbatical and I WILL NOT BE CHECKING MY GSG EMAILS. I'll get to them all when I return in late October. If you place an order it will go into the queue as of the date of your email. Adjustments to current orders are also welcome. And I'll get to other inquiries as well. I'll have an auto-respond with this information for those that don't see this message on my website.

My daughter is going to continue to cut games so I'll have a bunch to invoice/ship when I return in late October. We have about 50 games in process (most are cut and need maps/boxes, some are printed and waiting to be laminated and cut.) I have about 190 total games on order so this is a quarter of them. We are trying very hard to reduce the queue to weeks instead of months/years.

20 May 2022 - For those that have an 1846 game produced by either Golden Spike Games or Deep Thought Games, I can get you the privates and token needed for v2 of the game. I am going to be running a batch of these toward the end of June. They will need to be done using the laminate that both GSG and DTG used for the past decade in order for them to match your game. I cannot buy that laminate any more, but I do still have some left that I kept for purposes such as this.

The cost, including shipping, will be $10 for fulfilment to the US. I don't know yet how much it will cost to ship internationally. I think it will be about $15, but I'll need to do some reseach on that. I THINK I can send it in a normal first-class envelope, but the token creates a problem and if I can't make that work then the cost will be higher. I'll post more details when I have them.

If you are interested then please email me at orders@goldenspikegames.com as you would to order a game. Please put 1846 v2 Order as the title of the email so I can easily separate these orders from my other emails and keep track of how many are wanted. And don't forget to include your name and address in the email body. That's all I need. If you want more than one set then indicate that as well. This will put you on the list and when I'm ready to send these out I'll let you know and you can send the payment. I'm not going to do individual paypal invoices for these. When instructed you'll send the payment directly to my paypal address.