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Sudden moment of embarrassing truth
It seems I’ve always played Space Beans wrong. I am quite sure we’ve always given the cards to the player on one’s left, ie. the next player. However, the cards should be given to the previous player, the one on your right. Oops.
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Poll
Here’s a small poll for you! It has two purposes: first, I’m trying to get an idea of how many people read this blog. If you’re a regular reader, please vote. I know I have some readers, but if you haven’t commented on anything or made yourself known in some other way, voting here would…
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Bridge
While visiting the library, I studied other books than the Hanafuda already mentioned. Few of them were about Bridge, the king of the trick-taking games (and perhaps card games in general, as well). I have really no interest to play Bridge, as it seems to be a terribly deep and complex game. That’s fine, but…
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Hanafuda
I bumped into a mention of Hanafuda, the Japanese flower cards in Pagat. I didn’t react until Yesterday, when I saw a book about it in a local library. I borrowed it and now I’m definitely fascinated. Hanafuda cards are quite beautiful, small cards. They don’t have numbers like the western playing cards. Instead, the…
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Top 10 list 03/2003
Tichu (1) Sticheln (-) Union Pacific (-) Go (-) Taj Mahal (-) Mahjong (7) Goldland (-) Wildlife (-) Princes of Florence (3) Isis & Osiris (10)
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The Games Journal
A new issue of The Games Journal is out. Check it out, I especially recommend the player interaction article by Greg Aleknevicus.
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More games at BSW
I played few more games at the Brettspielwelt. First, I played two games of Web of Power — my first games this year! I lost first one (badly), then managed to win the other. I also tried Medina. The way they’ve done it is much better than most of the games there, the user interface…
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Go
Well — I played some Go on Kiseido, but not enough to get me a stable rating. I think I’m missing a win… Today’s scores were a resign victory against a weaker player who quit when I killed a largish group from him. Then I played a faster game against a stronger player and, as…