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A good week
This has been a good week of games. We started with afternoon games on Monday. One player dropped out, so the original plan of a four-player game of Imperial turned into a three-player game of Indonesia. I had not played Indonesia with three before, so I was curious to find out how it works. Turns…
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18GB with two and Indonesia
This week has been good for board games. On Tuesday, I met a friend for a two-player game of 18GB: The Railways of Great Britain, and yesterday we played another game of Indonesia. Two-player 18GB is a fine 18xx experience for two. We played the E-W setup this time, cutting the board north of York.…
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Chicago & NorthWestern redraw
I wanted to do a redraw of the Chicago & NorthWestern board. I own the original Winsome Games edition. The Rio Grande version has a nicer board, though it’s a bit plain and doesn’t include the most obvious usability fix I wanted to include in my version. Let’s start with the original version. It’s usable,…
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Return to Indonesia
We had a great game session yesterday. We played Indonesia! The appearance of the new third edition made me realize Indonesia would be a great match for my current game group, so I quickly reacquired a copy. I got the first edition, from a friend who upgraded to the third. We had full five players.…
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Return to Chicago & NorthWestern
A friend suggested playing Wabash Cannonball, but when digging through my Winsome crate, I found Chicago & NorthWestern. This John Bohrer design from 2016 was released by Rio Grande in 2023, so it’s more widely available. It’s a funny game. This is a cube rails game where railroad companies spread out west from Chicago. Everybody…
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Gaming Year 2025
18XX. This trend continued strong, with 16 plays of various 18XX titles. I was very happy with this. Now that we have over 30 plays with this group, I did some stats of the results. The most active players in our group (me, Aapo and Ville), do equally well: our average scores are 83-84% of…
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Tools for Forest Shuffle: Dartmoor and 18 BosWash
Thoughts on Forest Shuffle: Dartmoor, 18 BosWash and Ruben’s Mini-Chips.
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Spring 2025 notes
Thoughts on Innovation Ultimate, Fellowship of the Ring: The Trick-taking Game, Faraway and Black Forest.
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Gaming Year 2024
18XX. This has been a year of 18XX games. Things started slowly in the Spring, but then 18 India hit us by a storm. I ended up playing various 18XX titles over 20 times this year; that’s more than a third of my all-time 18XX plays since 2006. Forest Shuffle. I still played a ton…
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New game notes, December 2024
Short comments on the best new games I’ve played in the later half of 2024.