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Author: Mikko

  • New games: Liberty and Patrician III

    I got Columbia Games’ Liberty Monday. It looks interesting, pretty much like

  • Café Games: Gargon, Höhlengrölen, LotR: Confrontation

    This time we didn’t play Go at all! What a surprise! Instead we played some cards. Because there was five of us present, we had little choice amongst the games I brought. So we played Gargon, which is an interesting card game. It’s main quirk is that the backs of the cards are coloured according…

  • Online Gang of Four

    It’s been a while since my last online Gang of Four match. This time it looked like a short game, but after two fast deals, the losers got a grip and the game became a tad longer. I held the second place most of the time. I lost several rounds, but fortunately with only few…

  • New blog found

    I happened to find a new blog related to board games. Boardgameplayer.com by Ken Rumsey is a fairly new blog, started in December 2003. There’s a RSS feed, too.

  • Online Settlers of Catan

    S3D Connector was recommended to me as a good online version of Settlers of Catan. If you’re interested in that kind of action, go check it out.

  • The Games Journal and a new blog

    The February Games Journal is out. There isn’t much to read, but check out the letters section for an interesting letter about Terra. There’s also a new blog about games. Michael Chapel is the Austin BoardGamer. He also has a RSS feed.

  • Café Games: Go, Flaschenteufel, Sticheln

    February started with a game of Go against Juho. 19×19, I played white and gave one stone handicap. It was over fairly quick; Juho resigned after my trick plays broke his defense and a large group of my stones (over 20) that began with no life suddenly got very secure life. It would’ve been fairly…

  • Electric news

    I heard Rio Grande Games is doing an English version of Funkenschlag. The new version will be called Power Grid. It has — obviously — better components and also streamlined rules, so it should play in two hours or less. Sounds absolutely great, if they don’t streamline it too much. Anyway buying it will be…

  • Ta Yü and blog technicalities

    I wrote a short review of Ta Yü yesterday and that inspired me to play a game. I played with Johanna and she beat me… But it was pretty close, just 25-21. It’s interesting how we both had ten connections, but as she had 5×5 and I had 3×7, she won. The scoring system is…

  • Cafe games: Go

    Our café games were quite typical yesterday. We did have six people present, though. I ended up playing Go against a new opponent, whose name escapes me now. I won both games, first by a healthy margin of around 100 points, second with smaller difference (but then again, there were more handicap stones). I didn’t…