Author: Mikko

  • Wednesday Games, part II: Card games

    First: I’m now a proud owner of Sherlock Holmes, Consulting Detective. I got my game from the post office yesterday and I’m really looking forward to an opportunity to try it — it looks absolutely brilliant. Then: we had a very nice game session yesterday. Six players were there, but not at the same time.…

  • Plasticity

    Oh, something I forgot from the previous entry: plastic sleeves. I’m faced with the problem again. Do I want to keep the nice boxes or do I want to put the cards in plastic sleeves? It’s always rather annoying. It would be great to keep the games in their boxes, but then I’ll worry about…

  • Games arrived!

    Our Adam Spielt order arrived today! It was a bloody hard work, hauling that 13.9 kilos of games in a fairly large box all the way from the post office (what, it was at least 500 meters or so!). It took exactly a week for the package to arrive, which is what I expected. They…

  • Wednesday games: Fluxx, Sticheln, Bohnanza

    Because I’m trying to spend my time doing something else than studying, I got this idea of weekly game afternoon. I chose afternoon, because Johanna is lucky and has a job and thus isn’t home and I can then be back home when she is. The first of these Wednesday meetings was today and it…

  • Roleplaying days are over

    That’s it: I’m not a rpg gamer anymore. I finally sold my Wraith books, thus removing most of my rpg collection. I’m left with Kult 2nd edition rule book, which I’m selling as soon as possible (so if you’re interested in buying it for, say, 15 euros + postage, contact me). EDIT: It sold immediately,…

  • Mare Nostrum + Space Beans

    (Later addition: this is entry #200! Neat!) I just noticed I didn’t play a single real-time game during the whole May! Well, June started well: yesterday was the last meeting of board game club this Spring. Unfortunately I played only two games. First thing I played was Mare Nostrum. It almost was the only thing…

  • Top 10 list 06/2003

    Sunda to Sahul (1) Go (10) Sticheln (6) Zértz (-) Tichu (4) Taj Mahal (2) Mexica (-) Samurai (-) Bohnanza (8) New England (5)

  • The Games Journal

    The latest issue of The Games Journal is out. There’s an interesting article on objectively rating games and another about control vs luck/chaos in games. Go take a look!

  • Ilmaisia porno kuvia

    You can find ilmaisia porno kuvia (free porn pictures, that is) that way. Or not, actually it’s just an experiment among the Finnish weblogs — how well will that blog rank for “ilmaisia porno kuvia” on Google after a month. To keep this even marginally game-related: I played Mare Nostrum today. I’ll explain it all…

  • Goban beauty

    Blake Haber contacted me and sent a link to his web site about Go. It is highly recommended; he has some very interesting and untraditional Goban designs. There’s also some information about Go books and a nifty movie clip, which is very much worth looking through.