Gameblog

Author: Mikko

  • Bezzerwizzer

    I got a new trivia game to test. Bezzerwizzer is a Danish game from few years ago and now coming to Finland. It’s a fairly basic trivia game with some nice twists, traditional but kind of modern at the same time. The game boasts 5000 questions in 20 different categories and the goal is know…

  • SNCF, Innovation, Cartouche

    I’ve had to skip the Wednesday games every week during October, but this week I managed to participate — to witness a huge crowd of gamers. Well, huge and huge, but we did have four tables playing games at the same time, which is rare. SNCF. This quick train game from this year’s Winsome set…

  • Math trade results

    Here’s my side of the recent Finnish math trade: I traded 2038 for Days of Steam Bamboleo for Roll through the Ages Epäillyt for Age of Steam: Disco Inferno / Soul Train Fauna for Santiago Fluch der Mumie for Blokus Hornet for Finca Steel Driver for Stephensons Rocket Some of these trades are better than…

  • 18xx day: 1846 and 1889

    Tommy came from Vantaa to join me, Olli and Robert for a day of 18xx. We chose two shorter games, 1846 and 1889, to make sure we could actually finish two games during the ~9 hours we had. We expected to use four hours per game and that worked out pretty well. We started with…

  • New rules for WYPS

    A new WYPS championship season started on Little Golem recently and I was more than surprised when my words weren’t accepted. A little bit of investigation solved the problem: the rules had changed. Previously, words could snake around on the board, now they have to be in straight lines. Also, the first one to connect…

  • Back to the Future and Innovation

    My brother gave me a copy of Back to the Future: The Card Game. It’s a new version of Chrononauts and it’s done by Andrew Looney and the Looney Labs. Not my kind of game, then, but an interesting surprise. Reading the rules and checking out the cards confirmed my doubts: this is a random…

  • Shopping – final list

    Here’s what I ended up getting this season: Winsome Essen set. Almost missed this, but fortunately everything’s now secure. I’m most interested in SNCF, which should be sweet, but Texas & Pacific is also interesting. West Riding Revisited less so, as I didn’t fancy the old West Riding and I don’t really need more long…

  • Sturgeon

    Sturgeon isn’t named after Sturgeon’s law (90% of everything is crud), but the name is appropriate. Actually, this small game from Minion Games and designer Russell Brown is about fish. Players try to get two sturgeons on their side of the lake, but that requires patience and careful build-up of fish. Overview of the rules…

  • Birthday party

    This post contains affiliate links to Amazon. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Affiliate links are marked with a €.I had a birthday party last Sunday. Last time I had one was some time after I moved to Tampere, so I was probably 21. I invited, what, four friends and that’s it.…

  • A cool String Railway video

    Here’s a neat video of String Railway. I’ll have to say the game looks very charming. I’m buying.