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WordPress search plugin plug
This has nothing do with games, so if you don’t have a WordPress blog, skip on. If you do have a WordPress blog, there’s something I want to tell you. The default WordPress search sucks. It has very simple matching and always returns results in date order, most recent first. In small blogs this might…
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XSkat – a new addiction
I’ve got a new addiction. XSkat works in my phone, so I can crank out couple of skat deals in just a minute or two. Excellent! I’ve wanted to learn skat, but getting people to play it is difficult and games with all newbies are always a bit different. Now I can play against tough…
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Finnish Game of the Year awards 2010
Finnish Game of the Year awards were published today. Lautapelit.fi scored a double victory. Best children’s game: Muumien purnukkajahti (a Moomin game, I know nothing else). Best family game: Dixit Best adult game: Mallorca (aka Finca) Lautapelit.fi published Dixit and Mallorca, the Moomin game is a Finnish game (I guess) by Egmont. Dixit of course…
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Fauna, Nile, Tornado Alert!
Good day of games today. I finally got Fauna on the table — I had the game a year ago, when I did the translation, but I never played the German version as I wanted to wait for the Finnish edition. Now it was time! And why not, Fauna is a pretty good game. It’s…
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Vasco da Gama
Vasco da Gama got the Jyväskylä treatment last weekend. We played a total of four games (twice with four, twice with three). It’s a pretty good game. Not great, but definitely worth giving a go and for those who like worker placement it should be a real pleasure. I’m not terribly keen on worker placement…
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Lautapeliopas in English
Lautapeliopas now has a small Lautapeliopas in English page. I’m going to buy some advertising on Boardgame News, so that was the kick I needed to add the English info page. I was going to donate anyhow and the difference between $20 donation and $60 sponsorship is fairly small, especially as the latter is tax-deductible…
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BGG admins delete Winsome reprint list
BoardGameGeek admins have removed the super useful Winsome Games reprint geeklist. Apparently it violates site policy in a way that several other similar reprint lists don’t. As the list was one of the most useful resources in the Geek, I’m very annoyed to see it gone. Ok, so there’s an explanation. Makes sense, I suppose,…
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Simtex 1830
I finally managed to play a game of 1830 with the SimTex computer version. I’ve tried before, but for some reason I haven’t done it… Now I got a reason so I played a game today. It was fun and I’ll definitely try it again. The reason? I’m trying 1830 play-by-email, we’re running a game…
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Toscana, Bamboleo, Arvuutin
A nice session today! I started with a quick(ish) Nile with Petri — it’s still a pretty good two-player quickie, I actually like it quite a bit. I won, of course. First bigger game was Bamboleo, which has recently come out in Finnish. It’s a good-looking game and entertaining to watch. It’s also fun to…
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Correlation tool, new feature
I added a new feature to my BGG correlation tool. If you match your correlation to all users (don’t enter a second user) and make sure Refresh cache is checked, you’ll find a user named BoardGameGeek average rating on the list. That shows your correlation to the Geek average rating, based on the Geek ratings.…