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Boxes
Shannon Appelcline wrote a good article on game boxes in the Gone Gaming blog. The Problem with Game Boxes is a lament for the variety of different box sizes these games of ours come in: This might seem a pretty minor issue to kibitz about, but I suspect that storage issues affect just about anyone…
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Board game blog review (and linking)
I think board game bloggers could link to each other a bit more. Most blogs have a blogroll, that’s good (and quite a few link to me, that’s always nice!). Still, maybe few more entries with links to other board game blogs wouldn’t be bad? Pointing out the best stuff in other blogs, you know.…
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Visiting Italy
We were in Italy last week. Two years ago we checked the jesters in Florence, this time I checked the background on San Marco. Well, actually we resided in Bardolino on the Lake Garda, but we made a day-trip to Venice (by the way: the anglicized names of the Italian cities really bug me… It’s…
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Three years!
Oops, almost missed the anniversary (actually, I thought it was the 22nd). I do remember our wedding anniversary (which is day after tomorrow), so perhaps I’ll just try to remember that this blog’s anniversary is two days before that. Which makes it today. Gameblog has been up three years now. I don’t know about the…
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Finnish Game of the Year finalists
Finalists for the Finnish Game of the Year awards are out. Children’s games: Mighty Magpies (Harakkavarkaat) — Tactic Geistertreppe (Kummitusportaat) — Marektoy / Drei Magier Schatz der Drachen (Lohikäärmeen aarre) — Marektoy / Winning Moves Family games: Cranium CADOO — Danspil Ticket to Ride (Menolippu) — Lautapelit.fi / Days of Wonder Verflixxt (Sellaista sattuu) —…
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Gold rush
Joe Gola recounts his Silverton experiences in There’s Gold in Them Thar Cards. Suddenly I feel a rush to try to game! Man, that’s some well-written and attractive stuff about a five-hour juggernaut game! The new Gone Gaming blog where that entry appears looks promising, by the way. I should fix my blog roll on…
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Moving sucks
Moving is nasty business. While board games aren’t the worst hobby to move (bibliophilia is pretty bad), it still isn’t fun. I had to haul something like three-four boxes and six or so bags full of big box games. That’s a lot, and it sure makes me feel like reducing the size of my collection.…
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Air of expectation
Guess what! My copy of Antiquity began its journey from Essen (that’s where Allgames4you is located) to Tampere yesterday. I’m hoping it’ll make it here during next week, but we’ll see — it was sent to my old address, which I’m leaving Tuesday. I hope the redirect service won’t delay it until August… I’m quite…
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Ropecon
Ropecon 2005 is approaching fast. It’s the biggest roleplaying event in Finland and boasts a wide variety of board game events. There’s the Finnish Championships of Catan and Carcassonne, where the winners get to go to Essen to represent Finland in the World Championships (no, the plane tickets are not paid for). There’s also lots…
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Puzzle
Here’s a small puzzler for you. Mikko played some two-player games in the various board game events during the year with different people. Mikko played once against each person, different game with each player and only one game in each event. With the following hints, can you figure out which games Mikko played with who…