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Kotiliesi article
I got two copies of the Kotiliesi with my article in it. The article is mentioned in the cover (“The best family games”) and it’s four pages long. Pictures are mostly about classics like Monopoly, Scrabble and Afrikan tähti. There’s a picture of yours truly with a pile of better games (Puerto Rico, Amun-Re, Alhambra,…
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Few games coming my way
I ordered Attika and Finstere Flure today (from Spielenet, I got an offer to join an order so large there are no shipping costs). Attika was a must-buy, while deciding over FF took a while. It’s cool theme and neat mechanics combined with a reasonably low price made the decision quite easy in the end.
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Media influence
My game website is a journalist magnet. During the last month or so, I’ve been interviewed twice for a magazine (Kotiliesi and ET-lehti — first is probably a bit like Ladies Home Journal and ET is not about extraterrestrials; it’s targeted mostly for older (say 50+) women) and yesterday I was contacted by someone from…
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I won!
I just won a copy of Anathema from the APE Games contest. Neat!
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Crokinole
I’ve been having these crazy ideas about getting myself a Crokinole board. That’s sort of silly, but it’s not like I’m able to get a pool table anytime soon… It’s worse now I found Crokinole Companions web site. Crokinole boards from Germany! Less postage costs, no customs, no taxes. Still very expensive, but perhaps not…
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Weekend of games
Tomorrow I will head towards Lahti for the game weekend organized by Peter Munter from Puolenkuun pelit. The guest list has mostly people I don’t know, but also few people I’m very happy to play with. I’m looking forward to face Gameblog’s faithful reader Reko over a Go board. There will be plenty of good…
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Quiz shows, part two
In January, I participated in the Giljotiini quiz show. Yesterday it was Who wants to be a millionaire?. I tried the SMS quiz twice before I was happy with my time and indeed got an invite to the taping of the show. It was a long day. I was in the third show of the…
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Randomness of games
New use for my spreadsheets! Consider this: if the outcome of a game is random, the win percentage should depend on the amount of players. In a completely random two-player game it should be 50% after enough games. Well. My spreadsheet enters the picture here. I can count the average number of players in each…
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Game stat madness continues
Hein Hundal contacted me about my game stats madness and described a very interesting rating system, which was easy enough to implement. It’s basically a way to calculate what is the probability that one is better than an average opponent. Here’s how it’s calculated for each game: First count the harmonic average of number of…
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Mystery order part 2
As told before, I ordered a copy of Mystery Rummy: Jack the Ripper from Leisure Games. I was getting worried when I didn’t get it or hear anything from them, as they’ve been very fast before. Turns out they don’t have the game anymore and they had e-mailed me about it. I must’ve missed the…