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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…
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Logistics
I’m going to Jyväskylä this weekend and as usual, it means games. I’ll probably post the session reports Monday. I’ve practised the art of game packing quite a lot. This time I’m bringing Puerto Rico, Balloon Cup, Land Unter, Coloretto, Mamma Mia! and King Lui. Because I’m taking the train, I’m going to walk a…
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Game stat maths
I have an Excel spread-sheet where I record the games I play, noting the amount of players and the number of games I’ve won. I count month totals, happiness product and winning percentages. It’s an essential part of my game hobby, keeping track of it all. Lately I’ve been fiddling about with performance measures. Amount…
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Mystery order
I went and ordered Mystery Rummy: Jack the Ripper from Leisure Games. I’ve wanted it for long, but finally got around to actually buy it. I could’ve ordered it from Fantasiapelit, but I didn’t. Compare this: the game costs about 12 euros at Leisure Games and about 14 euros at Fantasiapelit. If I lived in…