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Top 10 list 01/2003
Tichu (1) Die Macher (3) Princes of Florence (6) Puerto Rico (2) Tigris & Euphrates (9) Die Händler (7) Mahjong (4) Through the Desert (8) Africa (5) Isis & Osiris (-)
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Gaming year 2002 — the statistical review
I love keeping the statistics for the games I play. I like toying around with the numbers, seeing how they go. Of course, the biggest rewards come when you can make deeper, more complete analysis. Changing of the year is a natural time for that. I can make a fairly complete review of the past…
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I Do Rule the Ricochet Robot
After 119 more players, I still rule the Ricochet Robot. See for yourself: Scores for 12.12.2002. This is only the first of many victories to come! (But today I screwed up — I found seven move solution, but only after I had spent about 80 seconds doing an 18-move one…)
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Ruling the Ricochet Robot
It’s 9:42 AM in the USA, 190 players have already completed the daily Ricochet Robot puzzle and I’m still number one! I knew I found a good solution (I’d say optimal) and fairly fast, too, but it’s still hard to believe.
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Top 10 list 12/2002
Tichu (-) Puerto Rico (8) Die Macher (1) Mahjong (-) Africa (9) Princes of Florence (4) Die Händler (3) Through the Desert (5) Tigris & Euphrates (7) Canal Grande (-)
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Approved!
Greg Aleknevicus was apparently satisfied enough with my article and will publish it in The Games Journal. Way cool… Watch out for the January issue!
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Article submission!
Finally, after what must’ve been years of pondering, I finally managed to write an article and submit it for The Games Journal. It’s basically an originally Finnish article from my website, but it also appeared here. I’m excited to see if my article appears in the journal. To make this a bit more game-related, I…
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Puerto Rico opponents at BSW
Remember how I was lamenting how I never placed any better than second when playing Puerto Rico in Brettspielwelt? Now I know why. I just checked, and for example, this guy shlimazl, who won me, has played over 500 games of Puerto Rico at the BSW and has won over 50% of them. Nice…
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Top 10 list 11/2002
Die Macher (1) Web of Power (2) Die Händler (-) Princes of Florence (4) Through the Desert (-) Villa Paletti (-) Tigris & Euphrates (7) Puerto Rico (3) Africa (5) Go (8)
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Back from HelCon
I wrote a more detailed entry about coming back from HelCon, but managed to destroy it with accidental backspacing… Oops. Well, anyway, I’m back, had a great time, played many good games, took almost 100 photos and so on. A detailed session report (including Battle Cry, Die Macher, Die Händler, Stephenson’s Rocket and Villa Paletti…