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  • Notes on 7 Wonders

    We played seven games of 7 Wonders this weekend, all with four or three players. Less is better, what comes to players. There’s more control, more cards come back to you and you can more easily focus on your opponents as well. The game plays fast with experience. It does feel a bit samey. Seven…

  • Dominion Online

    Dominion Online at Isotropic.org is a rather cool way to play Dominion online. It’s very elegant, all monospaced text, and works like a charm. It has all cards, every card from every set and promos too. The user interface is mostly intuitive, and certainly better than what Brettspielwelt has to offer. I used it to…

  • 1865: Sardinia

    I read through the rules of a new 18xx game, 1865: Sardinia, by Alessandro Lala. It sounds very promising! It’s a smallish game, 2–4 players, with interesting details. Here are some highlights: The game looks great, it’s done by Cory of 18AL remake fame The stock market has outside investors, who buy and sell shares…

  • New rules for WYPS

    A new WYPS championship season started on Little Golem recently and I was more than surprised when my words weren’t accepted. A little bit of investigation solved the problem: the rules had changed. Previously, words could snake around on the board, now they have to be in straight lines. Also, the first one to connect…

  • Shopping – final list

    Here’s what I ended up getting this season: Winsome Essen set. Almost missed this, but fortunately everything’s now secure. I’m most interested in SNCF, which should be sweet, but Texas & Pacific is also interesting. West Riding Revisited less so, as I didn’t fancy the old West Riding and I don’t really need more long…

  • Sturgeon

    Sturgeon isn’t named after Sturgeon’s law (90% of everything is crud), but the name is appropriate. Actually, this small game from Minion Games and designer Russell Brown is about fish. Players try to get two sturgeons on their side of the lake, but that requires patience and careful build-up of fish. Overview of the rules…

  • A cool String Railway video

    Here’s a neat video of String Railway. I’ll have to say the game looks very charming. I’m buying.

  • Space Hulk: Death Angel card game

    I got a review copy of something I’d never have bought myself. Fantasiapelit did a Finnish version of the Space Hulk: Death Angel card game and sent me a review copy. Why not — I know my brother has some interest to this, being an old Warhammer fan. This latest incarnation of Space Hulk is…

  • Skat thoughts

    I’ve been playing Skat, quite a bit of it, actually, thanks to the very swift Xskat implementation running on my phone. The difficulty of Skat is overrated. It’s not that hard. I thought the auction was complicated, but it isn’t. At least against the computer opponents, most of the time you don’t really have to…

  • Flash Duel

    I got a review copy of Flash Duel, a two-player combat game by David Sirlin. The game is a card game version of the classic fighting games like Street Fighter, with characters done in similar style. The base of the game is however more abstract and mathematical. A familiar game in new form Actually, Flash…