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  • A box with something in it

    Maul of America is a prime example of bad boxing. The game comes in a huge box (all the games I got from Jolly Roger were packed in the Maul of America box), which has almost nothing in it. The cardboard pieces that make the board use the surface of the box pretty well, but…

  • Nodwick preview

    I got the Jolly Roger games yesterday and the first one I tried was Nodwick: The Card Game. The title is necessary, because Nodwick is originally a web comic by Aaron Williams. That means, of course, that the game has rather decent graphics. The game, designed by Frank Branham (the author of the brilliant Dia…

  • Kogge preview

    I got a copy from JKLM Games earlier last week and spent quite a while trying to figure out the rules. I don’t think we made any bigger mistakes, the rules weren’t quite that hard, only a bit complicated. While the components are shoddy (the route marker tiles are especially unpleasant), the game is wonderful…

  • Gang of Four and Choh Dai Di

    Gang of Four claims to be the number one card game in Asia. Well, that might or might not be the case, but it’s origins do lie in the Oriental game Choh Dai Di, which is played on a regular deck. I think Gang of Four is a good version of Choh Dai Di, because…

  • Day of Wonder

    I did my first live TV bit today. It was fun, we talked about board games. It was quite light, just five-ten minutes or so and therefore didn’t delve deep into the subject, but still, I had a good time and I think board games got a bit of good publicity. Then I visited Safe…

  • Flaschenteufel

    This post contains affiliate links to Amazon. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Affiliate links are marked with a €.Here’s what I wrote about Flaschenteufel on Spielfrieks. It provoked a reply from Joe Huber, the author of the original Games Journal review. He told that the new edition changes aren’t just cosmetic…

  • Flaschenteufel translation

    I wrote a Finnish translation for Flaschenteufel. It’s available in HTML and PDF formats. Oops! I just figured out (thanks to Mark Blanco’s geeklist) that I’ve got an essential rule wrong. Players do not score all the points they gathered as negative points, just the Imp’s Trick. Now that’s a mistake…

  • Perfect Box

    I’ve found the perfect card game box: Drahtseilakt box (the game’s published by ASS) is exactly large enough to hold the cards with protectors and the scoring sticks. Brilliant. Bambus Spieleverlag boxes are also pretty good, they hold at least two games (especially as Bambus games I have have so few cards). So I can…

  • Top Speed

    I wrote a review of Top Speed (in Finnish). Here’s what I wrote in Boardgamegeek: Top Speed is a brilliant little game. It’s somewhat of a sequel to Staupe’s earlier Speed, which I haven’t played. Can’t say which one is faster, but at least Top Speed is really fast. The concept is simple. Players have…

  • Discovery

    I bought Discovery on an impulse few days ago — it was there in front of me at the right moment. I had heard good things about it (well, one recommendation was from a Tactic employee, but still) and it definitely looked interesting — so why not. It sure is interesting. The components are neat:…