Gameblog

Category: More about games

  • King Lui, Sunda to Sahul

    I’ve written reviews of King Lui and Sunda to Sahul in Finnish. I also redesigned the games front page. But that’s all in Finnish. You English-reading users can read reviews of King Lui and Sunda to Sahul I wrote for BoardGameGeek. I also wrote a review of Battle Line, mostly because I wanted to reach…

  • Time Control

    I got a copy of Time Control by Thompson Industries. Looks nice, except the tokens, which are very flimsy and thin. And the rulebook, which is plain (and needs errata desperately, I hear — fortunately there’s a new rulebook available at the Geek). But I’m ready to forgive the quality of the components if the…

  • Sticheln

    I wrote a post about my June games to the Spielfrieks list and Doug Orleans replied to it about Sticheln. I wrote a lengthy reply and thought I’d post it here as well. Doug wrote: I played this with 4, and liked it a lot, but then tried it with 3 and it fell pretty…

  • Dragonball Z preview

    I got a starter pack of Dragonball Z collectible card game — I’m to write a Finnish translation of the rules. The game seems rather daft: the players attack each other until one drops. Or until one player collects enough anger or a complete set of Dragonballs. Still, the about C5-sized rule book has about…

  • Spiel des Jahres 2003

    Spiel des Jahres 2003 award winners have been chosen! Winner of the main award is Alhambra by Dirk Henn. Best children’s game is Viva Topo! by Manfred Ludwig. Congratulations to the winners!

  • Coloretto

    Finnish visitors can go read my Finnish review of Coloretto. English visitors can just read on. Coloretto is a rather nice little game. It’s a very simple game, one of those one-minute rules games. You can teach the rules in a minute and once you’ve heard them, you can throw away the rules — they…

  • Faidutti’s Games of the Year 2003

    Bruno Faidutti has selected his games of the year. Winners this year are Coloretto and Age of Steam. I still haven’t tried Age of Steam myself, but I’d say these were quite good choices. At least Coloretto is a wonderful game.

  • Games arrived!

    Our Adam Spielt order arrived today! It was a bloody hard work, hauling that 13.9 kilos of games in a fairly large box all the way from the post office (what, it was at least 500 meters or so!). It took exactly a week for the package to arrive, which is what I expected. They…

  • Games, games, games

    What’s going on, gamewise: Order from Adam Spielt with my brand new credit card (I finally went and got one). I’m getting Amun-Re, Age of Steam, Coloretto, King Lui, Dia de los Muertos, Mamma Mia! and probably Land Unter too. That’s about 90 euros worth of games. Add to that 130 euros worth of stuff…

  • A prototype game

    I got a prototype game in mail from an American reader of this web site. It looks interesting, it’s a quite flexible abstract game system. A bit like the GIPF project games, perhaps. But, that’s all about it now — I’ll write a detailed review if and when they start selling the game and want…