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Category: Session reports

  • Board game club: Manila, Dividends, Boomtown, Modern Art, Farfalia, Louis XIV

    We had a very good game session yesterday. It started with just me and four guys, but hey, we had a blast even if noone else joined us until much later. After clicking through an absolutely dreadful game of Crokinole with Robert, rest of the guys arrived and I got us started with Manila. It…

  • Lost Valley — river gold rocks!

    We played our third Lost Valley match today. Johanna did the impossible: she won with river gold only! It’s the only thing she could’ve done, too, because she didn’t get a single mountain on her side of the river. It was pretty neat, but also quite close. She had just 15 pieces of gold on…

  • Afternoon games: Cluedo, Cosmic Eidex, Amazonas

    I met the Ollis for the last time for now — I’m moving in the end of July and just don’t have enough time for games right now. Too bad, but that’s life. Anyway, we started our games with Cluedo Card Game. It’s a simple deduction game and quite clearly too simple for gamers. As…

  • More midsummer games: Lost Valley, Street Soccer, Memoir ’44

    Next day after our Lost Valley game, Johanna wanted a rematch. That’s remarkable! I was more than pleased to play the game again. It was fun — this time we explored the whole of the valley. In the end Johanna won with a healthy margin — I wasted my time with river gold. After the…

  • Midsummer games: Industrial Waste, Cosmic Eidex, Lost Valley

    I met the Ollis Thursday for some games. It was a fairly monotonous event, with only two different games played. It’s not a big deal, since the games were excellent. I’m really growing fond of Industrial Waste. We played three games, once with just Olli M. and me, twice with three players. It’s fast, too…

  • Weekend games: Mhing, Flaschenteufel and Bongo

    I played a quick round of Mhing with Johanna while we waited for food to cook. We played just four rounds, which is probably the best explanation for my victory, which was first of it’s kind. I visited the Sunday’s board game club swiftly to pick up my copy of Cosmic Eidex (first thoughts: the…

  • Afternoon games: Australia, Industrial Waste

    Once again I met with the Ollis to play games. We started with Australia, requested by Olli M-K., who had also played it once before. Olli H. was new to the game. It started to look bad, but turned out rather well. The final scores were 225-186-166, a decisive victory once again. I don’t know…

  • Ticket to Ride online

    I just finished a game of Ticket to Ride at the Finnish game site Voitta.net. The game is called Wanderer there, but it’s Ticket to Ride. The game mode is turn-based play-by-web. The site is Finnish and English and I think you can play the game without knowing any Finnish — the rules are available…

  • Sunday afternoon Mhing

    Johanna wanted to play games, which is always nice. I still don’t have Antiquity, which we both lust for, so we had to settle with Mhing. After playing the game twice without any regard to scoring, we now counted score. Maybe we shouldn’t have. After all, losing 8-6 isn’t that bad, but losing 136-68 sounds…

  • Large group games: Werewolf and Attribute

    I spent Wednesday and Thursday on a cruise to Stockholm with the other writers from Enter magazine. There was some official programme, but the evenings were reserved for games. I was asked to bring games, as was Hanna, the other board gamer in Enter writers. I had underestimated the size of the group, so we…