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Puerto Rico at BSW
It’s been a while since I last visited BrettSpielWelt. Today I did go there and ended up in a game of Puerto Rico. That’s fine with me, though I’d like to try games like Yinsh, Tongiaki or San Juan. However, I don’t know the rules and I’m too modest to ask someone to teach me…
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Month of Wallenstein
Our game of Wallenstein ended after about a month of play. I came third. Winner was, unsurprisingly, the only player who had played before. My placing was pretty good, considering I didn’t really understand the game (for example, I had no clue of the scoring). It was ok, but I don’t think I’ll play the…
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Monday Go Session
This time we had a proper games meet. We started with two games of Huutopussi, both of which were won hands-down by Juho. I don’t know how he does it, but he’s rather superior in the game. Memorable moments of the games include yours truly missing 150 point call by one point, thus instead of…
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Short Go session
It’s been a while since the last Go session. This resulted in just one player in addition to me. What’s worse, Ari had to leave for a lecture after one game and I didn’t quite feel like waiting for 90 minutes for him to come back… Maybe our next session will draw more people. For…
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Party games
Laura and Ville invited some friends at their place to play party games. The party was certainly large. I took my Cranium with me, eager to try it for the first time. Some might remember when I got it in December. Others were enthusiastic as well, so we started the game with four three-player teams.…
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Train game club meeting
Our board game club met yesterday. The attendance was low, just eight people. However, a group of Diplomacy players shared the space with us and brought some life. Ticket to Ride was very much the game of the day. I had played a game with Johanna earlier, but now I got to play the game…
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Mikko, the King of Scotland
I played a game of Hammer of the Scots. We drew lots for scenario and sides; I got the Scots with the Braveheart (next time I’ll try the Bruce, I suppose). Last two games I’ve played, I’ve played English. I’ve won both games as marginal victories. Back in January, I said "I believe that Scots…
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Monday session: Go, cards and piecepack
What a sad day today. I played three games of Go against Juho and lost all of them. I played black each time and in the last game even got one handicap stone. Ah, sadness. Then Ilari came to rescue and we tried some piecepack games. First we tried Hanging Gardens. It was slightly confusing…
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Puerto Rico at BSW
It’s been a while since I last played at Brettspielwelt. Today I decided to check it out. After wondering about the new interface (as reported by Gameblogger: Bye Bye Blue Ball), I got into a Puerto Rico game. It didn’t go too well for me. I lost the game, with scores of 50-51-59-69. My critical…
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More piecepack games
Today I printed out some new piecepack games and tried two of them. They were the recommended solitaire games. Tula is like a traditional card solitaire ported to piecepack. I found it so and so. I played four games and completed it once. Once I got only one tile after the first free tile. I…