Category: Session reports

  • Brettspielwelt games

    I just played some games in the Brettspielwelt. I’ve been looking for a game of Ra there for a while now and today it happened, I played a 3-player game. Unfortunately the user interface is on the worse end of the BSW scale. Important information (like the amount of Ra tiles drawn) is hidden on…

  • Rest of the gaming weekend

    The previous entry covers the games of Friday. This one tells the tale from Saturday to Sunday. It’s a long story, but hopefully of interest at least to someone. Last Saturday was a full day of gaming. I woke up at about ten am and started the morning working on some Go problems. Then, after…

  • Games from last Friday

    Last weekend I visited my good friend Tommy and we had a great weekend full of fun and games. I’m going to write session reports about the whole weekend, a day at a time because they’re going to be a bit longer — lots of new games, you see. I’ll start with Friday. I came…

  • Board game club meeting

    Board game club met last Sunday and I got to play many interesting games, including few new games I hadn’t experienced before. My number one priority was testing Goldland which I have wanted to try for the last two times — I’ve always run out of time. This time that would happen, I thought, and…

  • Go!

    I just played few quick games of Go on Kiseido Go Server. It was definitely fun, but also made quite clear I am no good in Go. I played two games against players of approximately my level and lost both (I also lost a lightning game to a much better players — no surprises there).…

  • First BSW games this year

    I played my first Brettspielwelt games this year. Those first games included two 2-player games of Carcassonne with the expansion. I won both games. Then, for the first time ever, I managed to get in a game of Tichu. I didn’t make any blatant mistakes and actually one or two neat plays. Unfortunately I had…

  • Vom Kap bis Kairo

    I played two games of Vom Kap bis Kairo last weekend. For the first time, I tried the variant recommended by Greg Alecnevikus. That is, when player builds a track and there’s no auction, the turn moves to left instead of staying on the same player. So, you can’t save money in auctions and then…

  • Lost Cities weekend

    I visited my parents last weekend and as usual, games were played. I took my standard set of games: the Africa box, filled with Africa, Puerto Rico and 6 Nimmt, Battle Line which included Vom Kap bis Kairo and as a newcomer, Lost Cities. Lost Cities turned out to be the big hit of the…

  • Manhattan

    Last night my lovely girlfriend Johanna requested a game while we were waiting for a TV-show to start. She wanted to play something new, so after a moment of browsing my collection, I chose Manhattan. I thought it was suitable: easy, entertaining, would probably work well with two, not too mean and playable in an…

  • Guillotine

    I like TV quiz shows and have always wanted to participate myself. Well, I got lucky. I sent in my registration for the Guillotine show in the Internet and after a month or two got a phone call. I answered some questions and got an invite to the show. Guillotine (or Giljotiini in Finnish) is…