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Category: Session reports

  • Rule Britannia!

    A long PBEM game of Britannia is finally over. The first Roman assault was launched 29.11.2001 and today, I finally published the last results on the game website. Sure, it was insane. We had too long delays while we were playing; I participated in the 2001 World E-mail Championship and those games had GMs to…

  • First game of the year: Tichu

    Tichu is the first game I played this year. Yesterday I met some of my friends and taught the game to them. Olli was especially interested in the game, as I had advertised how the game has more depth and learning potential than average German boardgame. Unfortunately, I was unable to find a fourth player.…

  • Post-Christmas games: Villa Paletti & Scrabble

    I went “back home” to visit my parents with Johanna. Games couldn’t be avoided, especially since I had given Villa Paletti to my mother as a Christmas present. It turned out to be a good gift — which was expected, since she has always enjoyed Timpuri, a Finnish variant of Jenga. Well, we played a…

  • Christmas Games

    While waiting for the gifts, I played some games with my girlfriend Johanna. Because we were spending the Christmas at her parent’s home, we had her old game collection to use: Afrikan tähti (Star of Africa, named after the huge diamond) and Pekingin mysteerit (aka Mysteries of Peking). Afrikan tähti is the best-selling Finnish game…

  • BSW Session: Lost Cities, Carcassonne

    This was probably the last game session this year… I played few games at the Brettspielwelt, classic BSW games really. First, I played seven hands of Lost Cities, losing most of them. Still, it was pretty fun. At least it didn’t take a long time. Then, I played a two-player game of good old Carcassonne.…

  • Boardgame club meeting: Puerto Rico, Die Händler, Carcassonne: H&G

    The last meeting for this year of the Tampere University board game club was yesterday. We had a nice amount of people playing lots of different games. The Game of the Year -award was given to Puerto Rico (last year’s winner was Carcassonne) and the finals of the Spirit of the Game -tournament was played.…

  • Fun and games for Christmas

    Another attitude towards games: I had great fun playing Poker with my girlfriend yesterday. We play for Go stones, as I have plenty of those, and the way we play would probably make most Poker experts hilariously insane. Yesterday we tried out a new variant, inspired by a very silly strip poker program in TV.…

  • Puerto Rico at BSW

    I just played another game of Puerto Rico at the Brettspielwelt. However, it was an exceptional game: it had five players. I’ve only played three 5-player games this far. It was an interesting experience, even though it only reinforced my opinion: Puerto Rico is a four player game. Five players make the game a bit…

  • Café Games: Lost Cities, Bluff, Canal Grande

    I met up with some of my friends yesterday for couple of hours of gaming. Unfortunately only two of them showed up in the end, but we had two hours of fun and games anyway. And I had a wonderful and very tasty chicken bread, too. Try it, if you ever happen to visit Klubi…

  • BSW games: Carcassonne, Web of Power

    Not my day today, it seems. Well, I did win my first game of Carcassonne at the Brettspielwelt thanks to some very nasty tile placements. I lost the second game, a two-player duel, by one point. If I hadn’t made a mistake with the last tile, I would’ve won. Then came two games of Web…