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Category: Session reports

  • Expansions: Finca and Agricola

    Yesterday’s games were about expansions to familiar games. First up was a two-player game of Finca with the El Razul expansion. It’s a bunch of elements that make small changes in the game: Wildcard tile on windmill gives you any fruit you want. Makes things easier and the game a bit faster, perhaps. El Razul…

  • Bohnanza and Rattus

    Yesterday we were supposed to play Cavum, which I’ve had for quite a while now, but that plan failed: there were five of us. The curse of a small game group… I don’t mind a smaller group, as it makes it more likely that you get to play the same games again with same people,…

  • More Rattus and Black Friday

    So, after last week’s session, I bought Rattus and the Pied Piper expansion. This order and some other additions finally got me to 250 games owned, so now I have the silver collector geekbadge at Geek. Hooray! Now I can sell stuff again… Heh. A big auction coming up, later in the summer, so I’ll…

  • Travel Blog, Rattus, Black Friday

    Travel Blog is a fun little geography quiz from Vlaada Chvátil. It’s not all about map knowledge, but also quick thinking. Six European countries or US states are chosen randomly each round and then one as a starting point. The goal is to choose a country that can be reached from the starting point with…

  • Black Friday

    Last week was something else, now was the time to get Black Friday on the table. I decided — on a whim — to buy the game. It’s been on and off my shopping list, but I wanted something new (and the silver collector badge in Geek), so I got it. After the first game…

  • Triumvirate, Gipf, String Railway

    Yesterday’s games started with a quick round of Triumvirate with Hannu. This is a two-player trick-taking game, and rather well done, too. There are three colours and a round is over when one colour has three tricks. That colour (a member of the triumvirate) gets a scoring token. A game is over when a colour…

  • David V.H. Peters weekend

    We were in Jyväskylä this weekend. A pleasant weekend, again, children love visiting my mom, always a success. Johanna was with us and we could sneak to go eat a nice meal (my new food love: churros) and watch a movie (Limitless was pretty good, and it was fun to watch a movie knowing nearly…

  • Antiquity and Innovation

    Last Sunday we played a game of Antiquity. Typical results — a San Christofori win. Hannu played a good game and won the game just turns before pollution would’ve made his society collapse, or so. I played a weak game and was pretty far from winning, but at least I didn’t run out of wood……

  • Gulf, Mobile & Ohio and Gang of Four

    Gulf, Mobile & Ohio is one clever game. We played it yesterday, with four players this time and couple of newbies… My fifth game, already, which is nice, and I’m just about to rate this as a 10. It’s just that damn good. The timing games, juggling into a position to open a good railroad,…

  • Glen More and John Silver

    Yesterday we had our weekly meeting, and I’m raporting it today! How fast is that! While waiting for another player to arrive, the other Mikko and I played a quick match of 13×13 Go on his iPad. It was nice! I’ve been thinking about getting an iPad, mostly for gaming, but I’ve had some reservations…