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Category: Session reports

  • Catch-up: Kraken-Alarm, Forbidden Island, Railroad Barons

    Time for another catch-up post… It’s the Spring season for board game translations and those (and couple of other projects, like publishing the premium version of my WordPress search plugin Relevanssi) have kept my evenings busy. Here’s some new games I’ve played recently: Kraken-Alarm is a funny children’s game from Kosmos. It has a long…

  • Poseidon, second game

    Oops, I was about to write about my recent games, then I got shocked I hadn’t posted anything about our Poseidon game and then I noticed I had an unpublished draft about it… Well, two weeks late, better that than never, I suppose… I played another game of Poseidon this week (see the first game…

  • Let’s Catch the Lion and Yinsh

    I played some games with my brother yesterday. Let’s Catch the Lion is a cute abstract game. It’s a very small variant of shōgi (Japanese chess), with a 3×4 board and just four pieces per player. The action starts right away. It’s a quick game and it didn’t take us long to play four rounds.…

  • Catch-up: Resistance, Age of Steam, Arkadia

    Last Wednesday was a nice day of games. Some Die Dolmengötter, a quick and brutal Innovation and first go at The Resistance, the new Werewolf-style game which is faster and removes the player elimination. It’s an interesting game. Players form two teams. Leader chooses a group to go on a mission. The players on the…

  • Poseidon, first go

    I got Poseidon from my Secret Santa. The box promises 90-120 minutes playtime, which fits in my weekly game sessions, where I have 2.5 hours of time. Sounds good so far. Of course, it wouldn’t be the first box to lie. We managed the game in less than two hours. Four players, including rules explanation,…

  • 1860 PBEM game

    I played a game of PBEM 1860 with Justin Rebelo. It was one of our quick games, played mostly in couple of sessions over just few days. Justin did a great session report on Geek, check that out if you’re interested. It was an exciting match: Justin got some early lead, I took over and…

  • Homesteaders, SNCF, others

    I’m coming here to write a blog post of this week’s games, only to find a draft of last week… except there’s nothing else but the title. Sloppy me! The sessions are, fortunately, compatible, as I played Homesteaders in both of them. I’ve been pushing the game a bit, because I like it and want…

  • Weekend games: 7 Wonders, Finca, Dominion, Samarkand

    Another weekend in Jyväskylä, more classics. The photos are still in the camera, so I’ll probably have to do a follow-up post with the pictures. 7 Wonders. Five games, won four. Highlight was the round, when I collected 7 points in all categories, except one – and that was science with whopping 62 points (16+16+9+21).…

  • Slovenian Tarok and others

    A good game session today! It’s been a while since I last played Slovenian Tarock, so I was very glad to give it a go when Hannu suggested it and another Mikko was eager to join. Ville joined us as a new player, and was soundly beaten. We managed a good 13 hands, with all…

  • Neue Heimat

    Yesterday I finally got Neue Heimat on table in our game group. It’s been a while since I bought it. We played a full game of three rounds. Despite the extra length, I think that is pretty much the only way to play. I tried the one-round game in Helcon, and it’s easy to tell…