I printed out some piecepack games yesterday so I could try my new set. For the obvious reasons I chose some games from the Solitary Confinement competition winners. I took a look at Piece Packing Pirates, the contest winner, but when I noticed it has nine pages of rules, I decided to leave it for…
…gets to it! What’s in the box? Cute Doris Matthäus artwork! There’s a board, bunch of tiles and cardboard tokens, and two custom dice. Components are simple, look nice and work well. The game looks charming. The game is in the Ö-Koo series of eco-friendly co-ops, so the components are made from sustainable materials. What…
I was visiting Jyväskylä last weekend. In addition to some surprisingly pleasing physical work (painting boards and a wall, building scaffolding), we played lots of games. During the years, I’ve introduced several games with variable success. Some have been huge hits (Puerto Rico and St. Petersburg are the most notable examples). Sometimes there have been…
Race to the North Pole is a Finnish game from the new-comers Playmore Games. They gave me a review copy, which is a late prototype of the game: everything looks like it does in the final version, but the materials are slightly different. The game: Race to the North Pole by Jouni Jussila and Tomi…
…some are better suited for certain strategies. Choices of what to build and use aren’t always simple, as the amount of men available is limited. Men on cart shops can be sent outside the city to work the fields. Those workers bring in resources: building materials, food and luxuries. These are then used to build…
…simple. It all begins at food, which is used to get wood, stone or ore. Ore is made into metal, which can be made into tools or weapons. Wood is needed for building, making paper or coal. It’s all fairly simple, but still rather complex when everything is put together. The game has clever mechanics….
…that, I bought some game materials: a Riichi set, Shogi equipment, a Xiangqi set and a new Go board and stones. These were expensive but well worth it. I didn’t sell a lot of games. I have some games I could sell, but as I don’t need the space or the money, I haven’t bothered…
…a family game it’s probably pretty good (and since it lacks the die-rolling, it’s probably a lot better than the board game). Olli H. didn’t like it, but I got the idea he has played the original Cluedo to death. I wouldn’t mind playing the card game version again. It’s certainly nothing like Black Vienna,…
…a spectacular experience. Definitely worth checking out, even if the stone benches are rather uncomfortable. What comes to games, Italy isn’t the hottest destination. Few stores had games; I saw some Italian mass-market card games, but nothing really interesting. I did saw games played, though. On the first night, we went to the hotel pool…