Jolly Roger is publishing a new edition of Dia de los Muertos. Boardgames.about.com has some pictures, which looks absolutely gorgeous. That should be interesting, as the game is one of the most interesting trick-taking games there is….
I happened to find a new blog related to board games. Boardgameplayer.com by Ken Rumsey is a fairly new blog, started in December 2003. There’s a RSS feed, too….
…with two quick games of San Juan, including the expansion cards from Alea Treasure Chest. These add some welcome spice to the game. There are also events, which are extra actions players can use. These one-off actions offer some special opportunities. It’s not as good an addiction as the new buidlings, but not bad. The…
…low cards to avoid scoring tricks. Zeros, which can’t win tricks are very useful. Having misery cards in hand is good — at least you’ll know where they are — but getting rid of them safely can be hard. And of course you’ll want to keep the heavy-hitting misery cards to hit your opponents with….
…now and then the robbers will strike the caravans. Everybody gets some information, in sets of three cards: which spots the robbers strike, which line they choose and which goods they steal. There are five combinations each turn. Everybody starts with one and they’ll get rotated twice so you eventually end up seeing three. So,…
All Finnish readers, make sure you’re coming to HelCon, a board game event organised by Finnish Diplomacy Association and Safe Haven. It’s in Helsinki 26.-27.10.2002 (for more details, see the web site and/or ask Tommy). Tournaments include Settlers of Catan, Carcassonne and Magic: The Gathering PTQ, and other board games are played non-stop. Of course,…
…cards in their hand. Cards are played either as events or as action points. Events do various things, but may come with restrictions: some can be played just once per game and some can only be played in particular rounds (for example, there’s a Christmas card which can only be played as an event in…
…garish. The plastic castles and knights are detailed, but at the same time look a bit cheap — like something that could come in a Kinder egg. I’d probably prefer something more simple, abstract and wooden. That’s a question of taste, of course. It all works and looks pretty good, too, so nothing’s really wrong…
I’ve written a review of Balloon Cup — in Finnish, of course. I grabbed the opportunity to get the game for free (well, not for free, but as a payment; anyway I didn’t have to spend any of my precious money to buy it), because I had heard so much good about it. It wasn’t…