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Two years, who could believe it
On 26th, this blog turns two. Amazing. This is entry number 495; looking back a year, I’ve written about 30 entries less this year than last year, but hey, who’s counting. 500 entries in two years is pretty good pace, I’d say. Well, anyway. I thought I’d ask a favour from you, my dear readers.…
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International Gamers Awards 2004 nominees
It’s time for International Gamers Awards again. You can find the nominees for 2004 awards in multiplayer and two-player categories (historical simulation was awarded earlier) at the IGA nominee page or at the Geek in the IGA nominee GeekList I made. The lists are impressive and picking the winners will be difficult. I’m rooting for…
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Carcassonne vs Settlers of Catan — winner is clear
As I mentioned in an earlier entry, Finnish Game of the Year awards are very interesting this year as both Carcassonne and Settlers of Catan are competing for the award. Well, looks like that competition is already done: Catan didn’t make it to the final four. Carcassonne did, and is competing against Yundao, Triominds and…
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BSW games: St. Pete and Tichu
It’s been a while since I last played Tichu (about 50 weeks, actually). I played a game at BSW and sucked. No wonder. It was fun, anyway. We were down something like 800-0, but my partner pulled a Grand Tichu and then we won another round but after that was quickly over. I’d say my…
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Memoir battles
I had planned a game of Die Macher today, but that was cancelled due to lack of players (too much effort to play a three-player game, really — I would’ve wanted at least four). However, I had to meet Manu, our wedding photographer. He dropped by and I introduced him to Memoir ’44 — I…
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Guess what? St. Pete at BSW!
I just played four two-player games of St. Petersburg at Brettspielwelt. Longest game took almost 14 minutes, fastest was over under eight minutes! That’s more like it! I managed to win only one game. In two-player games it’s easy to see when one player starts to get more and more workers and then you can…
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Goldland with Johanna
Robert from the boardgame club was very kind and gave me and Johanna a wedding gift. We couldn’t wait until our wedding! The large box turned out to be Goldland. It was a very good choice — I like the game and it was a good game for Johanna. It has a strong, interesting theme…
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St. Petersburg at BSW … again
You see I’m addicted? Another session of St. Petersburg at the BSW. This time it was much better: all games clocked in below 30 minutes and best took just 20 minutes. Very good! The first game was absurd. In the end of the game, I was producing 141 rubles each turn (60 in worker phase,…
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More St. Pete at BSW
I played another game of St. Petersburg at Brettspielwelt. Once again I’m surprised by the slowness of it: 43 minutes this time. That’s more in line with the real games, but still way too slow for BSW. People take too much time when they pass, that’s it. While the waiting kept me bored, the game…