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Month of Wallenstein
Our game of Wallenstein ended after about a month of play. I came third. Winner was, unsurprisingly, the only player who had played before. My placing was pretty good, considering I didn’t really understand the game (for example, I had no clue of the scoring). It was ok, but I don’t think I’ll play the…
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Monday Go Session
This time we had a proper games meet. We started with two games of Huutopussi, both of which were won hands-down by Juho. I don’t know how he does it, but he’s rather superior in the game. Memorable moments of the games include yours truly missing 150 point call by one point, thus instead of…
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Geek Badges
Talk about silly and useless features… BoardGameGeek allows users to create badges, for the measly sum of 50 geekgold. I got one for myself right away… See We Don’t Need No Stinking Badges for more information. My badge? Green and white "GAME BLOGGER". Of course…
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The Games Journal is out
A new issue of The Games Journal is out. This time it’s a slightly thinner one, with articles about not figuring out games and the duration of games and a review of Werewolf.
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Alex Randolph R.I.P.
I’m sure most of you have already heard that Alex Randolph (see list of his games at the Geek) has passed away. Leo Colovini has set up a Book of Condolences.
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Hammer of the Scots, rules v.2.0
As I promised earlier, I hereby announce the version 2.0 rules for Hammer of the Scots have finally been published. You can go get them from Columbia Games Hammer web site. I don’t have Acrobat Reader installed on this computer, so I haven’t taken a look at them, but if they incorporate the changes mentioned…
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Boardgames To-Go moves in
Mark Johnson’s boardgame blog Boardgames To-Go has moved in! Hopefully his archives will soon follow.
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Hexen Werk starting rule
This is the rule regarding starting player from Hexen Werk by Yun Games: "The player who resembles a witch best begins the game. In case no player looks like a witch, the player with the biggest nose will start. In case all have similar sized noses and no one looks like a witch, oldest player…
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Short Go session
It’s been a while since the last Go session. This resulted in just one player in addition to me. What’s worse, Ari had to leave for a lecture after one game and I didn’t quite feel like waiting for 90 minutes for him to come back… Maybe our next session will draw more people. For…
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New game blog
This weekend I worked on a new blog. It’s about console and computer games — since I’ve started playing video games more, I’ve also felt a need to write about them (natural instinct to me, I suppose). The new blog is called Pelimerkinnät (Game notes) and as you might guess from the title, it’s in…