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Pirate’s Cove
I didn’t stay long at the board game club meeting yesterday, but I had enough time to try Pirate’s Cove with five players. It was much better experience than with three and I even upgraded my Geek rating for the game. It’s now nine; three-player game is eight. It’s not really my style of a…
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Independence Day games
Even though next board game club meeting is tomorrow, I invited Robert and Olli to my place for some games. It was a very good way to spend the Independence Day in my opinion, especially as Johanna was out of town. First we played some new games I hadn’t yet tried. I’ll write more detailed…
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Go humour
I haven’t been checking out Almost Sente in a while. Of the new strips, number 50 was hilariously funny! I think I have a dry sense of humour sometimes.
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A box with something in it
Maul of America is a prime example of bad boxing. The game comes in a huge box (all the games I got from Jolly Roger were packed in the Maul of America box), which has almost nothing in it. The cardboard pieces that make the board use the surface of the box pretty well, but…
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Nodwick preview
I got the Jolly Roger games yesterday and the first one I tried was Nodwick: The Card Game. The title is necessary, because Nodwick is originally a web comic by Aaron Williams. That means, of course, that the game has rather decent graphics. The game, designed by Frank Branham (the author of the brilliant Dia…
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Go and Gang of Three, part 2
Yet another session with Go and Gang of Four. This time I moved on 19×19 board with Juho. Where I used to play one game of 19×19 with Ilari in, say, 90 minutes, we played six games with Juho. And it still didn’t feel too fast; I had plenty of time to make up my…
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New games!
A mysterious FedEx packet (who on earth would send me a courier packet?) turned out to be a bunch of games from Jolly Roger. I had paid the shipping, but I didn’t expect mere $21 to pay for a delivery to my door. In a week! I expected to get the games in few weeks,…
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Kogge preview
I got a copy from JKLM Games earlier last week and spent quite a while trying to figure out the rules. I don’t think we made any bigger mistakes, the rules weren’t quite that hard, only a bit complicated. While the components are shoddy (the route marker tiles are especially unpleasant), the game is wonderful…
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Weekend games: Puerto Rico, Gang of Four
I was in Jyväskylä meeting my parents last weekend and games were played, as usual. The boys weren’t home this time, so I chose more adult games that would work with three. Well, youngest of the boys was around enough so a game of 6 Nimmt! got played. Another fairly typical game choice was Puerto…
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The Games Journal
December issue of The Games Journal is out. The best part of it was probably the Joe Huber interview. Rules to Joust and Budget Crokinole might also be of interest to some of you.