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My new Funkenschlag board
First: entry #300! Yea! I’ve got a new Funkenschlag board now. I printed out the tiled map from Geek, glued it on cardboard and then covered it with plastic. Johanna was a great help in that process, she did the difficult part of getting the plastic on the cardboard without air bubbles… Thanks to her,…
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Attika
I played two games of Attika at the Brettspielwelt a moment ago. Let’s start with BSW — it’s changed a lot since I was there last time. For the better, I think. It seems slightly easier to use now, the menus are more understandable. Attika user interface was easy enough to use. Having a big…
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I won!
I just won a copy of Anathema from the APE Games contest. Neat!
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The Sumo Counter Hall of Fame
The Sumo Counter Hall of Fame is a hall of fame for modern classic boardgames. Modern means anything younger than 50 years. Current list is indeed quite impressive. Anyway, they’re voting in two new games this year. Everyone is invited to participate — the more voters they have, the better are the results. Voting form…
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Project Funkenschlag
I haven’t even played Funkenschlag yet, but I’m determined to create a better map for it. The plastic map and the crayons are just too annoying. Today I did some tests to figure out how to make a better map. To be more precise, what material to use to cover the printed map which I…
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Early Knizia
I played two games of Korsar (also known as Pirat) today. According to Boardgamegeek, it’s one of the oldest Knizia games available. It was quite fun, very simple and light. Still, good fun, mostly because it went so fast (one round in about 10 minutes). There’s some tough decisions to make, and a nice but…
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Superiority of computer games
I’ve been playing computer games recently. The reason is my new 70% mechanical gaming keyboard and computer’s better performance. I’ve been enjoying Silent Hill 2 (very scary), Neverwinter Nights (very Dungeons & Dragons) and watched Johanna play The Longest Journey. All are rather entertaining, but still — I like board games better. Of course, no…
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Café Go
I played some Go both yesterday and today. Yesterday it was another game against Ilari, today I played against Olli who is ranked 8 kyu. We had a large crowd, five people! While I played my game, first Ilari and Juho played a 13×13 game and then Juho and Ari played some 9×9 (Ari was…
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Board game club meeting
The board game club season opened well yesterday. We had about 15 attendees, which is a good amount considering our premises. It wasn’t completely ordinary event, though. There was a photographer from the Finnish home journal Kotiliesi, taking pictures for an article that they are doing. It’ll be a great article! He took some pictures…
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Spielboy
A new issue of Spielboy is out (actually, it’s been out for a while now). Check it out!