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Weekend of games
Tomorrow I will head towards Lahti for the game weekend organized by Peter Munter from Puolenkuun pelit. The guest list has mostly people I don’t know, but also few people I’m very happy to play with. I’m looking forward to face Gameblog’s faithful reader Reko over a Go board. There will be plenty of good…
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The Games Journal
A new issue of The Games Journal is out. This time the article selection isn’t that inspiring… There’s an article about tie-breakers, which I don’t find very inspiring. Why is it so hard to accept that games can sometimes end as ties? I don’t see a reason to invent new tie-breakers, especially if the game…
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Millionaire business
I never wrapped up the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? experience. Some of it is hidden in the comments, but here’s the whole story. Second time I went there, I went alone. It was easier now, having been there once before. I came in later than the other competitors and immediately had to tell…
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New game-related blogs
There are two new blogs listed on the sidebar of my blog. I’ve been reading Boardgames-To-Go by Mark Johnson for a while now (since he switched providers and got a RSS feed). It’s good read and highly recommended. Then this Dutch blogger mailed me about her blog asking for permission to use my RSS feed…
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Through the Desert with Johanna
We didn’t go hiking, even if it may sound like it. No, instead we played the brilliant Reiner Knizia masterpiece I bought Tuesday (with Ta Yü, which I haven’t played yet but which looks like a very neat game) to celebrate my WWTBAM victory. Through the Desert reminds me of Go, the decisions where to…
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Happy Birthday, Gameblog!
Gameblog is now one year old! The first posts were written at this very day. If you want to refresh memories, archives are there for that. I’ve also added a “one year ago”-plugin, which you might’ve noticed — now it actually displays something. I’ve written 264 entries during the year — about five entries each…
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Saturday games: Historiallinen Helsinki, Huippuhatut
We’re on a gaming streak with Johanna, it seems. Yesterday we were thinking of what to do and decided to play a game. The obvious choice was, of course, Historiallinen Helsinki, a game that I’ve owned for over a year now and haven’t played once. I know I haven’t been missing much, but it was…
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Games with Johanna
Yesterday I played some games with the best of all opponents, Johanna. She wanted to play something, so I suggested Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation. I wasn’t completely sure if that was her kind of game, but she seemed to like it. As was proper for her first game, she won, too. Frodo managed…
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Puerto Rico strategy
Jim Campbell has written Large Warehouse of Puerto Rico Knowledge, an excellent Puerto Rico strategy article. Even though the article is truncated at the end, it’s still a very good and useful read for anyone who wants to reach a higher level of Puerto Rico knowledge.
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Quiz shows, part two
In January, I participated in the Giljotiini quiz show. Yesterday it was Who wants to be a millionaire?. I tried the SMS quiz twice before I was happy with my time and indeed got an invite to the taping of the show. It was a long day. I was in the third show of the…