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Logistics
I’m going to Jyväskylä this weekend and as usual, it means games. I’ll probably post the session reports Monday. I’ve practised the art of game packing quite a lot. This time I’m bringing Puerto Rico, Balloon Cup, Land Unter, Coloretto, Mamma Mia! and King Lui. Because I’m taking the train, I’m going to walk a…
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Wednesday games, part 9: Go
This time we played Go. Well, thanks to computer clock trouble, I was an hour late. Olli and Ilari played Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation before I came. But then it was all Go! Ilari had played a little before, Olli had played about once a long time ago. I played couple of games…
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Sticheln
Finnish users can go ahead and read the Finnish review. I’ve played enough Sticheln that I feel I can write a review. However, my point-of-view is very biased: I’ve only ever played the three-player game. Well, one four-player game, but that’s not enough. Still, I think Sticheln is such a superior three-player game that reviewing…
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Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation
I wrote a review of Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation in Finnish few days ago. Finnish user can go read it (Finnish users are also adviced to take a loot at my main blog, which provides website update information faster. Here’s an English review of the game: Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation is…
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Game stat maths
I have an Excel spread-sheet where I record the games I play, noting the amount of players and the number of games I’ve won. I count month totals, happiness product and winning percentages. It’s an essential part of my game hobby, keeping track of it all. Lately I’ve been fiddling about with performance measures. Amount…
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The Games Journal
A new issue of The Games Journal has been published. Quite good, too. Greg Alecnevikus has written an interesting article about his Space Hulk project and Dave Shapiro has written a good article about “milestone” board games. There’s also a review of Balloon Cup and bless me, I’ve never figured out the card distributions vary…
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Wednesday games, part 8: Liar Dice
We had another pleasant game session Yesterday. I started with Erkka, trying out a prototype I’ve been thinking about lately. My aim is to create a card-driven two-player tile-laying game that feels like Go. Not an easy task and the current version of the game simply sucks. Too bad. I’ll try to fix it a…
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Mystery order
I went and ordered Mystery Rummy: Jack the Ripper from Leisure Games. I’ve wanted it for long, but finally got around to actually buy it. I could’ve ordered it from Fantasiapelit, but I didn’t. Compare this: the game costs about 12 euros at Leisure Games and about 14 euros at Fantasiapelit. If I lived in…
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Poker Dice
Tactic has new tin can games. These games are small travel games, and the set includes Poker dice, Yahtzee, Dominoes, Rummy and Bingo. The Rummy tiles look bizarre and Yahtzee is totally useless, but I went and bought the Poker dice set, mostly because of Dice Games Properly Explained and the way it mentions how…
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Cthulhu rises again
Olli came by to trade Mythos cards. We also played a game, which I lost. Good for Olli, as it was his first attempt at deck building. I have to say my deck was easy on him — my Great War veteran tried to join the Black Pharaoh Brotherhood and then travel to R’Lyeh to…