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  • New games

    My game collection has grown with two new games. I picked up Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation and Balloon Cup from the post office today. They were my reward for translating the Dragon Ball Z card game rules. I’m looking forward to trying Balloon Cup as soon as possible, it seems like a rather…

    July 14, 2003
    Less about games

    Balloon Cup, collection, DragonBall Z, Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation
  • King Lui, Sunda to Sahul

    I’ve written reviews of King Lui and Sunda to Sahul in Finnish. I also redesigned the games front page. But that’s all in Finnish. You English-reading users can read reviews of King Lui and Sunda to Sahul I wrote for BoardGameGeek. I also wrote a review of Battle Line, mostly because I wanted to reach…

    July 14, 2003
    Reviews

    Battle Line, King Lui, review, Sunda to Sahul
  • Age of Steam

    Ilari organized a board game club meeting yesterday and I dropped by to play a game of Age of Steam. Ilari, Aaro, Robert and Tuukka joined me. Ilari had played one game with few weeks ago, the rest were newbies. This time the game was very different from the previous game. Last time I won…

    July 14, 2003
    Seurapelikerho

    Age of Steam, Seurapelikerho
  • Mythos

    I played a game of Mythos. It’s one of my favourite multi-player collectible card games. Olli had bought some cards and we played a game so I could teach him the rules to the game. We used two of my decks, as he had no decks of his own built yet. My Mad German Inventor…

    July 11, 2003
    Session reports

    collectible card games, Mythos
  • Wednesday Games part 5: Amun-Re, East-West

    It’s already the fifth session of our Wednesday games (would be six, except I missed the previous meeting). This time we started with a game of The Last Panther from the Mü games. Well, we actually played just one hand, because then Olli joined us. We started on the main treat, then. It was, of…

    July 9, 2003
    Session reports

    Amun-Re, Battle Line, Clans, Dia de los Muertos, Dice Games Properly Explained, East-West, Last Panther, Mü & Mehr, Vom Kap bis Kairo
  • Dice Games Properly Explained

    This post contains affiliate links to Amazon. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Affiliate links are marked with a €.Well, it took two weeks, but Dice Games Properly Explained hit my mailbox today. I’ve almost read it already and expect to finish soon. It’s a wonderful book! Full of games and as…

    July 7, 2003
    Less about games

    books, Dice Games Properly Explained, Reiner Knizia
  • Time Control

    I got a copy of Time Control by Thompson Industries. Looks nice, except the tokens, which are very flimsy and thin. And the rulebook, which is plain (and needs errata desperately, I hear — fortunately there’s a new rulebook available at the Geek). But I’m ready to forgive the quality of the components if the…

    July 4, 2003
    More about games

    promo games, Time Control
  • Sticheln

    I wrote a post about my June games to the Spielfrieks list and Doug Orleans replied to it about Sticheln. I wrote a lengthy reply and thought I’d post it here as well. Doug wrote: I played this with 4, and liked it a lot, but then tried it with 3 and it fell pretty…

    July 3, 2003
    More about games

    Sticheln
  • New Boardgamegeek functions

    BoardGameGeek keeps getting better and better. Latest new gadget is a list of game rating correlations with other users. That way you can know who other users enjoy similar games as you do, so you can perhaps value their opinions more. That’s rather neat and pretty useful. You can also get a list of recommended…

    July 2, 2003
    Outside world

    BoardGameGeek
  • Top 10 list 07/2003

    Age of Steam (-) Amun-Re (-) Tichu (5) Sunda to Sahul (1) Dia de los Muertos (-) Go (2) Sticheln (3) Taj Mahal (6) Land Unter (-) Samurai (8)

    July 1, 2003
    Less about games

    hot games
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Rating scale

Here’s the rating scale I use, and how it corresponds to BGG ratings:

  • Enthusiastic: I love the game and want to play it. (9, 10)
  • Suggest: Good game, I want to play it and will usually suggest it. (7, 8)
  • Indifferent: I’ll play the game, if necessary, but won’t suggest it. (5, 6)
  • Avoid: I don’t want to play this game. (1-4)

(Thanks to Brian Bankler)


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Of green

The green colour of the sidebar is the Brunswick Green used by Nationalised British Railways – Western Region:

“A different color, also called “Brunswick green”, was the colour for passenger locomotives of the Grouping and then the nationalized British Railways. There were three shades of these colours and they are defined under British Standard BS381C – 225, BS381C – 226, and BS381C – 227 (ordered from lightest to darkest). The Brunswick Green used by the Nationalised British Railways – Western Region for passenger Locomotives was BS381C – 227 (rgb(30:62:46)). RAL6005 is a close substitute to BS381C – 227. A characteristic of these colours was the ease for various railway locations to mix them by using whole pots of primary colours – hence the ability to get reasonably consistent colours with manual mixing half a century and more ago.”

Wikipedia: Shades of green


There is a difference from play with dice, because the latter is open, whereas play with cards takes place from ambush, because they are concealed.

– Girolamo Cardano: Liber de ludo aleae (1564), translated by Sydney Gould as The Book on Games of Chance (Princeton University, 1953)

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