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The Games Journal
A new issue of The Games Journal is out. As usual, the articles are top-notch. The best article in my opinion is the review of Age of Steam. Spielboy has also received some small updates.
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A small disappointment
Unfortunately I got ill today, which means I’m not going to be able to participate on the Wednesday café games… It’s a pity, but I’ll just have to figure out something else to tell you about instead of that!
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Dragonball Z preview
I got a starter pack of Dragonball Z collectible card game — I’m to write a Finnish translation of the rules. The game seems rather daft: the players attack each other until one drops. Or until one player collects enough anger or a complete set of Dragonballs. Still, the about C5-sized rule book has about…
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Wednesday games: Age of Steam
Yesterday we had another pleasant session of Wednesday games. I made a slight change this time: instead of just card games, I took Age of Steam with me. I was too anxious to play it, after reading just about everything about it I could find Tuesday. But before anybody else arrived, I played a game…
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Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective
I played Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective yesterday and had great fun with it. The case wasn’t obvious — after an hour of reading clues I still had no decisive ideas who did the case. Re-reading some of the first entries finally produced the small detail I had missed which solved the case. Ok, now let’s…
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Spielboy
First issue of Spielboy is out. The site is a strange parody of Playboy, with articles about board games. And yeah, there’s some (semi) nudity — with games, of course. Strange. I don’t care much for the nudity (I read it for the articles), but it seems like a funny idea. We’ll see how the…
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Dice Games Properly Explained
I went and placed an order for Dice Games Properly Explained by Reiner Knizia at Amazon. It should hopefully hit my mailbox later this week.
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Spiel des Jahres 2003
Spiel des Jahres 2003 award winners have been chosen! Winner of the main award is Alhambra by Dirk Henn. Best children’s game is Viva Topo! by Manfred Ludwig. Congratulations to the winners!
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Coloretto
Finnish visitors can go read my Finnish review of Coloretto. English visitors can just read on. Coloretto is a rather nice little game. It’s a very simple game, one of those one-minute rules games. You can teach the rules in a minute and once you’ve heard them, you can throw away the rules — they…
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Faidutti’s Games of the Year 2003
Bruno Faidutti has selected his games of the year. Winners this year are Coloretto and Age of Steam. I still haven’t tried Age of Steam myself, but I’d say these were quite good choices. At least Coloretto is a wonderful game.