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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.
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Wednesday Games III: The Last Panther
It was a bit quiet day today, as we only had three players. Well, we still played many delightful games. I was eager to try even some of the Mü & mehr games. So, we tried The Last Panther, which turned out to be a nice little trick-taking game. It is also rather nasty game,…
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Translations
For the Finnish readers: I’ve been writing lots of translations lately (that is, all the card games in the order, except Mü). Here are the links: Coloretto, Dia de los Muertos, King Lui, Land Unter, Mamma Mia!, 6 Nimmt!. I’m definitely translating the Mü games as well. Let’s see if I bother to do Amun-Re…
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Games at Jyväskylä: Amun-Re, Coloretto
I had a pleasant almost-weekend at Jyväskylä (from Thursday to Saturday) and as usual, games were played. I took with me the games my mother had bought (Africa, 6 Nimmt! and Vom Kap bis Kairo) and some of my new games (Coloretto, King Lui and Amun-Re). Coloretto was a huge success! We played 14 games…
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Wednesday Games, part II: Card games
First: I’m now a proud owner of Sherlock Holmes, Consulting Detective. I got my game from the post office yesterday and I’m really looking forward to an opportunity to try it — it looks absolutely brilliant. Then: we had a very nice game session yesterday. Six players were there, but not at the same time.…
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Plasticity
Oh, something I forgot from the previous entry: plastic sleeves. I’m faced with the problem again. Do I want to keep the nice boxes or do I want to put the cards in plastic sleeves? It’s always rather annoying. It would be great to keep the games in their boxes, but then I’ll worry about…
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Games arrived!
Our Adam Spielt order arrived today! It was a bloody hard work, hauling that 13.9 kilos of games in a fairly large box all the way from the post office (what, it was at least 500 meters or so!). It took exactly a week for the package to arrive, which is what I expected. They…
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Wednesday games: Fluxx, Sticheln, Bohnanza
Because I’m trying to spend my time doing something else than studying, I got this idea of weekly game afternoon. I chose afternoon, because Johanna is lucky and has a job and thus isn’t home and I can then be back home when she is. The first of these Wednesday meetings was today and it…