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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…

    June 10, 2003
    Less about games

    card games
  • 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…

    June 10, 2003
    More about games

    Adam Spielt, Age of Steam, Amun-Re, Dia de los Muertos, King Lui, Mü & Mehr, shopping
  • 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…

    June 4, 2003
    Session reports

    6 nimmt!, Bohnanza, Fluxx, prototypes, Sticheln
  • Roleplaying days are over

    That’s it: I’m not a rpg gamer anymore. I finally sold my Wraith books, thus removing most of my rpg collection. I’m left with Kult 2nd edition rule book, which I’m selling as soon as possible (so if you’re interested in buying it for, say, 15 euros + postage, contact me). EDIT: It sold immediately,…

    June 3, 2003
    Less about games

    role-playing games
  • Mare Nostrum + Space Beans

    (Later addition: this is entry #200! Neat!) I just noticed I didn’t play a single real-time game during the whole May! Well, June started well: yesterday was the last meeting of board game club this Spring. Unfortunately I played only two games. First thing I played was Mare Nostrum. It almost was the only thing…

    June 2, 2003
    Seurapelikerho

    Mare Nostrum, Seurapelikerho, Space Beans
  • Top 10 list 06/2003

    Sunda to Sahul (1) Go (10) Sticheln (6) Zértz (-) Tichu (4) Taj Mahal (2) Mexica (-) Samurai (-) Bohnanza (8) New England (5)

    June 2, 2003
    Less about games

    hot games
  • The Games Journal

    The latest issue of The Games Journal is out. There’s an interesting article on objectively rating games and another about control vs luck/chaos in games. Go take a look!

    June 2, 2003
    Outside world

    Games Journal
  • Ilmaisia porno kuvia

    You can find ilmaisia porno kuvia (free porn pictures, that is) that way. Or not, actually it’s just an experiment among the Finnish weblogs — how well will that blog rank for “ilmaisia porno kuvia” on Google after a month. To keep this even marginally game-related: I played Mare Nostrum today. I’ll explain it all…

    June 1, 2003
    Less about games

  • Goban beauty

    Blake Haber contacted me and sent a link to his web site about Go. It is highly recommended; he has some very interesting and untraditional Goban designs. There’s also some information about Go books and a nifty movie clip, which is very much worth looking through.

    June 1, 2003
    Outside world

    Go, nice bits
  • Games, games, games

    What’s going on, gamewise: Order from Adam Spielt with my brand new credit card (I finally went and got one). I’m getting Amun-Re, Age of Steam, Coloretto, King Lui, Dia de los Muertos, Mamma Mia! and probably Land Unter too. That’s about 90 euros worth of games. Add to that 130 euros worth of stuff…

    May 30, 2003
    More about games

    Adam Spielt, Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective
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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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