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FinDipCon pictures
FinDipCon pictures are finally available! There’s the event pictures to start with. I also took lots of game photos: Acquire, Capitol, Fabrik der Träume, FlowerPower, Go, Members Only, New England, Ohne Furcht und Adel, Royal Turf, Samurai and Taj Mahal. As usual, the captions are in Finnish but the pictures speak the international language of…
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The Games Journal
A new issue of The Games Journal is out. I haven’t had a chance to read it yet, but the articles seem interesting. Especially the one about the evolution of German games — it should be handy when I prepare my talk for the game studies group next Thursday.
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Top 10 list 05/2003
Sunda to Sahul (1) Taj Mahal (10) Mare Nostrum (-) Tichu (7) New England (-) Sticheln (2) Löwenherz (6) Bohnanza (5) Wildlife (9) Go (3)
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Mare Nostrum
I played my first game of Mare Nostrum yesterday. Johanna wanted to play, as she’s (like me) a big fan of the Civilization computer game. As there were only two of us, we both had to play two civilizations to get enough players. I chose Carthage and Babylonia, Johanna had Rome and Egypt. I knew…
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FinDipCon V: Sunday
Sunday came after another badly-slept night. This time I was able to sleep an about hour longer than last night. I went to eat breakfast at McDonalds, as that was the only thing that’s open at 9 am Sunday morning. This is not a food blog (I had one, but it’s a bit dead right…
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FinDipCon V: Saturday
After about six hours of mediocre sleep and an hours walk in early morning Helsinki before the doors opened, the Saturday games started. After some quick two-players (Lost Cities and Flowerpower), we played the New England Phil had bought Friday. I studied the rules quickly and teached the others. It took a while to digest…
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FinDipCon V: Friday
I’m back from FinDipCon! It was a splendid weekend of games, even though I’m getting a bit tired of con environment. I guess I just appreciate good food and good sleep too much… Eating too little and randomly and not sleeping well (I slept a grand total of about 12 hours of mediocre sleep during…
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New games!
My collection grew by two games today, when I picked up Mare Nostrum and Acquire from the post office. Both were donated by Puolenkuun pelit as a payment for using my board game articles at their web site. Thanks to them! Mare Nostrum looks quite cool, I just haven’t been able to try it out…
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Leaving to FinDipCon
I’m off to FinDipCon this afternoon. I’ll try to write something as soon as I can next week. I’ll also be taking my camera with me, so pictures can be expected. What I’m looking for? Games of Wildlife, Taj Mahal, Die Macher, Svea Rike… We’ll see, it should be fun no matter what I end…
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Go
I played a game of Go on KGS. It was a very interesting game, which I — to my surprise — won. I even submitted to the Go Teaching Ladder to be reviewed. It’ll be interesting. So, now I’m 25k? in KGS. I still would love to get rid of the question mark… The sgf…