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Sunda to Sahul arrived
I picked up the Sunda to Sahul from the post office the first thing today. I just opened the box and I must say I’m impressed! Neat little box (about the size of A4, perhaps 5 cm high) and talk about nice bits! Game consists mostly of about 100 or so jigsaw pieces, and they…
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Board game club meeting
Board game club met last Sunday and I got to play many interesting games, including few new games I hadn’t experienced before. My number one priority was testing Goldland which I have wanted to try for the last two times — I’ve always run out of time. This time that would happen, I thought, and…
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Game club meeting
I had a nice afternoon of games yesterday with the board game club. A detailed session report is coming later. I played Goldland (finally) and Mississippi Queen for the first time and replayed some favourites… I also seem to have forgotten to send in the top 10 list for February. Well, we’ll just skip February…
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Go!
I just played few quick games of Go on Kiseido Go Server. It was definitely fun, but also made quite clear I am no good in Go. I played two games against players of approximately my level and lost both (I also lost a lightning game to a much better players — no surprises there).…
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First BSW games this year
I played my first Brettspielwelt games this year. Those first games included two 2-player games of Carcassonne with the expansion. I won both games. Then, for the first time ever, I managed to get in a game of Tichu. I didn’t make any blatant mistakes and actually one or two neat plays. Unfortunately I had…
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Sunda to Sahul
A guy called Don Bone was looking for playtesters for his new game Sunda to Sahul on the Spielfrieks list. I got interested without even checking the web site — come on, he was offering me a free board game! Now I’ve actually studied the game a bit from the web site, browsed through the…
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Vom Kap bis Kairo
I played two games of Vom Kap bis Kairo last weekend. For the first time, I tried the variant recommended by Greg Alecnevikus. That is, when player builds a track and there’s no auction, the turn moves to left instead of staying on the same player. So, you can’t save money in auctions and then…
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Lost Cities weekend
I visited my parents last weekend and as usual, games were played. I took my standard set of games: the Africa box, filled with Africa, Puerto Rico and 6 Nimmt, Battle Line which included Vom Kap bis Kairo and as a newcomer, Lost Cities. Lost Cities turned out to be the big hit of the…
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The Games Journal
A new issue of The Games Journal is out. In includes a rather interesting article about categorizing games based on player experience by Richard Vickery. There’s also an article by yours truly about tournaments, a story about the Sid Sackson auction and a propaganda for diversification of the board game industry. On top of that,…
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PayPal button
A PayPal donation button has appeared in the bottom of the page (I guess regular readers wouldn’t have even noticed it if I hadn’t mentioned it). It doesn’t mean you have to pay to read this stuff. This blog will never be for subscribers only. There will be no extra service for paying customers. If…