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Game idea
For the last few days, I’ve been thinking about an auction game idea. It just might have something to do with the fact that I played Ra Friday and enjoyed it a lot… Anyway, I’m eager to test my ideas. If it works out, I’ll publish the game on my web site. The game is…
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Guillotine
I like TV quiz shows and have always wanted to participate myself. Well, I got lucky. I sent in my registration for the Guillotine show in the Internet and after a month or two got a phone call. I answered some questions and got an invite to the show. Guillotine (or Giljotiini in Finnish) is…
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Boardgame club last Sunday: Princes of Florence, Wildlife
I had a very pleasant board game club meeting last Sunday. Few new games, old favourites and nice people! What more can you wish for? While waiting for more players, I forced Ville to teach me Falling, the crazy Cheapass real-time card game where you try to be the last player to hit the ground.…
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Wildlife preview
As mentioned before, I bought Wildlife Friday and managed to play it the same night. Here’s my preview, based on that one game. The main reason why I bought Wildlife was the cheap price. Reason why I chose Wildlife instead of other cheap games was mostly the name of Wolfgang Kramer on the cover. I…
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Friday’s games
After a very long board meeting (2½ hours, but lots of good discussion, too) we started the games. We played Space Beans, Wildlife, Medina, Samurai, Ra and Carcassonne: Hunters & Gatherers. Space Beans started the evening — it wasn’t quite on top of my list of games I had wanted to play, but well, we…
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Game weekend begins
So, here goes: I’m leaving soon for Helsinki, there I’m going to Safe Haven to pick up my Wildlife. Then comes the meeting of Finnish Diplomacy Association with which comes some gaming, naturally. Then I’ll be back home for Saturday. I’ll miss the board game day at Safe Haven, but that’s not too bad, as…
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Rule Britannia!
A long PBEM game of Britannia is finally over. The first Roman assault was launched 29.11.2001 and today, I finally published the last results on the game website. Sure, it was insane. We had too long delays while we were playing; I participated in the 2001 World E-mail Championship and those games had GMs to…
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First game of the year: Tichu
Tichu is the first game I played this year. Yesterday I met some of my friends and taught the game to them. Olli was especially interested in the game, as I had advertised how the game has more depth and learning potential than average German boardgame. Unfortunately, I was unable to find a fourth player.…
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Games to play list 1/03
I calculated some numbers from game stats. First, I joined my 2001 and 2002 stats in a single Excel table to get more data to work on… I had this idea: I should do a list of games I like and haven’t played in a while. All I needed was a formula to get me…
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Zèrtz+11 tournament
I’m playing in a Zèrtz+11 tournament on the PBeM Server. The first round started yesterday. Let’s see how I’ll do!