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Africa + Puerto Rico
First of all, there’s been some discussion about Africa on the Spielfrieks list. The best thing the discussion brought up is this analysis by Peter Wiles (through Defective Yeti Yahoo! groups filter). Read and be amazed, how well Doktor Knizia has balanced the game. Puerto Rico has been another hot topic lately, with the new…
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Board game club meeting
Seurapelikerho met last Sunday. Not many people came, but we had a good time nonetheless. I didn’t play many games, but those few were good games I had wanted to play, so I’m satisfied. I started with Villa Paletti, introducing it to the club. We had a good time playing it and the game actually…
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BSW games: Web of Power and Puerto Rico
I played some games just minutes ago at the Brettspielwelt. First, two games of Web of Power — lost first trying to get advisors in a three-player game and then won the second game (which was very tough and exciting match) using only cloisters. Then, I played a game of Puerto Rico. Yet again, my…
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Puerto Rico opponents at BSW
Remember how I was lamenting how I never placed any better than second when playing Puerto Rico in Brettspielwelt? Now I know why. I just checked, and for example, this guy shlimazl, who won me, has played over 500 games of Puerto Rico at the BSW and has won over 50% of them. Nice…
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Villa Paletti
I happened to run into Villa Paletti when I was shopping some birthday gifts for my girlfriend. I resisted the temptation until the next day, when I went and bought it. I was finally able to play it for real in the HelCon. We played some two-player games with Tommy on the day before, but…
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Ricochet Robot solver
As long as I’ve had Ricochet Robot, I’ve thought about how neat it would be to have a computer program that would solve those puzzles that seem a bit too hard for the humans to solve. Well, now I have one. I’ve been studying Data Structures and Algorithmics lately in the University and I’ve learned…
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The Games Journal
New Games Journal is out, go check it out. A thin issue this time, but good articles. There’s one from Greg Aleknevicus about specialiation and diversity in games and another about gamer’s games, a short Essen report, letters and a review of Liar’s Dice. Short, but good nonetheless.
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Top 10 list 11/2002
Die Macher (1) Web of Power (2) Die Händler (-) Princes of Florence (4) Through the Desert (-) Villa Paletti (-) Tigris & Euphrates (7) Puerto Rico (3) Africa (5) Go (8)
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Lord of the Rings: Confrontation
As some of my most faithful readers might remember, Reko had promised to teach me to play Lord of the Rings: Confrontation at the HelCon. Well, he kept his promise and after our game of Die Händler was over, I hooked up with him and we played two games. The rules were quickly explained —…