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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.

    November 1, 2002
    Outside world

    Bluff, Games Journal
  • 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)

    November 1, 2002
    Less about games

    hot games
  • 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 —…

    November 1, 2002
    Event reports

    events, Helcon, Lord of the Rings, Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation, Stratego
  • More pictures!

    Now I have all of the HelCon (and earlier) game pictures online. Go ahead: Alcatraz Battle Cry Die Händler LotR: Confrontation Villa Paletti Next I’ll start working on the session reports.

    October 31, 2002
    Pictures

    events, Helcon, Pictures
  • Die Macher pictures

    Here’s the last one for today: Die Macher pictures are online. More (Die Händler, Villa Paletti, LotR: Confrontation, Battle Cry) to come tomorrow!

    October 30, 2002
    Pictures

    Die Macher, Pictures
  • Stephenson’s Rocket pictures

    Stephenson’s Rocket pictures are online. They document my rise to power and glory… ahem. It was the best game of Stephenson’s Rocket I’ve ever played, the one I won 😉 There are also few new pictures of Britannia and

    October 30, 2002
    Pictures

    Pictures, Stephenson’s Rocket
  • Medina pictures

    Some Medina pictures online. Nice game, and it looks spectacular.

    October 29, 2002
    Pictures

    Medina, Pictures
  • Stephenson’s Rocket

    So, as requested by Iain, here’s my thoughts about Stephenson’s Rocket. Tommy has been carrying this Reiner Knizia game around to many events, but hasn’t ever been able to play it with more than 2 players. To help out the poor guy, I suggested we play it. We soon had two other players and a…

    October 29, 2002
    Reviews, Session reports

    Helcon, railroad building, Reiner Knizia, review, Stephenson’s Rocket, stock games
  • HelCon pictures online

    Some of the pictures I took at HelCon (those with people — most of the pictures concentrated 100% on the games) are available at my picture gallery. Captions are in Finnish, sorry for foreign readers. You wouldn’t know the people anyway… Game pictures and session reports will come as soon as possible, but it’ll take…

    October 29, 2002
    Pictures

    Helcon, Pictures
  • Back from HelCon

    I wrote a more detailed entry about coming back from HelCon, but managed to destroy it with accidental backspacing… Oops. Well, anyway, I’m back, had a great time, played many good games, took almost 100 photos and so on. A detailed session report (including Battle Cry, Die Macher, Die Händler, Stephenson’s Rocket and Villa Paletti…

    October 28, 2002
    Less about games

    Helcon
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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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