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Villa Paletti preview
I bought Villa Paletti, the 2002 Spiel des Jahres winner for few reasons. Biggest one is probably that I happened to see it at a department store when I was looking for a birthday gift for my girlfriend. I didn’t buy it right away, but went back the next day… Also, as it won the…
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The Sims — addiction is getting worse
Our Sims addiction is getting worse. That game is EVIL. It’s even worse than Civilization — at least Civilization had turns, so you could say oh, I’ll play just one more turn and then after n turns (of course you couldn’t stop right after the one, no way) you could stop. But The Sims just…
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Board game club meeting
So, here’s the promised session report. First of all, I was quite satisfied as plenty of people came to play. I didn’t count the total, but well over ten, we had four games going on almost all the time. My games started with Zértz — I’m trying to hook people into it. Jarno was my…
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Board game club sessions
Our board game club had a very nice meeting today, I played Tichu, Drakon, Princes of Florence, Through the Desert and Zèrtz… But I’ll write a detailed session report later when I have more time.
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The Sims
We, that’s me and my girlfriend Johanna, acted on impulse and bought The Sims after reading a good review of the The Sims Deluxe Edition from the newspaper. I know I’ve always been interested in simulation games, I’ve played various Sim Cities, Sim Ant, Sim Life, Transport Tycoon, Railroad Tycoon, Theme Park… I can see…
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Puerto Rico at BSW
No matter what I do, I suck when it comes to Puerto Rico. I played another 3-player game at BSW and this time I was last. It was reasonably close, however: 35-37-40. I’ve used similar tactic very much lately, perhaps I should change it… As usual, I got Hospice and Construction Hut and got four…
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General chit-chat
Updates are getting a bit scarce, I see. Well, there hasn’t been much to document, really. I tried again to play Tichu today, but I couldn’t get a game. I’ve been working on a picture gallery script and when that’s done, I’ll put all my game pictures there (most can be seen now in various…
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Carcassonne at BSW
I went today to BSW to play Tichu which I’ve decided to learn. However, unlike usually, there was only one Tichu player there. So, unwilling to leave empty-handed, I played a two-player game of an old favourite, Carcassonne. It was a very good game. The result says it all: I won 108-105! It was very…
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This is war!
It’s been a while since I last played my favourite computer strategy game, Steel Panthers. I have both Steel Panthers I and II and I loved them both. Nowadays, of course, the game to play is Steel Panthers: World at War. We found out some time ago with Tommy that we both like the game…