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Suburbia, FrankenDie, Cardcassonne, Trivitria Up
This year has started well: I’ve played something every day. Yesterday was our weekly game night, and otherwise I’ve played with the kids. Suburbia was very good. It’s a city-building game, where you have to create a snowball economy. Points are scored during the game and in the end from four public goals and one…
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Gaming Year 2012
Another year gone. Good years keep on rolling – I rather enjoyed 2011, and have no complaints about 2012. My kids continued to be good playing company. My son is now six and half, and is ready for some proper family games. I started introducing him to card games, as well, and that worked well.…
Acquire, Ascending Empires, Brass, Carcassonne, Clippers, Colorpop, Coyote, Da ist der Wurm drin, Das kleine Gespenst, Dominant Species: The Card Game, Dominion, Dungeon Lords, Eclipse, Elder Sign, Felix: Cat in the Sack, Flash Point: Fire Rescue, Go, Innovation, Jolly Octopus, Kids from Catan, Kids of Carcassonne, Kimble, Kingdom Builder, Love Letter, Marrakech, Mord im Arosa, Mystery Rummy: Jack the Ripper, Mystery Rummy: Jekyll & Hyde, Nile DeLuxor, Oregon, Pantheon, Red Hot Silly Dragon, Santa Cruz, Schildkrötenrennen, Schnäppchen Jagd, Snowdonia, Soccero, Takenoko, The City, The Great Zimbabwe, Timeline, Tobago, Trains, Villa Paletti, Village, Volldampf, Volldampf voraus! -
Zimbabwe, Trains, Love Letter
When I get to play The Great Zimbabwe, Trains and Love Letter on the same day, I don’t complain. I still can’t win The Great Zimbabwe, though. This time I got the Builder + Gu combo and built some craftsmen, but it didn’t work out well. On the other hand, I did make good money with my craftsmen, so…
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Trains, Trick of the Rails and Love Letter
Let’s try this crazy thing of posting about games as soon as I’ve played them. Who could come up with something like that? Last week we played Trains with the new Nagoya map. That was fun, so I half-joked about doing a Tampere map. Well, it didn’t take long before I was downloading a vector drawing software…
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A third small update
Continuing where I left off yesterday… Tzolk’in is a rather clever worker placement game, with a gimmick of rotating plastic gears. The main gear keeps time and counts turns, and every rotation of the main gear moves the other gears one step forward. Moving the gears moves the workers and the further they move, the…
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A second small update
Continuing clearing out the backlog of games played. Das kleine Gespenst is a funny little memory game. My son is almost invincible in this, particularly since we ditched the “roll the cannonballs in holes” bit and just play until somebody is able to clear out the whole board. Doesn’t take long… My son’s very good…
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A small update
Hi guys, it’s me again. I counted, and since the last update, I’ve played 112 games of over 50 titles. That’s pretty spiffy. I’ve also been rather busy, as you may have guessed. Time to start clearing out the backlog… The City is the cleanest and easiest game in the San Juan / Race for the…
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Metrics and games
Interesting new thing to calculate: the number of games played at least five times. This is interesting, of course, because I’m on top of the list when you look at the Finnish Board Game Society folks. I’ve long ago dropped from the top of the rating race, but on this list I shine. Lovely metric,…
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Baker Street Irregulars
Refering, of course, to the irregularity of these blog posts. By the way – if you haven’t seen the new Sherlock tv series yet, go and watch. It’s excellent. Here’s some highlights since Ropecon: Dominant Species: The Card Game. This game wasn’t helped a bit by the fact that we had six players. The game…
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Ropecon + some more
Ropecon was entertaining. Good games in good company, what else can you want? Some highlights: Nine-player Eclipse with the Rise of the Ancients expansion. Lovely. Took us slightly over three hours, too, which I think is pretty cool. Ok, so I may not play any more nine-player games – it’s a bit too much, and…