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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…
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Two months of games
Hello there! I thought I’d post an update before Ropecon starts. I’m going, again. Should be fun, this time I’ll stay for the night and won’t spend all my time playing one 18xx game. Anyway, here’s what’s been going on in June and July. Again, a small reminder: this blog has a G+ profile, which…
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Automobile, Pantheon
Last week saw two game sessions. Neat. First I visited Robert’s weekly game night on Wednesday for a game of Automobile. The guys said they took three hours to play the game the last time, but fortunately we ran through in two hours this time. Not a bad game. I played very conservatively, didn’t take…
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Brass and Frank’s Zoo
I’m finally starting to figure out Brass. I’ve won the last two online games I’ve played at the Order of the Hammer and Thursday I managed a second place in a local game. The guy who won was one of the better players in our group, so I can be satisfied with that result. Of…