…with lowest water level… Next game was a bit more interesting, scoring-wise: -1, 10, 11, 12 — and guess who had the -1! I was eliminated three times! I suck! No matter which hand I played, I was collecting water level cards all the time. I don’t get it. It really left me wanting for…
…of reversing the scoring: first token out is worth one point, second two points and so on. That might be interesting. Then it was time for a rather interesting game: Media Mogul. It’s the latest game from JLKM Games and a rather interesting one, too. Players are competing media moguls, trying to rule the world…
…gets lot of requests from Nooa. Bunte Runde. My latest acquisition. This is one of the top fillers ever, really. Great with adults (with the left-hand-scoring variant), fun with kids. I’m very glad to own a copy. Minotaurus. Nooa loves this Lego game, I… well, less so. The game can take quite a while if…
BoardGameGeek keeps getting better and better. Latest new gadget is a list of game rating correlations with other users. That way you can know who other users enjoy similar games as you do, so you can perhaps value their opinions more. That’s rather neat and pretty useful. You can also get a list of recommended…
…clay hut) would’ve helped me, too, but Olli would’ve won anyhow. I had to eat too much of my grain and I didn’t get enough veggies. I can come up with plenty of these would’ve’, should’ve, could’ve things you know, but I suppose that’s the nature of the game. Next week: more Agricola! I recently…
The latest issue of Spielboy is out. Check it out — it’s the typical mixture of interesting articles and, ehm, artistic pictures. Most interesting article this time is Do I Offend?, which takes a look at the ways how games can offend people. It’s interesting, because I just recently wrote a column at Lautapelit.fi on…
Check out Boardgamers’ Pastime, a fairly new blog from Mario Lanza. The entries so far look great and the Tikal logo is absolutely gorgeous. Also worth checking out is the latest project of mine, Best of Board Games, which aims to link to various interesting board game resources. It’s a bit of a work-in-progress at…
…on top, for example. Well, here’s the latest take on the success metric: Success = (Number of wins — Expected wins) * Winning percentage That’s it. Expected wins means 0.5 for a two-player game, 0.33 for a three-player game, 0.25 for a four-player game and so on — the expected result, if winning the game…
…It’s good read and highly recommended. Then this Dutch blogger mailed me about her blog asking for permission to use my RSS feed to display my latest headlines — permission granted, of course, she wouldn’t have needed to ask but she certainly has good manners — and her blog, Gameblogger, looks promising. (Gender corrected later.)…
I visited Jyväskylä last weekend. Agricola was a must after last time. This time the boys were out of town, so it was just me, my mother and Ismo. We managed to play two games, first one taking 60 minutes and second one just 50 minutes. That’s very nice efficiency and certainly reinforces Chris Farrell’s…