Yehuda keeps busy with blogging. His latest project is the game news web site Purple Pawn. He covers board and card games. I’ve added his newsfeed on my side bar, so check it out. Apparently he’s looking for news editors, so if you’re interested, get in touch with him….
…might have won. That’s life… I made a game record and will create a commented SGF file out of it for later study. Then Toni was already leaving, but we played one more game and that was 6 Nimmt!. Reko hadn’t played before and managed to gather a large bunch of bull heads, losing the…
…stalls, attracting customers to them and expanding the stalls. Points are scored by having bigger stalls in each colour, building in many different colours and by fulfilling secret goal cards, which require building certain colours of stalls and building in certain areas. Building requires building cards (drafted and drawn, Alan Moon style) and product cards,…
…come to visit them (I initially charmed the younger boys as I was pretty much the only one who was interested about their Pokemon cards). 6 Nimmt or “the bull game” as they call it is their latest favourite. Let’s see how they like Africa. We’ve played Puerto Rico before; I think we played four…
…this game so badly. After that it was a step up in the complexity scale. Einfach Genial is Knizia’s latest offering. It didn’t get the Spiel des Jahres (with a theme, perhaps it would have), but the Austrians gave their award to it. Sure, it’s an abstract game, but very accessible one. The rules are…
…Seems a bit bland, but it can partly be because I just don’t know how to play well. Puzzle Strike requires certain level of play from the players to shine. Buying actions is even worse than in Dominion, buying lots of Crashes and Combines is a must — but also somewhat boring. So, so far…
Our latest Adam Spielt order has been made. Next week I should get the following games: PitchCar — A must after the Lahti weekend. Simply too much fun to miss this one. I wasn’t interested in this before I tried, it’s unbelievable how fun such a simple game can be. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde…
I’ve had a good writing mood going on. Latest result is a review of Biberbande. Biberbande is another Amigo five euro card game. Their selection is amazing, the production quality of the games is top-notch and often the price is dirt cheap. In this case, the price is about right, because Biberbande offers considerably less…
I was writing about Cuba on the Finnish Board Game Society forums after my latest experience with the game and I think my friend Tommy hit the nail on the head on what I don’t like about the game. It’s the lack of snowballing. Valerie Putnam wrote about Snowballs and Princess Brides on Boardgame News…
Boardgaming Finland podcast interviewed me and reviewed my book in their latest episode. Unfortunately the interview and review are in Finnish, but if you understand Finnish and want to hear someone else’s opinion of the book, Cane’s review is definitely worth listening (it helps he gives the book an excellent review)….