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Puzzle Strike and gambling starlords
Puzzle Strike. Three more games. These were the best games so far. I played well, I think, winning two out of three. The games were well-fought and exciting. A tad long at 30 minutes or so each, but they didn’t drag on. I suppose there’s a good game in there. Going to play more today. Suggest.…
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First games of 2012
2012 is off to a flying start. My wife has been incredibly understanding of my board game hobby and I’ve been able to spend more time playing games. Part of that is definitely the kids: they’re older now (my son is 5 and my daughter is 3 in less than two weeks), so taking care…
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Gaming Year 2011
2010 was a good year. Well, 2011 was even better. I played more games than on any year on my records. Quality matters, too, but I can control quality more than I can control quantity and if quantity is good, quality tends to be good as well. I played lots of games with my son.…
1865: Sardinia, Animal upon Animal: Balancing Bridge, Ascending Empires, Bunte Runde, Carcassonne, Cavum, Chunky Fighters, Click Clack, Das kleine Gespenst, Das magische Labyrinth, Dawn Under, Days of Steam, Dobble, Eclipse, Excape, Forbidden Island, Geistertreppe, Gulo Gulo, Innovation, Jishaku, Kayanak, Kids from Catan, Kids of Carcassonne, Kraken-Alarm, Lamarckian Poker, Lords of Vegas, Maskenball der Käfer, Mouse Carousel, Mysteries of Peking, Nile DeLuxor, Oregon, Pantheon, Puzzle Strike, Rattus, Roope-setä Liikemiespeli, Samarkand, Schildkrötenrenne, Settlers of Catan Junior, SNCF, South African Railroads, Stone Age, String Railway, The Enigma of Leonardo, Villa Paletti, year review -
Eclipse and Eminent Domain
We played Eclipse yesterday. Our regular location had some strange holiday opening hours, and we had to do a quick relocate. Fortunately the nearest bar had large enough tables (just barely) for a five-player game of Eclipse – that’s not obvious, as the game is quite demanding when it comes to table space. I had…
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Ostbahn, Lancaster, kids games
Playing catch-up… I started working on the year review, but I have to get these out first. Since the previous post, I’ve had one game session with adults (last week I had to skip because of Christmas) and have played several interesting games with my son. Preußische Ostbahn. I noticed there was almost two years…
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Games update
Two weeks passed again. Time flies. Stuff I’ve played recently (as reported on the Google+ page, which is worth following if you ask me), rated using the Avoid, Indifferent, Suggest, Enthusiastic scale described by Brian: Dobble. Also known as Spot It!, this is a ridiculously entertaining card game. The round cards have bunch of icons…
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Lancaster
This week’s game was Lancaster, ordered from Germany back in September, now finally here. Took a while, but hey, it’s a Queen game. At least it wasn’t as badly delayed as German Railways or, ahem, the Samarkand expansion… Hannu bought the game, mostly because it’s by Matthias Cramer, the designer of Glen More, and because…
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Tactic games
I got a bunch of review copies from Tactic. They are probably the biggest board game publisher in Finland and as far as I know a fairly big in European level as well — certainly bigger than many of the hobby publishers we cherish, like Hans im Glück. Their games are fairly mass-market, with occasional…
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Gameblog on Google+
I’ve got lots of board game geeks in my Google+ circles. I’ve been posting board game notes there, mostly quick thoughts of what I’ve played. Those notes appear much faster and more reliably than what I post here. I’ve run into a limitation with Google+: I don’t mind sharing those notes in public, yet I…
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Blogger in photo
Another one, courtesy of Sampo Sikiö: