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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:
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Tulipmania, Terra Evolution and Felix
Good games yesterday. We managed to get through four games in one evening. Tulipmania 1637 is a pretty cool game of a bubble market that heats up and crashes. Somehow the game felt a bit flat, though. I want to give it another go, but next time it’s five players or nothing (now we had…
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Terra Evolution
I got a review copy of Terra Evolution in Lautapelaamaan con and I’ve now played it five times, on two occasions. Both have been my Monday circus school games with Janne, so all have been two-player games. So far, I dig it. I’d rate it a 7, so probably not a keeper, but I did…
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Acquired
1971 3M Bookshelf Acquire
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Lautapelaamaan 2011 (Helcon)
Traditional Helcon is now Lautapelaamaan (“to play board games”). The event remains the same: a weekend of open gaming in Helsinki couple of weeks after Essen. 2011 saw another change in venue, this time to a bigger hall inside Kaapelitehdas. Not bad, as the hall last year was a bit crowded, but Kaapelitehdas is a…
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Renewed
Hope you like this blog — I just renewed the domain for another five years. It’s ten years next year… I’ve enjoyed the blog myself, every now and then there’s a reason to dig through the archives. I played Hollywood Blockbuster (aka Dream Factory, aka Traumfabrik, aka Fabrik der Träume, aka Hollywood) last Sunday, my…
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Top Race, Cartel, Stone Age and so on
Catching up again. Top Race. A Wolfgang Kramer race game from 1996, just recently released in Finland. Not a bad game to release, though, as the game’s pretty solid for a family racing fun. Players get cards that move all cars, then the six cars are auctioned and the race is driven. The better your…
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Lords of Vegas
Hey, I did play games last week. Better blog about them before I head to this week’s game session, right? We tested an auction acquisition from last summer, Lords of Vegas. Had to try it before the math trade deadline, so I know if I have to pass it on right away… but no, it’s…