I got a review copy of Mykerinos today. Designed by Nicholas Oury, it’s the latest release from Ystari. My copy is the Scandinavian edition from Lautapelit.fi, which is a nice touch. Mykerinos is about archeological digs in Egypt, but basically it’s a fairly simple area majority game. Players play influence tokens on lots in Egypt,…
Played a game yesterday; here’s the review of Mykerinos in Finnish. Session report coming up! Mykerinos is the latest game from Ystari and the most recent Finnish release from Lautapelit.fi. It’s nice to see Finnish companies teaming up with foreign publishers to get games released in Finland the same time they’re published abroad. Designed by…
…be seen now in various game reviews or at the Boardgamegeek). And there’s more pictures to come — my birthday’s today and I’ve been waiting for my latest toy, a digital camera, for few days now. Our board game club meets for the first time this Fall next Sunday, I’m definitely looking forward to that….
Brian Bankler has a new blog called The Tao of Gaming. The title is familiar to many, as that’s also the name of his old website. He has an RSS feed, which unfortunately doesn’t have full entries. His latest entry, Truly, you have a dizzying intellect is a good read….
Our latest game session (actually on Tuesday) got a good start with Die Dolmengötter. It’s a favourite of me and Hannu, and the others were happy to play the game as well. Mika was the only newbie around. Petri had devised a rather clever strategy: avoid Mikko. I certainly did fairly well, pretty much thanks…
…the whole thing: Board Game Auctions. It’s basically a bunch of categories for eBay auctions. The site also has some nifty RSS feeds, for example if you want to see the auctions of Rio Grande Games board games, just subscribe to the Rio Grande Games auctions RSS feed. Very simple. There aren’t that many categories…
…really bad moves. I have new games running, including one for the members of Pelilista, hopefully I’ll do better. I’m going to pick my share of the latest Adam Spielt order today: I got Tichu and two packs of Canal Grande. I’m especially curious about Canal Grande — after all, my experiences of Adlung makes…
The latest issue of The Games Journal is out. Check out the article on Ambition, Mike Church’s card game. I enjoyed the article very much and I’m certainly looking forward to reading the next installment. My friend Stefu has also created a nice Black Vienna puzzle. I solved it, so it can’t be very difficult,…
Got Elasund and Farlander from Tactic. Both are interesting games in their own way. Elasund is, of course, the latest game in the Catan franchise. The Catan basics are there (die roll for resource production, building to ten victory points), but outside that it’s something fairly new compared to other Catan games. There’s one aspect…
…rules too quickly), causing the game to seem a tad tedious. Played correctly Toppo might be an interesting speed game. Nothing like Flix Mix or Set, by no means, but something decent anyway. I’ll comment more once I try this game with completely correct rules. One more part, I think, and that’s Helcon games covered….