…mechanism nicely. As a single-player sudoku device, it’s quite pointless. No reason to buy this; the pen-and-paper puzzles you can print out free from Internet (Web Sudoku, for example) are better. However, since I now have the game, I could use it to solve a sudoku, if I was at home and had enough time…
RummyNetwork is a Hungarian online game room. It’s free and has several games available: few variations of Rummy, Zsír, Ulti, Schnapsen, Bridge… but most important, they have Hungarian Tarokk. In three variations, even: the regular Paskievics, the glorious Illustrated and the confusing High Tarokk. The user interface isn’t the best possible and the card images…
…new stuff – heating requirements, special actions, forests, bogs, horses – add bunch of interesting decisions in the game, but there isn’t much added complexity and the game length isn’t much longer either. If you play Agricola without cards and want a bit more meat in the game, Farmers of the Moor is highly recommended….
…nice free plays out of it, and in a long-winded match having the ability to scry every turn to sift out the lands is useful, but I rarely find myself hoping to draw In Search of Greatness, and more often I hope to draw a Blizzard Brawl to get rid of some nasty blocker. I’ll…
…distributed as with the public mining companies buying and scrapping trains in the first OR a standard train must be bought NWE can’t buy a 1 as a compulsory train if can’t buy compulsory train, company becomes insolvent and goes into receivership director doesn’t have to buy an used train to avoid insolvency when compulsory…
…his or her influence tokens to the common pool, where they must be bought back. The price is just some actions, but that can be annoying. The rewards are mostly mission chips, which are used to complete the missions. There are other rewards, too: money, new cards, influence on other tiles, things like that. There’s…
…part for me, making my task much easier. Suggest, especially now with my son. I installed Disqus comments on the blog, mostly for work reasons – I wanted to try them somewhere, and this blog seemed suitable. Migrating all 1300 comments to Disqus worked well, we’ll see how future comments work. Feel free to comment….
I thought I’d entertain you with some statistics. This has nothing to do with games, but my blog, so feel free to skip this one. Anyway, I took everything I had written to Gameblog and wrote a program to count it. According to my counts, I’ve written about 135 000 words before this entry. That’s…
…up the leader next turn and then someone else might get the promotion. What else… Combat is simple and luck-free. It’s a simple comparison of token amount plus bonuses from cards. There’s a bluffing element and an incentive to attack: a losing attacker loses just one token, while losing defender loses everything. Sounds interesting and…
The Russian game company RightGames sent review copies to just about everybody, it seems. I got a set, and I’ve now played half of the games. So far I’m somewhat impressed. Potion-making: Practice is a fun game, where cards are both alchemiy ingredients and formulas that combine two or more ingredients into a potion. Cards…