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Through the Ages and 18xx
I’ve been playing some Through the Ages recently on Boardgaming Online. Turns out it’s one of those games I like less the more I play. The way the civilizations are built and everything is abstracted I still consider brilliant, but I’m getting more and more frustrated in the military aspects of the game. It’s the…
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Antiquity and Innovation
Last Sunday we played a game of Antiquity. Typical results — a San Christofori win. Hannu played a good game and won the game just turns before pollution would’ve made his society collapse, or so. I played a weak game and was pretty far from winning, but at least I didn’t run out of wood……
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March 2011 Picture of the Month
My photo (shown below) is currently in the lead in the March 2011 Picture of the Month contest! It’s a close race, though, as at the moment the next best photo is just five votes behind (106–101). That other photo is by Mark Klassen, the current hall of fame #1 (fortunately he was third last…
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Gulf, Mobile & Ohio and Gang of Four
Gulf, Mobile & Ohio is one clever game. We played it yesterday, with four players this time and couple of newbies… My fifth game, already, which is nice, and I’m just about to rate this as a 10. It’s just that damn good. The timing games, juggling into a position to open a good railroad,…
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Glen More and John Silver
Yesterday we had our weekly meeting, and I’m raporting it today! How fast is that! While waiting for another player to arrive, the other Mikko and I played a quick match of 13×13 Go on his iPad. It was nice! I’ve been thinking about getting an iPad, mostly for gaming, but I’ve had some reservations…
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Last weekend: 7 Wonders, Dominion, Agricola
Last weekend was another visit to Jyväskylä. I had bought them a copy of Dominion: Prosperity before — since most of my Dominion plays happen in Jyväskylä, I want to have those cards available. I didn’t take anything new with me, since there’s a decent collection of games available already. Here’s what we played: Dominion…
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Poseidon, second game
Oops, I was about to write about my recent games, then I got shocked I hadn’t posted anything about our Poseidon game and then I noticed I had an unpublished draft about it… Well, two weeks late, better that than never, I suppose… I played another game of Poseidon this week (see the first game…
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Games with kids
I missed Wednesday games last week, so it’s been a bit quiet. However, I’ve been playing lots of games with Nooa, I’m just lazy blogging about them. Here’s a bit of catch-up on that front: Mouse Carousel. Nine games in couple of days. Nooa is pretty good in this now he’s a bit older. When…