…are also more complicated scoring rules, which add bonuses or penalties for placing particular tiles. Repeat for a total of seven rounds, and you’re done. Lucky or skillful? Too much skill. The fastest player will win, always. Since there’s no mercy and the round is immediately over when the first player is done, the fastest…
…name climbing game). Players can play only as many cards as the leading player played, which means that poker hands can be beaten with either a better version of the same combination or better combination (straight -> flush -> full house -> straight flush). Gangs of Four are a special combination, which can always be…
I’ve started to play Tigris & Euphrates at the Boardgamegeek. The interface is pretty ok — if you have decent Internet connection. It is quite heavy, so modem users might want to skip this one. However, if you’re not afraid of slow loading, feel free to challenge me to games. My Geek id is msaari….
…combination, place a card on those squares. There are no turns, so everybody plays as fast as they can. Because the Style Mixer only has four dice, in four-player games players are sharing each dice with one opponent, so there’s guaranteed to be conflicts even if nobody else is looking for the exact same combo….
I was fortunate enough to get a free copy of the Finnish edition of Die Neuen Entdecker from the game’s publisher Marektoy. The Finnish edition is identical with the German, as it is done in Germany by Kosmos as far as I know, so it looks brilliant. I played it with Johanna yesterday. I enjoyed…
…a card from the deck and must then build the monument depicted in the card. The player continues building monuments until the timer runs out (it’s less than minute, I think). It’s all very simple, except some of the monuments. There are two varities: either with colours set or free. Three levels of difficulty with…
I did an A-Z list of games. It’s available in the Geek as a GeekList. Feel free to comment it here or there. Finnish readers should note that Knizia’s brilliant book Dice Games Properly Explained is available from Suomalainen kirjakauppa and Bookplus. The price is very reasonable 10 euros….
…tiles that are used to generate a random board. There’s 25 wooden tokens for each player, a scoring board and guardian tiles for generating player order and special powers. I’m not fond of the art, but all components work for their purpose. There are some cheat sheets, but only one per language. Fortunately they are…
According to his Geeklist of essential games, Ilari was tempted by an idea of Geeklist of games published in Finnish. I had spare time and was tempted as well, so here it is: Gamer’s games published in Finnish. First draft includes 23 games, feel free to add more if you know something I’ve either forgotten…
…is generally expected from web fads. I suppose Gameblog will be there after next four years (it should get pretty interesting then, as Nooa will be four years old and in a prime age for his gaming education to start). Feel free to suggest good stuff I’ve written and should highlight, if there are any….