I visited today’s board game club session quickly. Petri and Hannu were free and easy to rope into playing Preußische Ostbahn. I had a bonus, too, as a friend of mine (Sampo Sikiö) had recently done a new, much prettier board for the game. It’s wicked cool, too, and makes playing the game a lot…
Finnish Players’ Picks 2006 voting is now open and remains so until end of September. If you are Finnish or live in Finland, feel free to list five to seven of your favourite games from the last year (1.9.2005 — 31.8.2006). Remember: the voting isn’t about your all-time favourites or the best games released in…
…need to be afraid quite yet… But, what about the game, then? It’s about evolution. Players control their species in the dawn of time, when mammoths, bears, humans, eagles, snakes and crocodiles fight for survival. Basically, the game is a area majority game like El Grande. However, here’s the catch: each species has a level…
…end. Simple game, yet rather entertaining, and quite educational too: it’ll teach the young ones to concentrate, to tell stories, to come up with creative twists in the story. It looks very nice, too. It’s language-free except for the rules, so if you have kids (say, five years or up or so), do yourself a…
Ward Batty’s Essen traveler’s guide has been widely blogged already, but it’s pretty nice. There’s one thing I’d like to know, though: since we now have a laptop with a WiFi capabilities (a rather splendid PowerBook, even) and as my hotel room doesn’t feature WiFi, just ISDN/modem (WiFi is for business class rooms, it seems),…
…a tile — it seems players spend the first turns by filling the whole road with their tiles, at least that seems the only sensible way to play, but it’s not mandatory — you can use it. If it’s your own, it’s free, otherwise you’ll have to pay to the owner. If the tile is…
A guy called Don Bone was looking for playtesters for his new game Sunda to Sahul on the Spielfrieks list. I got interested without even checking the web site — come on, he was offering me a free board game! Now I’ve actually studied the game a bit from the web site, browsed through the…
…from Tampere with Ari, as a free ride in a car with good company beats expensive train hands down. The approximately two hour journey went fairly quick discussing, well, games. And stuff. At Tommy’s place we met Laura, Tommy’s significant other who I hadn’t met before. She turned out to be a nice and friendly…
…I might make 400 euros from the auction, and what’s best, I get lots of space in the board game closet so I can fit in new games. Here’s a picture of just about every game I’m selling: (yes, there’s a copy of Age of Steam in there, but don’t worry, that’s my spare copy)…