I’ve been writing little game reviews recently. When I spend most of my time at the computer writing, that isn’t the most attractive way to spend my free time, right? However, now I just had to get these few games out of my system. Bug Bluff — This must be one of the pretties card…
…I understand playing with five-year-olds isn’t very high on most people’s wishlist when they come to the board game club, but it was still a bit of a disappointment. However, Nooa definitely wants to go again. By the way, if you need a scoring app for iOS, try Basic Score Keeper. It’s free and flexible….
Even though I don’t have any money to buy games, I keep getting them by other means. Looks like I’ll get a copy of Alan Moon’s Ticket to Ride to translate. That’ll be interesting, because I’m intrigued about the game. It’s the comments that say “this is what TransAmerica should’ve been” — I was badly…
I coaxed Johanna to try the Monopoly Card Game. Designed by Phil Orbanes, it’s basically a Monopoly-themed Rummy game. Players try to form their 10-card hands into complete sets of colour groups and bonus cards. First player to build a ready hand scores five extra cards, but everybody counts points. The game is very much…
…rules, and even rules discussion with the designer hasn’t answered everything. There are things that simply aren’t in the rules (or are wrong in the rules) and lack of examples makes things very hard to figure out. So, for now I’m putting this one aside. If the publisher can come up with a thorough FAQ…
…try it out, so I teached him the rules and played two games with him. I hadn’t played it before with just two players and it was pleasantly different experience. The complicated scoring gets a lot less complicated — get two majorities and you win. There’s no reason to play any further when one of…
Before, Tom Lehmann simply didn’t register on my radar. I’m too young or something for the TimJim Games and Fast Food Franchise to mean anything to me. However, now I take a look at my list of three most-anticipated games — Caylus Magna Carta, Race for the Galaxy and Phoenicia — and hey, two out…
…mostly, and some other stuff — and is a lot quicker. I didn’t like the favours too much anyway, I found the building track simply too strong to ignore and thus detrimental to the variety of the game. Magna Carta, in the other hand, offers a lot more variety with the cards. It’s really well…
…now I’m all WordPress. WordPress is simply so much better. I’ve been writing this blog since August 2002. In 7.5 years I’ve written almost 1200 blog posts and received almost as many comments. The whole export archive was over three megabytes of text. Feed readers won’t notice anything, visitors have noticed the new look already….
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