Gameblog turns five this month. Five years! That’s almost ancient when it comes to web sites. To celebrate the blog’s advanced age, I decided to give it a bit of a makeover — after all, it has looked pretty much the same for the whole five years. Hope you like it, I think it looks…
…pretty quickly, Vesa was a bit slower. I played the last two rounds really badly, thus losing the game to Olli. Vesa was way behind us, but he did take -15 on the first turn before he figured out how the game works. Bohnanza was a bit more even. When the scores were counted, Olli…
…player with the most cards wins. So, obviously we played the pro game with three-tile puzzles. Everybody would’ve completed their puzzles in 20 seconds! This reduces the game to pure skill, so the fastest player will win. This is the typical downside of speed games the original Ubongo avoided so well. Worry not! What saves…
…end, we had five, which called for Briscola Bastardo. A 40-card pack is distributed to the players, who bid to become a declarer. Declarer promises to score points (out of 120 possible, it’s an ace-ten game), gets to name trumps and calls for a partner. What makes the game completely whacky is the freedom of…
…is probably mostly a family game or a filler for gamers. The game isn’t particularly deep. Length: This is a quick game, 30 minutes or so, even with four players. What’s to like: Cute kittens; Quick, compact gameplay; Compact box; Familiar, well-tested game mechanisms. What’s not to like: Slightly confusing rules; Narrow decision tree. My…
…the points is marked and called a Pünct — that’s the centerpoint. In addition to placing pieces on the board, they can be moved and rotated. They rotate around the Pünct and move in straight lines. Piece can land anywhere, where it’s Pünct is on free space or on one’s own piece. You can pile…
…healthy and free of plague-spreading rats, you can’t add people there. What? That aside, this is a fun game. Each turn is basically place some cubes, move the plague-bringer. When the plague-bringer comes to an area, he spreads the rats and then triggers the rats on that area. The rat tokens are revealed and they…
…game. It’s also fun to play: coming up with strange mutants is fun, the creatures can get really strange and coming up with weird and capable combos is entertaining. I haven’t played the new Evolution, which is the obvious comparison. I have played the original Russian edition, Evolution: The Origin of Species, and I enjoyed…
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…
…certain Mastery thresholds. That is new and interesting and while it isn’t used as much as I had hoped for, it still spices up the game well. There are also Mercenary cards: some cards are marked with a red frame and when you buy one of those cards, you get to choose. Either you buy…