Lautapelit.fi (lautapelit is Finnish for board games), a new Finnish online game store opened it’s web site yesterday. It’s still bit unfinished, but it should work already. It’s run by the folks behind Safe Haven. I think it’s pretty neat. Prices should be a bit lower than in Safe Haven (that’s not the case right…
Tom Vasel has set up a website called The Dice Tower. It has links and the description of all the Dice Tower episodes (The Dice Tower is his podcast he does with Joe Steadman). There’s also TomVasel.com, which turns out to be a also hosted at the The Dice Tower site. There you can find…
Arvuutin is a new Finnish trivia game from Onni Games, the makers of Politix and Aether. This is a Finnish-only release, so I’ll keep this short: it’s a rather clever game, where everybody answers the questions simultaneously by playing number cards (all answers are numbers 1-100). Closest answer wins. Winner gets the question cards and…
…3 PM. 6. In KinkkuCon Mikko played Hammer of the Scots. Stefu, by the way, hates the game and doesn’t like Battle Line, either. 7. Mikko and Reko met in FinDipCon. This should be enough. Answers can be sent to msaari at iki.fi for checking. Please do not post your answers in the comments here….
…not. Thus skill is required, some luck is always involved, but you can adjust the level to suit your taste. Abstract or thematic? The different animalfolk have different qualities and there are funny thematic links there. The black-headed gulls, for example, are very good at spreading junk around. The superb card art really makes the…
The BoardGameGeek guys just keep on coming up with new features. Now they offer RSS feeds on individual games. The urls are in format http://www.boardgamegeek.com/gamexml/[gameid]. For example, here’s War of the Ring. I’m actually not sure if this is a new feature at all, but I just noticed it today myself. It’s a nice way…
…this video (in Finnish, but with English subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki0dvQfR4Gw What do you do in the game? There are five region cards to conquer. Players play tribe cards one by one, one for each region card. Once every region card has two tribe cards next to it, the cards are compared to see which one wins….
…to normal. The Feedburner feed leads to the right place now and as soon as I get the Melankolia.net domain under control, the old address will forward here. If you link to Gameblog from your web site, please update your links to point to the new URL, http://www.mikkosgameblog.com/. As for actual games-related content, stay tuned!…
…puzzles with multiple solutions. Not a great game, but hey, it was free. Family Inc. is yet another incarnation of the push-your-luck game Reiner Knizia first published as Cheeky Monkey in 2007. I haven’t played any of the other variations, but based on what I’ve read, this one’s my favourite. Family Inc. isn’t a complicated…
…didn’t know, in a very nervous manner. I had more than a faint feeling she didn’t really know, challenged and caught her. 1-0 for me. Next question. “This is about sports, what does a pugilist do?” She took the question immediately. She obviously didn’t know much about sports and didn’t feel like taking the risk…