…game for small children. Geistertreppe. Our most played children’s game this year, thanks to some heavy bursts. One of the best games for children. Kayanak. The “igloo fishing game” is one of Nooa’s common requests. This is still a bit complicated for Nooa and he likes to bend the rules a bit, but it’s fun…
…status, and the players have lots of options in their hands. The designer-made version is of course more functional than beautiful, but I’ve seen some pictures of the stuff Franz Vohwinkel has done for the game. They’re just early drafts, but if the final product is anything like that, it’s going to be pretty! But…
…of environment management and waste reduction. That is how the socities have collapsed in the past and will collapse in the future, as well: there are no more resources to exploit. In comes a death spiral of pollution and famine and then it’s just a downward slope. Jared Diamond’s book Collapse is a good read…
…was up in 18 or so, I had maximum storage capacity of four, little space to farm in and thus I collected about 10 graves each turn (and then couple from pollution, too!) — a hospital doesn’t do much at that point, believe me. My situation was totally hopeless and it sure left us wondering….
We played a game of Northern Californian Age of Steam today. It’s a harsh map. You can notice it on the first round, when you survey the map for possible starting locations and find — nothing. There’s a distinct lack of good starting positions. San Jose is of course tempting — it’s a huge three-hex…
I took the kids to Jyväskylä last weekend to see their grandmother. All in all a good visit, except not quite enough sleep for me, but that’s life with toddlers. Of course, board games were involved. In addition to playing a bit of Dominion (they’ve enjoyed it a lot, I’ve given my mother both the…
One of the buzz games from last Essen was Endeavor. It took a while to arrive at our group, but finally we got to play it. We got the full compliment of five players and started to explore and colonize the world after a somewhat complicated rules explanation. It’s a fun game, and looks really…
…entry up: what if we had a board game blogger dinner in Essen? I’m certain I’m not the only blogger there. It would be nice to meet and discuss the fine art of board game blogging. Think about it and drop me an e-mail or comment, if you’re interested. Readers are welcome, too, of course!…
I missed yesterday’s games, thanks to a 39-degree fever. Nasty. Last week Petri wasn’t present, so we took the opportunity to play games Petri doesn’t care about that much. Unfortunately that list includes Age of Steam… So, of course, that was the first thing on the list. We played the Poland map from Winsome Games….
…have actually a pretty good chance in the game. Decisive victory might be hard to come by unless they get to kill Edward (and that needs to happen twice!), but marginal victory is certainly possible.” Well, it turned out I knew little back then. I did manage to get a decisive victory and I only…