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Thursday games: Steel Driver
An opportunity presented itself… We decided to put Nooa in temporary day care so Johanna could get a break and I could get some board game time. There’s a nice private day care center next to the university where we play, you can drop your kids there for an hour or few. That worked out…
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Interested in new games
I’ve been living in a gaming void… Excluding the play-by-web games, the Bezique match is the only game I’ve played since Anni was born. It’s still a bit hectic to go out and play, but it doesn’t stop me from thinking about games. I’ve found Günter Cornett’s Greentown and I’m seriously thinking about buying it.…
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Hobby Games: The 100 Best
This post contains affiliate links to Amazon. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Affiliate links are marked with a €. I’m a tad late with this, I know, but I just finished reading Hobby Games: The 100 Best, which I liked a lot. It’s a collection of hundred short essays on games.…
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Baby #2 is out!
The most-anticipated release of the year is now out! Baby number two turned out to be a girl (ok, so we knew it in advance, but didn’t tell anybody!) and is doing fine. Johanna is also doing fine, much better than after the first time. This one was much quicker, so quick I almost missed…
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Board game club: Steel Driver, Torres
I had a great time at today’s board game club (yeah, the baby’s still waiting for a nice day to be born — perhaps next week?). I started with quick five-player game of Formissimo, which is a simple speed test pattern recognition puzzle. Cards have images with different attributes. 30 cards are laid on the…
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Board game designs by Sampo Sikiö
Sampo Sikiö did the really cool redesigns of Preußische Ostbahn and Wabash Cannonball, but it doesn’t stop there. Go take a look at some real talent! His Flickr photostream has more pictures of his work and also general photography, while his homebrew games portfolio displays more of his work with board games. The Winsome game…
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Thursday session: Preußische Ostbahn
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…
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First game of the year: Blue Moon
Year 2009 started with Blue Moon, which I had apparently skipped both in 2008 and 2007 — my previous session is from December 2006. That is so long ago I didn’t even have the cover picture here in my blog archives… I played with Olli, who has just recently moved to Kaukajärvi. So, instead of…
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Gaming year 2008
So, how was the year? Pretty wild, if you ask me. (See Gaming Year 2007.) Good new games (2007-2008 games) Dominion — Well, I played 28 games of this, and most of them outside BrettSpielWelt. That’s a pretty nice number, considering how late this game arrived. Everybody likes it, or at least doesn’t mind playing…
1825, 1960: Making of the President, Age of Steam, Agricola, Amun-Re, Caylus Magna Carta, Cego, Chicago Express, Combat Commander: Europe, Die Dolmengötter, Dominion, Dutch Intercity, Eketorp, Glory to Rome, Gulf Mobile & Ohio, Huber happiness, In the Year of the Dragon, Le Havre, Le Truc, Mahjong, New England Railways, Pampas Railroads, Phoenicia, Preference, Preussische Ostbahn, Qwirkle, Race for the Galaxy, Slovenian Tarok, Steam over Holland, Steel Driver, Strohmann-Tarock, Through the Ages, Ubongo Extrem, Wabash Cannonball, West Riding, year metric, year review