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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 -
Season’s greetings
Finnish Board Game Society wishes Merry Christmas to everybody. Sampo Sikiö did a great job with the greeting card, so I wanted to share it here:
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Analytics
I haven’t been looking at Google Analytics for this blog in a long time. I was slightly surprised by the results, really. First of all — search (ie. Google) brings only about 60 % of the visitors. I’m used to much larger share. What’s even more odd is the amount of direct traffic, about 21…
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Dominion with Johanna
Dominion is officially a great game. I just played a game with Johanna — we haven’t played any games in a long time. She enjoyed Dominion enough to say she wants to play it again, which is rare. It’s also rare to find a game that doesn’t annoy Johanna a bit, she’s usually annoyed by…
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Silence coming
I haven’t been terribly busy blogging here anyway, but I think I’ll warn you now: next year is likely to be the quietest so far for Gameblog. The first half or so, anyway, since our second child is due early January. In less than a month, that is! That, of course, is totally cool and…
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Thursday session: Preußische Ostbahn
Yesterday’s main game was Preußische Ostbahn. We had four players this time and I was the only one with previous experience. Hannu won the game, though, with amazing score of 649 — I was second with 421! This time I counted the turns taken. I started with a triple turn — a modest start, indeed.…