…There’s a game or two running in every con, yet I had no interest in playing at Helcon, for example. I did play a game of 1865 in Ropecon, and kind of wish I hadn’t. I’ve added some of my best board game photos taken in 2010. Good new games (2010-2011) South African Railroads. A…
Matthew Gray has whipped up a Virtual Board Game Stock Market, where participants can buy shares in Spiel des Jahres nominees, trying to predict which game wins the award. Each share in the winning game pays $100 in the end of the game and player with the most money wins — of course it’s possible…
2013 was a very good year of board games, just like 2012 was before it. My kids and I have continued to play lots of games. My son is now seven and half, and can play quite complicated games. My daughter, soon five, is also a bright little gamer, and much less prone to throwing…
I wanted to take a look at the best years of games, but didn’t feel like going through everything and ordering it manually. Fortunately, I was able to come up with an automatic solution. I have logs of all my game plays since 2001 and could use that data to rank the years. The solution…
…weekend. My mother was working at Tampere for Friday, so we took the same train to Jyväskylä and played the first games of Lost Cities in the train. I played a total of 21 games of it during the weekend, which was nice. It’s close to 100 games played at this rate! Puerto Rico is…
I was able to organize a longer game today. We ended up playing Roads and Boats, which was certainly welcome. I bought the game back in 2006 and played the only game so far back in 2005, so I’d say it was about time. Olli and Robert joined me, Robert had played back in 2005…
I picked up the Sunda to Sahul from the post office the first thing today. I just opened the box and I must say I’m impressed! Neat little box (about the size of A4, perhaps 5 cm high) and talk about nice bits! Game consists mostly of about 100 or so jigsaw pieces, and they…
…very little action in the Scotland. I feel the northern companies open up so late that the heavy track development required in the north is just too slow to happen. After this initial experience, I’m not terribly keen on the combo. I might give it another go at some point, preferably with just four players,…
…day with a scheduled 5-player game of 1825. I was the only one with 1825 experience and three of the players were total 18xx newbies. We managed to play the game in less than four hours (well, about 4, 5 including complex setup and fairly quick clean-up). We used all Regional Kits and the LT&SE…
…meant me and Olli H. had to work together to beat a common foe to get an even chance, 6-6-6 (which would’ve made the game even more interesting). Unfortunately, I blew it. First we wanted to pile up tricks to Olli M. (if a player scores more than 100 of the 157 points, he loses),…