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  • Chess Timer

    Jonathan Rose has done a pretty neat JavaScript Chess Timer. It’s easy to use, looks neat and seems to work pretty well (haven’t tried it in action, though).

    April 24, 2008
    Outside world

    Chess
  • The International Playing-Card Society

    I joined The International Playing-Card Society recently. I have little interest in participating the activities, but I was curious about Playing-Card, their journal. I received the three back issues of this subscription season yesterday and I’d say they’re worth the money. I mean, I haven’t subscribed to Counter, because I can read board game stuff…

    April 22, 2008
    Less about games

    International Playing-Card Society, Tarot
  • Two-player 1825

    I organized a game of 1825 Unit 3 today at the local library. We ended up playing Unit 3, because Olli was the only one who came… Rest were busy or not willing to travel all the way to the suburbs. It’s not a big deal, though, as Unit 3 is made for two players.…

    April 19, 2008
    Session reports

    1825, 1825 Unit 3, 18xx, Battle Line
  • GeekList: Builders vs warriors

    I did a GeekList: So, who else is a builder? It’s about how building stuff is what makes me happy in games. Take a look, comment and add!

    April 18, 2008
    Outside world

    GeekLists
  • Thursday session: Shogun, Dolmengötter

    Yesterday’s game session was mostly about Shogun, the Dirk Henn game of warring Japanese daimyos in the 16th century. It’s a redevelopment of Wallenstein, which I’ve played once as play-by-web (and I didn’t like it). Now most complex games are better learnt by the board, so I was willing to give Shogun a go. Shogun…

    April 18, 2008
    Session reports

    Die Dolmengötter, Shogun, Wallenstein
  • Interview and a review

    Boardgaming Finland podcast interviewed me and reviewed my book in their latest episode. Unfortunately the interview and review are in Finnish, but if you understand Finnish and want to hear someone else’s opinion of the book, Cane’s review is definitely worth listening (it helps he gives the book an excellent review).

    April 14, 2008
    Outside world

    interviews, podcasts, Tarotista Texas Hold’emiin
  • Thursday session: Airships, Dolmengötter, Vegas Showdown

    We were planning to play cards this time to celebrate my book, which was finally released last Friday. Well, that didn’t happen, thanks to rather diminished number of players (four), including one particular person who doesn’t fancy traditional card games. So, card games were restricted to Flix Mix. So, we started with Airships (aka Giganten…

    April 11, 2008
    Session reports

    Airships, Die Dolmengötter, Flix Mix, Vegas Showdown
  • Thursday session: Wabash Cannonball, Canal Mania

    Oops. I noticed I had missed blogging our previous Thursday game session. You see, I got sick (stomach flu, fortunately Johanna and Nooa avoided the same bug) the night after that, so I had something else to think about for a while… But here it is, just in time before our next session! After a…

    April 10, 2008
    Session reports

    Canal Mania, Wabash Cannonball
  • Hot games for Q1/2008

    Oh my, another quarter gone! The previous one was good, how about this one? Wabash Cannonball is the hottest of the hot, and no wonder. I’ve loved every game so far. I’d like to try a five-player game at some point, to see how that changes the game. And of course more games with three…

    April 3, 2008
    Statistical lunacy

    Black Vienna, Cuba, hot games, Pampas Railroads, Race for the Galaxy, Wabash Cannonball
  • Games day with Tommy and Stefu: Trains and stuff

    Tommy and Stefu came over to spend a day playing games. Johanna was very kind to take Nooa to her parents so we could have our place for us. A chance to play longer, meatier games in such a great company is rare and something to cherish. We did start with some actual meat, though.…

    March 30, 2008
    Session reports

    1825, 1825 Unit 2, 18xx, Age of Steam, Age of Steam Montréal Métro map, Agricola, In the Year of the Dragon, Jungle Speed, Jungle Speed expansion, Race for the Galaxy, Through the Ages, Wabash Cannonball
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Rating scale

Here’s the rating scale I use, and how it corresponds to BGG ratings:

  • Enthusiastic: I love the game and want to play it. (9, 10)
  • Suggest: Good game, I want to play it and will usually suggest it. (7, 8)
  • Indifferent: I’ll play the game, if necessary, but won’t suggest it. (5, 6)
  • Avoid: I don’t want to play this game. (1-4)

(Thanks to Brian Bankler)


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Of green

The green colour of the sidebar is the Brunswick Green used by Nationalised British Railways – Western Region:

“A different color, also called “Brunswick green”, was the colour for passenger locomotives of the Grouping and then the nationalized British Railways. There were three shades of these colours and they are defined under British Standard BS381C – 225, BS381C – 226, and BS381C – 227 (ordered from lightest to darkest). The Brunswick Green used by the Nationalised British Railways – Western Region for passenger Locomotives was BS381C – 227 (rgb(30:62:46)). RAL6005 is a close substitute to BS381C – 227. A characteristic of these colours was the ease for various railway locations to mix them by using whole pots of primary colours – hence the ability to get reasonably consistent colours with manual mixing half a century and more ago.”

Wikipedia: Shades of green


There is a difference from play with dice, because the latter is open, whereas play with cards takes place from ambush, because they are concealed.

– Girolamo Cardano: Liber de ludo aleae (1564), translated by Sydney Gould as The Book on Games of Chance (Princeton University, 1953)

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