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Arvuutin and Toscana
Arvuutin is a new Finnish trivia game from Onni Games, the makers of Politix and Aether. This is a Finnish-only release, so I’ll keep this short: it’s a rather clever game, where everybody answers the questions simultaneously by playing number cards (all answers are numbers 1-100). Closest answer wins. Winner gets the question cards and…
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Gaming Year 2015
…by asking and answering questions: “how often you come here?”, “what are you wearing on your feet?”, “what was for lunch today?” and so on. The spy needs to come up with convincing answers, which is made easier by the need for the other players to avoid giving the spy clues. Stressful, but in a…
1862: Railway Mania in the Eastern Counties, Abluxxen, Afrikan tähti, Age of War, Agricola, Animal upon Animal: Crest Climbers, Battle Sheep, Between Two Cities, Camel Cup, Candy Chaser, Carcassonne: The Castle, Carcassonne: The City, Castles of Mad King Ludwig, Coconuts, Codenames, Colt Express, Concept, Cthulhu Realms, Dale of Merchants, Das kleine Gespenst, Dino Race, Epic, Europa Tour, Fields of Arle, Fleeting Foxes, Ghost Blitz, Glass Road, Imperial Settlers, Isle of Skye, Istanbul, JAB: Realtime Boxing, Jaipur, Klask, Kyoto Protocol, La Granja, La Isla Bohnita, Le Havre: Inland Port, Lewis & Clark, Lost Legacy, Love Letter, M.U.L.E., Machi Koro, Memory, Mucca Pazza, North Wind, Notre Dame, Origo, Phantom Rallye, Pickomino, Quartermaster General, Richard Scarry’s Busytown, Rock Paper Scissors Game, Schildkrötenrennen, Southern Rails, Spyfall, Stich-Meister, Subdivision, Super Rhino, Takenoko, The Little Prince: Make Me a Planet, The Magic Tower, The Voyages of Marco Polo, year review -
Ambition
…Church’s own comments about his game, made me investigate the game. It’s quite interesting, actually. Ambition can be found on the Card Games site, but those aren’t the latest rules (the game’s new, invented in 2003 and probably still a bit of a work-in-progress). Right now the latest version of the rules can be found…
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TradeResolver
TradeResolver has evolved to release 4, which is probably the last release for a while now. The program works and has plenty of interesting features. In the speed of the brute force mode it loses to TradeGenie, but then again, even TradeGenie is too slow to completely run through bigger lists in reasonable amount of…
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Games Journal
…issue. I like the zine, it’s free, that’s the least I can do. I also try to come up with some feedback on the articles; if you search through the archives (everything is archived, the web site is a wonderful resource of good board game articles) for the letters section, you’ll find few letters to…
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Forest Shuffle and new games
…released two games that have been in the works for a while now. Invasion: Free State was initially planned for release in 2016. It took a while to arrive, but it’s finally here. This is an urban tactical combat game inspired by video games like the original X-COM and its predecessor, Laser Squad. One side…
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Louis XIV
…his or her influence tokens to the common pool, where they must be bought back. The price is just some actions, but that can be annoying. The rewards are mostly mission chips, which are used to complete the missions. There are other rewards, too: money, new cards, influence on other tiles, things like that. There’s…
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My 2014 top 100: 75–104
Since everybody else is doing these top 100 lists, I’m joining the fun. This is the first installation, stay tuned for the next parts in the next days (I’m not following Mark’s suit and dribbling the list one by one, especially as the lower positions are essentially tied). How did I make the list? I…
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Top 100 list, 2022 edition
My annual top 100 list is now out on BoardGameGeek: Mikko’s top 100 — 2022 edition. Making this year’s list was a slightly sad process. I have a two-year rule for my list: this year, I’ll consider games that I’ve played in 2022, 2021 or 2020. This meant a list of 146 titles. I’ve last…