…want more. Of course, there’s always time and place for easier, more relaxed games, but mental challenge is what makes the games interesting to me. I go through two recent examples, Princes of Florence and Puerto Rico and point out the tough decisions in them. Princes of Florence has plenty of them, and most arise…
…of Mahjong. Even when I’m coming to Mhing from Mahjong, I don’t feel the need for more complicated rules. First of all, I like the credit-based counting (certain combinations score credits, which are transformed to points using a sort of exponential scale). Second, the combinations are well-chosen. They offer enough variety. And of course, if…
My copy of Combat Commander: Europe arrived on Monday and after evening spent with a knife cutting off the counters, I got the game ready to play. I met Olli yesterday for a quick battle. We played the first scenario, a simple meeting engagement between small Russian and German forces. Explaining the rules to Olli…
…complications to it, but that’s pretty much it. You play three rounds and the weakest score from everybody determines the winner. It seems the best strategy is to grab couple of medium cards and stick to that. Getting a high average is easier the less cards you have! Slap any combination of 2 and any…
…rules, where you can’t use the spinned words in compound words. Unfortunately that doesn’t work with Finnish, which is a compounding language unlike English. Many points were lost when a spinned word was used in a compound. That’ll be changed in future games. The scoring isn’t perfect, either, but in a game like this it…
…healthy and free of plague-spreading rats, you can’t add people there. What? That aside, this is a fun game. Each turn is basically place some cubes, move the plague-bringer. When the plague-bringer comes to an area, he spreads the rats and then triggers the rats on that area. The rat tokens are revealed and they…
I have finally set up an image gallery. Currently it has just my older game pictures, but more will come. You can get the English game menu with this link: http://www.melankolia.net/photo/go/games — the captions are in Finnish, but at least you can look at the pictures and the user interface is in English. Finnish users…
…though, and I think this’ll replace the first part for a while now – maybe then we’ll start combining sets (for the record we’ve got 27 plays out of the first game so far). Enthusiastic Qwixx was a complete impulse purchase, but I’ve already played six games. It’s fun. Roll dice, check boxes, and try…
…balanced, the tips of the board should not touch the table. If the move fails, the player simply takes their piece back and loses their turn. The pieces are played in marked recesses on the board. Each spot has a point value from 1 to 5, and the closer the recess is to the tips…