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Touché
This Finnish review of Touché has been up for a while. Well, better later than never… Touché is a simple game, where players are trying to form patterns on the board. Each round is play a card, draw a card, until someone forms a pattern. All pieces except those on the pattern are removed and…
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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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Margin for Error
I got a copy of Margin for Error to try. It’s a partnership trick-taking game, so it’ll have to wait until the next time I have four players together. It looks simple enough: there’s a captain who decides, whether their team will go for lots of points or no points. Other team tries to mess…
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Cider gaming: Cosmic Eidex, Mhing
Yesterday’s game session was motivated by cider. Some local pubs have cider weeks right now and being such a cider fan as I am, I wanted to check out their real cider — it was called Broadside or Broadwinds, don’t know for sure. It was good (though not superior to Weston’s Old Rosie), as were…
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Ricochet Robot solver
Remember when I wrote about my Ricochet Robot solver back in 2002? Maybe not, but today I did get a message from Matthias Krings, telling me he has a working Ricochet Robot that’s fast. He doesn’t have Windows binaries, so I can’t check right now, but if you’re running Linux, go check Yet Another Ricochet…
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Board game club: Edel, Stein & Reich, Bunte Runde
Yesterday was board game club day, despite nice weather, sunshine and all. We won’t let that stop us! The turnout was good, three tables going on all the time. I got a nice bunch of people playing with me the whole afternoon with few changes. I suppose I can trust the club goes well without…
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Small game session: Mexica, Bunte Runde
I met the guys at the University cafe for a small session yesterday. Interesting enough, the entry exams for information studies were at the same time as our games! I was there too, six years ago, and now I’m just about graduated. I’m glad I’m done with that, really. We started with For Sale, which…
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Math trades and Spiel des Jahres
I’ve been rather excited with the concept of math trades. There’s loads of math trade activity in the Geek, just check the trade forum (the math trade guide is good if you don’t know what this is all about). I haven’t been involved in those, as it doesn’t make sense from Finland and I’ve yet…
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Touché
Since I got it, I might as well try it, right — so we cracked open my brand-new copy of Touché. The game is simple enough: play card to place a token on a matching square on board. The goal is to create three formations of your pieces. First player to do that wins. We…
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Ghost Olympics
I finally got around and played Schloss Schlotterstein with Johanna. We dove straight in for the Ghost Olympics, a spooky five-event competition. First up was Haunting Balls, where you must collect mysterious metal balls. I won that event, with a six-second margin. It’s a tricky event, as the balls react to the ghost very strongly.…