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Mono Green Aggro Stomp
Since I’m playing lots of Magic: The Gathering on Arena these days, why not post a few words about the game. I’ll post some of the decks I play. If you want to be my friend on Arena, I’m Hutilointia there. This has been my go-to deck. It started as the preconstructed green deck provided…
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Copenhagen: Roll & Write
Copenhagen: Roll & Write by Daniel Skjold Pedersen and Asger Harding Granerud, published by Queen Games in 2019. I received a review copy of the Nordic edition from Lautapelit.fi, the publisher of the Nordic edition of the game. Elevator pitch: The roll & write version of Copenhagen is a simpler, faster version of the original…
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My top 100 games in 2020
I just finished my Top 100 list for 2020. It’s on BGG: Mikko’s Top 100 – 2020 edition.
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Dale of Merchants 3
Dale of Merchants 3 by Sami Laakso, coming to Kickstarter on May 1st 2020. Sami Laakso was kind enough to send me a preview version of the game. I know Sami and have helped promote his games before, but I’ve also bought the published versions of all his games and will buy this one as…
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Staying Power
On a GCL Amoeba discussion, Eric Brosius started a discussion on his Staying Power metric he calculates for the games he has played. That interested me enough that I implemented the same metric in my own game stats. The way it works is that for a start, it’s an average of number of times a…
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Best 30 years of games – Jan 2020 edition
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…
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Gaming Year 2019
2019 was a solid year of games. Updating my game stats app. A major project this year was updating my game stats app. I’ve been keeping my stats in a DIY web app, built with PHP and MySQL some fifteen years ago. I’ve been updating it and adding new features, but I’ve had some problems…
1825, A Feast for Odin, Afrikan tähti, Altiplano, Caverna: Cave vs Cave, Coconuts, Combo Color, Conflict of Heroes, Cribbage, Da Vinci Code, Dawn of Peacemakers, De Vulgari Eloquentia, Decrypto, Fashion Show, Food Chain Magnate, Greed Incorporated, Hero Realms, Imperial Settlers: Empires of the North, Indonesia, Just One, KeyForge: Call of the Archons, Krass Kariert, L.L.A.M.A., La Granja, Love Letter, Lovecraft Letter, Magic: The Gathering, Mombasa, Mysteries of Peking, Nusfjord, On the Underground: London/Berlin, Pandemic: Rapid Response, Pax Pamir, Polarity, Potion Explosion, Q.E., Res Arcana, Roads & Boats, Santo Domingo, Shards of Infinity, Solarius Mission, Spirit Island, Tapestry, Texas Showdown, The Colonists, The Taverns of Tiefenthal, Tokyo Highway, Undaunted: Normandy, Who Did It?, Wingspan -
Escape from the Starline Express
Escape from the Starline Express by Alessandro Deriu, published by Professor Puzzle in 2019. I bought a used copy myself, because this was a new escape room game series for me – I’ve never tried one of these before. Elevator pitch: An escape room puzzle game where you hunt down diamond thiefs in a 1920s…
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My top 20 games
Here’s a top 20 list of games I like. This is based on my annual top 100 lists. I’ve been doing those since 2014, so I thought there’s some history there I could use. Here’s the latest edition on BGG. I scored each list: the first game gets 100 points, next one 99 points and…