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Puerto Rico PBW over
Our PBW Puerto Rico game is over. It took about five months, which is too much. The delays got pretty bad at times. Well, I’m not to blame, even though I had few longer delays: I was still the fastest player to respond according to the end-game statistics. I lost, but it was close: the…
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Australia
Finnish review of Australia. Australia is a potential victim for too high expectations. After all, Kramer and Kiesling are responsible for the mask trilogy (Tikal, Java, Mexica) and Australia seems to fit with that group. However, that’s not the case. Australia is clearly a lighter game (even lighter than Mexica), aimed at the family market.…
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Thurn und Taxis
Review of Thurn und Taxis in Finnish. Thurn und Taxis is the latest game from Andreas Seyfarth (and his wife Karen) of Puerto Rico fame. It’s not a heavy gamer game, but more directed to the Spiel des Jahres audiences. As the game is named after the post empire family Thurn und Taxis, players are…
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Some Thurn und Taxis thoughts
Played some Thurn und Taxis at BSW. This time I was focused on the wagon-growing strategy, where you build five routes: three, four, five, six and seven cities. That way you’ll end the game (hopefully) faster than your opponents and will score plenty. Based on my experiments, I’d say it works. It’s not a guaranteed…
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Attribut in Finnish at BSW
Thanks to Markku’s great efforts, a Finnish version of Attribut is now available at BrettSpielWelt. We had the first official games yesterday, and it was a blast. The game’s so much better in Finnish!
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Thurn und Taxis at BSW, again
After beating Markku from Board Game Society (JoeLamer at BSW, he’s very active in EnglishTown so you might’ve met him) four times in Thurn und Taxis today, I’m starting to think it’s really a pretty good game… Really, to be honest, it’s a good game. It kind of fits in the same group with Web…
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Board game club session: Tichu, Gulo Gulo, Attika
We had a nice board game club yesterday. It was strange to have the club on Monday, not Sunday, thanks to the Easter, but many people arrived nonetheless. Tichu was definitely the high point for me yesterday. After reading Steve’s Tichu strategy article I wanted to give it a go (last time I played was…
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Thurn und Taxis at BSW
I tried Thurn und Taxis at BSW recently. It’s a nice implementation, though the graphics were a bit low in quality — but that seems to be the rule in BSW. The interface works generally pretty well, once you figure out one or two things. It certainly isn’t among the more difficult or wieldy user…
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Storage solutions for Splotter games
I’ve been happy with my ziploc bag arrangement for Antiquity, but seeing Tommy’s solution made me instantly jealous. So, since I was armed with a car yesterday, we drove to the Hong Kong junk paradise on the outskirts of the city and got me some Shakespeare equipment. I’ve got two different utility boxes. Antiquity uses…
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A new favourite
Verflixxt is the new household favourite around here. I played it yesterday with Johanna and it was already our fourth game in a relatively short time. She won — I think she’s won three out of four or so, she’s pretty good. It’s an ideal game to play every now and then, really: it plays…