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A new prototype!
I came up with a simple game idea today; it was so simple I didn’t even need to write up the rules to try it. It was fun, and definitely something I’ll develop a bit more. It does have a good pedigree, since the idea is very much based on Fresh Fish and Alien City.…
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Rick Thornquist is back
Everybody and their brother already blogged this, but hey, I’ve got a personal interest in it: Rick Thornquist is back, reporting board game news! This time it’s through his own site, Boardgame News. The site features a wide array of columnists and reporters, providing readers with regular columns and news from around the world. Here’s…
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Cosmic Eidex
There’s a review of Cosmic Eidex up at the Finnish site. Cosmic Eidex is a trick-taking game for three players. It’s not the easiest game to learn, particularly for players with no earlier experience of Central European trick-taking games. It’s based on Swiss Jass (and few other games), which brings some peculiarities to the fold.…
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Loads of blogs
As long as we’re linking is a big list of board game blogs. I picked several new ones on my Bloglines lists. Thanks, Yehuda!
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Alien City
Iain challenged me for a game of Alien City (the Piecepack Wiki page has rules) at Super Duper Games. Alien City is a close relative of Fresh Fish (and as a result, Fresh Fish suddenly feels a lot less unique). In both games, a road network forms on the board as a result of players’…
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Board game club session: Antike, Caylus
Yesterday’s board game club session — first and last for me this season, unfortunately — was quite nice. Some new folks, some good games. I started with a quick match of Blockster with Laura. It’s a simple game, played with a bunch of rectangular plastic pieces. Players build a tower. Each turn they draw a…
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Geek score
Since everybody’s counting their geek score, here’s mine: 75 played + 36 owned = 111 points. That’s, of course, of the The One Hundred games. I consider my played games count pretty good — there’s a bunch of games on the list I don’t care about — and even my owned game count is ok,…
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HABA games in Finland
Parents of small children, note: Lahjalinna sells HABA board games in Finland. The HABA area at the Essen fair looked absolutely gorgeous. I know when we get kids, I must get some of those games.
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DVD Sudoku preview
My entry on DVD Sudoku puzzled Alfred in one his Best of Blogosphere reports (I’m seeing my entries mentioned often enough, by the way — thanks for that, Alfred). So, maybe I should give more details, now that I was able to try the game? The box contains a board, 81 cardboard tiles, two-page rules…
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Byte
Iain challenged me to play Alien City on Super Duper Games. It’s a neat game, which I’ll write about when I finish the game. However, I also got a challenge to play Byte from the game’s designer. I was surprised to know I had played one of his earlier designs as well (Tanbo). Byte is…