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Yours truly on Radio Free Finland
Phil Schwarzmann from Finland for Thought, who you also might know from Spielfrieks or BoardGameGeek, hosts a weekly live podcast called Radio Free Finland. Every week he interviews some guests about a topic or other, and this week I was on the show. We talked about board games, Finnish blogosphere and my experiences in Who…
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Tom Vasel interview
I’m flattered: Tom Vasel wanted to interview me for his Interviews by an Optimist series. The resulting interview talks about board games in Finland, evolution of board gaming, blogs and whatnot. It’s pretty neat, if you ask me.
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It’s all about packing
It was something I have thought about and wondered for a while now, and the answer is yes: you can fit the base game, both expansions, the extra map and all sorts of stuff you printed from the web into the Memoir ’44 box. It isn’t a perfect fit, but everything goes in the box…
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Top ten games
Here’s a list of games. Can you guess the order behind this top ten? Go Puerto Rico Carcassonne Die Macher St. Petersburg Age of Steam San Juan Gang of Four Sunda to Sahul Lost Cities It’s a list of games I’ve mentioned most often in this blog. Go and Puerto Rico really stand out (mentioned…
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Train session, Age of Steam Germany and Mogul
Johanna was having a movie night with her friend, so I invited guys over for a friendly game of Age of Steam. To advance my mission to play all the maps, I chose to use the German map — despite one of the players being a newbie. It was a tough fight. I thought Berlin…
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God, Candyland and the travels of Die Macher
Yehuda wrote an article called The Designer’s Rules in the Gone Gaming blog. Go read it, as it was both funny and educating! And God said, “Let there be choice!” And there was choice, and each player now had two pawns, such that when they flipped a card, that player had to choose which pawn…
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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!