…and managing your options seems like an interesting tactical puzzle. If players work together to solve the puzzles, it should be fun. What comes to the components, the rule book is far from neat. It makes the relatively straightforward game seem way more complicated than it actually is. Quite a bit of rules questions in…
…or larger than the price of the planet, you can play it for free. That’s an effective way to play worlds, but takes some infrastructure. There are about 30 card powers and most cards have two or three different powers. That leads to a huge number of different combinations, and indeed, all cards are unique…
Fashion Show is published by Finnish Peliko, and I received a free review copy. The game: Fashion Show by Theora Design, published by Peliko in 2016. Elevator pitch: A simple tile-laying pattern recognition game with a Top Model -like fashion theme. What’s in the box? A large board checkered with different cloth patterns, a bunch…
…the questions available would increase the amount of information I had and the game was coming to a close, I decided to make a guess. If I remember it correctly, I even got it right. This weekend certainly increased my appreciation of Black Vienna. Oh, and Iain — The Third Man was shown on Finnish…
Another year gone. Good years keep on rolling – I rather enjoyed 2011, and have no complaints about 2012. My kids continued to be good playing company. My son is now six and half, and is ready for some proper family games. I started introducing him to card games, as well, and that worked well….
…recorded our times. That competition kept me playing F-Zero GX for a long time after I had unlocked all the cups. Here it is built in the system. You can compete with your friends, find random opponents at your level, challenge the continental or world champion, race against staff ghosts, see how your times compare…
I have finally set up an image gallery. Currently it has just my older game pictures, but more will come. You can get the English game menu with this link: http://www.melankolia.net/photo/go/games — the captions are in Finnish, but at least you can look at the pictures and the user interface is in English. Finnish users…
…though, and I think this’ll replace the first part for a while now – maybe then we’ll start combining sets (for the record we’ve got 27 plays out of the first game so far). Enthusiastic Qwixx was a complete impulse purchase, but I’ve already played six games. It’s fun. Roll dice, check boxes, and try…
…puzzles with multiple solutions. Not a great game, but hey, it was free. Family Inc. is yet another incarnation of the push-your-luck game Reiner Knizia first published as Cheeky Monkey in 2007. I haven’t played any of the other variations, but based on what I’ve read, this one’s my favourite. Family Inc. isn’t a complicated…
We played seven games of 7 Wonders this weekend, all with four or three players. Less is better, what comes to players. There’s more control, more cards come back to you and you can more easily focus on your opponents as well. The game plays fast with experience. It does feel a bit samey. Seven…