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Catan the Card Game
I played a game of Settlers of Catan Card Game yesterday with Johanna. I had to try it, since it was my translation. Believe me, the game plays much better with Finnish cards than with German cards. However, I was a bit bothered with some of the cards… Few of them could use better translations.…
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Finnish Players’ Picks 2005
Finnish Players’ Picks for 2005 have been chosen. The winner is Carcassonne. Puerto Rico, the previous winner, places second. Ticket to Ride grabs the third place. As usual, I’ve created a geeklist of the best games. The full list is on the award homepage.
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Weekend of Industrial Waste (with some Dvonn)
I was visiting Jyväskylä last weekend. In addition to some surprisingly pleasing physical work (painting boards and a wall, building scaffolding), we played lots of games. During the years, I’ve introduced several games with variable success. Some have been huge hits (Puerto Rico and St. Petersburg are the most notable examples). Sometimes there have been…
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Something to think about
Joe Gola’s entry A Whole Lot of Nothing from Gone Gaming was an interesting read… However, I think I’ll lean towards how Shannon Appelcline and Doug Orleans comment: the negative comments have their place and finding out the good stuff would be more difficult if only people who like the games would rate them. I’m…
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Amazing Meeple Geeklist
GeekList: Intelligence Report on Subject #M33P135: The Meeples is simply amazing. A must-read, one of the very best geeklists ever.
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ESSEN!
I just realised it! It’s just two weeks to Essen! Exactly two weeks from today, I’ll be boarding the plane to Düsseldorf! I haven’t been that active in the Geek forum, but I guess I’ll be checking out Essen forums to get the last-minute tips and tricks. Oh, and Mik Svellov said Gruga, my hotel,…
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Essen games
Now, here’s the entry I’ve been meaning to write for a while now… Which games I’m looking forward to getting from Essen? First let me note that thanks to a deal I’ve got with Lautapelit.fi, Finland’s foremost board game retailer, I have little need to buy stuff I can get later cheaper. That includes Railroad…
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Small game session: Louis XIV, Modern Art, Turbo Taxi
I met some guys last Saturday for a small session of games. I’ll be missing the next two board game club sessions for various reasons (mostly Essen), so it was good to get some games going. We started with Turbo Taxi, as we were one player short. Well, the missing player joined us after the…
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Colours
Shannon Appelcline writes about The Problem with Colors in Gone Gaming. It’s a wonderfully geeky article, quite analytical concerning an issue that’s at the same time really important and really small. I mean, in the grand scale of things, what does a colour of a board game piece matter? The answer is “a lot, of…
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Dvonn
After a big silence on the game review front, I wrote two reviews yesterday. The second one was Dvonn. Dvonn is neat, like most of the GIPF series. Well, at least Zèrtz and Yinsh. The games are close to perfection, when it comes to modern abstract board games: the rules are simple, yet the games…