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Moving sucks
Moving is nasty business. While board games aren’t the worst hobby to move (bibliophilia is pretty bad), it still isn’t fun. I had to haul something like three-four boxes and six or so bags full of big box games. That’s a lot, and it sure makes me feel like reducing the size of my collection.…
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Air of expectation
Guess what! My copy of Antiquity began its journey from Essen (that’s where Allgames4you is located) to Tampere yesterday. I’m hoping it’ll make it here during next week, but we’ll see — it was sent to my old address, which I’m leaving Tuesday. I hope the redirect service won’t delay it until August… I’m quite…
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FarFalia
I wrote a review of FarFalia. My session report summarised the game pretty well already, but here goes again: FarFalia is a trick-taking game for five players. It supports two and three with dummies and four with different arrangements, but it’s designed for five and shines that way. The game features a fairly standard deck…
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Board game club: Manila, Dividends, Boomtown, Modern Art, Farfalia, Louis XIV
We had a very good game session yesterday. It started with just me and four guys, but hey, we had a blast even if noone else joined us until much later. After clicking through an absolutely dreadful game of Crokinole with Robert, rest of the guys arrived and I got us started with Manila. It…
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Ropecon
Ropecon 2005 is approaching fast. It’s the biggest roleplaying event in Finland and boasts a wide variety of board game events. There’s the Finnish Championships of Catan and Carcassonne, where the winners get to go to Essen to represent Finland in the World Championships (no, the plane tickets are not paid for). There’s also lots…
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Dividends
I got a review copy of Dividends from Fun Factory Games. For a new company, they’ve certainly got the production values right. Dividends looks very sleek and actually looks more modern than pretty much anything else I have. The game seems interesting enough: it’s a fairly simple stock-market game of buy, sell and earn dividends.…
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Industrial Waste vs Power Grid
I was asked a question by Jacob in the comments of an earlier post: Hey, could I trouble you for your opinion of Industrial Waste vs Powergrid? I’ve played neither and I’m intrigued by both. Powergrid is ranked really high on BGG and when I read reviews, I keep feeling that the same negatives (i.e.…
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Bug Bluff, Doom, Industrial Waste
I’ve been writing little game reviews recently. When I spend most of my time at the computer writing, that isn’t the most attractive way to spend my free time, right? However, now I just had to get these few games out of my system. Bug Bluff — This must be one of the pretties card…
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Puzzle
Here’s a small puzzler for you. Mikko played some two-player games in the various board game events during the year with different people. Mikko played once against each person, different game with each player and only one game in each event. With the following hints, can you figure out which games Mikko played with who…
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Lost Valley — river gold rocks!
We played our third Lost Valley match today. Johanna did the impossible: she won with river gold only! It’s the only thing she could’ve done, too, because she didn’t get a single mountain on her side of the river. It was pretty neat, but also quite close. She had just 15 pieces of gold on…