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Afternoon games: Cluedo, Cosmic Eidex, Amazonas
I met the Ollis for the last time for now — I’m moving in the end of July and just don’t have enough time for games right now. Too bad, but that’s life. Anyway, we started our games with Cluedo Card Game. It’s a simple deduction game and quite clearly too simple for gamers. As…
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Spiel des Jahres 2005: Niagara
Niagara wins the coveted Spiel des Jahres 2005 award. Hooray for Zoch; this is their second win in few years (previous award was 2002 for Villa Paletti). My first guess for winner was Around the World in 80 Days, since Kosmos hasn’t recieved the award in ten years (last time was 1995 with, of course,…
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More midsummer games: Lost Valley, Street Soccer, Memoir ’44
Next day after our Lost Valley game, Johanna wanted a rematch. That’s remarkable! I was more than pleased to play the game again. It was fun — this time we explored the whole of the valley. In the end Johanna won with a healthy margin — I wasted my time with river gold. After the…
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Midsummer games: Industrial Waste, Cosmic Eidex, Lost Valley
I met the Ollis Thursday for some games. It was a fairly monotonous event, with only two different games played. It’s not a big deal, since the games were excellent. I’m really growing fond of Industrial Waste. We played three games, once with just Olli M. and me, twice with three players. It’s fast, too…
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Cosmic Eidex — what a mess!
Since I now have a Cosmic Eidex deck, I thought perhaps I should take a look at Swiss Jass, the game behind Cosmic Eidex. It turns out Cosmic Eidex is a rather complicated mixture of different Jass games. It’s basically Swiss Jass, alright, but there’s something else, too. The basic structure of avoiding to be…
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Weekend games: Mhing, Flaschenteufel and Bongo
I played a quick round of Mhing with Johanna while we waited for food to cook. We played just four rounds, which is probably the best explanation for my victory, which was first of it’s kind. I visited the Sunday’s board game club swiftly to pick up my copy of Cosmic Eidex (first thoughts: the…
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Tom Vasel’s site
Tom Vasel has set up a website called The Dice Tower. It has links and the description of all the Dice Tower episodes (The Dice Tower is his podcast he does with Joe Steadman). There’s also TomVasel.com, which turns out to be a also hosted at the The Dice Tower site. There you can find…
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Industrial Waste musings
I must say I’m quite enamored by Industrial Waste. It was a good acquisition, as it is certainly a game for my liking. Thanks Tommy! What’s better, my opinion of the game has improved with every game. Yesterday’s game certainly opened my eyes regarding the loans. I wouldn’t avoid a loan anymore, if I needed…
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Afternoon games: Australia, Industrial Waste
Once again I met with the Ollis to play games. We started with Australia, requested by Olli M-K., who had also played it once before. Olli H. was new to the game. It started to look bad, but turned out rather well. The final scores were 225-186-166, a decisive victory once again. I don’t know…
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Mikko goes podcast
Exciting news, everybody: I’ve gone podcast! My first podcast is up at the Lautapelaaja.net podcast page. It’s 9, 3 megabyte mp3 file, I think I managed to balance sound quality and file size pretty well. Unfortunately, there’s a small catch: it’s in Finnish. I spend about 30 minutes talking about Industrial Waste and play two…