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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…
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Ticket to Ride online
I just finished a game of Ticket to Ride at the Finnish game site Voitta.net. The game is called Wanderer there, but it’s Ticket to Ride. The game mode is turn-based play-by-web. The site is Finnish and English and I think you can play the game without knowing any Finnish — the rules are available…
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Sunday afternoon Mhing
Johanna wanted to play games, which is always nice. I still don’t have Antiquity, which we both lust for, so we had to settle with Mhing. After playing the game twice without any regard to scoring, we now counted score. Maybe we shouldn’t have. After all, losing 8-6 isn’t that bad, but losing 136-68 sounds…
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Large group games: Werewolf and Attribute
I spent Wednesday and Thursday on a cruise to Stockholm with the other writers from Enter magazine. There was some official programme, but the evenings were reserved for games. I was asked to bring games, as was Hanna, the other board gamer in Enter writers. I had underestimated the size of the group, so we…
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Afternoon games: San Juan, San Marco
I met the two Ollis for games today. We played San Juan, where I did the rare choice of pursuing producing as a career. That backfired, especially when I didn’t get a large building. At least I won my first game with Olli M., using a more old-fashioned purple strategy. Our bigger board game this…