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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…
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Game weekend, part 2: Mit List und Tücke, Logistico, Kahuna, Geistertreppe
Here’s the rest of the games of the great weekend: Mit List und Tücke was brought by Robert, who had noticed the game on my want list in the Geek. It’s a Klaus Palesch trick-taking game and not that far from Sticheln. According to Rick Heli’s Mit List und Tücke page it’s a redevelopment of…
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Game weekend, part 1: Roads & Boats, Manila, Industrial Waste, Memoir ’44
We had a really good games weekend last weekend. Tommy came over Friday afternoon with a bunch of interesting games to try. We were joined on Saturday by Manu and Robert. After dinner Manu left, but was later replaced by Tommy’s wife Laura, who also happened to be in town. Even though our flat turns…
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Finnish Game of the Year candidates
Finnish Game of the Year candidates haven’t been published yet, but I happen to have inside contacts and thus knowledge. Finnish readers can check the list of the candidates for the best adult and family games from the Boardgame Society forum, here’s a quick overview: Best kids’ game: the most interesting entrants are Geistertreppe, the…
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Congratulations to The Games Journal
Congratulations are due to Greg Aleknevicus and The Games Journal! The latest issue, featuring several interesting articles, marks the fifth anniversary of the journal. It’s been a long time, and I’ve been reading it for years already. That’s quite an achievement and I really want to say thanks to Greg for pushing on with the…
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America liberated — again
The second Liberty match was fought yesterday. We swapped sides, so this time I played the British oppression while Olli tried to liberate the innocent Americans. Laws of karma worked: my previous luck with the French entry in 1776 was repeated this time as well. However, I kept on plodding on and managed to actually…
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Liberty!
Yesterday I met Olli on the fields of battle. Setting was the independence war of the America, fought with Liberty. The game’s been a bit in the shadow of Hammer of the Scots, I’ve only played it once. Back then I felt the game was a bit messy, I didn’t get the rules well. Now,…