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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,…
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Board game club session: Killdog, Amazonas, Sunda to Sahul
Yesterday’s board game club session was quite splendid. I got to play several interesting games. It was also great to see Robert, now back from a few month trip to Singapore. Don kicked off the session. Even though Don has pretty neat chips in itself, I instantly replaced them with my spanking new poker chips…
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More Mhing
Since I get very controversial comments on Mhing‘s two-player suitability, I wanted to try it myself. Johanna was up for the task, and we played few rounds last night. As Johanna was new to the game, I didn’t teach her scoring, we just counted winning the rounds. Johanna enjoyed the game and I too think…
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Essen guide
Ward Batty’s Essen traveler’s guide has been widely blogged already, but it’s pretty nice. There’s one thing I’d like to know, though: since we now have a laptop with a WiFi capabilities (a rather splendid PowerBook, even) and as my hotel room doesn’t feature WiFi, just ISDN/modem (WiFi is for business class rooms, it seems),…
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Games weekend in Jyväskylä: Mhing!
I visited Jyväskylä last weekend and played quite a few games. I had just few games with me, so the games were repeated more than usually. That’s different and to be honest, I quite enjoyed it. Lost Cities: I brought a brand-new Finnish copy of the game as a mother’s day gift and ended up…
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Decisionmaking
I wanted to comment on something Shannon Appelcline wrote in his blog. He has banned comments from non-LiveJournal users so I’ll just have to say it here: So at EndGame I usually try and be really considerate of what people might enjoy and do all the consensus twaddle about what we should play. Today, because…
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KillDog
I was browsing Bruno Faidutti’s Ideal Game Library, when I came across KillDog (Geek entry). KillDog, named after Kill Bill and Reservoir Dogs is a bluffing game. Players are gangsters fighting over a pile of loot. Each turn, four bills worth 5, 10 or 20 are turned over. Each player chooses whether they are ready…
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Poker chips — opinions wanted
I’m contemplating on buying a set of Poker chips. I’ve got my sights set on two different sets right now, one without numbers and one with numbers. I’m planning to use the chips not only to play Poker, but to replace all unpleasant paper money and miserable plastic chips in other games. However, I can’t…