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Dune
I wrote a review of Dune (in Finnish). I haven’t played Dune in ages — there’s not a mention of it in this blog, for example, and I haven’t missed many sessions since I started writing. Usually if I own a game and don’t play it, there’s a reason. With Dune, the reasons are obvious.…
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Bad rules of Victory & Honor
Peter Sarrett writes about bad rules, mentioning Victory & Honor as an example. He’s spot on: Victory & Honor has probably the worst rulebook I’ve ever seen in a good game. I practically threw the rule book across the room three times while explaining the rules. It took us MUCH longer than it should have…
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Ambition
Those reading rec.games.board or rec.games.card might have noticed a thread called truth about church’s ambition. It had nothing to do with church, it’s in fact about Mike Church and his card game Ambition. For some reason there’s a flamewar of sorts going on around the game. Why, I have no idea, but the thread, especially…
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Rush Hour
I bought myself a Rush Hour puzzle set and all three extra card sets. It was a total impulse purchase, I just thought it would be interesting to try. I’ve tried Lunar Lockout, another puzzle from the same company and enjoyed that (that one is very much like Ricochet Robot), so I thought Rush Hour…
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Boardgame Club meeting: Niagara, Fresh Fish
Our club meeting yesterday drew a record crowd of 25 gamers. At one point we had five games going on at the same time! That’s amazing and I do hope this is a continuing trend and not just a fluke. Some of the expansion was caused by a group of people interested to try Age…
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ÜberGeekBadge
I’ve achieved something: I have an ÜberGeekBadge. Super neat! You can admire my excellence at my profile page. You’ll also see that I’ve been generous. Creating the Geek Supporter badge was a brilliant idea in the first place and adding the year made it even better. Now the badge will become outdated unless one drops…
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Domaine
There’s a new Finnish review of Domaine posted on my website. Domaine is a reworking of Teuber’s earlier Löwenherz (and published under that name in Germany). I’ve tried both and I think Domaine is an excellent work and much better game than it’s predecessor. The game’s about medieval lords, fighting over the lands while the…
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Web site and a new translation
I added a new translation on my website: Carcassonne: The Count. Thanks to Markku Jaatinen for doing the translation! I’ve been working on my reviews a lot, recently. You’ve noticed few new reviews I’ve written, but even more has been done behind the scenes. I finally finished moving my reviews to a new content management…