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Another translation — Mogul
Yet another rules translation, this time it’s Mogul, Michael Schacht’s clever little auction game (Mogul at Geek). I’m looking forward to trying it this weekend. It sure looks like a fun little game. The Finnish translation is a bit useless, because there aren’t probably many copies in Finland, it being such a small print run…
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Pulsipher and the changes in the hobby
I finally got around reading Lewis Pulsipher’s (designer of Britannia) article on changes in the boardgame hobby. It’s a good read and has some pretty good points, too. Many people who prefer complex games have moved to computer games is an obvious one in my opinion: I can’t see why I should waste time crunching…
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New translation: Die Sieben Siegel
A sure sign of me getting new card games: new translations. I wrote a Finnish translation of the rules of Dorra’s Die Sieben Siegel. It looks like a fun game and it’s fairly high on my list of games I haven’t tried yet but sure would love to. Also noted is the appearance of Spiel…
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Finnish Boardgame Society
Finnish Boardgame Society website is up and running. Right now it’s a bit light on information — it has all the basics (how to join, what are the immense benefits of joining) but nothing fancy, like information in English. It does have a message board, where we’ll hopefully have lots of interesting board game -related…
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The Games Journal
The first 2005 issue of The Games Journal is out. The best article is without a doubt Dave Shapiro’s review of Gang of Four.
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Games of 2004
Another year gone, another report of year’s activities. Once more, there’s probably more information than anyone wants to know, but it’s more for me anyway. Once again I played more than 100 different games — 113 to be precise. That’s less than last year, but then again, I played overall less games this year. Numbers…
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Christmas games — Karibik and Trivial Pursuit
As the tradition goes, we played some board games during Christmas. Johanna likes relatively few games, so choosing good games can be tricky. However, this time it was easy. I had just received Karibik which seemed like a good game to play with her. Light and easy rules, some random elements and what’s perhaps most…
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Karibik and TransAmerica
I got a nice packet yesterday. Inside I found two games from Winning Moves, Karibik and TransAmerica and some Kosmos two-player games (Lost Cities and Balloon Cup). What all these games have in common? They are all coming out in Finnish next year and I’m working on the translations. You know how much I like…
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Four Dragons or Dia de los Muertos
I wrote a review of Four Dragons (and Dia de los Muertos). It’s the first review I’ve written with my new game review content management system I built to make writing reviews easier. As you might already know, Four Dragons is a reincarnation of Frank Branham’s self-published Dia de los Muertos. The rules have been…
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Radioactivity
You can hear me tomorrow (Tuesday, 21th December) in radio. I’m visiting the Radio Tampere morning show around 8 am for a short bit about board games in general. If you’re around Tampere, the frequency is 99.9 MHz. I’ve been there and done that, but it’s always fun.