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Tag: Bluff

  • BrettSpielWelt session

    It’s been a while since my last BrettSpielWelt session. Six months, actually! Well, nothing’s changed over there, just a new game or few. However, playing anything except the standards proved to be pretty hard, as usual. I got in five games of San Juan, with two and three players. The three-player games proved to be…

  • Boardgame club meeting: Puerto Rico, Die Händler, Carcassonne: H&G

    The last meeting for this year of the Tampere University board game club was yesterday. We had a nice amount of people playing lots of different games. The Game of the Year -award was given to Puerto Rico (last year’s winner was Carcassonne) and the finals of the Spirit of the Game -tournament was played.…

  • Café Games: Lost Cities, Bluff, Canal Grande

    I met up with some of my friends yesterday for couple of hours of gaming. Unfortunately only two of them showed up in the end, but we had two hours of fun and games anyway. And I had a wonderful and very tasty chicken bread, too. Try it, if you ever happen to visit Klubi…

  • Do-it-yourself games: Bluff

    I played Bluff (aka Call the Bluff aka Liar’s Dice aka Perudo) for the first time last Sunday and thought it to be a game that I would want to own. However, instead of paying lots of money (at least over 20 euros) for the game that consists of some dice, cups and a board,…

  • Board game club meeting

    Seurapelikerho met last Sunday. Not many people came, but we had a good time nonetheless. I didn’t play many games, but those few were good games I had wanted to play, so I’m satisfied. I started with Villa Paletti, introducing it to the club. We had a good time playing it and the game actually…

  • The Games Journal

    New Games Journal is out, go check it out. A thin issue this time, but good articles. There’s one from Greg Aleknevicus about specialiation and diversity in games and another about gamer’s games, a short Essen report, letters and a review of Liar’s Dice. Short, but good nonetheless.