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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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Book on connection games
This post contains affiliate links to Amazon. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Affiliate links are marked with a €.An interesting book was advertised on Little Golem boards. Connection Games : Variations on a Theme is written by Cameron Browne. Here’s a summary from the publisher’s website: A comprehensive study of the…
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One Jump Ahead
This post contains affiliate links to Amazon. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Affiliate links are marked with a €.I finished reading One Jump Ahead : Challenging Human Supremacy in Checkers, which was rather interesting book. It’s written by Jonathan Schaeffer, who designed Chinook, the first computer program to win a human…
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Flaschenteufel
This post contains affiliate links to Amazon. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Affiliate links are marked with a €.Here’s what I wrote about Flaschenteufel on Spielfrieks. It provoked a reply from Joe Huber, the author of the original Games Journal review. He told that the new edition changes aren’t just cosmetic…
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Dice Games Properly Explained
This post contains affiliate links to Amazon. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Affiliate links are marked with a €.Well, it took two weeks, but Dice Games Properly Explained hit my mailbox today. I’ve almost read it already and expect to finish soon. It’s a wonderful book! Full of games and as…
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Cosmic Pig
More crazy stuff from the Seattle Cosmic: a variant of Cosmic Encounter, which makes the game more like the Interstellar Pig. Take a look at the Cosmic Pig. If I played Cosmic Encounter more often, that’d be something I’d love to try.
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Interstellar Pig = Cosmic Encounter?
Ron Hale-Evans has written a very interesting article about the Interstellar Pig in the Seattle Cosmic Wiki. Interstellar Pig is a book (mentioned here before), which features an interesting game as it’s main theme. The game, says Ron Hale-Evans, bears more than passing resemblance to Cosmic Encounter. If you’ve read the book, go read Ron’s…
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Books about games
This post contains affiliate links to Amazon. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Affiliate links are marked with a €.I’ve been reading books about games lately. Mostly books describing the rules to various card games, including the classic of classics: Hoyle’s Games. It’s not the original version from the 18th century, but…
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Bridge
While visiting the library, I studied other books than the Hanafuda already mentioned. Few of them were about Bridge, the king of the trick-taking games (and perhaps card games in general, as well). I have really no interest to play Bridge, as it seems to be a terribly deep and complex game. That’s fine, but…