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Tag: Gone Fishing!

  • Gone Fishing!

    I’ve written a review of Gone Fishing!, in Finnish as usual. I like the game, though it’s clearly best suited for kids and families. For gamer, its appeal is definitely smaller. There’s too much guessing and probably not enough bluffing and strategies for a serious gamer. However, I like the game: it’s pretty, it’s exciting,…

  • Gone Fishing, Catan, Niagara

    A bunch of games played recently: I played a game of Gone Fishing! with Johanna on Friday. She proved to be a superior fisher. Of 31 possible fish points, she got 26. I fished after her, so I could tally my score against hers, but woe, I ended up eight points short. I was rather…

  • Gone fishing with the bugs

    I got review copies of new Marektoy releases. Torakkapokeri aka Bug Bluff aka Kakerlaken-Poker is a very simple game of bluffing. Players give cards to other players face down, claiming them to be something — the player in the receiving end can either take and believe, take and doubt or pass on. Correct guess means…