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Gaming Year 2010
Gaming year 2009 wasn’t terrific, but 2010 was. By numbers alone, I played a lot more games than last year. However, the biggest reason 2010 will go down in history as a good board game year was Nooa. I played well over hundred games with Nooa — actually, I played with Nooa about as much…
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Charly, Skåne, Innovation
What an efficient session today! I brought four games, and all got played. That’s rare and pleasant. After a quick loss in Roll through the Ages (the shorter non-expansion game is certainly short), we moved to Charly. Charly is a quick filler where there’s food and animals, and those need to be matched. It’s a…
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Helcon 2010: The Rest
The first part covered Eclipse. Now, the rest. This year choosing what to play wasn’t difficult. Oskari had a list of games from my collection he wanted to try, I wanted to play those games as well so that’s what we did. String Railway was the obvious starter. I ended up playing the game twice.…
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Math trade results
Here’s my side of the recent Finnish math trade: I traded 2038 for Days of Steam Bamboleo for Roll through the Ages Epäillyt for Age of Steam: Disco Inferno / Soul Train Fauna for Santiago Fluch der Mumie for Blokus Hornet for Finca Steel Driver for Stephensons Rocket Some of these trades are better than…