From the monthly archives:

January 2003

PayPal button

January 30, 2003

A PayPal donation button has appeared in the bottom of the page (I guess regular readers wouldn’t have even noticed it if I hadn’t mentioned it). It doesn’t mean you have to pay to read this stuff. This blog will never be for subscribers only. There will be no extra service for paying customers. If [...]

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Manhattan

January 27, 2003

Last night my lovely girlfriend Johanna requested a game while we were waiting for a TV-show to start. She wanted to play something new, so after a moment of browsing my collection, I chose Manhattan. I thought it was suitable: easy, entertaining, would probably work well with two, not too mean and playable in an [...]

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Diplomacy

January 27, 2003

I’m playing Diplomacy again. For the last two years or so I have mostly focused on GMing and I haven’t had a real need to play the game. It just doesn’t fit my personality, I think… Well, now I’m playing again. I’ve been running games of Necromancer, which is a Diplomacy variant set in the [...]

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Go

January 25, 2003

I got myself a new Go opponent: GNU Go with Jago user interface. I have an installation of older GNU Go on one of my Unix shell accounts, but for some reason I hadn’t thought of getting it on my home PC. Well, now I have it so I can play real 19×19 Go against [...]

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Interview request

January 24, 2003

I got e-mail from a radio journalist, who wants to interview me about board games. She had found my website and is quite interested about board games and why people don’t play them anymore. So, another opportunity for me to preach the gospel. It’s not the first time (second, to be accurate) I find myself [...]

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Game idea

January 22, 2003

For the last few days, I’ve been thinking about an auction game idea. It just might have something to do with the fact that I played Ra Friday and enjoyed it a lot… Anyway, I’m eager to test my ideas. If it works out, I’ll publish the game on my web site. The game is [...]

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Guillotine

January 21, 2003

I like TV quiz shows and have always wanted to participate myself. Well, I got lucky. I sent in my registration for the Guillotine show in the Internet and after a month or two got a phone call. I answered some questions and got an invite to the show. Guillotine (or Giljotiini in Finnish) is [...]

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Boardgame club last Sunday: Princes of Florence, Wildlife

January 21, 2003

I had a very pleasant board game club meeting last Sunday. Few new games, old favourites and nice people! What more can you wish for? While waiting for more players, I forced Ville to teach me Falling, the crazy Cheapass real-time card game where you try to be the last player to hit the ground. [...]

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Wildlife preview

January 19, 2003

As mentioned before, I bought Wildlife Friday and managed to play it the same night. Here’s my preview, based on that one game. The main reason why I bought Wildlife was the cheap price. Reason why I chose Wildlife instead of other cheap games was mostly the name of Wolfgang Kramer on the cover. I [...]

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Friday’s games

January 19, 2003

After a very long board meeting (2½ hours, but lots of good discussion, too) we started the games. We played Space Beans, Wildlife, Medina, Samurai, Ra and Carcassonne: Hunters & Gatherers. Space Beans started the evening — it wasn’t quite on top of my list of games I had wanted to play, but well, we [...]

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