From the monthly archives:

March 2003

Games I’d like to buy

March 27, 2003

There are three big games I’d really, really like to get right now: Amun-Re, the new Knizia game. Akke Monasso’s first impressions -article sounds very good. Seems promising! Age of Steam is long and complicated, but still it tempts me. Heavy decision-making with severely limited resources is always a good combination. Löwenherz / Domaine — [...]

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Go problems

March 25, 2003

I did some Go problem time trials at Go Problems. I got to the 10k time trial, which I couldn’t finish before Johanna came home. But it’s good practise, to repeat the same problems again and again. I think that I’m a better Go player in theory than in practise…

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Sunda to Sahul pictures

March 25, 2003

I took some pictures of Sunda to Sahul, they are available at my photo site. If you haven’t seen the game, go take a look because it’s pretty! No doubt it’s the best self-published game I’ve ever seen. Though, I noticed the scoring board had warped quite badly in a short time. That’s a minor [...]

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Go

March 24, 2003

I played a fairly interesting game of Go at Kiseido. My opponent was ranked one kyu lower than me, but I started the game pretty badly. However, at one point he didn’t kill a large group of my stones (which he could’ve done and at which point I would’ve resigned) and I was able to [...]

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Books about games

March 20, 2003

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 a modern version from the 50′s. Still, it’s a neat book. Now I’d really love to play Piquet and other fine and [...]

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Board game club meeting

March 17, 2003

Board game club had a meeting Yesterday. There were plans to play Die Macher, since it was the election day and all that, but it was cancelled because I couldn’t find the rule book… Well, I suppose most people had a good afternoon and evening of enjoyment nevertheless. I got to play just about every [...]

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Bohnanza rules translation

March 15, 2003

For the Finnish readership, there’s an rules translation for Bohnanza available at my web site.

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Got some games

March 15, 2003

I think I mentioned an Adam Spielt order two weeks ago… Well, I got the games yesterday: Sticheln and Bohnanza. So no Wizard for me! Reason for that is the simple fact that Wizard is easily played with the Sticheln deck as it only adds four Wizards and four Jesters to the standard deck — [...]

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Poll results

March 15, 2003

I’m closing the poll now as there haven’t been any votes during the last few days. Here are the results: Option Fr. Pr.   No 2 11 % No opinion 6 32 % Yes 8 42 % Yes, me! 3 16 % Total 19 100 %   It turns out that second author would be a welcome improvement for this [...]

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My own Boardgamegeek

March 10, 2003

Recently I’ve been working on a dear project of mine: boardgame club stats service. It’s in Finnish, unfortunately. Still, go see it and try clicking the link “Lista peleistä, for example to see how it works. That’s the list of games. “Lista pelaajista” is a list of players. It began with the very basics: a [...]

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