From the monthly archives:

June 2003

A small disappointment

June 30, 2003

Unfortunately I got ill today, which means I’m not going to be able to participate on the Wednesday café games… It’s a pity, but I’ll just have to figure out something else to tell you about instead of that!

Read the full article →

Dragonball Z preview

June 27, 2003

I got a starter pack of Dragonball Z collectible card game — I’m to write a Finnish translation of the rules. The game seems rather daft: the players attack each other until one drops. Or until one player collects enough anger or a complete set of Dragonballs. Still, the about C5-sized rule book has about [...]

Read the full article →

Wednesday games: Age of Steam

June 26, 2003

Yesterday we had another pleasant session of Wednesday games. I made a slight change this time: instead of just card games, I took Age of Steam with me. I was too anxious to play it, after reading just about everything about it I could find Tuesday. But before anybody else arrived, I played a game [...]

Read the full article →

Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective

June 25, 2003

I played Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective yesterday and had great fun with it. The case wasn’t obvious — after an hour of reading clues I still had no decisive ideas who did the case. Re-reading some of the first entries finally produced the small detail I had missed which solved the case. Ok, now let’s [...]

Read the full article →

Spielboy

June 23, 2003

First issue of Spielboy is out. The site is a strange parody of Playboy, with articles about board games. And yeah, there’s some (semi) nudity — with games, of course. Strange. I don’t care much for the nudity (I read it for the articles), but it seems like a funny idea. We’ll see how the [...]

Read the full article →

Dice Games Properly Explained

June 23, 2003

I went and placed an order for Dice Games Properly Explained by Reiner Knizia at Amazon. It should hopefully hit my mailbox later this week.

Read the full article →

Spiel des Jahres 2003

June 23, 2003

Spiel des Jahres 2003 award winners have been chosen! Winner of the main award is Alhambra by Dirk Henn. Best children’s game is Viva Topo! by Manfred Ludwig. Congratulations to the winners!

Read the full article →

Coloretto

June 22, 2003

Finnish visitors can go read my Finnish review of Coloretto. English visitors can just read on. Coloretto is a rather nice little game. It’s a very simple game, one of those one-minute rules games. You can teach the rules in a minute and once you’ve heard them, you can throw away the rules — they [...]

Read the full article →

Faidutti’s Games of the Year 2003

June 22, 2003

Bruno Faidutti has selected his games of the year. Winners this year are Coloretto and Age of Steam. I still haven’t tried Age of Steam myself, but I’d say these were quite good choices. At least Coloretto is a wonderful game.

Read the full article →

Wednesday Games III: The Last Panther

June 18, 2003

It was a bit quiet day today, as we only had three players. Well, we still played many delightful games. I was eager to try even some of the Mü & mehr games. So, we tried The Last Panther, which turned out to be a nice little trick-taking game. It is also rather nasty game, [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries