From the monthly archives:

July 2003

Wednesday games, part 8: Liar Dice

July 31, 2003

We had another pleasant game session Yesterday. I started with Erkka, trying out a prototype I’ve been thinking about lately. My aim is to create a card-driven two-player tile-laying game that feels like Go. Not an easy task and the current version of the game simply sucks. Too bad. I’ll try to fix it a [...]

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Mystery order

July 28, 2003

I went and ordered Mystery Rummy: Jack the Ripper from Leisure Games. I’ve wanted it for long, but finally got around to actually buy it. I could’ve ordered it from Fantasiapelit, but I didn’t. Compare this: the game costs about 12 euros at Leisure Games and about 14 euros at Fantasiapelit. If I lived in [...]

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Poker Dice

July 25, 2003

Tactic has new tin can games. These games are small travel games, and the set includes Poker dice, Yahtzee, Dominoes, Rummy and Bingo. The Rummy tiles look bizarre and Yahtzee is totally useless, but I went and bought the Poker dice set, mostly because of Dice Games Properly Explained and the way it mentions how [...]

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Cthulhu rises again

July 25, 2003

Olli came by to trade Mythos cards. We also played a game, which I lost. Good for Olli, as it was his first attempt at deck building. I have to say my deck was easy on him — my Great War veteran tried to join the Black Pharaoh Brotherhood and then travel to R’Lyeh to [...]

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Kill Doctor Lucky

July 24, 2003

Cheapass Games website has a page full of interesting Kill Doctor Lucky variants. There’s the one I’ve been thinking about — the one in which players can kill each other. I should try some of them one of these days… (via nimrods)

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Wednesday Games, part 7: Mü, Tichu

July 23, 2003

Another pleasant session of Wednesday games! I started with a game of Balloon Cup with Erkka, who was first to arrive. He also won that game… While we were at it, Olli and Vesa arrived. They played a game of East-West while waiting for us to finish. Olli had to leave for a while, but [...]

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Balloon Cup, Time Control, Confrontation

July 18, 2003

I took some pictures. My photo gallery now has new pictures of Balloon Cup, Time Control and Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation.

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Don Bone interview

July 17, 2003

Terminal City Gamers have posted an interesting interview of Don Bone, the designer of Sunda to Sahul, on their web site.

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Time Control

July 17, 2003

I’ve written a Finnish review of Time Control. For you English-reading folks, here’s what I wrote in my BoardGameGeek review: I got a review copy of Time Control and I was really looking forward to play it. The concept sounds great: time travel is an exciting theme and I like real time games. Sunda to [...]

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Deutscher SpielePreis

July 17, 2003

I’ve done my duty and voted for the Deutscher SpielePreis awards. My final list of five candidates were Age of Steam, Amun-Re, Coloretto, Balloon Cup and New England.

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