From the monthly archives:

August 2003

Through the Desert with Johanna

August 30, 2003

We didn’t go hiking, even if it may sound like it. No, instead we played the brilliant Reiner Knizia masterpiece I bought Tuesday (with Ta Yü, which I haven’t played yet but which looks like a very neat game) to celebrate my WWTBAM victory. Through the Desert reminds me of Go, the decisions where to [...]

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Happy Birthday, Gameblog!

August 26, 2003

Gameblog is now one year old! The first posts were written at this very day. If you want to refresh memories, archives are there for that. I’ve also added a “one year ago”-plugin, which you might’ve noticed — now it actually displays something. I’ve written 264 entries during the year — about five entries each [...]

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Saturday games: Historiallinen Helsinki, Huippuhatut

August 24, 2003

We’re on a gaming streak with Johanna, it seems. Yesterday we were thinking of what to do and decided to play a game. The obvious choice was, of course, Historiallinen Helsinki, a game that I’ve owned for over a year now and haven’t played once. I know I haven’t been missing much, but it was [...]

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Games with Johanna

August 22, 2003

Yesterday I played some games with the best of all opponents, Johanna. She wanted to play something, so I suggested Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation. I wasn’t completely sure if that was her kind of game, but she seemed to like it. As was proper for her first game, she won, too. Frodo managed [...]

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Puerto Rico strategy

August 20, 2003

Jim Campbell has written Large Warehouse of Puerto Rico Knowledge, an excellent Puerto Rico strategy article. Even though the article is truncated at the end, it’s still a very good and useful read for anyone who wants to reach a higher level of Puerto Rico knowledge.

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Quiz shows, part two

August 20, 2003

In January, I participated in the Giljotiini quiz show. Yesterday it was Who wants to be a millionaire?. I tried the SMS quiz twice before I was happy with my time and indeed got an invite to the taping of the show. It was a long day. I was in the third show of the [...]

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Randomness of games

August 18, 2003

New use for my spreadsheets! Consider this: if the outcome of a game is random, the win percentage should depend on the amount of players. In a completely random two-player game it should be 50% after enough games. Well. My spreadsheet enters the picture here. I can count the average number of players in each [...]

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Balloon Cup

August 18, 2003

I’ve written a review of Balloon Cup — in Finnish, of course. I grabbed the opportunity to get the game for free (well, not for free, but as a payment; anyway I didn’t have to spend any of my precious money to buy it), because I had heard so much good about it. It wasn’t [...]

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Balloon Cup rules

August 17, 2003

I wrote a Finnish translation of Balloon Cup rules.

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Mamma Mia!

August 15, 2003

There’s a review of Mamma Mia! — in Finnish. I’ve grown to like the game a lot. It’s a very unique game and another excellent example of Uwe Rosenberg’s skills as a game designer. I can’t name any games that are like it, and that’s one of the reasons why it’s so good. So, it’s [...]

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