From the monthly archives:

November 2003

Gang of Four and Choh Dai Di

November 27, 2003

Gang of Four claims to be the number one card game in Asia. Well, that might or might not be the case, but it’s origins do lie in the Oriental game Choh Dai Di, which is played on a regular deck. I think Gang of Four is a good version of Choh Dai Di, because [...]

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Go and Gang of Three

November 27, 2003

As typical, we played Go. I played ten games, mostly pretty fast 13×13 which is the greatest fun in those surroundings. I won quite a few of them, too. As our these days mandatory card game, we played Gang of Four. We played a six-round game with three players, and it was quite fun. Despite [...]

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Gang of Four

November 25, 2003

I tried Gang of Four today, at the game web site. It was pretty fun and as with Queen’s Necklace the system worked well. The game was pretty much as I expected: an easier version of Tichu. The problems are pretty much the same, how to empty your hand as fast as possible being the [...]

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Two-player Queen’s Necklace

November 24, 2003

It sure didn’t take long before we played the two-player game of Queen’s Necklace. I was a bit worried when Johanna got this look of slight terror when I explained the rules to her, but eventually it all turned out well (especially when she smoked me 340-160). I agree — the rules aren’t the most [...]

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Queen’s Necklace — online game and a preview

November 23, 2003

I decided to try the online version of Queen’s Necklace. Days of Wonder has these brilliant web sites for all their games, with forums and tips and extra stuff for the games. Queen’s Necklace, Fist of Dragonstones and Gang of Four also have online versions. They aren’t free (dollar a month for each game, it [...]

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Day of Wonder

November 22, 2003

I did my first live TV bit today. It was fun, we talked about board games. It was quite light, just five-ten minutes or so and therefore didn’t delve deep into the subject, but still, I had a good time and I think board games got a bit of good publicity. Then I visited Safe [...]

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Flaschenteufel

November 21, 2003

Here’s what I wrote about Flaschenteufel on Spielfrieks. It provoked a reply from Joe Huber, the author of the original Games Journal review. He told that the new edition changes aren’t just cosmetic — some cards have changed colour and their scoring values have changed as well. It’s not a huge change, but something you [...]

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Go + Flaschenteufel

November 21, 2003

We had another Go session yesterday. I did play few games of Go, certainly, but the main theme was Flaschenteufel. We played a rather pleasant four-player game. Flaschenteufel is fast becoming my favourite trick-taking game. The theme works well — I felt certain anxiety when I realised that I was never going to get rid [...]

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Go + Bob’s Hat

November 19, 2003

I had a pleasant afternoon playing Go and Where’s Bob’s Hat? at the University. I played Go against Juho, I think he’s rather pleasant opponent. We played fast 13×13 games, 11 of them. I won six. We started with a handicap of three stones (I gave handicap and played white all the time) and ended [...]

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Kotiliesi article

November 18, 2003

I got two copies of the Kotiliesi with my article in it. The article is mentioned in the cover (“The best family games”) and it’s four pages long. Pictures are mostly about classics like Monopoly, Scrabble and Afrikan tähti. There’s a picture of yours truly with a pile of better games (Puerto Rico, Amun-Re, Alhambra, [...]

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