From the monthly archives:

January 2004

Gang of Four, once again

January 14, 2004

I played a game of Gang of Four against three Swiss guys. I didn’t do too good — I came third this time. It was a pretty quick game with lots of quick rounds and lots of points. My browser crashed in the middle of it, but fortunately we were able to resume the game [...]

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Anathema arrived

January 13, 2004

Today I got the new Anathema card game by APE Games. I won it a while ago and now it arrived. I have yet to try it, but the rules look simple enough. The basic game is pretty much basic Casino (actually, it isn’t — it’s Royal Casino, which is the way Casino is played [...]

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Geeklist and dice games

January 12, 2004

I did an A-Z list of games. It’s available in the Geek as a GeekList. Feel free to comment it here or there. Finnish readers should note that Knizia’s brilliant book Dice Games Properly Explained is available from Suomalainen kirjakauppa and Bookplus. The price is very reasonable 10 euros.

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More Gang of Four

January 12, 2004

This time the Gang of Four cave had some people in it and I got a game going — not without two false starts, though. Once again there was a leader who collected barely four points during the game. As usual, I came in second, with a pretty high score of 71 points. I did [...]

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Ra

January 12, 2004

I wanted to play some games this morning. I first went to check out the Gang of Four web site, but I was the only player present there. Thus I went to Brettspielwelt. I couldn’t find any games of Puerto Rico or Attika, so I settled with Ra. I won the first game. My first [...]

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Gang of Four

January 11, 2004

I played a game of Gang of Four online. I was quite satisfied with both the online system (I got a game fairly soon) and my performance. I didn’t win, but I was second. I even managed to win few hands! We had a good (or lucky) player in the table, who only got five [...]

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New explorers

January 9, 2004

I was fortunate enough to get a free copy of the Finnish edition of Die Neuen Entdecker from the game’s publisher Marektoy. The Finnish edition is identical with the German, as it is done in Germany by Kosmos as far as I know, so it looks brilliant. I played it with Johanna yesterday. I enjoyed [...]

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First games of 2004!

January 6, 2004

2004 started with a small meeting with Juho and Olli, who are probably pretty high on my regular opponents list. We met at restaurant Telakka, which is a nice place except it’s a bit too small. That wouldn’t be a problem, but when the place is that small, it’s hard to have enough distance to [...]

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The Games Journal

January 3, 2004

There’s another great issue of The Games Journal out. This time the best feature is the article about agonizing decisions. It’s certainly a good read.

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Games of 2003

January 1, 2004

Here it is — the fabled games of 2003 overview. Enjoy. As it turned out, I played some games after I had posted this on mailing lists, but fortunately the data is still correct… It’s always interesting to make this list, though it’s also quite annoying to try to select a single best game. My [...]

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