From the monthly archives:

February 2004

Monday games: Flaschenteufel

February 24, 2004

Yesterday we met for another Monday afternoon gaming session. Naturally we played Go — I faced Juho on a 19×19 game and won, but only with a margin of two points. The card game of the day was Flaschenteufel, which I like a lot. We played two games, when Nestori joined us mid-game. First game [...]

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Attika

February 24, 2004

I wrote a review of Attika in Finnish.

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Quality Games Weekend: Attika, Puerto Rico

February 23, 2004

I was in the Jyväskylä last weekend and as usual, played some games while there. The winner of the weekend was Attika, without a doubt. I expected it to sink in well and it certainly did. First time we played on Friday, my mother and Ismo wanted to play another game, and another game after [...]

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Writing for the Games Journal

February 18, 2004

Don’t ask, what your favourite online games journal can do for you, ask what you can do for your favourite online games journal. After seeing the lack of articles in this month’s The Games Journal, I grabbed my keyboard and wrote an article. Yesterday I got an idea for a blog entry, but when it [...]

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Online Catan

February 18, 2004

There is going to be a new way to play Settlers of Catan online, when Microsoft releases it’s online Catan game. Mayfair Games released a press release yesterday announcing the deal. Settlers of Catan is becoming seriously big.

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Café Games: Go and game culture

February 17, 2004

Yesterday’s café games were quite minimal, as only one person attended them in addition to me. So, off went the plan to play Dia de los Muertos; we focused purely on Go. That wasn’t a bad thing, as Ari was an interesting opponent. We played three games on 13×13 board, with me giving handicaps of [...]

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Board game club session

February 16, 2004

Our board game club session yesterday started a bit slowly, with only four players present for a long time. However, that was really not a problem, because four people is quite enough to play good games and more gamers trickled in during the afternoon. My first game was a two-player match of Crokinole. It was [...]

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Bloody rebels

February 13, 2004

Today we played a game of Liberty, which is a block strategy game about the American revolution from Columbia Games. The block system was already familiar to me from Hammer of the Scots, so most of it was smooth sailing for me rules-wise. The navies (something HOTS doesn’t have) caused some confusion. The game was [...]

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New games: Liberty and Patrician III

February 11, 2004

I got Columbia Games’ Liberty Monday. It looks interesting, pretty much like

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Café Games: Gargon, Höhlengrölen, LotR: Confrontation

February 9, 2004

This time we didn’t play Go at all! What a surprise! Instead we played some cards. Because there was five of us present, we had little choice amongst the games I brought. So we played Gargon, which is an interesting card game. It’s main quirk is that the backs of the cards are coloured according [...]

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