From the monthly archives:

March 2004

Mail

March 31, 2004

Today mail brought me two 3rd edition Mesomorph piecepacks. Thanks to Chris Brooks for providing me with the games.
I also got the new Adam spielt catalog, but I’m not sure if I want to open it — it’s full of temptations anyway. The cover features Das Spiel by Reinhold Wittig. Check it out, it’s a [...]

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Games keep coming my way

March 30, 2004

Even though I don’t have any money to buy games, I keep getting them by other means. Looks like I’ll get a copy of Alan Moon’s Ticket to Ride to translate. That’ll be interesting, because I’m intrigued about the game. It’s the comments that say "this is what TransAmerica should’ve been" — I was badly [...]

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Stones and cards

March 29, 2004

Another Monday session. This time I played seven games of Go with Juho. In the first five games, I played white and Juho black without any handicap. For the last two games, I gave Juho white stones. I won three out of seven, so it’s official now: Juho is probably as good as I am [...]

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Geeklist

March 29, 2004

Googlism Geeklist is one of the best I’ve seen in ages. It’s just hilarious.

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Finstere Flure

March 28, 2004

I wrote a a review of Finstere Flure.
Finstere Flure is a very good game. The escape from the monster-infested dungeon of Fürst Fieso is simple, but exciting fun for two to seven players — and what’s best, the game really works with the whole range! The best number of players is, however, four to five [...]

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Interesting game page

March 28, 2004

Iain linked to Jacob Davenport’s article on game design to illustrate a point about petty diplomacy in games. I was planning to link to that article, because I found it interesting, but then happened to take a look at the page above it, Jacob Davenport’s home page. It’s an interesting collection of game-related stuff, definitely [...]

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Kookaburra Game

March 27, 2004

I got a copy of The Kookaburra Game yesterday. I’m supposed to translate the rules in Finnish. That won’t be a heavy task, because they’re just one A4.
We also tried the game yesterday. It turned out to be pretty much what I expected from the rules: a Pachisi variant. Players try to race around the [...]

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A House Divided

March 26, 2004

I’ve had A House Divided for several months now (well, since October) and today I finally got to play it. I was slightly curious about the length of the game, as the box says 60 minutes, someone wrote somewhere it takes two hours and somebody said four to six hours… The four hours turned out [...]

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Union Pacific

March 26, 2004

Chris Brooks has also played Union Pacific and enjoyed it. That reminded me: has anyone tried to play the game without using the board? I think you could just play the trains on the table without placing them on the board. The board is quite large and has little significance in the game — at [...]

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Blog sighting

March 25, 2004

Musings, Ramblings, and Things Left Unsaid seems like an interesting blog. It covers boardgames and books, basically, and — it certainly doesn’t hurt — links to me.
This I found through Iain’s blog.

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