Comments on: Boardgame club meeting: Fifth Avenue, Finstere Flure

By: Mikko

Mikko — Wed, 27 Oct 2004 18:19:27 +0000

Oh, and re: Alphabet Playing Cards — nice, but I have little use for alphabet cards with English letter distribution. Even though I’m pretty good with English, playing word games is only fun in Finnish.

By: Mikko

Mikko — Wed, 27 Oct 2004 18:15:33 +0000

I use homemade cards (=old, useless CCG cards with stickers on them), because the cards need both letters and categories. Also, I need to able to change the distribution at will. For example, I’ll need to add more vowels to the deck.
Victory & Honor is a good game, but quite complicated (though — I did find a rules summary at the Geek) and slightly tricky to teach. I recommend it if you’re really into trick-taking, but it’s really not a must.
Finstere Flure, in the other hand, is.

By: Iain

Iain — Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:51:44 +0000

Which alphabet cards are you using for your game? I am pretty keen on Alphabet Playing Cards at the moment (http://www.tjgames.com/).
I am going to have to get Finestre Flure now. We have been looking for a really good large-number-of -players game.
Victory and Honour does seem to get universally good reviews, but I have a few trick taking games to get through now…