From the monthly archives:

October 2004

Finnish Players’ Picks 2004

October 6, 2004

Ok, finally: Finnish Players’ Picks 2004 voting is over, votes have been tallied and I can announce the results: Puerto Rico wins, again. Carcassonne is second and catches up, losing only by two votes. Once again, there’s a GeekList of the top games (here’s last year’s list). The whole list can be seen at the [...]

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The Games Journal

October 5, 2004

The October Games Journal is finally out. There’s no doubt about the best article of this issue: it’s Dan Bosley’s Misadventures in Gaming. I’m so glad to see he’s back in action! You can find 19 earlier episodes at Terminal City Gamers article page. They are simply hilarious!

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Weekend games: Fifth Avenue

October 5, 2004

The weekend is over and I finally have time to write about the games I played. The first thing we tried was the game I was most interested about: Fifth Avenue. And yeah, it was interesting. After one game, my initial rating is eight, which is pretty good considering Fifth Avenue’s a bit low average [...]

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Finnish Players’ Picks, coming right up!

October 1, 2004

Friday’s are slow at work. Thus, I had plenty of time to tally the votes for the Finnish Players’ Picks. However, I’m not telling you anything yet, you’ll have to wait for another boring day at work before I do the GeekList. All I’m saying that top of the list had both same old hits [...]

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GeekSpeak

October 1, 2004

The guys at BoardGameGeek have done a radio show. You can download the mp3 from Aldie’s GeekJournal, it’s about 16 megs and 61 minutes. I wasn’t going to listen to it first, but then Iain said it was ok. I got it on my portable mp3 player and listened to it at work while I [...]

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