From the monthly archives:

December 2004

Christmas games — Karibik and Trivial Pursuit

December 27, 2004

As the tradition goes, we played some board games during Christmas. Johanna likes relatively few games, so choosing good games can be tricky. However, this time it was easy. I had just received Karibik which seemed like a good game to play with her. Light and easy rules, some random elements and what’s perhaps most [...]

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Karibik and TransAmerica

December 22, 2004

I got a nice packet yesterday. Inside I found two games from Winning Moves, Karibik and TransAmerica and some Kosmos two-player games (Lost Cities and Balloon Cup). What all these games have in common? They are all coming out in Finnish next year and I’m working on the translations.
You know how much I like TransAmerica [...]

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Four Dragons or Dia de los Muertos

December 21, 2004

I wrote a review of Four Dragons (and Dia de los Muertos). It’s the first review I’ve written with my new game review content management system I built to make writing reviews easier.
As you might already know, Four Dragons is a reincarnation of Frank Branham’s self-published Dia de los Muertos. The rules have been edited [...]

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Radioactivity

December 20, 2004

You can hear me tomorrow (Tuesday, 21th December) in radio. I’m visiting the Radio Tampere morning show around 8 am for a short bit about board games in general. If you’re around Tampere, the frequency is 99.9 MHz.
I’ve been there and done that, but it’s always fun.

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Best session report ever

December 20, 2004

This Amun-Re session report by Joe Gola is simply the best session report I’ve ever read. It’s just hilarious.
The following is a translation of an ancient Egyptian text found in a crude clay pot buried long, long ago on the banks of the Nile. Carbon dating of the ink on the papyrus indicates that this [...]

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Fish night

December 18, 2004

Johanna was out having a party with her friends, so I took the opportunity and invited my usual posse of Robert, Olli and Ari for some games. We started with Fresh Fish which I had finally picked up earlier today. It sure was a brain-bender! We played twice and in the second game got the [...]

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Fish Eat Fresh Fish

December 14, 2004

In our boardgame club session back in June, I confused Robert’s copy of Fish Eat Fish with Fresh Fish. I noticed my mistake too late and we ended up playing Fish Eat Fish, which turned out to be decent but not interesting.
Now if I tell you that I asked for Fresh Fish from Lautapelit.fi and [...]

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Ordering games

December 13, 2004

It’s been a while, but here I am, contemplating an order from Germany. I get free games every month, but I want Geschenkt now, not later. I’m also intrigued by Mogul and Die Sieben Siegel. Of course, buying few small games from Germany just isn’t worth it, so I’ll have to buff the order up [...]

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Dvonn strategy

December 3, 2004

I’m determined to learn Dvonn. Therefore I dug out some strategy guides. There are some basic tips and Alan Kwan’s glossary, both at Project Gipf site. There’s also Joe Gola’s very detailed session report at the Geek. I sure hope these help me improve my game. If I played more of two-player games, Dvonn would [...]

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Kahuna

December 3, 2004

I met Olli today at 9 am to try my brand new copy of Kahuna. I’m doing a translation of it, it’s going to be one of a bunch of Kosmos two-player games Marektoy is publishing at some point next year. Of course I needed to get some hands on experience of the game!
I like [...]

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