From the monthly archives:

July 2005

Blueberry Africa

July 30, 2005

Just a quick game of Africa while we waited for the blueberry pie to bake. It was over fairly swiftly; actually, it was just on time. Johanna lead throughout the game, even though I almost caught her lead. However, good camp scoring in the end really finished the game for her advantage. I asked how [...]

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Around the World in 72 Days

July 30, 2005

The guys at the Marektoy were kind enough to send me a copy of the Finnish edition of Around the World in 80 Days along with the games I’ve translated. It wasn’t on my list of games to get, but sure I’ll like to have it if I get it for free… I tried it [...]

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Monopoly Card Game

July 27, 2005

I coaxed Johanna to try the Monopoly Card Game. Designed by Phil Orbanes, it’s basically a Monopoly-themed Rummy game. Players try to form their 10-card hands into complete sets of colour groups and bonus cards. First player to build a ready hand scores five extra cards, but everybody counts points. The game is very much [...]

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Moving sucks

July 27, 2005

Moving is nasty business. While board games aren’t the worst hobby to move (bibliophilia is pretty bad), it still isn’t fun. I had to haul something like three-four boxes and six or so bags full of big box games. That’s a lot, and it sure makes me feel like reducing the size of my collection. [...]

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Air of expectation

July 21, 2005

Guess what! My copy of Antiquity began its journey from Essen (that’s where Allgames4you is located) to Tampere yesterday. I’m hoping it’ll make it here during next week, but we’ll see — it was sent to my old address, which I’m leaving Tuesday. I hope the redirect service won’t delay it until August… I’m quite [...]

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FarFalia

July 20, 2005

I wrote a review of FarFalia. My session report summarised the game pretty well already, but here goes again: FarFalia is a trick-taking game for five players. It supports two and three with dummies and four with different arrangements, but it’s designed for five and shines that way. The game features a fairly standard deck [...]

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Board game club: Manila, Dividends, Boomtown, Modern Art, Farfalia, Louis XIV

July 18, 2005

We had a very good game session yesterday. It started with just me and four guys, but hey, we had a blast even if noone else joined us until much later. After clicking through an absolutely dreadful game of Crokinole with Robert, rest of the guys arrived and I got us started with Manila. It [...]

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Ropecon

July 14, 2005

Ropecon 2005 is approaching fast. It’s the biggest roleplaying event in Finland and boasts a wide variety of board game events. There’s the Finnish Championships of Catan and Carcassonne, where the winners get to go to Essen to represent Finland in the World Championships (no, the plane tickets are not paid for). There’s also lots [...]

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Dividends

July 6, 2005

I got a review copy of Dividends from Fun Factory Games. For a new company, they’ve certainly got the production values right. Dividends looks very sleek and actually looks more modern than pretty much anything else I have. The game seems interesting enough: it’s a fairly simple stock-market game of buy, sell and earn dividends. [...]

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Industrial Waste vs Power Grid

July 3, 2005

I was asked a question by Jacob in the comments of an earlier post: Hey, could I trouble you for your opinion of Industrial Waste vs Powergrid? I’ve played neither and I’m intrigued by both. Powergrid is ranked really high on BGG and when I read reviews, I keep feeling that the same negatives (i.e. [...]

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