From the monthly archives:

November 2005

Byte

November 18, 2005

Iain challenged me to play Alien City on Super Duper Games. It’s a neat game, which I’ll write about when I finish the game. However, I also got a challenge to play Byte from the game’s designer. I was surprised to know I had played one of his earlier designs as well (Tanbo). Byte is [...]

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The Future of Board Games?

November 17, 2005

I have seen the future of board games and it looks… interesting? Well, not actually — I just got a copy of Tactic’s DVD Sudoku and I just opened the box and punched the tiles, I haven’t tried it yet. But it certainly looks interesting. The gist of the game is solving sudokus (well, yeah), [...]

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Order from Milan-Spiele

November 17, 2005

Milan-Spiele was fast! Well, GLS was. The package was sent from Germany Friday, and it came yesterday. Of course, GLS didn’t care to contact me before delivering the package, but fortunately Johanna was home. I don’t mind, since it would’ve been a pain to carry a big box like that from post office. So, I [...]

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New colour

November 17, 2005

After meddling with the colours and the looks at Lautapelaaja.net, I kind of realised this blog looks pretty boring. I mean, just one colour and black and white. More colours! EasyRGB Color harmonies tool gave me some blues and purples and I ended up with this. How do you like the new style?

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Entering Blue Moon

November 16, 2005

I got my first taste of Blue Moon yesterday. I got my set, and just had to give it a go. I’ve been somewhat interested in the game for a while now, and when I saw it sold at the Board Game Society forum, I bought it right away. The set included also few expansions [...]

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Phantom Rummy with Johanna

November 12, 2005

I wanted to see how Johanna liked Phantom Rummy, so we played a game. It wasn’t quite a success — we aborted after three rounds when Johanna was leading 8-4. I wasn’t quite sure she’d like the game to begin with… She likes Mhing, but is Phantom Rummy similar enough? Or too similar? As it [...]

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Pünct

November 11, 2005

A review of Pünct in Finnish. After trying Pünct in Essen and knowing I probably won’t play again, I thought I’d write a review since my opinion is already well-formed. Pünct is a great addition to the Project GIPF line. It extends the set to connection games, a fairly important subgenre of abstract two-player games. [...]

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Reworking the categories

November 10, 2005

This blog has been categorized in a terrible way. The division between Less about games and More about games is idiotic. No librarian can be proud of a classification like that, no way. Thus, it’s time to re-work the categories. Sorry for the trouble! I’m going through my archives, throwing stuff from one bin to [...]

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Where’s My Geek?

November 10, 2005

Grr. BoardGameGeek just won’t answer. I don’t have any particular need to use it, just some general checking, which I can’t do because either the server is busy or the site doesn’t answer at all, and I’m getting all aggravated about it. Talk about withdrawal symptoms… Please, please get back up, dear Geek!

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Good offers

November 7, 2005

As much as I wish to support the local game store, there are some offers you just can’t afford to miss. Ta Yü is a really good game that’s been either too expensive or hard to get. Now it’s neither, as just about every German online store is unloading it at 19.90 euros. Go grab [...]

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