From the monthly archives:

January 2006

Finnish reviews: Antike, Louis XIV, Around the World in 80 Days, In the Shadow of the Emperor

January 18, 2006

I’ve written few reviews recently. These are all in Finnish, I’ll write the English reviews here at some point: Antike, Around the World in 80 Days, In the Shadow of the Emperor, Louis XIV. Has anybody who doesn’t understand Finnish actually checked any of my Finnish reviews? Like, could I just claim to write like [...]

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Board game club: Antike, Antike!

January 17, 2006

Board game club met last Sunday. It was a good meeting, with lots of people, some new faces and active gaming. After a warm-up game of Flix Mix (I’m still unbeaten in this game), we started a six-player Antike. That was one of my main wishes for the meeting, trying Antike with five or six. [...]

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Travian

January 15, 2006

I’m somewhat hooked on Travian. It’s a German multi-user online game you can play using just a browser. Let’s see if it sounds familiar: players farm their hexagon-shaped fields, producing a variety of resources: wood, bricks, iron and wheat. These are used to build new buildings and improve the fields, but also to create units [...]

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Blue Moon session

January 12, 2006

I met Olli for some Blue Moon. We played for few hours and hey, Blue Moon is already on my 5&10′s list this year. We had time for exactly ten games. Interesting enough, a first player to act won all games. That wasn’t the case last time, but it sure is curious. There’s an advantage [...]

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DVD Sudoku

January 9, 2006

I played a game of DVD Sudoku with Johanna yesterday (that’s something only an exceptionally good wife would do for her husband!) and wrote a review in Finnish on the other site. DVD Sudoku is one of the games featuring the biggest thing of 2005. This version adds another 2005 trend: a DVD. Can something [...]

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Making a very small fortune playing Poker

January 8, 2006

I’ve been playing online Poker recently. It’s one of those things I’ve been thinking about. I ended up not doing it originally — I would be happy to play play money games at one site, until I could make profit with that. Which didn’t look like happening. Well, then came Christmas and a 10 euro [...]

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European partnership Crokinole championship tournament

January 5, 2006

The first European partnership Crokinole championship tournament will be fought on February 11th in Dresden, Germany. More information will be available at the Crokinole Companions web site at some point. If I was anywhere near, I would definitely participate, but I’m afraid Crokinole isn’t a reason good enough to spend the money on travel, even [...]

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Flix Mix

January 4, 2006

Another review up: Flix Mix (in Finnish). Flix Mix is one of my favourite speed games. Each player has an identical deck of 16 cards, all featuring six dots sporting different colours. The goal of the game is to get rid of cards by laying them on the table. There’s just one limitation: each card [...]

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Caylus

January 2, 2006

There’s a review of Caylus in Finnish up at the other site — it’s been there for about a week now. Caylus is, of course, the biggest thing since… well, last Essen. I went to Essen with an understanding that we’re dealing with a quality game here, thanks to Rick Thornquist’s raports. I wasn’t originally [...]

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