From the monthly archives:

June 2006

Hot games for Q2/2006

June 26, 2006

Here’s a list of hottest games for the second quarter of 2006 for me. This is based on number of plays, my enjoyment of the game and the novelty value, so new games tend to show up higher on the list. You can also check the previous quarter, with completely different games. Thurn und Taxis [...]

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It’s a boy!

June 23, 2006

My son was born today, just seven minutes past midnight. He’s small, cute and seems to enjoy sleeping quite a lot. I don’t know what to say, it was simply an amazing experience seeing the birth and the first few moments, my son and his mother together. It’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.

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Blue Moon

June 17, 2006

Olli M. was interested in playing two-player games during the summer. Since our baby likes to keep us waiting, I had plenty of time to meet Olli for games. We played a hefty session of Blue Moon. In two and half hours we managed to play eight matches, so both of us could play through [...]

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Indonesia

June 13, 2006

On the Finnish site, a review of Indonesia just came up. Indonesia is a serious business game from Splotter, the guys behind Antiquity and Roads and Boats, two highly esteemed heavy games. Indonesia is a worthy addition to that line. Players work behind the scenes of the Indonesian industry. The beginnings are humble: few rice [...]

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Touché

June 12, 2006

This Finnish review of Touché has been up for a while. Well, better later than never… Touché is a simple game, where players are trying to form patterns on the board. Each round is play a card, draw a card, until someone forms a pattern. All pieces except those on the pattern are removed and [...]

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TradeResolver

June 12, 2006

TradeResolver has evolved to release 4, which is probably the last release for a while now. The program works and has plenty of interesting features. In the speed of the brute force mode it loses to TradeGenie, but then again, even TradeGenie is too slow to completely run through bigger lists in reasonable amount of [...]

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Margin for Error

June 7, 2006

I got a copy of Margin for Error to try. It’s a partnership trick-taking game, so it’ll have to wait until the next time I have four players together. It looks simple enough: there’s a captain who decides, whether their team will go for lots of points or no points. Other team tries to mess [...]

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Cider gaming: Cosmic Eidex, Mhing

June 7, 2006

Yesterday’s game session was motivated by cider. Some local pubs have cider weeks right now and being such a cider fan as I am, I wanted to check out their real cider — it was called Broadside or Broadwinds, don’t know for sure. It was good (though not superior to Weston’s Old Rosie), as were [...]

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Ricochet Robot solver

June 6, 2006

Remember when I wrote about my Ricochet Robot solver back in 2002? Maybe not, but today I did get a message from Matthias Krings, telling me he has a working Ricochet Robot that’s fast. He doesn’t have Windows binaries, so I can’t check right now, but if you’re running Linux, go check Yet Another Ricochet [...]

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Board game club: Edel, Stein & Reich, Bunte Runde

June 5, 2006

Yesterday was board game club day, despite nice weather, sunshine and all. We won’t let that stop us! The turnout was good, three tables going on all the time. I got a nice bunch of people playing with me the whole afternoon with few changes. I suppose I can trust the club goes well without [...]

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