From the monthly archives:

March 2009

Thursday session: Wabash Cannonball and Dolmengötter

March 27, 2009

Yesterday’s session started with an interesting game of Wabash Cannonball. We only had three players, so it was a different game to start with. I managed to lose the game on the first round. I got shares of PRR and C&O (red and yellow), probably the two weakest choices, while Sami got NYC and B&O. [...]

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Thursday games: Steel Driver

March 20, 2009

An opportunity presented itself… We decided to put Nooa in temporary day care so Johanna could get a break and I could get some board game time. There’s a nice private day care center next to the university where we play, you can drop your kids there for an hour or few. That worked out [...]

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Interested in new games

March 11, 2009

I’ve been living in a gaming void… Excluding the play-by-web games, the Bezique match is the only game I’ve played since Anni was born. It’s still a bit hectic to go out and play, but it doesn’t stop me from thinking about games. I’ve found Günter Cornett’s Greentown and I’m seriously thinking about buying it. [...]

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Hobby Games: The 100 Best

March 1, 2009

I’m a tad late with this, I know, but I just finished reading Hobby Games: The 100 Best, which I liked a lot. It’s a collection of hundred short essays on games. The authors are a variety of games industry notables: designers, publishers, authors and so on. There’s Steve Jackson (both of them, actually), Martin [...]

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