From the monthly archives:

October 2010

Math trade results

October 31, 2010

Here’s my side of the recent Finnish math trade: I traded 2038 for Days of Steam Bamboleo for Roll through the Ages Epäillyt for Age of Steam: Disco Inferno / Soul Train Fauna for Santiago Fluch der Mumie for Blokus Hornet for Finca Steel Driver for Stephensons Rocket Some of these trades are better than [...]

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18xx day: 1846 and 1889

October 31, 2010

Tommy came from Vantaa to join me, Olli and Robert for a day of 18xx. We chose two shorter games, 1846 and 1889, to make sure we could actually finish two games during the ~9 hours we had. We expected to use four hours per game and that worked out pretty well. We started with [...]

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New rules for WYPS

October 30, 2010

A new WYPS championship season started on Little Golem recently and I was more than surprised when my words weren’t accepted. A little bit of investigation solved the problem: the rules had changed. Previously, words could snake around on the board, now they have to be in straight lines. Also, the first one to connect [...]

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Back to the Future and Innovation

October 25, 2010

My brother gave me a copy of Back to the Future: The Card Game. It’s a new version of Chrononauts and it’s done by Andrew Looney and the Looney Labs. Not my kind of game, then, but an interesting surprise. Reading the rules and checking out the cards confirmed my doubts: this is a random [...]

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Shopping – final list

October 24, 2010

Here’s what I ended up getting this season: Winsome Essen set. Almost missed this, but fortunately everything’s now secure. I’m most interested in SNCF, which should be sweet, but Texas & Pacific is also interesting. West Riding Revisited less so, as I didn’t fancy the old West Riding and I don’t really need more long [...]

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Sturgeon

October 14, 2010

Sturgeon isn’t named after Sturgeon’s law (90% of everything is crud), but the name is appropriate. Actually, this small game from Minion Games and designer Russell Brown is about fish. Players try to get two sturgeons on their side of the lake, but that requires patience and careful build-up of fish. Overview of the rules [...]

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Birthday party

October 12, 2010

I had a birthday party last Sunday. Last time I had one was some time after I moved to Tampere, so I was probably 21. I invited, what, four friends and that’s it. Now I’m 30 and I decided — eventually, after a lot of to and fro — to have a proper party. In [...]

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A cool String Railway video

October 9, 2010

Here’s a neat video of String Railway. I’ll have to say the game looks very charming. I’m buying.

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Comments of the beast

October 6, 2010

I’ve got 666 game comments entered in Geek. Quite a few games. I found a student paper clipping from years ago, where I proudly claim owning about 40 games, which was a large collection back then (I currently have 214, as listed in Geek).

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