From the monthly archives:

December 2010

Yearly dose of 1825 Unit 3

December 30, 2010

I’m a firm believer that a game of 1825 Unit 3 per year helps to maintain a healthy mind. So, that’s what we did. This was already the fifth of our Unit 3 games. This time, with experience and my nice spreadsheet for money management, we were able to finish in just 2.5 hours. Not [...]

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Muumien purnukkajahti photos

December 29, 2010

As promised, here’s some photos. The game is somewhat obscure Muumien purnukkajahti, a Moomin-themed race game that won the Finnish Game of the Year award in the children’s game category. It’s a very boring roll-and-move game, the theme being the only good thing about it. Theme, and the nice wooden puzzle tiles that are used [...]

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Goal for 2011

December 28, 2010

I’m working on the gaming year 2010 report (it’s a long one, this year, so don’t expect it any time soon), which brings me to 2011. I’ve got a goal set up for 2011: I’m finally going to get that Golden Image Uploader badge at BoardGameGeek. Getting the badge requires 100 pictures, each with at [...]

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Sharkbait, in the Japanese style

December 19, 2010

I’m playing 1889 by email with Scott “redracecar” Petersen, Breno K. and jimb. Not that I’m scared, or anything…

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Notes on 7 Wonders

December 19, 2010

We played seven games of 7 Wonders this weekend, all with four or three players. Less is better, what comes to players. There’s more control, more cards come back to you and you can more easily focus on your opponents as well. The game plays fast with experience. It does feel a bit samey. Seven [...]

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Finca, 7 Wonders

December 18, 2010

I’m visiting Jyväskylä again.  I saw my mother two weeks ago at my brother’s birthday party and gave her my Finca, so they could learn the game before I come to visit. This time it was a success, they’d played the game couple of times already so we could just jump in and play and [...]

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What’s your H-index?

December 15, 2010

There was some talk on ratings at the Lautapeliseura forums, as one of the forum regulars, oskari, reached 1000 ratings on Geek recently. Not bad, in six years! He’s very prolific game sampler, so no surprise he was the first Finnish gamer I know to reach the magic milestone (it’ll take me couple of years, [...]

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Lamarckian Poker, Texas & Pacific, Homesteaders

December 15, 2010

Good games today. Weather, not so. I don’t mind winter, but temperature today barely reached above -20 degrees, and that’s just too cold. My car isn’t too happy about it, either, and protests by making the windows freeze from the inside. Scraping the outsides is easy, insides is tricky and fills the car with snow. [...]

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Charly, Skåne, Innovation

December 8, 2010

What an efficient session today! I brought four games, and all got played. That’s rare and pleasant. After a quick loss in Roll through the Ages (the shorter non-expansion game is certainly short), we moved to Charly. Charly is a quick filler where there’s food and animals, and those need to be matched. It’s a [...]

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Dominion Online

December 6, 2010

Dominion Online at Isotropic.org is a rather cool way to play Dominion online. It’s very elegant, all monospaced text, and works like a charm. It has all cards, every card from every set and promos too. The user interface is mostly intuitive, and certainly better than what Brettspielwelt has to offer. I used it to [...]

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