From the monthly archives:

November 2011

Lancaster

November 26, 2011

This week’s game was Lancaster, ordered from Germany back in September, now finally here. Took a while, but hey, it’s a Queen game. At least it wasn’t as badly delayed as German Railways or, ahem, the Samarkand expansion… Hannu bought the game, mostly because it’s by Matthias Cramer, the designer of Glen More, and because [...]

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Tactic games

November 24, 2011

I got a bunch of review copies from Tactic. They are probably the biggest board game publisher in Finland and as far as I know a fairly big in European level as well — certainly bigger than many of the hobby publishers we cherish, like Hans im Glück. Their games are fairly mass-market, with occasional [...]

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Gameblog on Google+

November 23, 2011

I’ve got lots of board game geeks in my Google+ circles. I’ve been posting board game notes there, mostly quick thoughts of what I’ve played. Those notes appear much faster and more reliably than what I post here. I’ve run into a limitation with Google+: I don’t mind sharing those notes in public, yet I [...]

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Blogger in photo

November 19, 2011

Another one, courtesy of Sampo Sikiö:

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Tulipmania, Terra Evolution and Felix

November 18, 2011

Good games yesterday. We managed to get through four games in one evening. Tulipmania 1637 is a pretty cool game of a bubble market that heats up and crashes. Somehow the game felt a bit flat, though. I want to give it another go, but next time it’s five players or nothing (now we had [...]

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Terra Evolution

November 14, 2011

I got a review copy of Terra Evolution in Lautapelaamaan con and I’ve now played it five times, on two occasions. Both have been my Monday circus school games with Janne, so all have been two-player games. So far, I dig it. I’d rate it a 7, so probably not a keeper, but I did [...]

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Acquired

November 11, 2011

1971 3M Bookshelf Acquire

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Lautapelaamaan 2011 (Helcon)

November 10, 2011

Traditional Helcon is now Lautapelaamaan (“to play board games”). The event remains the same: a weekend of open gaming in Helsinki couple of weeks after Essen. 2011 saw another change in venue, this time to a bigger hall inside Kaapelitehdas. Not bad, as the hall last year was a bit crowded, but Kaapelitehdas is a [...]

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Renewed

November 1, 2011

Hope you like this blog — I just renewed the domain for another five years. It’s ten years next year… I’ve enjoyed the blog myself, every now and then there’s a reason to dig through the archives. I played Hollywood Blockbuster (aka Dream Factory, aka Traumfabrik, aka Fabrik der Träume, aka Hollywood) last Sunday, my [...]

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