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Mystery Rummy + more

February 6, 2012

I’ve been selling games. My collection is now 300 games, including expansions. That makes my personal collection about 250 titles, as we have about 50 kids games. My previously owned count at BGG now says 308. I suppose I can be considered an active game trader. I’ve recently sold Blue Moon (complete set, except promos), Evolution, [...]

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Ostbahn, Lancaster, kids games

December 26, 2011

Playing catch-up… I started working on the year review, but I have to get these out first. Since the previous post, I’ve had one game session with adults (last week I had to skip because of Christmas) and have played several interesting games with my son. Preußische Ostbahn. I noticed there was almost two years [...]

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Games update

December 11, 2011

Two weeks passed again. Time flies. Stuff I’ve played recently (as reported on the Google+ page, which is worth following if you ask me), rated using the Avoid, Indifferent, Suggest, Enthusiastic scale described by Brian: Dobble. Also known as Spot It!, this is a ridiculously entertaining card game. The round cards have bunch of icons [...]

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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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Recent new games

September 17, 2011

Looks like my game reporting is lagging a bit, again. Two weeks ago I introduced Attika to my Monday game opponent. This classic is still fun and an interesting challenge. Barons is a very ugly game (as can be expected) from Cambridge Game Factory. Too bad is nowhere near as interesting as Glory to Rome. [...]

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RightGames, part 2

August 31, 2011

Today I was able to test the other two games from the Russian board game publisher RightGames (see part 1 for the other two). Evolution: The Origin of Species is a fun card game, where players evolve animals by adding traits to them. Survival is of the essence: each winter the animals must eat. It [...]

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RightGames, part 1

August 30, 2011

The Russian game company RightGames sent review copies to just about everybody, it seems. I got a set, and I’ve now played half of the games. So far I’m somewhat impressed. Potion-making: Practice is a fun game, where cards are both alchemiy ingredients and formulas that combine two or more ingredients into a potion. Cards [...]

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Recent games

August 27, 2011

Some notes on recent games. First some new games I’ve tried. Schatz der Drachen (Knizia / Winning Moves) is a nice twist on a memory game. Works well and I enjoyed it. My son didn’t enjoy it quite as much, though. Excape (Knizia / Filosofia) is a horrible, frustrating game. It’s a simple die game [...]

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Nile DeLuxor

August 19, 2011

I was offered a review copy of Nile DeLuxor from Minion Games. Since I really like the original Nile, I was quick to take the offer. This new edition takes a good game and makes it even better. What’s different? Proper box. Nothing too large, but the cards fit in, even sleeved. Good insert. Proper [...]

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