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Afrikan tähti
Afrikan tähti. I thought it was very inappropriate that the finest Finnish boardgame wasn’t in BoardGameGeek. Now it is.
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The Games Journal is out
Finally the January 2003 The Games Journal is out. There’s an article about Princes of Florence and Puerto Rico by yours truly, a very interesting article (based on a thesis) about combining electronics and board games and some witty comedy. There’s also the solution for the last month’s Confrontation puzzle, which I thought was unsolvable.…
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Year 2002 board game club stats
I also keep the statistics for our board game club. I think it’s interesting to know what games are played (and by whom, but that is of minor interest). Of course, you can keep track of the stats in real time at the web site, but here’s a review of the last year’s numbers. Number…
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Top 10 list 01/2003
Tichu (1) Die Macher (3) Princes of Florence (6) Puerto Rico (2) Tigris & Euphrates (9) Die Händler (7) Mahjong (4) Through the Desert (8) Africa (5) Isis & Osiris (-)
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Gaming year 2002 — the statistical review
I love keeping the statistics for the games I play. I like toying around with the numbers, seeing how they go. Of course, the biggest rewards come when you can make deeper, more complete analysis. Changing of the year is a natural time for that. I can make a fairly complete review of the past…
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Post-Christmas games: Villa Paletti & Scrabble
I went “back home” to visit my parents with Johanna. Games couldn’t be avoided, especially since I had given Villa Paletti to my mother as a Christmas present. It turned out to be a good gift — which was expected, since she has always enjoyed Timpuri, a Finnish variant of Jenga. Well, we played a…
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Christmas Games
While waiting for the gifts, I played some games with my girlfriend Johanna. Because we were spending the Christmas at her parent’s home, we had her old game collection to use: Afrikan tähti (Star of Africa, named after the huge diamond) and Pekingin mysteerit (aka Mysteries of Peking). Afrikan tähti is the best-selling Finnish game…
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BSW Session: Lost Cities, Carcassonne
This was probably the last game session this year… I played few games at the Brettspielwelt, classic BSW games really. First, I played seven hands of Lost Cities, losing most of them. Still, it was pretty fun. At least it didn’t take a long time. Then, I played a two-player game of good old Carcassonne.…
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Tournament systems
I’ve been thinking about the tournaments in the board game club. In 2001, we had a very simple tournament. In our December meeting, we played a four-game tournament and the winner got the prize. This year, a small one-game tournament was played every time and the finals in the December meeting. That was better, but…
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Boardgame club meeting: Puerto Rico, Die Händler, Carcassonne: H&G
The last meeting for this year of the Tampere University board game club was yesterday. We had a nice amount of people playing lots of different games. The Game of the Year -award was given to Puerto Rico (last year’s winner was Carcassonne) and the finals of the Spirit of the Game -tournament was played.…