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Afrikan tähti

Board games in news

September 14, 2005

Board games were mentioned in the TV news today — ok, it was the smallest of the four Finnish main channels, but anyway. They said playing board games was more popular than ever, which is always nice. Their main point, however, was the new game from Kari Mannerla. Kari Mannerla, as we all know, is [...]

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Afrikan tähti

January 3, 2003

Afrikan tähti. I thought it was very inappropriate that the finest Finnish boardgame wasn’t in BoardGameGeek. Now it is.

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Christmas Games

December 25, 2002

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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