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Dune

February 19, 2005

I wrote a review of Dune (in Finnish). I haven’t played Dune in ages — there’s not a mention of it in this blog, for example, and I haven’t missed many sessions since I started writing. Usually if I own a game and don’t play it, there’s a reason. With Dune, the reasons are obvious. [...]

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Book on connection games

January 20, 2005

An interesting book was advertised on Little Golem boards. Connection Games : Variations on a Theme is written by Cameron Browne. Here’s a summary from the publisher’s website: A comprehensive study of the connection game genre, Connection Games provides a survey of known connection games while exploring common themes and strategies. This book aims to [...]

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One Jump Ahead

January 17, 2005

I finished reading One Jump Ahead : Challenging Human Supremacy in Checkers, which was rather interesting book. It’s written by Jonathan Schaeffer, who designed Chinook, the first computer program to win a human world championship. Chinook played Checkers, a traditional and intriguing game that hides in the shadow of Chess. The book is also about [...]

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Flaschenteufel

November 21, 2003

Here’s what I wrote about Flaschenteufel on Spielfrieks. It provoked a reply from Joe Huber, the author of the original Games Journal review. He told that the new edition changes aren’t just cosmetic — some cards have changed colour and their scoring values have changed as well. It’s not a huge change, but something you [...]

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Dice Games Properly Explained

July 7, 2003

Well, it took two weeks, but Dice Games Properly Explained hit my mailbox today. I’ve almost read it already and expect to finish soon. It’s a wonderful book! Full of games and as the title says, the games are properly explained. There’s a lot of thought about the tactics, especially when it comes to the [...]

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Cosmic Pig

May 15, 2003

More crazy stuff from the Seattle Cosmic: a variant of Cosmic Encounter, which makes the game more like the Interstellar Pig. Take a look at the Cosmic Pig. If I played Cosmic Encounter more often, that’d be something I’d love to try.

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Interstellar Pig = Cosmic Encounter?

May 6, 2003

Ron Hale-Evans has written a very interesting article about the Interstellar Pig in the Seattle Cosmic Wiki. Interstellar Pig is a book (mentioned here before), which features an interesting game as it’s main theme. The game, says Ron Hale-Evans, bears more than passing resemblance to Cosmic Encounter. If you’ve read the book, go read Ron’s [...]

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Books about games

March 20, 2003

I’ve been reading books about games lately. Mostly books describing the rules to various card games, including the classic of classics: Hoyle’s Games. It’s not the original version from the 18th century, but a modern version from the 50′s. Still, it’s a neat book. Now I’d really love to play Piquet and other fine and [...]

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Bridge

March 8, 2003

While visiting the library, I studied other books than the Hanafuda already mentioned. Few of them were about Bridge, the king of the trick-taking games (and perhaps card games in general, as well). I have really no interest to play Bridge, as it seems to be a terribly deep and complex game. That’s fine, but [...]

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