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Carcassonne vs Settlers of Catan — winner is clear

August 7, 2004

As I mentioned in an earlier entry, Finnish Game of the Year awards are very interesting this year as both Carcassonne and Settlers of Catan are competing for the award. Well, looks like that competition is already done: Catan didn’t make it to the final four. Carcassonne did, and is competing against Yundao, Triominds and [...]

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New Finnish game store online

July 2, 2004

Lautapelit.fi (lautapelit is Finnish for board games), a new Finnish online game store opened it’s web site yesterday. It’s still bit unfinished, but it should work already. It’s run by the folks behind Safe Haven. I think it’s pretty neat. Prices should be a bit lower than in Safe Haven (that’s not the case right [...]

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Finnish Players’ Picks 2003

October 2, 2003

Finnish gamers have made their choice: Puerto Rico is the best game they have played during the last year. 125 voters, 222 games. Puerto Rico was listed by 47 voters, so it was quite a victory. Second spot went to Carcassonne with 37 votes. See the best games as a geeklist. The Finnish result page [...]

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Weekend games, Sunday

August 11, 2003

Sunday began with a game of Mamma Mia! with the kids. They’ve become fans quickly, I guess I’ll just have to keep on taking the game with me from now on. I’d also throw a guess that it’s going to appear on the next Adam Spielt order, too… Land Unter, here are the kids. Kids, [...]

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Game studies

May 10, 2003

The game studies group meeting went well. My talk was rather unstructured, but hopefully someone got something of it. There were about eight people there, some of which were already quite familiar with board games. Different point of views, though. Petri seems like a fan of American school of board game design, citing games like [...]

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First BSW games this year

February 8, 2003

I played my first Brettspielwelt games this year. Those first games included two 2-player games of Carcassonne with the expansion. I won both games. Then, for the first time ever, I managed to get in a game of Tichu. I didn’t make any blatant mistakes and actually one or two neat plays. Unfortunately I had [...]

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BSW Session: Lost Cities, Carcassonne

December 23, 2002

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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BSW games: Carcassonne, Web of Power

December 5, 2002

Not my day today, it seems. Well, I did win my first game of Carcassonne at the Brettspielwelt thanks to some very nasty tile placements. I lost the second game, a two-player duel, by one point. If I hadn’t made a mistake with the last tile, I would’ve won. Then came two games of Web [...]

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Carcassonne at BSW

November 21, 2002

I just played two games of Carcassonne with the Expansion at the Brettspielwelt. I won the first game and came second in the second. Nice. But these games made me agree with some comments I’ve heard: the expansion tiles are good and bring welcome variety to the game, but throw away the cathedral tiles. Both [...]

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Carcassonne at BSW

October 3, 2002

I went today to BSW to play Tichu which I’ve decided to learn. However, unlike usually, there was only one Tichu player there. So, unwilling to leave empty-handed, I played a two-player game of an old favourite, Carcassonne. It was a very good game. The result says it all: I won 108-105! It was very [...]

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