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Lahti board game weekend 2005

April 4, 2005

Once again I ventured to Lahti and Peter Munter’s board game weekend. After all, I had to go and rescue my sleeping bag I had forgotten there last time. For the record, it didn’t survive: Munter’s dog (a huge Great Dane, and I’m not talking about Mik Svellov now) had eaten it’s storage bag. Munter, [...]

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Lahti games weekend, Friday

March 15, 2004

Another Lahti gaming weekend is over now. Organised by Peter Munter of Puolenkuun Pelit, the event is rather merry occasion. The participants were all-male invite-only group of friends and friends of friends. The average age of the players is probably a tad higher than what I’m used to and there’s a certain bloke mentality involved. [...]

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Lahti Board Game Weekend, Friday

September 8, 2003

So, I spent the weekend at the Munter mansion in Lahti, playing games. It was an excellent weekend of games, one of the best I’ve participated in. Not the best, though — I think game events get better the less people there are. The participants were pretty carefully selected, but not enough. The ideal for [...]

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Recent action

May 7, 2003

I’ve been hanging around at the Puolenkuun Pelit web forum. There’s not much about board games, but it’s been curious to watch and participate nevertheless. Also, they’re planning a gaming weekend in September, which looks like a good event. Yesterday I prepared my talk about board games, which I’ll be having tomorrow when the game [...]

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New games!

April 29, 2003

My collection grew by two games today, when I picked up Mare Nostrum and Acquire from the post office. Both were donated by Puolenkuun pelit as a payment for using my board game articles at their web site. Thanks to them! Mare Nostrum looks quite cool, I just haven’t been able to try it out [...]

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Puolenkuun pelit

April 20, 2003

Finnish gamers might want to check out the Lahti-based game store Puolenkuun pelit. Their website has nice, bright colours and perhaps a bit annoying design, but they do have some good board games in stock (however, I don’t know about their level of service; I’d guess it’s decent, at least they seem to have some [...]

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