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strategy

Some Thurn und Taxis thoughts

April 26, 2006

Played some Thurn und Taxis at BSW. This time I was focused on the wagon-growing strategy, where you build five routes: three, four, five, six and seven cities. That way you’ll end the game (hopefully) faster than your opponents and will score plenty.
Based on my experiments, I’d say it works. It’s not a guaranteed winner, [...]

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Indonesia session

April 9, 2006

I got the guys together for a game of Indonesia. My original idea was to play two games, but that was a bit too much to ask. Our game took hefty three hours and 40 minutes, so we didn’t have either time or energy to play a double match.
It was still quite an interesting game. [...]

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Lost Valley — river gold rocks!

June 30, 2005

We played our third Lost Valley match today. Johanna did the impossible: she won with river gold only! It’s the only thing she could’ve done, too, because she didn’t get a single mountain on her side of the river.
It was pretty neat, but also quite close. She had just 15 pieces of gold on her [...]

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Dvonn strategy

December 3, 2004

I’m determined to learn Dvonn. Therefore I dug out some strategy guides. There are some basic tips and Alan Kwan’s glossary, both at Project Gipf site. There’s also Joe Gola’s very detailed session report at the Geek. I sure hope these help me improve my game. If I played more of two-player games, Dvonn would [...]

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The Games Journal

December 2, 2004

Another issue of The games Journal is out. Greg Aleknevicus continues his series on basic strategy, this time covering long-term planning. I was somewhat disappointed by this article, it felt somewhat trivial. I found the previous article in the series (covering strategies of trading) much more interesting and useful.
In the other hand, Sarah Samuelson’s article [...]

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Weekend games: Fifth Avenue

October 5, 2004

The weekend is over and I finally have time to write about the games I played. The first thing we tried was the game I was most interested about: Fifth Avenue. And yeah, it was interesting. After one game, my initial rating is eight, which is pretty good considering Fifth Avenue’s a bit low average [...]

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Guess what? St. Pete at BSW!

August 4, 2004

I just played four two-player games of St. Petersburg at Brettspielwelt. Longest game took almost 14 minutes, fastest was over under eight minutes! That’s more like it!
I managed to win only one game. In two-player games it’s easy to see when one player starts to get more and more workers and then you can say [...]

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The Games Journal

June 1, 2004

Once again, The Games Journal is out with a new issue. This one is great! Goodness starts with an insightful editorial on the front page. Destination Gaming is a curious article — I don’t get the point, but it’s a good read nonetheless. Greg Aleknevicus starts a new series on Basic Strategy of games. The [...]

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Puerto Rico strategy

August 20, 2003

Jim Campbell has written Large Warehouse of Puerto Rico Knowledge, an excellent Puerto Rico strategy article. Even though the article is truncated at the end, it’s still a very good and useful read for anyone who wants to reach a higher level of Puerto Rico knowledge.

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