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Return to Indonesia
We had a great game session yesterday. We played Indonesia! The appearance of the new third edition made me realize Indonesia would be a great match for my current game group, so I quickly reacquired a copy. I got the first edition, from a friend who upgraded to the third. We had full five players.…
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Return to Chicago & NorthWestern
A friend suggested playing Wabash Cannonball, but when digging through my Winsome crate, I found Chicago & NorthWestern. This John Bohrer design from 2016 was released by Rio Grande in 2023, so it’s more widely available. It’s a funny game. This is a cube rails game where railroad companies spread out west from Chicago. Everybody…
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Gaming Year 2025
18XX. This trend continued strong, with 16 plays of various 18XX titles. I was very happy with this. Now that we have over 30 plays with this group, I did some stats of the results. The most active players in our group (me, Aapo and Ville), do equally well: our average scores are 83-84% of…
18 BosWash, 18 India, 1822: The Railways of Great Britain, 1822CA, 18Korea, Antike II, Botanicus, Cabanga!, Crime Scene: Moscow 1989, De Vulgari Eloquentia, Dune: Imperium, Faraway, Fishing, Forest Shuffle, Forest Shuffle: Dartmoor, Galileo Galilei, Go, Great Western Trail: Argentina, Haggis, Herd Mentality, Innovation Ultimate, Luz, Piles!, Sanctuary, SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, The Fellowship of the Ring: Trick-Taking Game, The Gang, The Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle-Earth, Tichu, Tichu: Booster, Troyes, Underwater Cities, Vantage, Wandering Towers -
Tools for Forest Shuffle: Dartmoor and 18 BosWash
Thoughts on Forest Shuffle: Dartmoor, 18 BosWash and Ruben’s Mini-Chips.
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Spring 2025 notes
Thoughts on Innovation Ultimate, Fellowship of the Ring: The Trick-taking Game, Faraway and Black Forest.
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Gaming Year 2024
18XX. This has been a year of 18XX games. Things started slowly in the Spring, but then 18 India hit us by a storm. I ended up playing various 18XX titles over 20 times this year; that’s more than a third of my all-time 18XX plays since 2006. Forest Shuffle. I still played a ton…
12 Chip Trick, 18 BosWash, 18 India, 1829 Mainline, 1882: Assiniboia, 18GB: The Railways of Great Britain, 18Ireland, CuBirds, Daybreak, Dune: Imperium, Dune: Imperium – Uprising, First Rat, Fishing, Forest Shuffle, Gimme That!, Go, Hamlet: The Village Building Game, Harmonies, Lucky Numbers, Mahjong, Medical Mysteries, MLEM: Space Agency, Oranienburger Kanal, Ricochet Robot, Schadenfreude, SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, Smart10, Taj Mahal, Tea Garden, The Castles of Burgundy, The Gang, The White Castle, Trekking Through History, Troyes, World Wonders -
New game notes, December 2024
Short comments on the best new games I’ve played in the later half of 2024.
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1825 with all Units
Setting up an 1825 game with all the Units has been an arduous task. I hoped to make it a yearly tradition in 2019, but then Covid-19 happened. After that, every attempt has failed somehow. Today, one of our players got stranded in Berlin, but as we had four players present, we made it. This…
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My top 100 list, 2024
After much work, the 2024 edition of my top 100 list is now available on BoardGameGeek. It takes some time to compile, but I find it interesting and useful, and since this is already the 11th edition of the list, there’s interesting long-term data in there. The top 100 list is long and has some…
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Ropecon 2024
Ropecon 2024 was a great experience for games. We played lots of good games, demoed Asian games and met nice people.