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Multiplayer games for two

Iain asked me about other multiplayer games that work with two (other than Caylus, that is). Well, here's a small list: Caylus--> First of all there are few games with modular boards that scale really well. Samurai is the king...

Posted by Mikko on February 3, 2006 10:32 PM

Blueberry Africa

Just a quick game of Africa while we waited for the blueberry pie to bake. It was over fairly swiftly; actually, it was just on time. Johanna lead throughout the game, even though I almost caught her lead. However, good...

Posted by Mikko on July 30, 2005 5:28 PM

Board game club session: Spinergy, In the Shadow of the Emperor

Saturday's board game club session continued: Another game having some buzz about it was Spinergy. We got nine players to play it, which was nice. Spinergy is highly creative party game, where one player spins three words from a device...

Posted by Mikko on April 17, 2005 10:12 AM

Games weekend at Tommy's

Last weekend was the traditional annual games weekend at Tommy's. Third time already! Unfortunately the weekend wasn't quite the success it set out to be, as I fell sick and had to leave. We did get an evening of games...

Posted by Mikko on January 31, 2005 12:27 PM

Rest of the gaming weekend

The previous entry covers the games of Friday. This one tells the tale from Saturday to Sunday. It's a long story, but hopefully of interest at least to someone. Last Saturday was a full day of gaming. I woke up...

Posted by Mikko on February 28, 2003 5:00 PM

Games from last Friday

Last weekend I visited my good friend Tommy and we had a great weekend full of fun and games. I'm going to write session reports about the whole weekend, a day at a time because they're going to be a...

Posted by Mikko on February 26, 2003 7:36 AM

Africa + Puerto Rico

First of all, there's been some discussion about Africa on the Spielfrieks list. The best thing the discussion brought up is this analysis by Peter Wiles (through Defective Yeti Yahoo! groups filter). Read and be amazed, how well Doktor Knizia...

Posted by Mikko on November 12, 2002 6:55 PM

Board game club meeting

So, here's the promised session report. First of all, I was quite satisfied as plenty of people came to play. I didn't count the total, but well over ten, we had four games going on almost all the time. My...

Posted by Mikko on October 14, 2002 3:45 PM

Africa

A new game review on my website: Africa - again in Finnish, sorry. Here's what I think about the game: Africa Carcassonne --> Recently Africa has received some praise from notable members of the Spielfrieks community and I think it...

Posted by Mikko on September 27, 2002 4:48 PM

Weekend gaming

This weekend I visited my parents and played games with them. I also tested my new game recording system: I bought a small notebook which I dedicated to making notes on my games. Before I've made notes in my calendar,...

Posted by Mikko on September 16, 2002 9:52 AM

Games I've played recently

Few words on some games I've played recently: Two days ago I tried out Puerto Rico in the Brettspielwelt, the German online board game server. Puerto Rico must've been a tough conversion, but they've done reasonable job cramming all that...

Posted by Mikko on September 1, 2002 3:13 PM