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Finnish Game of the Year winners 2005

Finnish Game of the Year winners have been declared. They reflect the Spiel des Jahres awards closely. Best children's game is Geistertreppe, 2004 Kinder Spiel des Jahres winner. Kids loved the ghost mechanism and thought the game was funny and...

Posted by Mikko on September 9, 2005 1:15 PM

Tea and Metro

Metro is of suitable weight and length to be played over a cup of tea, it seems. However, I'm afraid we're not going to play the game again. Even though Johanna won the game hands down, she thought it was...

Posted by Mikko on August 25, 2005 9:38 AM

Club meeting

Board game club gathered yesterday to play some games. I was actually rather satisfied with the games I played, I managed to play just about everything I set out to play. We started with San Marco. I'd like to try...

Posted by Mikko on March 22, 2004 8:26 AM

Independence Day games

Even though next board game club meeting is tomorrow, I invited Robert and Olli to my place for some games. It was a very good way to spend the Independence Day in my opinion, especially as Johanna was out of...

Posted by Mikko on December 6, 2003 9:15 PM

HelCon II - Saturday

Saturday was the first day of HelCon II. We got up early, packed the car and headed towards the location. Which was quite nice, really! For once the space was open and had windows and even the bathrooms were quite...

Posted by Mikko on November 10, 2003 11:49 AM

Board game club meeting

The board game club season opened well yesterday. We had about 15 attendees, which is a good amount considering our premises. It wasn't completely ordinary event, though. There was a photographer from the Finnish home journal Kotiliesi, taking pictures for...

Posted by Mikko on October 13, 2003 12:35 PM

Finnish translations

I've been doing some updating on the Finnish side of my game stuff. I'm going to pick up my Adam order today and new games means new translations. I've already done Crokinole, PitchCar and Alhambra. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde...

Posted by Mikko on October 7, 2003 5:19 PM

Adam Spielt order

Our latest Adam Spielt order has been made. Next week I should get the following games: PitchCar - A must after the Lahti weekend. Simply too much fun to miss this one. I wasn't interested in this before I tried,...

Posted by Mikko on September 25, 2003 10:54 AM

Spiel des Jahres 2003

Spiel des Jahres 2003 award winners have been chosen! Winner of the main award is Alhambra by Dirk Henn. Best children's game is Viva Topo! by Manfred Ludwig. Congratulations to the winners!Alhambra Viva Topo!-->...

Posted by Mikko on June 23, 2003 9:19 AM