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Die Säulen der Erde first thoughts

Played a game of Die Säulen der Erde with Johanna yesterday, while the baby was sleeping. It was reasonably enjoyable. Nothing special - I've rated the game as 8 right now. As many of you have heard, there's more than...

Posted by Mikko on October 30, 2006 8:52 AM

Alastair Reynolds and Puerto Rico

If you're into science fiction (with a hard emphasis on science, not just any speculative fiction), you should be aware of Alastair Reynolds' work. Particularly the trilogy of Revolution Space, Redemption Ark and Absolution Gap should be on your reading...

Posted by Mikko on May 19, 2006 2:25 PM

Attribut in Finnish at BSW

Thanks to Markku's great efforts, a Finnish version of Attribut is now available at BrettSpielWelt. We had the first official games yesterday, and it was a blast. The game's so much better in Finnish! Attribute-->...

Posted by Mikko on April 25, 2006 11:39 AM

Thurn und Taxis at BSW, again

After beating Markku from Board Game Society (JoeLamer at BSW, he's very active in EnglishTown so you might've met him) four times in Thurn und Taxis today, I'm starting to think it's really a pretty good game... Thurn und Taxis-->...

Posted by Mikko on April 21, 2006 5:21 PM

Hot games for Q1/2006

Here's a list of hottest games for first quarter of 2006 for me. This is based on number of plays, my enjoyment of the game and the novelty value, so new games tend to show up higher on the list....

Posted by Mikko on April 1, 2006 5:45 PM

Finnish Board Game Society in BSW

Today is the first Board Game Society BrettSpielWelt event. It started at noon, I had an hour or two to spend there. There was already about dozen people online, and more will come later, I'm sure. It's a nice idea....

Posted by Mikko on March 18, 2006 2:17 PM

I'm a genius

I played few games of Einfach Genial at BSW today. Once again I was playing against a true pro: this guy had almost 1600 games played with an 81% wins. Even if most of his games were two-player, it's still...

Posted by Mikko on March 15, 2006 6:41 PM

My game of the year

I'll play brave and throw a guess: my game of the year this year will be San Juan. So far I've played 30 games of it (plus dozens of games with Jim's San Juan, which is fun now the AI...

Posted by Mikko on March 7, 2006 8:42 AM

BSW games: team Genial, Verflixxt, San Juan

I've been playing in BrettSpielWelt. It's fun, particularly as I had to skip a game session yesterday because I had surprise surgery (tonsillectomy and uvulectomy; I've been waiting the operation for, like, nine months and then they book me with...

Posted by Mikko on February 12, 2006 8:43 PM

Another quick BSW session: classics, Einfach Genial

My BSW session today was very classical, one could say. I played San Juan (and well this time, too), St. Petersburg (pretty close game, even though I thought otherwise in the beginning) and Puerto Rico (two games I didn't win,...

Posted by Mikko on February 2, 2006 5:27 PM

Quick BSW session: San Juan and Caylus

I popped in BrettSpielWelt to play few games. San Juan didn't go too well for me: everybody else had Prefectures and Quarrys, I didn't get any... It was an obvious loss, and I don't think I did that many mistakes,...

Posted by Mikko on February 1, 2006 4:52 PM

BSW session: Diamant, Attribute (finally!)

I did two BrettSpielWelt sessions today. I tried to recruit folks from Boardgame Society forums, but with no luck. I got some general interest, but nobody joined me. On my first visit I played seven games of Diamant. It's a...

Posted by Mikko on April 15, 2005 11:20 PM

BrettSpielWelt session

It's been a while since my last BrettSpielWelt session. Six months, actually! Well, nothing's changed over there, just a new game or few. However, playing anything except the standards proved to be pretty hard, as usual. I got in five...

Posted by Mikko on April 9, 2005 10:26 PM

San Juan and St. Petersburg

With my job and all, last three months have been very quiet games-wise. So, the first thing I did on my first day off from work was to head to Brettspielwelt and play some games! It was quiet this time...

Posted by Mikko on October 20, 2004 10:23 AM

Power Grid and StreetSoccer

First: this is entry #500. Now that's something. I dropped by Brettspielwelt today to play some games. My main interest was to try StreetSoccer in realtime after playing so much of it in Little Golem. It was fun, though I...

Posted by Mikko on August 24, 2004 3:45 PM

Power Grid

I spent some quality time in Brettspielwelt playing Power Grid. I hadn't tried it there before, but the interface turned out to be rather obvious. I had only one problem: the message window was only one row tall when I...

Posted by Mikko on August 15, 2004 12:27 AM

BSW games: St. Pete and Tichu

It's been a while since I last played Tichu (about 50 weeks, actually). I played a game at BSW and sucked. No wonder. It was fun, anyway. We were down something like 800-0, but my partner pulled a Grand Tichu...

Posted by Mikko on August 7, 2004 11:31 PM

Guess what? St. Pete at BSW!

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...

Posted by Mikko on August 4, 2004 12:58 PM

St. Petersburg at BSW ... again

You see I'm addicted? Another session of St. Petersburg at the BSW. This time it was much better: all games clocked in below 30 minutes and best took just 20 minutes. Very good!St. Petersburg--> The first game was absurd. In...

Posted by Mikko on August 2, 2004 2:40 PM

More St. Pete at BSW

I played another game of St. Petersburg at Brettspielwelt. Once again I'm surprised by the slowness of it: 43 minutes this time. That's more in line with the real games, but still way too slow for BSW. People take too...

Posted by Mikko on August 1, 2004 5:51 PM