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ArsGeek Carcassonne giveaway

ArsGeek is about all things geek, including board games. Right now they're running a contest where you can win one of 5 copies of Carcassonne. Check it out! It's very simple: all you need to do is to explain why...

Posted by Mikko on March 20, 2007 6:20 AM

Friday, day three: Games, games, games

Here's what happened yesterday: Today was the day! I went downstairs to use the hotel laptop to send my reports, which I did, and then headed back to the room. I glanced towards the dining room, and who did I...

Posted by Mikko on October 15, 2005 9:31 AM

Finnish Players' Picks 2005

Finnish Players' Picks for 2005 have been chosen. The winner is Carcassonne. Puerto Rico, the previous winner, places second. Ticket to Ride grabs the third place. Carcassonne Puerto Rico Ticket to Ride--> As usual, I've created a geeklist of the...

Posted by Mikko on October 5, 2005 7:09 AM

Ropecon

Ropecon 2005 is approaching fast. It's the biggest roleplaying event in Finland and boasts a wide variety of board game events. There's the Finnish Championships of Catan and Carcassonne, where the winners get to go to Essen to represent Finland...

Posted by Mikko on July 14, 2005 9:57 AM

Finnish Players' Picks 2004

Ok, finally: Finnish Players' Picks 2004 voting is over, votes have been tallied and I can announce the results: Puerto Rico wins, again. Carcassonne is second and catches up, losing only by two votes. Once again, there's a GeekList of...

Posted by Mikko on October 6, 2004 8:24 AM

Finnish Game of the Year 2004: Carcassonne

Carcassonne wins the Finnish Game of the Year 2004 award. As we all know, Settlers of Catan didn't make it, not even to the finals. However, it got a special mention as an interesting, new kind of game. So basically,...

Posted by Mikko on September 16, 2004 3:46 PM

Voting procedures

In general I prefer awards handed out by a well-chosen jury with a clear agenda. Public voting prefers the popular games too much. For example, the winner of the Finnish Players' Picks 2004 is fairly easy to guess - there...

Posted by Mikko on September 4, 2004 1:09 PM

Carcassonne vs Settlers of Catan - winner is clear

As I mentioned in an earlier entry, Finnish Game of the Year awards are very interesting this year as both Carcassonne and Settlers of Catan are competing for the award. Well, looks like that competition is already done: Catan didn't...

Posted by Mikko on August 7, 2004 11:42 PM

New Finnish game store online

Lautapelit.fi (lautapelit is Finnish for board games), a new Finnish online game store opened it's web site yesterday. It's still bit unfinished, but it should work already. It's run by the folks behind Safe Haven. I think it's pretty neat....

Posted by Mikko on July 2, 2004 9:05 AM

Finnish Players' Picks 2003

Finnish gamers have made their choice: Puerto Rico is the best game they have played during the last year. 125 voters, 222 games. Puerto Rico was listed by 47 voters, so it was quite a victory. Second spot went to...

Posted by Mikko on October 2, 2003 12:55 PM

Weekend games, Sunday

Sunday began with a game of Mamma Mia! with the kids. They've become fans quickly, I guess I'll just have to keep on taking the game with me from now on. I'd also throw a guess that it's going to...

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

Game studies

The game studies group meeting went well. My talk was rather unstructured, but hopefully someone got something of it. There were about eight people there, some of which were already quite familiar with board games. Different point of views, though....

Posted by Mikko on May 10, 2003 10:38 AM

First BSW games this year

I played my first Brettspielwelt games this year. Those first games included two 2-player games of Carcassonne with the expansion. I won both games. Then, for the first time ever, I managed to get in a game of Tichu. I...

Posted by Mikko on February 8, 2003 10:26 PM

BSW Session: Lost Cities, Carcassonne

This was probably the last game session this year... I played few games at the Brettspielwelt, classic BSW games really. First, I played seven hands of Lost Cities, losing most of them. Still, it was pretty fun. At least it...

Posted by Mikko on December 23, 2002 3:01 PM

BSW games: Carcassonne, Web of Power

Not my day today, it seems. Well, I did win my first game of Carcassonne at the Brettspielwelt thanks to some very nasty tile placements. I lost the second game, a two-player duel, by one point. If I hadn't made...

Posted by Mikko on December 5, 2002 10:49 AM

Carcassonne at BSW

I just played two games of Carcassonne with the Expansion at the Brettspielwelt. I won the first game and came second in the second. Nice. But these games made me agree with some comments I've heard: the expansion tiles are...

Posted by Mikko on November 21, 2002 11:00 AM

Carcassonne at BSW

I went today to BSW to play Tichu which I've decided to learn. However, unlike usually, there was only one Tichu player there. So, unwilling to leave empty-handed, I played a two-player game of an old favourite, Carcassonne. Tichu Carcassonne...

Posted by Mikko on October 3, 2002 10:32 AM