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Finncon + Board Game Club: Steam over Holland, West Riding

I've been too busy to write a session report from Finncon. Well, now I have time. I'll combine reports, as I just returned from our board game club, where I had a rather splendid little session. So, watch out...

Posted by Mikko on August 3, 2008 8:27 PM

Tracon III

I spent most of my yesterday attending Tracon. Tracon is a yearly convention here in Tampere, this was the third time it was organized. Tracon is mostly about anime, manga and role-playing games. In the first two Tracon's, I don't...

Posted by Mikko on February 17, 2008 8:21 PM

Just an idea...

Last night I came up with a brilliant idea. Since curling is the second most popular sport in the Winter olympics in Finland (can't beat ice hockey), here's a game idea to take advantage of that: Curling Crokinole! It's simple:...

Posted by Mikko on February 21, 2006 5:09 PM

European partnership Crokinole championship tournament

The first European partnership Crokinole championship tournament will be fought on February 11th in Dresden, Germany. More information will be available at the Crokinole Companions web site at some point. Crokinole--> If I was anywhere near, I would definitely participate,...

Posted by Mikko on January 5, 2006 10:51 AM

Board game club: Manila, Dividends, Boomtown, Modern Art, Farfalia, Louis XIV

We had a very good game session yesterday. It started with just me and four guys, but hey, we had a blast even if noone else joined us until much later. After clicking through an absolutely dreadful game of Crokinole...

Posted by Mikko on July 18, 2005 4:37 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

Helcon III - Saturday

Helcon III began early in the morning, when we packed up everything in Tommy's car and headed to the location. We quickly set everything up, unpacked games and arranged the tables and whatnot. First visitors arrived early and started playing...

Posted by Mikko on November 9, 2004 4:48 PM

Boardgame club meeting: Fifth Avenue, Finstere Flure

The first boardgame club meeting this Fall was yesterday. It sure was great to get some gaming action going on. We had a decent showing, with about two tables going on most of the time. First game I played was...

Posted by Mikko on October 25, 2004 9:05 AM

Weekend gaming session, Saturday

Saturday was a fun-filled day of gaming as well. Tommy's brother Miikka joined us. He's not a gamer the way we are, but likes to play games. We kicked the day off with a four-player game of Attika, a well-known...

Posted by Mikko on May 16, 2004 9:50 AM

Train game club meeting

Our board game club met yesterday. The attendance was low, just eight people. However, a group of Diplomacy players shared the space with us and brought some life.Diplomacy--> Ticket to Ride was very much the game of the day. I...

Posted by Mikko on April 19, 2004 9:11 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

Board game club session

Our board game club session yesterday started a bit slowly, with only four players present for a long time. However, that was really not a problem, because four people is quite enough to play good games and more gamers trickled...

Posted by Mikko on February 16, 2004 8:39 AM

Board Game Club: Finstere Flure, Pirate's Cove, Wo ist Jack the Ripper

The University club met for the first time this year on Sunday. The attendance was pretty good (I think there were 16 of us, we had three tables most of the time) and the session was very pleasant in general....

Posted by Mikko on January 26, 2004 10:41 AM

Games of 2003

Here it is - the fabled games of 2003 overview. Enjoy. As it turned out, I played some games after I had posted this on mailing lists, but fortunately the data is still correct... It's always interesting to make this...

Posted by Mikko on January 1, 2004 12:59 PM

The Games Journal

December issue of The Games Journal is out. The best part of it was probably the Joe Huber interview. Rules to Joust and Budget Crokinole might also be of interest to some of you. Joust Crokinole-->...

Posted by Mikko on December 2, 2003 10:26 AM

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

HelCon II - Friday

I started the HelCon II experience on Friday. The event began Saturday, but I since I was coming from a longer distance, arriving on Friday was a good idea so I could meet Tommy and Laura sooner. Evening was well...

Posted by Mikko on November 10, 2003 10:56 AM

Board game club meeting

Our board game club had a meeting yesterday. Lots of games were played, which was good. I started the afternoon with Web of Power. It's one of my favourites, but I haven't played it often this year. I should, I...

Posted by Mikko on November 3, 2003 11:51 AM

Crokinole pictures

I uploaded some Crokinole pictures. Here's a bonus picture of my Crokinole board for the readers of this blog. Crokinole-->...

Posted by Mikko on October 29, 2003 2:22 PM

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