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God, Candyland and the travels of Die Macher

Yehuda wrote an article called The Designer's Rules in the Gone Gaming blog. Go read it, as it was both funny and educating! And God said, "Let there be choice!" And there was choice, and each player now had two...

Posted by Mikko on November 30, 2005 8:11 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

Die Macher

I wrote a review of Die Macher. In Finnish, as usual...Die Macher--> Die Macher has rather fitting Geek id: 1. It's in a way the best board game there is. The theme is interesting (much more than the typical fantasy...

Posted by Mikko on June 21, 2004 10:28 AM

Lahti Board Game Weekend, Saturday

After less-than-well slept night (maybe the real-size Space Marine helmets I slept next to haunted my sleep?) it was a new day and new games. The breakfast - eggs, bacon, french fries - was sturdy and sure to clog arteries....

Posted by Mikko on September 11, 2003 11:19 AM

FinDipCon V: Saturday

After about six hours of mediocre sleep and an hours walk in early morning Helsinki before the doors opened, the Saturday games started. After some quick two-players (Lost Cities and Flowerpower), we played the New England Phil had bought Friday.Lost...

Posted by Mikko on April 29, 2003 4:05 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

Gaming year 2002 - the statistical review

I love keeping the statistics for the games I play. I like toying around with the numbers, seeing how they go. Of course, the biggest rewards come when you can make deeper, more complete analysis. Changing of the year is...

Posted by Mikko on January 1, 2003 2:41 PM

Die Macher pictures

Here's the last one for today: Die Macher pictures are online. More (Die Händler, Villa Paletti, LotR: Confrontation, Battle Cry) to come tomorrow! Die Macher-->...

Posted by Mikko on October 30, 2002 5:30 PM

Die Macher - at last!

Here we go! Last week it looked a bit like there wasn't going to be a game at all, but at the last moment I got some players. Unfortunately there was one cancellation, but we got three-player game going and...

Posted by Mikko on September 28, 2002 8:15 PM

Die Macher game happens!

I was getting ready to face the truth: I wouldn't play Die Macher this weekend. But no, I will! I sent a sms to my friend, who had been interested but said his weekends were busy. I checked the situation...

Posted by Mikko on September 26, 2002 9:30 AM

Excellent Die Macher review

Don't expect much links from me, this is not that kind of weblog. Still, I'll occasionally bump into really good games-related content in the web and will mention it here as well. Dan Bosley has written a very good Die...

Posted by Mikko on September 20, 2002 4:40 PM

Die Macher preview

Finally I have it. I left work earlier Friday so I could run to the post office and get it. I couldn't wait and opened the game already at the railway station. I couldn't believe my eyes, I finally had...

Posted by Mikko on September 16, 2002 9:59 AM

My Die Macher is coming to me...

OOooh! What great news! My new Best Friend And Friendly Credit Card Owner(tm) Tommy just called me and told me the games we ordered from Germany (Spielenet, if you're curious - and I suggest you all use Adam Spielt instead,...

Posted by Mikko on September 11, 2002 7:05 PM

Die Macher link

Bob Rossney has analysed the various elements of Die Macher and compiled a nice table of them. Nice, and shows well that Die Macher isn't the most simple game there is. Now I should be managing all that to my...

Posted by Mikko on August 27, 2002 1:07 PM

Die Macher - finally

I don't remember when I first got interested about Die Macher. It's appreciated a lot in some circles, at least. For example, its ID number in the Boardgamegeek database is 1, it was the first game ever to be entered...

Posted by Mikko on August 26, 2002 9:06 AM