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Board game club: Fjorde, Neuland, Havoc

The olympic ice hockey final didn't affect the participants in the board game club yesterday, we had good attendance. I got to play everything I had planned to, which was nice. While waiting for others to arrive, I played a...

Posted by Mikko on February 27, 2006 7:28 AM

Ambition

Those reading rec.games.board or rec.games.card might have noticed a thread called truth about church's ambition. It had nothing to do with church, it's in fact about Mike Church and his card game Ambition. For some reason there's a flamewar of...

Posted by Mikko on February 19, 2005 9:13 AM

Die Sieben Siegel

I reviewed Die Sieben Siegel (in Finnish). Die Sieben Siegel (The Seven Seals) is a trick-taking game (one of these days I should write an introductory article on trick-taking games, in Finnish). In the Card Games classified index it would...

Posted by Mikko on January 24, 2005 2:55 PM

Jyväskylä game weekend

Last weekend in Jyväskylä was good gaming time. As usual, I brought a bunch on games we played a lot. It's refreshingly different, playing the same games over and over again instead of playing a variety of games just once...

Posted by Mikko on January 24, 2005 9:21 AM

New translation: Die Sieben Siegel

A sure sign of me getting new card games: new translations. I wrote a Finnish translation of the rules of Dorra's Die Sieben Siegel. It looks like a fun game and it's fairly high on my list of games I...

Posted by Mikko on January 11, 2005 5:43 PM

Ordering games

It's been a while, but here I am, contemplating an order from Germany. I get free games every month, but I want Geschenkt now, not later. I'm also intrigued by Mogul and Die Sieben Siegel. Of course, buying few small...

Posted by Mikko on December 13, 2004 3:57 PM