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Recent gaming: Agricola + others

I took the kids to Jyväskylä last weekend to see their grandmother. All in all a good visit, except not quite enough sleep for me, but that's life with toddlers. Of course, board games were involved. In addition to playing...

Posted by Mikko on April 14, 2010 12:40 PM

Gaming Year 2009

Time for another of these yearly reports, huh. This was a fairly quiet year for games. Last year was really good, but we got the second kid this year (see Gaming impact of children)... So, from last year's 284 plays...

Posted by Mikko on January 1, 2010 8:12 PM

Playing cards and Dominion

Image via Wikipedia Here's something geeky: an inventory of my playing cards. Tarock (54 cards) Wiener Veduten Tarock (Piatnik gift set w/ booklet) Nr. 1934 (Piatnik) Nr. 1936 (Piatnik) Das Constitutions Tarock (Piatnik) Cego (ASS) Grazer Tarock (Piatnik) Allerfeinste Kaffeehaus...

Posted by Mikko on December 31, 2009 9:23 PM

Finnish Game of the Year awards

Finnish Game of the Year ("Vuoden peli") awards have been given. The finalists were chosen August 5th and the winners the next day, but for some reason both weren't published until today. Bizarre. The adult game category was won by...

Posted by Mikko on August 21, 2009 12:29 PM

Dominion box

I built myself a new box for Dominion. I found the plans in Geek, but had to fix them a bit - for one, the suggested length of 285 mm is huge, my box is slightly too short at 210...

Posted by Mikko on July 16, 2009 9:30 AM

First impression of Dominion: Intrigue

My brother came to visit and I got a chance to try the new Dominion: Intrigue, the stand-alone expansion for Dominion. We played through the three default setups listed in the rule book, which gave us a pretty good...

Posted by Mikko on July 8, 2009 8:10 PM

Gaming year 2008

So, how was the year? Pretty wild, if you ask me. Good new games (2007-2008 games) Dominion - Well, I played 28 games of this, and most of them outside BrettSpielWelt. That's a pretty nice number, considering how late this...

Posted by Mikko on January 1, 2009 7:46 AM

Dominion with Johanna

Dominion is officially a great game. I just played a game with Johanna - we haven't played any games in a long time. She enjoyed Dominion enough to say she wants to play it again, which is rare. It's...

Posted by Mikko on December 21, 2008 6:32 PM

Helcon 2008 review, part 1

Helcon came and went. It's by far my favourite board game event, and once again proved to be excellent. It's small enough, about hundred people or so, yet offers plenty of good board game action. I travelled to Helsinki with...

Posted by Mikko on December 2, 2008 8:31 PM

Thursday session: Tier auf Tier, Attika

Actually, I'll start with another session report first. Wednesday we went to see some of our playground friends. The kids - 5 and 7 years - don't mind Nooa much, but they are all over me. Well, Nooa had great...

Posted by Mikko on November 20, 2008 8:31 PM

Thursday session: Erie Railroad, Secret Blueprints

When I arrived, the guys were waiting and hungry: it was Wabash Cannonball time. Hannu and Petri, the two main Wabash fans in our group wanted to give the new Erie Railroad expansion a go. KJ and Tapani, both...

Posted by Mikko on November 14, 2008 3:13 PM

Thursday session: Age of Steam, Dominion, Le Truc

It's been too long from my last game of Age of Steam. Today I got some railroad action in the form of the Scotland scenario. So still no Secret Blueprints, unfortunately, but at least something! Age of Steam Age...

Posted by Mikko on November 6, 2008 8:41 PM

Thursday session: Dominion, Container

After a quick hand of Le Truc with Hannu, Petri arrived and Container hit the table. Petri is interested in modern-day business games and Container hits that niche pretty well. After all, the setting is definitely contemporary and the...

Posted by Mikko on November 1, 2008 2:44 PM

Board game club: Dominion, Container

Last Sunday I visited the board game club and instead of the quick visit last time, I was able to play games for few hours. We started with a quick round of Halli Galli Extreme for warm-up. It's a...

Posted by Mikko on October 28, 2008 5:44 PM

Dominion and Gathering Storm

I went to the Helsinki Book Fair yesterday. I was interviewed about my card game book, we did a quick 20-30 minute session, which went really well. I'm becoming a professional author, obviously, I can actually do public performances. I...

Posted by Mikko on October 25, 2008 1:59 PM

It's Essen time again

The Christmas is coming, by which I mean Essen. There's a pile of new games getting published, but I'm really not very interested in most of them. I mean, there's plenty of nice stuff coming, but in the end, I...

Posted by Mikko on October 17, 2008 7:04 AM