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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

Pentago

This review in Finnish Pentago, the Finnish Adult Game of the year for 2006, is a twist on good old naughts and crosses. Players try to form five in a row on a 6x6 grid. That's fairly boring, but fortunately...

Posted by Mikko on October 17, 2006 2:21 PM

Weekend of Industrial Waste (with some Dvonn)

I was visiting Jyväskylä last weekend. In addition to some surprisingly pleasing physical work (painting boards and a wall, building scaffolding), we played lots of games. During the years, I've introduced several games with variable success. Some have been huge...

Posted by Mikko on October 3, 2005 12:27 PM

Dvonn

After a big silence on the game review front, I wrote two reviews yesterday. The second one was Dvonn. Dvonn is neat, like most of the GIPF series. Well, at least Zèrtz and Yinsh. The games are close to perfection,...

Posted by Mikko on September 23, 2005 8:11 AM

New acquisitions: Turbo Taxi and Dvonn

I got new games today! Turbo Taxi was a must for me, I knew it from the description. After all, I love Ricochet Robot and this one's right at the same league. Turbo Taxi Ricochet Robot--> Players must assemble a...

Posted by Mikko on September 14, 2005 4:36 PM

Dvonn strategy

I'm determined to learn Dvonn. Therefore I dug out some strategy guides. There are some basic tips and Alan Kwan's glossary, both at Project Gipf site. There's also Joe Gola's very detailed session report at the Geek. I sure hope...

Posted by Mikko on December 3, 2004 4:56 PM

Little Golem news

Iain got me playing Dvonn - I've been meaning to, but I have lacked motivation. Now I started and hey, it's a good game. Right now it ranks second in the Project GIPF games, right after Zèrtz. I'm still to...

Posted by Mikko on November 1, 2004 3:32 PM