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Hot games for Q1/2006

Here's a list of hottest games for first quarter of 2006 for me. This is based on number of plays, my enjoyment of the game and the novelty value, so new games tend to show up higher on the list....

Posted by Mikko on April 1, 2006 5:45 PM

I'm a genius

I played few games of Einfach Genial at BSW today. Once again I was playing against a true pro: this guy had almost 1600 games played with an 81% wins. Even if most of his games were two-player, it's still...

Posted by Mikko on March 15, 2006 6:41 PM

BSW games: team Genial, Verflixxt, San Juan

I've been playing in BrettSpielWelt. It's fun, particularly as I had to skip a game session yesterday because I had surprise surgery (tonsillectomy and uvulectomy; I've been waiting the operation for, like, nine months and then they book me with...

Posted by Mikko on February 12, 2006 8:43 PM

Another quick BSW session: classics, Einfach Genial

My BSW session today was very classical, one could say. I played San Juan (and well this time, too), St. Petersburg (pretty close game, even though I thought otherwise in the beginning) and Puerto Rico (two games I didn't win,...

Posted by Mikko on February 2, 2006 5:27 PM

Helcon 2005 - Friday

Helcon 2005 was already the fourth time the event was organised. This time we had a new location, a meeting hall of The Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission. It was a good location for many reasons: it was clean, had enough...

Posted by Mikko on October 31, 2005 10:32 AM

Lahti board game weekend 2005

Once again I ventured to Lahti and Peter Munter's board game weekend. After all, I had to go and rescue my sleeping bag I had forgotten there last time. For the record, it didn't survive: Munter's dog (a huge Great...

Posted by Mikko on April 4, 2005 8:27 AM

Einfach Genial

Another review I wrote: Einfach Genial aka Ingenious aka Mensa Connections. Einfach Genial is a clever game by master Knizia. It's an abstract game, a rare thing from Knizia whose games are often fairly thinly themed, but still have at...

Posted by Mikko on February 19, 2005 1:40 PM

Games weekend at Tommy's

Last weekend was the traditional annual games weekend at Tommy's. Third time already! Unfortunately the weekend wasn't quite the success it set out to be, as I fell sick and had to leave. We did get an evening of games...

Posted by Mikko on January 31, 2005 12:27 PM

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

Pre-Helcon games

Helcon is history and it's time to write another lengthy epic on the games played. The event was a wild success, with over 50 visitors during the two days. The place we had was practically full during the Saturday afternoon....

Posted by Mikko on November 9, 2004 4:03 PM

Austrian Game of the Year awards

Mik Svellov (of brilliant Brett'n'Board) announced the Austrian Spiel des Spiele awards for this year. There's a list of award winners either at his SDS page or my GeekList. While I don't really care about the award (it has very...

Posted by Mikko on August 17, 2004 12:38 PM