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Vuosiäänestys

If you're a Finnish board gamer or a board gamer living in Finland, make sure you vote in the yearly best board game voting. The Vuosiäänestys is running for the seventh time this year. The voting is open for all...

Posted by Mikko on September 7, 2009 9:15 AM

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

Finnish Players' Picks 2008

Oops, looks like I forgot to publish the Finnish Players' Picks results for 2008. Well, better late than never! To see the top 28, see Finnish Players' Picks 2008 GeekList. For complete list (in Finnish, but the data speaks math),...

Posted by Mikko on October 23, 2008 8:20 AM

Games in Finnish

I updated my GeekList Gamer's games published in Finnish - it's been a while since the last update, I had quite a few games to add. It's now 139 titles long, and features such games as Modern Art, Chinatown, Bausack,...

Posted by Mikko on March 16, 2008 1:04 PM

The Finnish Trilogy

Mikugames is a new board game designer based in Sweden. He's been working since 2003 on a game called The Finnish Trilogy: The Finnish Trilogy 1939-1945® consists of three separate, playable wargames in an operational level, that will be about...

Posted by Mikko on October 6, 2007 7:33 AM

Finnish Players' Picks 2007

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the The Finnish Players' Picks 2007 GeekList. See the full list at Lautapelaaja.net. This year we had more voters, more hardcore gamers voting and lots of interesting games on the list. A good...

Posted by Mikko on October 1, 2007 1:20 PM

Finnish Game of the Year winners 2007

Last year was a disaster, now things look much better! The Finnish Adult Game of the Year for 2007 is Thurn und Taxis, the Finnish Family Game of the Year is Ubongo and the Finnish Kids Game of the Year...

Posted by Mikko on September 14, 2007 11:36 AM

Finnish Players' Picks 2006

Finnish Players' Picks have been chosen for 2006! The winner is Caylus. Nice surprise, I'd say. I wonder how much the fast release of the Finnish edition helped... A GeekList of top 25 games is once again available, as are...

Posted by Mikko on October 3, 2006 8:17 AM

Finnish Game of the Year awards

Finnish Game of the Year awards for 2006 are out now, and what a huge disappointment they are! Best children's game is Build-a-Burger (I would've given the award to Das kleine Gespenst, but I don't know anything about Build-a-Burger). Best...

Posted by Mikko on September 15, 2006 7:31 AM

Attribut in Finnish at BSW

Thanks to Markku's great efforts, a Finnish version of Attribut is now available at BrettSpielWelt. We had the first official games yesterday, and it was a blast. The game's so much better in Finnish! Attribute-->...

Posted by Mikko on April 25, 2006 11:39 AM

Finnish Board Game Society in BSW

Today is the first Board Game Society BrettSpielWelt event. It started at noon, I had an hour or two to spend there. There was already about dozen people online, and more will come later, I'm sure. It's a nice idea....

Posted by Mikko on March 18, 2006 2:17 PM

Just an idea...

Last night I came up with a brilliant idea. Since curling is the second most popular sport in the Winter olympics in Finland (can't beat ice hockey), here's a game idea to take advantage of that: Curling Crokinole! It's simple:...

Posted by Mikko on February 21, 2006 5:09 PM

New releases in Finnish

Marektoy releases for 2006 are now public. I'm personally fond of Cluzzle being published, as I've translated it and because it was picked from my suggestion. So Dominic, sending me a review copy was a good move. I'm glad it's...

Posted by Mikko on February 21, 2006 5:02 PM

HABA games in Finland

Parents of small children, note: Lahjalinna sells HABA board games in Finland. The HABA area at the Essen fair looked absolutely gorgeous. I know when we get kids, I must get some of those games....

Posted by Mikko on November 18, 2005 5:46 PM

Finnish Players' Picks 2005

Finnish Players' Picks for 2005 have been chosen. The winner is Carcassonne. Puerto Rico, the previous winner, places second. Ticket to Ride grabs the third place. Carcassonne Puerto Rico Ticket to Ride--> As usual, I've created a geeklist of the...

Posted by Mikko on October 5, 2005 7:09 AM

Board games in news

Board games were mentioned in the TV news today - ok, it was the smallest of the four Finnish main channels, but anyway. They said playing board games was more popular than ever, which is always nice. Their main point,...

Posted by Mikko on September 14, 2005 9:11 PM

Finnish Game of the Year winners 2005

Finnish Game of the Year winners have been declared. They reflect the Spiel des Jahres awards closely. Best children's game is Geistertreppe, 2004 Kinder Spiel des Jahres winner. Kids loved the ghost mechanism and thought the game was funny and...

Posted by Mikko on September 9, 2005 1:15 PM

Finnish Game of the Year finalists

Finalists for the Finnish Game of the Year awards are out. Children's games: Mighty Magpies (Harakkavarkaat) - Tactic Geistertreppe (Kummitusportaat) - Marektoy / Drei Magier Schatz der Drachen (Lohikäärmeen aarre) - Marektoy / Winning Moves Family games: Cranium CADOO -...

Posted by Mikko on August 22, 2005 11:10 AM

Finnish Game of the Year candidates

Finnish Game of the Year candidates haven't been published yet, but I happen to have inside contacts and thus knowledge. Finnish readers can check the list of the candidates for the best adult and family games from the Boardgame Society...

Posted by Mikko on June 1, 2005 3:32 PM

Geeklist of games in Finnish

According to his Geeklist of essential games, Ilari was tempted by an idea of Geeklist of games published in Finnish. I had spare time and was tempted as well, so here it is: Gamer's games published in Finnish. First draft...

Posted by Mikko on April 8, 2005 3:15 PM