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Weekend games: Mhing, Flaschenteufel and Bongo

I played a quick round of Mhing with Johanna while we waited for food to cook. We played just four rounds, which is probably the best explanation for my victory, which was first of it's kind. I visited the Sunday's...

Posted by Mikko on June 20, 2005 1:09 PM

Club meeting

Board game club gathered yesterday to play some games. I was actually rather satisfied with the games I played, I managed to play just about everything I set out to play. We started with San Marco. I'd like to try...

Posted by Mikko on March 22, 2004 8:26 AM

Flaschenteufel

I wrote a review of Flaschenteufel. It's in Finnish, as usual.Flaschenteufel--> To sum it up: I gave Flaschenteufel five stars out of five. I think it's one of the very best card games around. It's good for gamers and non-gamers...

Posted by Mikko on March 7, 2004 10:14 AM

Monday games: Flaschenteufel

Yesterday we met for another Monday afternoon gaming session. Naturally we played Go - I faced Juho on a 19x19 game and won, but only with a margin of two points. The card game of the day was Flaschenteufel, which...

Posted by Mikko on February 24, 2004 7:02 PM

Café Games: Go, Flaschenteufel, Sticheln

February started with a game of Go against Juho. 19x19, I played white and gave one stone handicap. It was over fairly quick; Juho resigned after my trick plays broke his defense and a large group of my stones (over...

Posted by Mikko on February 2, 2004 5:31 PM

First games of 2004!

2004 started with a small meeting with Juho and Olli, who are probably pretty high on my regular opponents list. We met at restaurant Telakka, which is a nice place except it's a bit too small. That wouldn't be a...

Posted by Mikko on January 6, 2004 7:05 PM

Games of 2003

Here it is - the fabled games of 2003 overview. Enjoy. As it turned out, I played some games after I had posted this on mailing lists, but fortunately the data is still correct... It's always interesting to make this...

Posted by Mikko on January 1, 2004 12:59 PM

Flaschenteufel

Here's what I wrote about Flaschenteufel on Spielfrieks. It provoked a reply from Joe Huber, the author of the original Games Journal review. He told that the new edition changes aren't just cosmetic - some cards have changed colour and...

Posted by Mikko on November 21, 2003 6:04 PM

Go + Flaschenteufel

We had another Go session yesterday. I did play few games of Go, certainly, but the main theme was Flaschenteufel. We played a rather pleasant four-player game. Flaschenteufel is fast becoming my favourite trick-taking game. The theme works well -...

Posted by Mikko on November 21, 2003 8:15 AM

Flaschenteufel translation

I wrote a Finnish translation for Flaschenteufel. It's available in HTML and PDF formats.Flaschenteufel--> Oops! I just figured out (thanks to Mark Blanco's geeklist) that I've got an essential rule wrong. Players do not score all the points they gathered...

Posted by Mikko on November 12, 2003 2:34 PM

HelCon II - Sunday

Sunday began with a game of Tom Tube against Ville, who hadn't played before. I won the game with a single point - it was very exciting and close match. I like the game, definitely.Tom Tube--> During that game, more...

Posted by Mikko on November 11, 2003 9:56 AM