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Board game club: Steel Driver, Torres

I had a great time at today's board game club (yeah, the baby's still waiting for a nice day to be born -- perhaps next week?). I started with quick five-player game of Formissimo, which is a simple speed...

Posted by Mikko on January 11, 2009 8:42 PM

Helcon 2008 review, part 3

Let's see what I didn't cover in part 1 or part 2... see also part 4. GemBlo Pyramid. This dice-pyramid game is apparently good, if played with the expert rules. Well, we couldn't figure them out, so we tried the...

Posted by Mikko on December 3, 2008 9:03 PM

Thursday session: Airships, Dolmengötter, Vegas Showdown

We were planning to play cards this time to celebrate my book, which was finally released last Friday. Well, that didn't happen, thanks to rather diminished number of players (four), including one particular person who doesn't fancy traditional card...

Posted by Mikko on April 11, 2008 12:42 PM

Jyväskylä visit: Black Vienna, Cuba

I visited my mom at Jyväskylä with Nooa. Thanks to Easter, we stayed for three days, which - of course! - presented us with more opportunities for games (two evenings and Nooa's nap time on Saturday). That in mind, I...

Posted by Mikko on March 23, 2008 7:36 PM

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

Thursday session: Qwirkle, Antike

Another good session, this time with more shorter games. That's nice balance. We hit off with Flix Mix, a favourite of mine I hadn't played in a while. It's a small Adlung card game, those just get stuck somewhere...

Posted by Mikko on February 1, 2008 11:59 AM

Board game club: Terra Nova, Viva Topo!

Board game club was a big hit yesterday, with almost a record crowd of over 20 gamers. I made a quick visit and had time for just a few games. I've wanted to play Terra Nova to get it off...

Posted by Mikko on September 25, 2006 11:53 AM

Board game club session: Tichu, Gulo Gulo, Attika

We had a nice board game club yesterday. It was strange to have the club on Monday, not Sunday, thanks to the Easter, but many people arrived nonetheless. Tichu was definitely the high point for me yesterday. After reading Steve's...

Posted by Mikko on April 18, 2006 7:47 AM

Flix Mix

Another review up: Flix Mix (in Finnish). Flix Mix is one of my favourite speed games. Each player has an identical deck of 16 cards, all featuring six dots sporting different colours. The goal of the game is to get...

Posted by Mikko on January 4, 2006 9:26 AM

Games Saturday with Tommy, Stefu and Robert

Saturday was the big games day of the weekend, when Tommy and Stefu came all the way from Vantaa/Espoo and were joined by Robert of the local gamers. We started around noon and played almost 12 hours straight. It was...

Posted by Mikko on December 20, 2005 5:55 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