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Thursday session: Dutch InterCity, Modern Art

As my order from Northumbria Games arrived in just two days, we started our games with Dutch InterCity. We had four players, but fifth arrived just when we were about to start. Five, then. Dutch InterCity--> Dutch InterCity is...

Posted by Mikko on June 13, 2008 5:17 PM

Thursday session: Modern Art, Glory to Rome

Yesterday's games started with a three-player Modern Art with Petri and Hannu. This was our first game with the new Finnish edition. It's gorgeous, and I'm glad to report it works well. Pretty much the only problem is the...

Posted by Mikko on May 23, 2008 12:37 PM

Year metric

I've been a fan of Matthew Gray's month metric. Now I happened unto his Every year 2007 update, focusing on the year metric. I haven't been bothering with that, believing I wouldn't have many high-scoring games. Well, I thought, why...

Posted by Mikko on January 1, 2008 12:32 PM

Thursday session: Catan, Modern Art

Our Thursday sessions continue to be quiet. Well, three is enough! We started with Fairy Tale, as usual, but this game was unusual! I was doing well, I got all three of those eight-point "get two of the other...

Posted by Mikko on November 2, 2007 12:14 PM

Thursday session: Ottocento, Dobbm

After the mandatory Fairy Tale rounds (which prove that I can only win when paired up with someone), I got a group playing Ottocento or Tarocco Bolognese. The Bologne Tarot is a curious game, played with a special pack...

Posted by Mikko on September 27, 2007 8:38 PM

Board game club: Edel, Stein & Reich, Bunte Runde

Yesterday was board game club day, despite nice weather, sunshine and all. We won't let that stop us! The turnout was good, three tables going on all the time. I got a nice bunch of people playing with me the...

Posted by Mikko on June 5, 2006 8:18 AM

Small game session: Louis XIV, Modern Art, Turbo Taxi

I met some guys last Saturday for a small session of games. I'll be missing the next two board game club sessions for various reasons (mostly Essen), so it was good to get some games going. We started with Turbo...

Posted by Mikko on September 26, 2005 8:46 AM

Board game club: Manila, Dividends, Boomtown, Modern Art, Farfalia, Louis XIV

We had a very good game session yesterday. It started with just me and four guys, but hey, we had a blast even if noone else joined us until much later. After clicking through an absolutely dreadful game of Crokinole...

Posted by Mikko on July 18, 2005 4:37 PM

Games from last Friday

Last weekend I visited my good friend Tommy and we had a great weekend full of fun and games. I'm going to write session reports about the whole weekend, a day at a time because they're going to be a...

Posted by Mikko on February 26, 2003 7:36 AM