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Sense of achievement

I was writing about Cuba on the Finnish Board Game Society forums after my latest experience with the game and I think my friend Tommy hit the nail on the head on what I don't like about the game....

Posted by Mikko on March 26, 2008 7:19 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

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

Hot games for Q2/2006

Here's a list of hottest games for the second 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...

Posted by Mikko on June 26, 2006 6:05 PM

Alastair Reynolds and Puerto Rico

If you're into science fiction (with a hard emphasis on science, not just any speculative fiction), you should be aware of Alastair Reynolds' work. Particularly the trilogy of Revolution Space, Redemption Ark and Absolution Gap should be on your reading...

Posted by Mikko on May 19, 2006 2:25 PM

Puerto Rico PBW over

Our PBW Puerto Rico game is over. It took about five months, which is too much. The delays got pretty bad at times. Well, I'm not to blame, even though I had few longer delays: I was still the fastest...

Posted by Mikko on May 2, 2006 11:00 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

Play-by-web Puerto Rico

I want to try the play-by-web Puerto Rico at PR-Game.com. The interface is, erhm, interesting, but I want to see how it turns out. I'm missing Puerto Rico action, so I thought that might be a good avenue. So, anyway,...

Posted by Mikko on December 12, 2005 10:40 AM

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

BrettSpielWelt session

It's been a while since my last BrettSpielWelt session. Six months, actually! Well, nothing's changed over there, just a new game or few. However, playing anything except the standards proved to be pretty hard, as usual. I got in five...

Posted by Mikko on April 9, 2005 10:26 PM

Pulsipher and the changes in the hobby

I finally got around reading Lewis Pulsipher's (designer of Britannia) article on changes in the boardgame hobby. It's a good read and has some pretty good points, too. Many people who prefer complex games have moved to computer games is...

Posted by Mikko on January 14, 2005 8:15 AM

Amazing Puerto Rico board

Downloading Mike Doyle's PRege, La Ciudad might take a while, but it's well worth it. Mike Doyle was frustrated because he was unable to see the whole picture of a Puerto Rico game. He went on and created some new...

Posted by Mikko on November 7, 2004 11:31 PM

Finnish Players' Picks 2004

Ok, finally: Finnish Players' Picks 2004 voting is over, votes have been tallied and I can announce the results: Puerto Rico wins, again. Carcassonne is second and catches up, losing only by two votes. Once again, there's a GeekList of...

Posted by Mikko on October 6, 2004 8:24 AM

Weekend games: Fifth Avenue

The weekend is over and I finally have time to write about the games I played. The first thing we tried was the game I was most interested about: Fifth Avenue. And yeah, it was interesting. After one game, my...

Posted by Mikko on October 5, 2004 9:56 AM

Reasons for enjoying games

I came across a rather interesting blog entry about enjoying games. The author cites three aspects on which he finds games stimulating: intelligence, imagination and social. It's easy to come up with games that provide intellectual stimulation, but not much...

Posted by Mikko on June 25, 2004 11:32 AM

Puerto Rico for PC

Boardgameplayer links to the screenshots of the Puerto Rico PC game. The game looks quite pretty, but I hope the pretty 3d art isn't the only way to play the game - it just doesn't look that effective user interface....

Posted by Mikko on May 20, 2004 10:55 AM

San Juan

I wrote a review of San Juan - in Finnish, as usual. San Juan is a brilliant game, which I like a lot (as you might have guessed already). It takes Puerto Rico and creates a fast-moving and entertaining card...

Posted by Mikko on May 18, 2004 3:10 PM

Puerto Rico at BSW

It's been a while since I last visited BrettSpielWelt. Today I did go there and ended up in a game of Puerto Rico. That's fine with me, though I'd like to try games like Yinsh, Tongiaki or San Juan. However,...

Posted by Mikko on May 6, 2004 3:59 PM

Puerto Rico at BSW

It's been a while since I last played at Brettspielwelt. Today I decided to check it out. After wondering about the new interface (as reported by Gameblogger: Bye Bye Blue Ball), I got into a Puerto Rico game. It didn't...

Posted by Mikko on April 5, 2004 9:51 AM

Quality Games Weekend: Attika, Puerto Rico

I was in the Jyväskylä last weekend and as usual, played some games while there. The winner of the weekend was Attika, without a doubt. I expected it to sink in well and it certainly did. First time we played...

Posted by Mikko on February 23, 2004 8:19 AM