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Look, it's Scotland again!

Olli came by to try out the new table. We've moved (short distance, just couple hundred meters, but we got an extra room and about 30 square meters more space), and now we have a kitchen and a separate dining...

Posted by Mikko on December 13, 2009 8:14 PM

Race for the Galaxy

Race for the Galaxy is one of the hot games right now. The fans - Brian Bankler, for example, his Tao of Gaming is a must read - are babbling about it a lot, and no wonder, as it...

Posted by Mikko on January 28, 2008 7:10 PM

Back from Helcon!

Another Helcon is gone (well, they're still playing, but I'm already back home) and boy, it was a good one! We started games on the train to Helsinki. Robert managed to get himself to the wrong train (for some reason...

Posted by Mikko on November 4, 2007 12:57 PM

More Phoenicia

Three more rounds of two-player Phoenicia. Two were quite exciting: first one went to tiebreaker, second one I eventually won as Tommy continued to struggle with economical restraints. Storage is good thing to have. The third game was a slaughter;...

Posted by Mikko on May 27, 2007 3:31 PM

Helcon 2006

Helcon 2006 was a blast, and the most successful event of the Board Game Society history with almost 100 participants. I was there for the Saturday (limitation caused by being a parent; unfortunate for the gaming, but rewarding in other...

Posted by Mikko on November 7, 2006 12:44 PM

Hot games for Q1/2006

Here's a list of hottest games for first 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 list....

Posted by Mikko on April 1, 2006 5:45 PM

Game weekend at Tommy's, day two

Saturday was a full day of games, though curiously we didn't play as many games as on Friday night. The games were longer, though. Stefu joined us for Saturday, and Tommy's brother Miikka did a guest appearance as well. The...

Posted by Mikko on March 26, 2006 9:19 AM

My game of the year

I'll play brave and throw a guess: my game of the year this year will be San Juan. So far I've played 30 games of it (plus dozens of games with Jim's San Juan, which is fun now the AI...

Posted by Mikko on March 7, 2006 8:42 AM

Jim's San Juan

If you like San Juan and have a Mac, go get Jim's San Juan (zip packet, almost five megs). It's a very good computer version of the card game. The user interface is very smooth and easy to use. San...

Posted by Mikko on February 13, 2006 9:59 AM

BSW games: team Genial, Verflixxt, San Juan

I've been playing in BrettSpielWelt. It's fun, particularly as I had to skip a game session yesterday because I had surprise surgery (tonsillectomy and uvulectomy; I've been waiting the operation for, like, nine months and then they book me with...

Posted by Mikko on February 12, 2006 8:43 PM

Quick BSW session: San Juan and Caylus

I popped in BrettSpielWelt to play few games. San Juan didn't go too well for me: everybody else had Prefectures and Quarrys, I didn't get any... It was an obvious loss, and I don't think I did that many mistakes,...

Posted by Mikko on February 1, 2006 4:52 PM

Afternoon games: San Juan, San Marco

I met the two Ollis for games today. We played San Juan, where I did the rare choice of pursuing producing as a career. That backfired, especially when I didn't get a large building. At least I won my first...

Posted by Mikko on June 7, 2005 3:50 PM

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

Catan card game

I got Settlers of Catan Card Game, so of course I had to try it. Nestori agreed to test it out with me and off we went to Catan. The card game is a two-player version of the board game,...

Posted by Mikko on April 4, 2005 3:41 PM

Boardgame club meeting: Fifth Avenue, Finstere Flure

The first boardgame club meeting this Fall was yesterday. It sure was great to get some gaming action going on. We had a decent showing, with about two tables going on most of the time. First game I played was...

Posted by Mikko on October 25, 2004 9:05 AM

San Juan and St. Petersburg

With my job and all, last three months have been very quiet games-wise. So, the first thing I did on my first day off from work was to head to Brettspielwelt and play some games! It was quiet this time...

Posted by Mikko on October 20, 2004 10:23 AM

St. Petersburg wins DSP!

It's Deutscher Spiele Preis awards time. According to Mik's DSP 2004 page, 2,341 gamers cast their votes to determine the best game of 2004. Winner is St. Petersburg and - no surprises here - I think it's well deserved. I...

Posted by Mikko on September 15, 2004 10:12 AM

Austrian Game of the Year awards

Mik Svellov (of brilliant Brett'n'Board) announced the Austrian Spiel des Spiele awards for this year. There's a list of award winners either at his SDS page or my GeekList. While I don't really care about the award (it has very...

Posted by Mikko on August 17, 2004 12:38 PM

Boardgame club session: St. Petersburg, Maharaja, Victory & Honor

We had a pleasant little boardgame club session yesterday. Only few people came to play, but hey - that's enough. One table of gamers is all I need. Our first game was St. Petersburg. While I explained the rules, I...

Posted by Mikko on August 1, 2004 12:27 PM

Board game club meeting: San Juan, Media Mogul, Haggle

We had a quiet afternoon of games yesterday. I started with San Juan. I played a quick three-player game (around 15 minutes, I think) with Robert and Olli. I had a very good game, once again with Prefecture-Library-City Hall set....

Posted by Mikko on June 21, 2004 9:30 AM