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Playing-card review 6: Wilhelm Tell cards

Wilhelm Tell cards are fairly common in the Central and Eastern Europe: Hungary, Austria, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Slovakia, western Romania and southern Tyrol. It is a rather beautiful pattern, full of interesting details. The pack has the German...

Posted by Mikko on August 16, 2008 7:47 PM

Hot games for Q2/2008

Continuing from the previous round... Glory to Rome takes the spot as the hottest game of the quarter, by far: it has double the hotness points the second game on the list has. And why not? It's new and it's...

Posted by Mikko on June 30, 2008 7:27 PM

Bondtolva in the park

Yesterday's session was a disaster: Mari arrived at 16.20 or so, I arrived at 17.00 and Make arrived at 17.30 - none of us stayed long enough to meet each other. Way to go! However, today was much better. You...

Posted by Mikko on June 6, 2008 1:45 PM

Thursday session: Glory to Rome, Schnapsen

I got a chance to play two more games of Glory to Rome today. It's a great game, especially as I won both games... Well, that's definitely not hard against newbies, and Mari, the only other player with experience,...

Posted by Mikko on May 29, 2008 8:36 PM

Playing-card review 3: Doppelkopf packs by ASS and Piatnik

This time I'm taking a look at some Doppelkopf packs. These packs have 48 cards, but they are actually made of two 24-card packs. Thus, the packs have A, K, Q, J, 10, 9 in each suit twice. Doppelkopf is...

Posted by Mikko on May 12, 2008 12:22 PM

Two-player card games: Schnapsen, WYSIWYG

I made a return to Schnapsen - I had tried it once before, about five years ago. It's an extremely tight two-handed trick-taker. It's an ace-ten game, played with a 20-card pack with all the non-scoring cards removed. It seems...

Posted by Mikko on October 15, 2007 8:01 PM