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Yspahan for Windows

I finally got around downloading Westpark Gamers PC version of Yspahan. It's from the same guy who did the St. Petersburg PC version. Yspahan St. Petersburg--> It's a good game. It took me few games to figure it out -...

Posted by Mikko on June 7, 2007 3:40 PM

Objective vs subjective

Yehuda asks: Is there a solid line between objective and subjective evaluation? Most people don't agree with my particular assessment of Saint Petersburg, and not only due to my subjective criticisms. It's possible that my objective criticisms are more subjective...

Posted by Mikko on May 21, 2006 1:57 PM

Weekend games: Scotland Yard, Duel Masters, St. Petersburg

We were visiting my mother at Jyväskylä this weekend and of course, I ended up playing some games. The most interesting game this weekend was Scotland Yard, the very first Spiel des Jahres game I've ever played. It was a...

Posted by Mikko on February 20, 2006 6:56 AM

Board game club: Antike, Antike!

Board game club met last Sunday. It was a good meeting, with lots of people, some new faces and active gaming. After a warm-up game of Flix Mix (I'm still unbeaten in this game), we started a six-player Antike. That...

Posted by Mikko on January 17, 2006 8:46 AM

Games at Jyväskylä - expanded Dawn Under

We were visiting my parents in Jyväskylä this weekend (my grandfather's 85th birthday party was Saturday). We did play some games, as well. Ismo and Raija joined me for a game of Dawn Under. I sold them my English copy,...

Posted by Mikko on November 6, 2005 5:10 PM

Games weekend in Jyväskylä: Mhing!

I visited Jyväskylä last weekend and played quite a few games. I had just few games with me, so the games were repeated more than usually. That's different and to be honest, I quite enjoyed it. Lost Cities: I brought...

Posted by Mikko on May 9, 2005 9:52 AM

Afternoon of games

I had some friends over for games. First one to arrive was Antti, another Tampere gamer who I had met in Helsinki, actually - he came to HelCon. We started the festivities with a quick match of Lord of the...

Posted by Mikko on February 5, 2005 8:41 PM

Jyväskylä game weekend

Last weekend in Jyväskylä was good gaming time. As usual, I brought a bunch on games we played a lot. It's refreshingly different, playing the same games over and over again instead of playing a variety of games just once...

Posted by Mikko on January 24, 2005 9:21 AM

Games of 2004

Another year gone, another report of year's activities. Once more, there's probably more information than anyone wants to know, but it's more for me anyway. Once again I played more than 100 different games - 113 to be precise. That's...

Posted by Mikko on January 1, 2005 9:11 AM

Boardgame club session: Intrige, Geschenkt

Erkka and Robert were first to arrive, so we kicked the session off with two games of Da Vinci Code. It's a good game and really a good choice for the club. It's easy to learn (even learning by reading...

Posted by Mikko on November 22, 2004 7:18 AM

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

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

International Gamers Awards 2004

The winner of the International Gamers Awards is St. Petersburg. Neat. When I wrote about the nominees, I wished but didn't expect it to win. Now the game has won both IGA and DSP awards - my taste in games...

Posted by Mikko on September 22, 2004 8:55 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

St. Petersburg PC version

Chris Brooks mentioned the St. Petersburg PC version. I downloaded it (it's available at the Westpark Gamers website) and tried it. It's neat, but the user interface looks like it's done by an engineer and not a designer. However, it...

Posted by Mikko on September 1, 2004 5:22 PM

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

International Gamers Awards 2004 nominees

It's time for International Gamers Awards again. You can find the nominees for 2004 awards in multiplayer and two-player categories (historical simulation was awarded earlier) at the IGA nominee page or at the Geek in the IGA nominee GeekList I...

Posted by Mikko on August 11, 2004 10:40 AM

BSW games: St. Pete and Tichu

It's been a while since I last played Tichu (about 50 weeks, actually). I played a game at BSW and sucked. No wonder. It was fun, anyway. We were down something like 800-0, but my partner pulled a Grand Tichu...

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

Guess what? St. Pete at BSW!

I just played four two-player games of St. Petersburg at Brettspielwelt. Longest game took almost 14 minutes, fastest was over under eight minutes! That's more like it! I managed to win only one game. In two-player games it's easy to...

Posted by Mikko on August 4, 2004 12:58 PM