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Finnish Game of the Year winners 2007

Last year was a disaster, now things look much better! The Finnish Adult Game of the Year for 2007 is Thurn und Taxis, the Finnish Family Game of the Year is Ubongo and the Finnish Kids Game of the Year...

Posted by Mikko on September 14, 2007 11:36 AM

Gaming year 2006

Once again the year is over and it's time for the year-end report. Here's 2005 for comparison... Good games published in 2006 Age of Steam: London and Sun, 1830's Pennsylvania and Northern California - I've played one map from each...

Posted by Mikko on January 2, 2007 8:00 AM

BookMooch

This is off-topic, but interesting enough. Reading is one of my passions outside board games. My tastes can be a bit difficult: many of the books I'd like to read are not translated (or are translated with quite a delay)...

Posted by Mikko on October 5, 2006 11:32 AM

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

Math trades and Spiel des Jahres

I've been rather excited with the concept of math trades. There's loads of math trade activity in the Geek, just check the trade forum (the math trade guide is good if you don't know what this is all about). I...

Posted by Mikko on May 29, 2006 2:25 PM

Thurn und Taxis

Review of Thurn und Taxis in Finnish. Thurn und Taxis--> Thurn und Taxis is the latest game from Andreas Seyfarth (and his wife Karen) of Puerto Rico fame. It's not a heavy gamer game, but more directed to the Spiel...

Posted by Mikko on April 26, 2006 7:34 PM

Some Thurn und Taxis thoughts

Played some Thurn und Taxis at BSW. This time I was focused on the wagon-growing strategy, where you build five routes: three, four, five, six and seven cities. That way you'll end the game (hopefully) faster than your opponents and...

Posted by Mikko on April 26, 2006 7:05 PM

Thurn und Taxis at BSW, again

After beating Markku from Board Game Society (JoeLamer at BSW, he's very active in EnglishTown so you might've met him) four times in Thurn und Taxis today, I'm starting to think it's really a pretty good game... Thurn und Taxis-->...

Posted by Mikko on April 21, 2006 5:21 PM

Game weekend at Tommy's, day one

We're having another game weekend at Tommy's. Tommy prepared for the weekend by buying some of the more interesting Nürnburg games, so we've had plenty of interesting games to try. Friday was an effective evening of games, from 18:30 to...

Posted by Mikko on March 25, 2006 7:25 AM