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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

Thursday session: Xiangqi, Tarot, Tichu

We had to do a last-minute location switch because university is already closed for Christmas. Well, four players gathered at the bar we chose to play in. Not bad, really, as four is all you need... Jaakko was first...

Posted by Mikko on December 21, 2007 12:29 PM

FinDipCon VIII

I spent the weekend in FinDipCon VIII in Helsinki. It was a pleasant event, as they usually are, with lots of games played. The Diplomacy tournament was of course the main event: the Finnish Diplomacy champion in 2006 is Juho...

Posted by Mikko on May 8, 2006 10:33 AM

Board game club session: Tichu, Gulo Gulo, Attika

We had a nice board game club yesterday. It was strange to have the club on Monday, not Sunday, thanks to the Easter, but many people arrived nonetheless. Tichu was definitely the high point for me yesterday. After reading Steve's...

Posted by Mikko on April 18, 2006 7:47 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

Gang of Four

I wrote a review of Gang of Four. It's in Finnish, as usual.Gang of Four Choh Dai Di Tichu The Great Dalmuti--> Gang of Four was published around ten years ago for the first time. Now Days of Wonder has...

Posted by Mikko on December 11, 2003 12:19 PM

Gang of Four

I tried Gang of Four today, at the game web site. It was pretty fun and as with Queen's Necklace the system worked well.Gang of Four Queen's Necklace Tichu--> The game was pretty much as I expected: an easier version...

Posted by Mikko on November 25, 2003 1:27 PM

Wednesday Games, part 7: Mü, Tichu

Another pleasant session of Wednesday games! I started with a game of Balloon Cup with Erkka, who was first to arrive. He also won that game... While we were at it, Olli and Vesa arrived. They played a game of...

Posted by Mikko on July 23, 2003 5:24 PM

Brettspielwelt games

I just played some games in the Brettspielwelt. I've been looking for a game of Ra there for a while now and today it happened, I played a 3-player game. Unfortunately the user interface is on the worse end of...

Posted by Mikko on February 28, 2003 10:29 PM

First BSW games this year

I played my first Brettspielwelt games this year. Those first games included two 2-player games of Carcassonne with the expansion. I won both games. Then, for the first time ever, I managed to get in a game of Tichu. I...

Posted by Mikko on February 8, 2003 10:26 PM

First game of the year: Tichu

Tichu is the first game I played this year. Yesterday I met some of my friends and taught the game to them. Olli was especially interested in the game, as I had advertised how the game has more depth and...

Posted by Mikko on January 15, 2003 7:23 AM

What's new

I've been doing lots of stuff lately, just haven't had time to document it here. I've played T&E at BGG, bought games, written about games and so on... I lost my first game of Tigris & Euphrates at the BoardGameGeek....

Posted by Mikko on November 27, 2002 1:42 PM

Board game club meeting

So, here's the promised session report. First of all, I was quite satisfied as plenty of people came to play. I didn't count the total, but well over ten, we had four games going on almost all the time. My...

Posted by Mikko on October 14, 2002 3:45 PM