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Finnish Players' Picks 2005

Finnish Players' Picks for 2005 have been chosen. The winner is Carcassonne. Puerto Rico, the previous winner, places second. Ticket to Ride grabs the third place. Carcassonne Puerto Rico Ticket to Ride--> As usual, I've created a geeklist of the...

Posted by Mikko on October 5, 2005 7:09 AM

Weekend of Industrial Waste (with some Dvonn)

I was visiting Jyväskylä last weekend. In addition to some surprisingly pleasing physical work (painting boards and a wall, building scaffolding), we played lots of games. During the years, I've introduced several games with variable success. Some have been huge...

Posted by Mikko on October 3, 2005 12:27 PM

Finnish Game of the Year winners 2005

Finnish Game of the Year winners have been declared. They reflect the Spiel des Jahres awards closely. Best children's game is Geistertreppe, 2004 Kinder Spiel des Jahres winner. Kids loved the ghost mechanism and thought the game was funny and...

Posted by Mikko on September 9, 2005 1:15 PM

Ticket to Ride online

I just finished a game of Ticket to Ride at the Finnish game site Voitta.net. The game is called Wanderer there, but it's Ticket to Ride. The game mode is turn-based play-by-web. The site is Finnish and English and I...

Posted by Mikko on June 14, 2005 11:47 AM

Game weekend, part 2: Mit List und Tücke, Logistico, Kahuna, Geistertreppe

Here's the rest of the games of the great weekend: Mit List und Tücke was brought by Robert, who had noticed the game on my want list in the Geek. It's a Klaus Palesch trick-taking game and not that far...

Posted by Mikko on June 7, 2005 9:38 AM

Karibik and TransAmerica

I got a nice packet yesterday. Inside I found two games from Winning Moves, Karibik and TransAmerica and some Kosmos two-player games (Lost Cities and Balloon Cup). What all these games have in common? They are all coming out in...

Posted by Mikko on December 22, 2004 1:00 PM

Ticket to Ride

As last weeks game of Die Neuen Entdecker seemed a bit too heavy, I wanted to offer something lighter this time. I chose Ticket to Ride and it turned out to be a good selection.Die Neuen Entdecker-->Ticket to Ride--> It's...

Posted by Mikko on July 19, 2004 2:55 PM

Spiel des Jahres 2004: Ticket to Ride!

Ticket to Ride is the Spiel des Jahres 2004. Congratulations to Alan R. Moon and Days of Wonder! I haven't tried the other nominees (yet), but I can certainly agree with this decision by the jury, as Ticket to Ride...

Posted by Mikko on June 28, 2004 1:59 PM

Bruno Faidutti's Game of the Year 2004

As Iain already noticed, it's once again time for Bruno Faidutti to announce his Game of the Year award. This year the winner is Ticket to Ride - not a huge surprise to anyone, I imagine.Ticket to Ride--> I agree,...

Posted by Mikko on June 22, 2004 10:59 AM

Weekend gaming session, Saturday

Saturday was a fun-filled day of gaming as well. Tommy's brother Miikka joined us. He's not a gamer the way we are, but likes to play games. We kicked the day off with a four-player game of Attika, a well-known...

Posted by Mikko on May 16, 2004 9:50 AM

Train game club meeting

Our board game club met yesterday. The attendance was low, just eight people. However, a group of Diplomacy players shared the space with us and brought some life.Diplomacy--> Ticket to Ride was very much the game of the day. I...

Posted by Mikko on April 19, 2004 9:11 AM

The Games Journal

Another month, another issue of The Games Journal. This time the more interesting articles are the fourth installment of Jonathan Degann's Game Theory 101 series and an article about drafting. Game reviews include an interesting take on Alex Randolph's Buffalo...

Posted by Mikko on April 1, 2004 2:34 PM

Games keep coming my way

Even though I don't have any money to buy games, I keep getting them by other means. Looks like I'll get a copy of Alan Moon's Ticket to Ride to translate. That'll be interesting, because I'm intrigued about the game....

Posted by Mikko on March 30, 2004 5:39 PM