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Thursday session: Golden Compass, Halli Galli Extreme

After clobbering Hannu in Sunda to Sahul, it was time for Golden Compass. We had full table, four players, and off we went, on our trip to the other universe. The card playing mechanism was definitely more interesting with...

Posted by Mikko on February 8, 2008 5:45 AM

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

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

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

Saturday Night Mahjong

The whole last year passed without a single game of Mahjong! To fix the error, I got a group of people together to play a proper, long game. Ville, Laura, Robert and Ari heeded the call. I think five is...

Posted by Mikko on March 6, 2004 9:54 PM

Board game club meeting

Our board game club had a meeting yesterday. Lots of games were played, which was good. I started the afternoon with Web of Power. It's one of my favourites, but I haven't played it often this year. I should, I...

Posted by Mikko on November 3, 2003 11:51 AM

FinDipCon V: Friday

I'm back from FinDipCon! It was a splendid weekend of games, even though I'm getting a bit tired of con environment. I guess I just appreciate good food and good sleep too much... Eating too little and randomly and not...

Posted by Mikko on April 29, 2003 3:36 PM

FinDipCon

A reminder for those in Finland next weekend: it's FinDipCon time! This year the event is held in Helsinki and features the fifth Finnish Diplomacy championship, a Blood Bowl tournament and other minor tournaments - I'm going to participate in...

Posted by Mikko on April 21, 2003 4:11 PM

More games at BSW

I played few more games at the Brettspielwelt. First, I played two games of Web of Power - my first games this year! I lost first one (badly), then managed to win the other. Web of Power--> I also tried...

Posted by Mikko on March 1, 2003 11:16 PM

BSW games: Carcassonne, Web of Power

Not my day today, it seems. Well, I did win my first game of Carcassonne at the Brettspielwelt thanks to some very nasty tile placements. I lost the second game, a two-player duel, by one point. If I hadn't made...

Posted by Mikko on December 5, 2002 10:49 AM

BSW games: Web of Power and Puerto Rico

I played some games just minutes ago at the Brettspielwelt. First, two games of Web of Power - lost first trying to get advisors in a three-player game and then won the second game (which was very tough and exciting...

Posted by Mikko on November 8, 2002 11:36 AM

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

Web of Power

For Finnish users, there's a new review at my web site: Web of Power. I've played lots of this lately and as you might notice from my Top 10 list, I value the game very highly. It works nicely from...

Posted by Mikko on September 19, 2002 6:19 PM