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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

Playing cards

Another session! We started with Fairy Tale, which is the current favourite filler. It's indeed an excellent game, right now it's the hottest thing - I'm always up for a game. We even got a team game going, even...

Posted by Mikko on August 31, 2007 8:14 PM

Geocaching card game

I wouldn't post this, but I know I have a geocacher or two in my audience, who might be interested... First to Find! is a trick-taking game about geocaching. Game homepage has some artwork. First to Find!--> The cards look...

Posted by Mikko on September 4, 2006 8:25 AM

Margin for Error preview

I got a copy of Margin for Error, the first game from Sagely Games, to test. Unfortunately I can't see myself having an opportunity to test the game in near future, so I thought I'd write a bit of a...

Posted by Mikko on August 5, 2006 12:38 PM

Drahtseilakt

Knizia's Drahtseilakt reviewed in Finnish. Drahtseilakt Relationship Tightrope--> Drahtseilakt is a Knizia trick-taking game from 1999, republished in 2004 as Relationship Tightrope by Überplay. This review is based on the original German edition. Based on pictures, the new edition looks...

Posted by Mikko on July 10, 2006 7:31 AM

Margin for Error

I got a copy of Margin for Error to try. It's a partnership trick-taking game, so it'll have to wait until the next time I have four players together. It looks simple enough: there's a captain who decides, whether their...

Posted by Mikko on June 7, 2006 10:56 AM

Gargon

A review of Gargon is up on my site. Gargon--> Gargon by Rüdiger Dorn is a small card game from Amigo. Gargon is one of those kind of traditional, yet quirky games. The idea is basically a trick-taking game, but...

Posted by Mikko on January 27, 2006 8:44 AM

Victory & Honor

I wrote a review of VIctory & Honor in Finnish. Victory & Honor--> Victory & Honor is a American Civil War -themed trick-taking game from Ty Douds and Jolly Roger. It's for four players, and while it can be played...

Posted by Mikko on December 22, 2005 12:12 AM

Cosmic Eidex

There's a review of Cosmic Eidex up at the Finnish site. Cosmic Eidex is a trick-taking game for three players. It's not the easiest game to learn, particularly for players with no earlier experience of Central European trick-taking games. It's...

Posted by Mikko on November 26, 2005 9:55 AM

FarFalia

I wrote a review of FarFalia. My session report summarised the game pretty well already, but here goes again: FarFalia is a trick-taking game for five players. It supports two and three with dummies and four with different arrangements, but...

Posted by Mikko on July 20, 2005 11:56 AM

Board game club: Manila, Dividends, Boomtown, Modern Art, Farfalia, Louis XIV

We had a very good game session yesterday. It started with just me and four guys, but hey, we had a blast even if noone else joined us until much later. After clicking through an absolutely dreadful game of Crokinole...

Posted by Mikko on July 18, 2005 4:37 PM

Cosmic Eidex - what a mess!

Since I now have a Cosmic Eidex deck, I thought perhaps I should take a look at Swiss Jass, the game behind Cosmic Eidex. It turns out Cosmic Eidex is a rather complicated mixture of different Jass games. It's basically...

Posted by Mikko on June 21, 2005 11:44 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

Ambition

Those reading rec.games.board or rec.games.card might have noticed a thread called truth about church's ambition. It had nothing to do with church, it's in fact about Mike Church and his card game Ambition. For some reason there's a flamewar of...

Posted by Mikko on February 19, 2005 9:13 AM

Die Sieben Siegel

I reviewed Die Sieben Siegel (in Finnish). Die Sieben Siegel (The Seven Seals) is a trick-taking game (one of these days I should write an introductory article on trick-taking games, in Finnish). In the Card Games classified index it would...

Posted by Mikko on January 24, 2005 2:55 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

Four Dragons or Dia de los Muertos

I wrote a review of Four Dragons (and Dia de los Muertos). It's the first review I've written with my new game review content management system I built to make writing reviews easier. As you might already know, Four Dragons...

Posted by Mikko on December 21, 2004 12:13 PM

Land Unter

Man, I'm in the zone now. I just wrote another review, this time of Dorra's card game Land Unter. Land Unter is a clever little card game. The basic mechanism is a simultaneous trick-taking game, where the two highest cards...

Posted by Mikko on November 29, 2004 2:55 PM

Weekend games: St. Petersburg rocks!

I was in Jyväskylä this weekend and it sure was an interesting weekend games-wise. I thought my mother would like San Juan, because she likes Puerto Rico but it's a bit too deep for her. She isn't that into devising...

Posted by Mikko on July 26, 2004 10:28 AM

Memoir '44 and Victory & Honor

My game collection grew with two new war-themed games today when I got the long-expected Memoir '44 and actually even longer-expected Victory & Honor.Memoir '44-->Victory & Honor--> I guess there's little I can say about Memoir '44 at this point...

Posted by Mikko on June 29, 2004 7:09 PM