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Archives for December, 2008

New Year’s sessions wish

After the end of this year’s Formula Dé championship, Nigel asked whether we wished to have other tournaments next year. Several ideas have been already circulated by e-mail among us. Various schemes have been suggested, e.g. Read more… »

Kingsburg and Fiji session

On January 24th, Matt brought Kingsburg and Steve, Manuela, André and I played with him. In the end, the more experienced won: Matt. It’s a nice game, but Read more… »

International Gamers Awards

These awards are given since 2000, by a jury composed of expert gamers from around the world. There are three categories: Read more… »

‘Short games’ session

Tonight was the 6th and last Formula Dé championship race, with Ben, Chris, Damen, Nigel, Paul B. and Steve playing. Paul had been leading the championship for five races. The last dice rolling Read more… »

Hall of Games

Since 1985, the members of the Spiele Kreis Wien (Viennese Game Club) vote at all evening meetings (i.e. every 2–3 weeks) for their favourite games. The most voted game gets 5 points, down to 1 point for the 5th most voted game. When a game accumulates 50 points, it gets into the Hall of Games, provided Read more… »

Thebes session

On 18th January, my wife, my youngest daughter and I played Thebes for the first time. Read more… »

Spiel der Spiele

The awards of the Wiener Spiele Akademie (Viennese Game Academy) started in 2001 and aim at recommending good games for playing with family and friends. Read more… »

Michael invited all of us for a session at his place on January 16th, but only André, Manuela and I came. We started with Mission: Red Planet, a nice Faidutti game of area control and character cards, each with Read more… »

spielbox September/October 1998

The detailed contents of spielbox issue 4/1998 is Read more… »

spielbox March/April 1999

The detailed  table of contents of spielbox issue 1/1999 is Read more… »