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Archives for June, 2009

spielbox February/March 2008

spielbox issue 1/2008 comes with a new building for Cuba. The contents is as follows, with games in italics receiving the best reviews: Read more… »

spielbox October 2006

I simply had to buy issue 5/2006 of spielbox: it comes with an expansion for one of my favourite networking games, Thurn and Taxis. The contents is as follows, with games in italics receiving the best reviews: Read more… »

The Hans im Glück Almanac

The Hans im Glück Almanac is one of the occasional special issues of the spielbox magazine. After two issues about games (Settlers of Catan in 2000 and Carcassonne in 2005), and one about an author (Reiner Knizia in 2006), this one appeared in 2008 for the 25th anniversary of this German publisher of well-known and award-winning games, some of them shown on the cover. (Can you tell the games?)

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The Knizia Almanac

The Knizia Almanac is one of the occasional special issues of the spielbox magazine. After two issues about games (Settlers of Catan in 2000 and Carcassonne in 2005), this one appeared in 2006 as a tribute to one of the greatest and most prolific game authors of all time: Reiner Knizia.

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Ticket to Ride tournament session

Tonight, five of us were due to play a game of Ticket to Ride Europe for the Eurogames tournament the club is organising this year. Richard was unable to come, so Paul B., Julian, David and myself sat around the table. Paul would have liked to have a practice game first, but Julian couldn’t face the psychologically damaging possibility of performing better in practice than in the tournament game, so we went straight for the ‘real thing’. Read more… »

Expansions galore

Today I received 4 spielbox special issues I had ordered, each with an expansion. Read more… »

spielbox June 2009

Today I received spielbox issue 3/2009, with two small expansions for Tigris & Euphrates and Planet Steam. The contents is as follows, with games in italics receiving an average reviewer score above 7/10: Read more… »