Archive for Games
Influx of chess sets
Assorted life updates
Pandemic: Rising Tide
Kam recently acquired the new Pandemic game, Pandemic: Rising Tide, about saving the (19th-century?) Netherlands from sea-level rise using dikes and hydraulic pumping systems. (No diseases in this one!) There are some issues with graphic design/layout of the board, but overall it’s a nice game; as with Pandemic: Iberia, it’s a good combination of familiar […]
Learning go
One of my father's favorite pastimes was playing go. I posted a while back about how he tried to teach...
Probability and Dice Wars
There's this Flash game that I play called Dice Wars. It's sort of like a stylized and abstracted version of...
Life updates
And yet again, two weeks have gone by without a post from me here. What've I been up to? Day...
House rules for playing Slash
At WisCon 2014, Vylar Kaftan introduced a bunch of us to a very entertaining fast-paced casual game called Slash: it's...
Good weekend
This weekend went surprisingly well in various ways: I completed something like a dozen to-do items that I had been...
My emotional state
A couple weeks ago, I sat down to write a blog entry about how I was doing with regard to...
Ingress: Augmented reality game
I've been playing Google's augmented-reality game Ingress intermittently for a few months now. Yesterday, I reached level 7 and (coincidentally)...
Shuffling notes
I've been trying out some boardgames that require a fair bit of card shuffling; in particular, RoboRally requires shuffling the...