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Hiew Chok Sien's Blog: January 2015
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Hiew Chok Sien's Blog. I use this blog mostly to write about my daughters Shee Yun 煦芸 and Chen Rui 晨睿. Sometimes I write about other things that interest me. I also blog about my boardgame hobby, in both English ( hiewandboardgames.blogspot.com. And Chinese ( boardgametable.blogspot.com. Saturday, January 31, 2015. I read that one parent called in to a radio program to complain about her (or his? To complete her work quickly. She said the homework bored her. Hiew Chok Sien 邱卓成. Thursday, January 29, 2015.
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Hiew's Boardgame Blog: Die Macher full game
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Reviews, gameplay impressions, photos, stories, thoughts, and other musings of a boardgamer in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. BGG. Thursday, 29 July 2010. Die Macher full game. Posted by Hiew Chok Sien 邱卓成. Finally, I got to play Die Macher. Thankfully we still managed to finish the game in 4 hours. The 7th election is only for scoring, so that means we spent 2.5hrs on 5 rounds, just half an hour per round after the initial slog. My five party platform cards. This version of Die Macher. Was published when the i...
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Hiew's Boardgame Blog: Click Clack Lumberjack / Toc Toc Woodman (2nd Ed)
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Reviews, gameplay impressions, photos, stories, thoughts, and other musings of a boardgamer in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. BGG. Friday, 26 June 2015. Click Clack Lumberjack / Toc Toc Woodman (2nd Ed). Posted by Hiew Chok Sien 邱卓成. Only when I looked up Toc Toc Woodman. I realised there are a few different versions. The first edition rules are quite different. The latest edition ( Click Clack Lumberjack. Has some slight additions to the second edition Toc Toc Woodman. One funny thing that happened in our game...
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Hiew's Boardgame Blog: August 2015
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Reviews, gameplay impressions, photos, stories, thoughts, and other musings of a boardgamer in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. BGG. Saturday, 29 August 2015. Viticulture and Tuscany expansion. Posted by Hiew Chok Sien 邱卓成. The well-received debut game from Stonemeier Games, was funded through Kickstarter, and so was the Tuscany. Expansion. I played Viticulture. For the first time recently, with 5 of the expansion modules from Tuscany. I have never played vanilla Viticulture. The map at the bottom left shows seve...
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Hiew's Boardgame Blog: December 2014
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Reviews, gameplay impressions, photos, stories, thoughts, and other musings of a boardgamer in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. BGG. Tuesday, 30 December 2014. Posted by Hiew Chok Sien 邱卓成. Genji is the great Romeo of classical Japan - a great poet and lover. In the game of Genji. It comes down to just three factors. (1) Does it match the season? 2) Is it fashionable? 3) Does it match the preference of the recipient? Three main things are checked during the end-of-season scoring. First, we look for the best p...
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Hiew's Boardgame Blog: March 2015
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Reviews, gameplay impressions, photos, stories, thoughts, and other musings of a boardgamer in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. BGG. Monday, 30 March 2015. Boardgaming in photos: Ubongo, Kakerlaken Poker, Pandemic, Medici. Posted by Hiew Chok Sien 邱卓成. 14 Mar 2015. Playing Ubongo. There are six variants to every puzzle in Ubongo. The combination of puzzle pieces is different in each variant, but in all variants it is possible to combine the pieces in a way that fits the shape on the puzzle board precisely. I ...
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Hiew's Boardgame Blog: February 2015
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Reviews, gameplay impressions, photos, stories, thoughts, and other musings of a boardgamer in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. BGG. Wednesday, 25 February 2015. My family's top tens. Posted by Hiew Chok Sien 邱卓成. In 2012, I asked two of my gaming buddies to make our top ten lists. Race for the Galaxy / Roll for the Galaxy - She combines these two into one entry. They feel similar enough to her. Roll for the Galaxy. In the past, using the advanced 2-player rules. Race for the Galaxy. And Race for the Galaxy.
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Hiew's Boardgame Blog: Lords of Scotland
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Reviews, gameplay impressions, photos, stories, thoughts, and other musings of a boardgamer in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. BGG. Friday, 24 July 2015. Posted by Hiew Chok Sien 邱卓成. A game of Lords of Scotland. With this kind of hand, you'd probably want to go for the single-colour bonus. The biggest impression I have of Lords of Scotland. This is an older version of the game. Functional, but not exactly sexy. The latest version has nicer artwork. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Hiew Chok Sien 邱卓成. Afif do...
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Hiew's Boardgame Blog: the beauty of simple games
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Reviews, gameplay impressions, photos, stories, thoughts, and other musings of a boardgamer in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. BGG. Tuesday, 7 July 2015. The beauty of simple games. Posted by Hiew Chok Sien 邱卓成. I can totally relate to what you are feeling. It is so much easier to intro simple games to new players and have a quick session during lunch breaks than bringing out a heavy game that no one has the attention span to learn or the time to play. 7 July 2015 at 19:07. Hiew Chok Sien 邱卓成. Hiew Chok Sien 邱卓成.
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Hiew's Boardgame Blog: Ice Cream Combo
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Reviews, gameplay impressions, photos, stories, thoughts, and other musings of a boardgamer in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. BGG. Sunday, 5 July 2015. Posted by Hiew Chok Sien 邱卓成. Plays: 3Px1, 2Px1. The starting setup of a two-player game. The player who completes his 5th ice cream declares game end. You check your completed ice creams to make sure they have all been done correctly. Ice creams with mistakes score nothing. My opponent Chen Rui. This comment has been removed by the author. 5 July 2015 at 21:38.
