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Divine Diversions: SNAFU and Haz

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Rick's Gaming Journal, covering board games, card games, role playing games and other games in and of life. Tuesday, May 23, 2006. Thanks to "Mr. ekted" Jim C., I noticed that the template of this weblog broke for some reason. It took a bit of time to reconstruct the template, so the promised post will have to wait until tomorrow. Just to have a bit of game-related content on here, we finally got to play some (Ha Ha) Hacienda. Or plain Haz to us) over the past few weeks. It's not Wolfie's. I played Haz t...

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Divine Diversions: Zupport for Zavandor

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Rick's Gaming Journal, covering board games, card games, role playing games and other games in and of life. Saturday, July 29, 2006. Mike Siggins's new Notebook. Favorable review for Das Zepter. Which makes me feel a lot more secure in my decision to order it despite its being an indy game ( Lookout Games. That has a reputation for running too long. I have to admit, it was the theme that tipped me over the edge here. A fantasy-flavored system game? All I have to do is call it " The Rod of Seven Parts.

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Divine Diversions: Toys 'R (Finally?) Us

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Rick's Gaming Journal, covering board games, card games, role playing games and other games in and of life. Sunday, July 16, 2006. The first TRU store in the country (ever? Finally opened in one of the city's malls a few weeks ago. I finally got to go check it out. I didn't have a lot of expectations, boardgame-wise, but did hope that some of the more common stuff would be there at somewhat reasonable prices. Nope, not available. Dammit. Nope, not available. Dammit. Disappointed, I walked through the res...

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Divine Diversions: LudoNJ 3-Way

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Rick's Gaming Journal, covering board games, card games, role playing games and other games in and of life. Monday, March 20, 2006. After some touch and go moments I got to hook up with Gil Hova and Joe. Golazeski for some gaming in the hinterlands of New Jersey. Thanks to Gil. For driving down to my hotel and giving me a ride! Joe had been hinting that he would have a new gae for us to try, the. MYSTERIOUS GAME OF MYSTERY. The clue was that the game was fresh off. Posted by Rick @ 3:18 AM.

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Divine Diversions: Broken

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Rick's Gaming Journal, covering board games, card games, role playing games and other games in and of life. Wednesday, May 31, 2006. I knew it was a bad idea to use a .css file that was hosted on a site other than Blogger. So I converted two of my weblogs over to templated from googlepages.com because I liked how it all looked. Now, that site has exceeded its bandwidth and so it stopped serving the .css file. It took a week to figure it out. Posted by Rick @ 11:17 PM. THE MYSTERIOUS GAME OF MYSTERY (tm).

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Divine Diversions: January 2006

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Rick's Gaming Journal, covering board games, card games, role playing games and other games in and of life. Thursday, January 26, 2006. Stealing (Game) Time in Hong Kong with Alan Kwan. Two days after arriving from Bangkok it was time to pack my bags again for a conference in Hong Kong. Anyway, this time around it was a snap to identify who to contact for a boardgame fix. Alan Kwan. Is an active voice on BGG. He's also the YINSH. And YINSH in stock, two games that have been on my wishlist for a long time...

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Divine Diversions: April 2005

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Rick's Gaming Journal, covering board games, card games, role playing games and other games in and of life. Saturday, April 09, 2005. Wonders of the World. It had better be good. Posted by Rick @ 6:22 AM. Monday, April 04, 2005. Game night 2 April 2005. We had planned on playing Traders of Genoa. I was leaning towards traveling light, but in another effort to get Vinci. As well, since that’s not been at the table in ages either. This all allowed me to stick three bigger game into the main bag ( Torres.

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Divine Diversions: December 2005

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Rick's Gaming Journal, covering board games, card games, role playing games and other games in and of life. Saturday, December 31, 2005. 2005: My Year of Boardgaming, Part I - The Worst Games. So, some lists. Let's start with the BAD. The Shit List: 5 Games played in 2005 that I'd rather not play again. This game would also win my "Greatest Disappointment" award, if I gave one out. After anticipation at getting it due to all the good comments from my online buddies, I got to try it on spielbyweb. Another...

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Divine Diversions: November 2005

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Rick's Gaming Journal, covering board games, card games, role playing games and other games in and of life. Tuesday, November 29, 2005. Game Night - 26 November 2005 - The First Campaign. Initial thoughts on the opinion polls - strong, but you can protect yourself either by incrementally buying votes beforehand if you think your trend in a region is vulnerable. Or you can control the media, making you immune. Or you can win the poll yourself. Either way, it didn't bother me all that much. So I set up a 4...

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Divine Diversions: October 2005

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Rick's Gaming Journal, covering board games, card games, role playing games and other games in and of life. Wednesday, October 26, 2005. Become the #1 game on Boardgamegeek. These are the discussions that certify people as boardgamegeeks. So, speculation. Why is Puerto Rico. The #1 game on BGG? Why was The Princes of Florence. The #1 game before that? And why do people think Caylus is The Second Coming? First off, Caylus has not been released in North America by Rio Grande Games. Posted by Rick @ 8:28 AM.