Best of Board Games

Do you like old mahjong sets? One of the best places to find them is eBay, and one of the best ways to find good vintage mahjong sets is Vintage Mahjong. The site has good browsing tools and highly useful RSS feeds to make sure you don’t miss a single deal. You can also learn about choosing the right set and right rules and about playing online.

If you’re Finnish and interested in Leatherman multitools, but can’t stand the outrageous prices, checkout Edulliset Leathermanit, where you can find popular Leatherman models for cheap. In best cases you can get yourself a brand new genuine Leatherman for less than half the recommended Finnish price.

Do you like online poker? Can you read Finnish? Are you beginner to intermediate level? If answer to all three questions are yes, then you must check out Nettipokeri, which is the best Finnish information resource for online poker.

A friend of mine - a board gamer - is a comics enthusiast. I’ve been working with him on a comic auction website. If you want to buy comics, cartoons, manga, comic-related toys and other stuff, check out Buy Comics, it’s a pretty neat collection of eBay auctions for comics. My friend knows his comics well, there’s a good selection of topics to browse.

Board Game Auctions showcases board game auctions from eBay.

I’ve decided to quit Best of Board Games. I’m not satisfied on the level of the blog, yet I’m not really that interested to put more effort to make it better. Thanks to my fellow contributors for your contributions, thanks to everyone who’s linked to us and thanks to all readers.

It’s Payback Time - Yehuda shares his blog ad profits with his readers through a bunch of exciting games.

Deep Thoughts: By Coldfoot Handy is an interesting blog entry on board games compared to literature.

Ever wondered why Age of Steam income reduction was designed? BoardGameGeek thread Design goal behind AoS income reduction explains, and has also good thoughts about AoS strategy.

At Essen 2006, Ludovic Gimet and his friends sold a hand-made expansion for Age of Steam with a run of 180 copies, 20,000 Rails Under the Sea. I asked him if he had any spare copies at Essen and he looked at me as if I was mad.

He photographed the whole manufacturing process. It’s well worth a look.

Original French version
Babelfish English version

The Designer’s Mind: Silk Road is an excellent article on the design of Silk Road, involving designers Ted Cheatham and Bruno Faidutti and the publisher Zev Shlasinger.

Really good at board games? Can you beat all you friends? If you’re feeling lucky, try online poker for a change. Who knows, you could win big!