THIS SCHEDULE IS NOT FINAL! WE’RE IN THE PROCESS OF UPLOADING THE FINAL SUBMISSIONS AND FITTING THEM IN - THINGS MAY CHANGE! Game signups will open on Sunday September 20th at 2 pm. Tickets purchased on Zeffy will be uploaded daily in the evening, and we’ll announce in the Discord when that has happened. You’ll also get an automated email from Sched when your ticket has been uploaded, with instructions on how to log in.
Draft your team of adorable little mythical Pixies to score the most points over three rounds. The game has you selecting cards from a central display and placing them into a personal 3x3 grid. It features lovely, colorful art, fun characters, and easy rules.
This event includes a full explanation of the rules, and the complexity is very low, so all players are welcome. Learning and playing the game should take about 45 minutes.
The Quick Play Zone features games that are easy to learn, play in less than an hour, and have fun friendly themes. If you’re interested in this game but the scheduled event is full, stop by any time during the weekend and I’ll set it up for you!
I love playing games, talking about games, teaching games, and I especially love introducing new folks to this awesome hobby. You can find me on BoardGameGeek.com as user MikeTuna. While you're there, be sure to join the Tucson Guild at http://boardgamegeek.com/guild/214.
Race to collect sets of attractions around the fair. Spend tickets to skip forward to the pile you want—or to steal one another player needs. At the end of each round, the player who holds the most of each attraction scores points.
In the Ancient Greece, the poleis (city-states) thrived increasing their population and culture, occasionally waging war against each other, erecting buildings and celebrating ceremonies to get the favour of the deities abiding on Mount Olympus. The players will lead one of these city-states (like Athens, Sparta, Corinth, Thebes, Argos and others) expanding it and worshipping the various gods in order to become the hegemonic power of the Peloponnesus!
Take tiles from different factories to build your own wall. Score points by making specific patterns and completing sets. Avoid taking too many tiles, or else you will lose points. The game ends when the first player completes a horizontal line of tiles on their wall.
The legends of the lost city are true! Race through the jungle, across the water, and around the treacherous mountains to be the first to reach the riches of El Dorado. This game is a race featuring deck-building, with cards used for movement across the terrain or money to purchase more powerful cards. Choose your cards and path wisely!
This event includes a full explanation of the rules, and the complexity is low, so all players are welcome. Learning and playing the game should take about 60 minutes.
The Quick Play Zone features games that are easy to learn, play in less than an hour, and have fun friendly themes. If you’re interested in this game but the scheduled event is full, stop by any time during the weekend and I’ll set it up for you!
I love playing games, talking about games, teaching games, and I especially love introducing new folks to this awesome hobby. You can find me on BoardGameGeek.com as user MikeTuna. While you're there, be sure to join the Tucson Guild at http://boardgamegeek.com/guild/214.
The Transformers TCG is a battle-based card game where players control teams of Transformer characters and a deck of Actions and Upgrades defeat all of their opponent's characters before they defeat yours.
Each character has a star ? value, and your team can have up to 25?. Your deck must have a minimum of 40 battle cards, but you can have as many as you want.
Super Battle Mon is an ultra fast TCG that you can play anywhere in just 3 minutes with 7-card decks, no table required! Player friendly and easy to get a full card set. Become part of the community today!
Keep your eyes on the fries! Join a flock of greedy seagulls in a beak-to-beak showdown to snag the tastiest beach treats. Play cards to your stash for big points, or GIVE them to opponents to trigger special actions. Swap, steal, and ruffle rivals' stashes—then pull off your secret 'End Gull' strategy to become the ultimate Beach Bandit!
Naasii is a push-your-luck style game of chance. Inspired by traditional Indigenous games and classic American family games. You'll roll twelve-sided dice aiming to score sets or runs while not busting along the way. Highest score wins, but it's not all luck. You'll need to decide which numbers to pursue and when you've scored enough to keep ahead of the other players. You'll even be able to pick a lucky number that will get you a few extra points on other players' turns!
Designed by Kenna Alexander (Cherokee Nation, creator of Coyote & Crow) with art from Wolf Tomoyaketu (Comanche and Apache) and development by Daryl Andrews, Naasii brings the mischievous spirt of both Coyote and Crow to life in this fast paced, high-spirited game for the whole family.
An adorable strategy game that combines chain reactions with tic-tac-toe and cats! Come over and check it out! Each round takes 20-30 minutes, but it can go much faster.
Send your legendary team of cats on a series of space expeditions to distant moons and planets! This game features a series of expeditions with each player choosing one of their cat astronauts to send along. The commander will take them deep into the stars…until they abandon ship and hand the controls to you. This is a push-your-luck game requiring a bit of planning, some clever timing, and all nine of your lives.
This event includes a full explanation of the rules, and the complexity is low, so all players are welcome. Learning and playing the game should take about 60 minutes.
The Quick Play Zone features games that are easy to learn, play in less than an hour, and have fun friendly themes. If you’re interested in this game but the scheduled event is full, stop by any time during the weekend and I’ll set it up for you!
I love playing games, talking about games, teaching games, and I especially love introducing new folks to this awesome hobby. You can find me on BoardGameGeek.com as user MikeTuna. While you're there, be sure to join the Tucson Guild at http://boardgamegeek.com/guild/214.
Super Battle Mon is an ultra fast TCG that you can play anywhere in just 3 minutes with 7-card decks, no table required! Player friendly and easy to get a full card set. Become part of the community today!
Yeehaw! Get ready to play possum, round-up poker hands, and throw some outlaws in the hoosegow. In Pogo Possum Posse Poker, (2-4 players) take on the role of bounty hunters working alongside the famous Sheriff Wyatt O. Possum and his trusty pogo stick, Betsy. For greenhorns and veterans alike, players will use a unique card skipping mechanic to lasso up some playing cards to make specific poker hands, while they scout out and capture gangs of lawbreaking varmints in the Wild West. Combined with a standard deck of cards, your family is fixin’ to have a hootin', hollerin', and growlin’ good time, and see why Pogo Possum Posse Poker puts the ‘wild’ in the Wild Wild West.
Redwood is a game of movement estimations and angle of view where players have to take pictures of wild animals to compose the most beautiful panorama. The game is for 1 to 4 players, ages 10+ and the games last about 45-60 min.
During their turn, each player will have to choose between different movements and their angle of view (materialized by real plastic elements) to catch the animals in the picture (without disturbing them).
Collecting animals and decorative elements earn victory points.
During the game, new conditions for earning points will appear.
The game ends after 5 turns and players will be rewarded if they meet certain conditions to earn more points.
Fish Cook is a super-sweet little economic game, where players are chefs buying ingredients and cooking fish. You can cook any recipe you can see, which means everything from the secret cards in your hand, to the finished dishes in other players' menus. Your money is your score (mostly), so buy smart and cook well. Play with the designer, James Ernest.
James Ernest is a prolific tabletop game designer, and the founder of Cheapass Games. His best-known games include Kill Doctor Lucky, Lords of Vegas, Unexploded Cow, and Tak: A Beautiful Game. He is over nine feet tall, celebrates three birthdays each year, and is made entirely of... Read More →
Wolves is a semi-cooperative board game for 3-6 players. You take on the role of a community leader attempting to manage limited resources to help get your people through the winter. To survive, you need to co-operate and share through the gifting of what you've gathered and grown, which will dwindle as you head toward winter. If any player fails to meet their community's needs, all players lose the game — but if everyone makes it through winter, the player who gained the most status will be elected chief of all of the communities and granted an additional victory.
Status is gained through efficient gifting of resources to other players and sharing excesses with your own community. Phases of each turn are played either simultaneously, or in status order, which can change from turn to turn.
Tea Witches is a worker placement game set in the fantasy world of Britewitch City where players are witches running magical tea huts, in hopes of being the best in show at the annual Teaquinox Faire.
Demo: Time 1 Hour Character creation The Dark Lighthouse: A Fantasy Adventure Time: 3 Hours Description: Amidst a scourge of darkness, you must escort the old lighthouse keeper to his lighthouse so reinforcements can dock safely.
Yarr mateys!!! Ye be assemblin’ the rowdiest, pirate-iest, coin-gettin’-est crew on the high seas! In this game, you’ll be in charge of filling legendary Captain Flip’s pirate ship with the best crew you can muster. Each turn you’ll choose a new character tile from the bag, decide where to place them on your ship, and hope to earn the most coins.
This event includes a full explanation of the rules, and the complexity is very low, so all players are welcome. Learning and playing the game should take about 45 minutes.
The Quick Play Zone features games that are easy to learn, play in less than an hour, and have fun friendly themes. If you’re interested in this game but the scheduled event is full, stop by any time during the weekend and I’ll set it up for you!
I love playing games, talking about games, teaching games, and I especially love introducing new folks to this awesome hobby. You can find me on BoardGameGeek.com as user MikeTuna. While you're there, be sure to join the Tucson Guild at http://boardgamegeek.com/guild/214.
A classic detective game to solve who done it! Any one of the players could be the murderer, any item a deadly weapon, and any of the rooms of the mansion the scene of the crime. Can you figure out all of the evidence before the other players?
Magical Athlete is a racing game of pure chaos! Roll a die and move your racer that many spaces — but all the racers have wacky, game-breaking abilities. Race four times, then whoever has the most points wins!
Super Battle Mon is an ultra fast TCG that you can play anywhere in just 3 minutes with 7-card decks, no table required! Player friendly and easy to get a full card set. Become part of the community today!
Welcome to Cytress. You play as a rebel merc who has zeroed in on one goal. To get into Stratos – Earth’s largest sky hub. It is in this sky colony where you will find Earth’s most powerful, wealthiest, and most influential individuals.
These people enjoy having the largest portion of the pie, not to mention toying with the lives of everyone else on Earth – the Underbelly, as the inhabitants of Stratos love to call it. But you are not the type who tolerates these kinds of apathetic, arrogant attitudes. You must challenge these oligarchs and get into Stratos; you consider this action to be a show of defiance, proof that the leviathan city is not exclusive to the powerful few. But first, you must establish a name in the Underbelly, a strategy that will help in getting you and your crew into Stratos. Unfortunately, this is a journey that's not free from danger. Stratos has tight security, and authorities have their eyes on the gates 24/7. Anyone caught entering illegally is subject to instant termination without trial.
Fortunately, you have found a way in. The Tubes – vertical shafts that serve as the city's waste chutes. The Tubes will be your one-way ticket to wonderland, your only chance of acquiring a large portion of the pie. Of course, you will need the help of your crew to get in. So hone your skills, upgrade your abilities, and procure as many supplies as possible to achieve your objective.
You must employ cunning strategies and pick the juiciest missions among the lot. Regardless of which faction you choose, remember to use their key abilities to your advantage. That’s how you can outwit the competition and eventually win the game. So do you have what it takes to become a part of Stratos' elite citizenry? Or do you want to live a continued oppressed existence in the Underbelly?
Orbis is a tactical game of world development and strategic resource management, in which players take on the roles of gods creating their best universes. Utilizing lands lost in the aether, players accumulate worshippers to spend on even more fruitful lands — some of which grant game-changing bonuses. The key to victory lies in having the most creation points (CPs) at the end of the game!
It’s half-time and the teams are regrouping for the final showdown. Meanwhile, the real heroes take to the field for the main event - a legendary race to determine the greatest mascot of all time! In this game, over three races you’ll be betting on which mascot will win a hectic race of stumbles, collisions, confusion, and chaos. Place your bets, and hopefully nudge the race a bit in your favor.
This event includes a full explanation of the rules, and the complexity is very low, so all players are welcome. Learning and playing the game should take about 45 minutes.
The Quick Play Zone features games that are easy to learn, play in less than an hour, and have fun friendly themes. If you’re interested in this game but the scheduled event is full, stop by any time during the weekend and I’ll set it up for you!
I love playing games, talking about games, teaching games, and I especially love introducing new folks to this awesome hobby. You can find me on BoardGameGeek.com as user MikeTuna. While you're there, be sure to join the Tucson Guild at http://boardgamegeek.com/guild/214.
Magical Athlete is a racing game of pure chaos! Roll a die and move your racer that many spaces — but all the racers have wacky, game-breaking abilities. Race four times, then whoever has the most points wins!
Naasii is a push-your-luck style game of chance. Inspired by traditional Indigenous games and classic American family games. You'll roll twelve-sided dice aiming to score sets or runs while not busting along the way. Highest score wins, but it's not all luck. You'll need to decide which numbers to pursue and when you've scored enough to keep ahead of the other players. You'll even be able to pick a lucky number that will get you a few extra points on other players' turns!
Designed by Kenna Alexander (Cherokee Nation, creator of Coyote & Crow) with art from Wolf Tomoyaketu (Comanche and Apache) and development by Daryl Andrews, Naasii brings the mischievous spirt of both Coyote and Crow to life in this fast paced, high-spirited game for the whole family.
From the pages of Sonia Lyris’ The Stranger series comes a pub game by James Ernest, Rochi. This game was developed for Sonia’s Novel, Unmoored, and it’s a unique press-your-luck card game with unique mechanics and gorgeous tarot-style artwork. Come and play with the designer!
James Ernest is a prolific tabletop game designer, and the founder of Cheapass Games. His best-known games include Kill Doctor Lucky, Lords of Vegas, Unexploded Cow, and Tak: A Beautiful Game. He is over nine feet tall, celebrates three birthdays each year, and is made entirely of... Read More →
Each turn in Dixit, one player is the storyteller who chooses one of the six cards in their hand, then expresses an idea, with sounds or words, that is reflected on that card's image, and places the card face down on the playing surface. Each other player then selects the card that best matches that expression, and passes the selected card to the storyteller, face down.
The storyteller shuffles all the cards together, then turns them over to reveal them. Each player other than the storyteller then secretly guesses which card belongs to the storyteller. If nobody or everybody guesses the correct card, the storyteller scores 0 points, and each other player scores 2 points. Otherwise, the storyteller and whoever found the correct answer score 3 points. Additionally, the non-storyteller players score 1 point for every vote received by their card.
The game ends when the deck is empty or if a player has scored at least 30 points. In either case, the player with the most points wins.
Botanica is a light strategy game where 2–4 players grow vibrant gardens by selecting sets of plant, tool, and decoration tokens from a rotating nursery. On each turn, players decide how far to move the watering can around the nursery—spending water to skip ahead—to claim all tokens in a chosen section and add them to their personal garden boards. Flowers, clover, weeds, and decorations each score differently based on placement, adjacency, and majorities across specific board regions, while tools provide powerful one-time abilities such as removing weeds, duplicating plants, or swapping nursery tokens. The game ends when the shared water supply is depleted or when any plant or decoration type runs out, after which players tally points from their gardens, leftover water, unused tools, and any optional goal cards. Highest score wins, with ties broken by remaining water.
In a bold age of neo-humanistic advancement and technological breakthrough, life evolved, and the lines between biology and engineering blurred. The limits of possibility were shattered. A great civilization rose toward the stars, toward an enlightenment increasingly within reach. That civilization collapsed. How and why are long since forgotten. Chaos reigned. Technological understanding was lost to generations of strife and survivalism as time rendered everything (humanity included) into discarded scraps of what once was. In this fallen world, the last wretched vestiges of humanity vie for the only hope for significance that remains: leverage.
Vestige is a highly-strategic, competitive modern euro that you can play in an hour. It is built around a resource alchemy system modeled on the color wheel that offers great depth but can be understood almost instantly; for example, mix might (red) and cunning (yellow) to attain guile (orange). A modular game board; variable end-game conditions; and a card-tableau, engine-building heart makes every game crunchy, and combo-driven. Derived from Vindication, Vestige reimagines its systems in a new setting and with a new depth-to-approachability ratio.
Each turn you move around a randomly generated map of locations, each offering a unique action or effect. Visiting these locations you unlock your potential, spread your influence, develop your attributes, build your network of contacts across three factions (smugglers, mercenaries, lawmakers), and then work with that network to complete jobs your contacts are suited for (unearthing artifacts, claiming bounties, and developing augmentations). Through action selection, card-tableau combo building, area control, and careful resource management you seek to gain more leverage than your opponents, all while the powers-that-be use any and all insidious tricks at their disposal to keep you down where they want you.
You’re a classical composer in the court of Emperor Joseph II. You’re trying to compose the greatest works that you can, knowing full well that the Emperor might ruin your work if it doesn't satisfy his untrained ear. Too Many Notes is a new game from James Ernest, still in playtest and ready for your thoughts!
James Ernest is a prolific tabletop game designer, and the founder of Cheapass Games. His best-known games include Kill Doctor Lucky, Lords of Vegas, Unexploded Cow, and Tak: A Beautiful Game. He is over nine feet tall, celebrates three birthdays each year, and is made entirely of... Read More →
With the help of a friendly Kraken, players have descended to the ocean floor to search for lost treasure. Each round, players have a chance to gather treasure and return to the surface. While competing with other players for the most treasure, players must also be cautious of curious creatures and sea mines in the area.
Magical Athlete is a racing game of pure chaos! Roll a die and move your racer that many spaces — but all the racers have wacky, game-breaking abilities. Race four times, then whoever has the most points wins!
Before the racing begins, players will draft the four racers they will have in the game and choose before each race which to use. Races alternate between the "mild" side of the board and the "wild" side of the board. A race ends once two racers have crossed the finish line — with, generally, only these two players receiving points.
