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.
Oddland is a 1-5 player tile-laying and pattern-building strategy game.
Players act as eccentric investigators exploring a strange island filled with bizarre, hybrid flora and fauna. The goal is to strategically build a shared landscape and position tokens to optimize scoring based on surrounding terrain and environmental conditions.
Between our weird prompts and your friends’ weirder answers, this might be our funniest game yet!
First, read out a simple question (ex. I’m locked in a tiny room. What else is locked in here with me from cutest to scariest). Then everyone is assigned a secret number from one to ten. Next, each player gives an answer to the question, and the intensity of that answer is based on their secret number (ex. 1= a bunny, 10= a grizzly bear with chainsaw arms.) Finally, the person who read the question has to try and sort those answers into the correct order. If they get it right everyone 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.
Wingspan Pocket distills the Wingspan experience down to a lighter, shorter, card-driven game that has each player activate a single row of cards on each of their turns.
I'm a Phoenix-based board-game writer, rulebook editor and podcaster. I love playing heavy euros and wargames, and meeting fellow gamers. I'm active on Twitter and Instagram, where I enjoy spreading my love of the hobby to all types of gamers.
Saturday October 3, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am MST Women's Space B
What's better than being an adventurer and slaying monsters? Being the guy who sold them the sword! In Bargain Quest, players will draft equipment to attract adventurers to their shop and score points based on how well the adventurer performs in combat and how much money they acquire. After three monsters are defeated, the player with the most points wins!
Players serve as royal mapmakers tasked with charting the northern wilderness. Over four seasons, players simultaneously draw terrain shapes onto their personal maps, filling forests, farms, villages, water, and wastelands to satisfy changing royal edicts and earn reputation stars.
Use your unique talents to fight monsters collecting their bounties. Bounties add to your total score at the end of the game. Each Hero has their own abilities, and deck of cards to play with. Use attack cards, and items to damage or kill Monsters on the table.
Lords of Waterdeep is a Dungeons and Dragons worker placement game where you control a lord looking to gain power by recruiting adventurers to go on quests and establishing buildings in the city.
Deep Rock Galactic takes 4 dwarves with different specialties and sends them barreling into a bug infested planet in a mining pod, and hopes they return. You along with your allies with be exploring the map, mining resources, all while fighting off the local inhabitants and trying not to die, and the longer you take, the more dangerous it is
In Nova Roma, you are the head of an ancient and noble roman house. You must deploy your family members and retainers to accomplish a variety of goals. Construct buildings, dominate sea routes, secure resources, race in the hippodrome, and hire specialists. At the end of the game, the family that has done the most to please the Emperor and achieve their own agendas will emerge as the victor.
Take on the role of the half-insane drivers for the last delivery company left of earth: the Wasteland Express Delivery Service. In order to scratch out a living in this deranged universe, drivers will deliver goods and guns between the handful of settlements pockmarked throughout the hellscape that you call home and take on missions from the handful of factions still trying to hold onto the last dregs of civilization.
Wasteland Express Delivery Service is the depraved brainchild of a superstar team of acclaimed game designers: Jon Gilmour (Dead of Winter), Matt Riddle (Fleet, Morocco), and Ben Pinchback (Fleet, Morocco), brought to technicolor life by award-winning comic artist Riccardo Burchielli (DMZ, Batman Black and White) to create the perfect marriage of emergent thematic gameplay and balanced strategy.
I’ve enjoyed board games my entire life but didn’t truly discover this hobby until 2017. I fell hard into it and there’s no looking back now! Enjoy playing and also blinging out my games with my 3D printers and laser cutter. Now doing that full-time (or rather all the time... Read More →
Saturday October 3, 2026 9:00am - 12:00pm MST BG20
Competitive and deeply strategic town builder fresh from game found. Randomization in the setup of the rondel based time action ring means each game plays quite differently.
Nippon: Zaibatsu is a new edition of Nippon, a fast-paced, area-majority economic game. Players control "zaibatsu": massive conglomerates of interconnected companies driving Japan's economy in the Industrial Revolution era.
During the game, players invest in new industries, build factories and railroads, and produce goods to saturate local markets and fulfill contracts — all to grow their influence and power and to become rulers of the new modernized country. Players are free to choose their playstyle and winning strategy: They choose what they score victory points for, control the game's pace with income turns, and race each other to get the most beneficial factories, markets, and bonuses.
All the core mechanisms of the original Nippon are present, but the components, art, and design are upgraded, and many gameplay features are reworked to get the game in line with modern trends. Nippon: Zaibatsu features new resource types, ships are heavily revised with new Iwakura mission rules, factories are much more variable, consolidation turns provide players with new rewards, and much more.
A “sequel” to the 1981 grail game, Return to Dark Tower is a game for 1-4 players who take the role of heroes. Together, they gather resources, cleanse buildings, defeat monsters, and undertake quests to build up their strength and discern what foe ultimately awaits them.
When the heroes face the tower, the game shifts into its dramatic second act, where the players have one chance to defeat the enemy once and for all.
In SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, you lead a scientific institution tasked with searching for traces of life beyond planet Earth. The game draws inspiration from current or emerging technologies and efforts in space exploration. Players will explore nearby planets and their moons by launching probes from Earth while taking advantage of ever-shifting planetary positions. Decide whether to land on their surfaces to collect valuable samples or stay in orbit for a broader survey. Additionally, by directing your telescopes to gaze into distant star systems, you may detect traces of alien signals or undiscovered exoplanets, and collect promising data to examine and study back home.
Back on Earth, you can invest in upgrading your equipment so you can analyze incoming data more efficiently, boost your telescope signal capacity, or increase your supply of resources—all to expand the scope of your search that could lead to a discovery of extraterrestrial life forms. Finding traces of extraterrestrial life is only a matter of time—utilize the resources you have at your disposal strategically and you may well end up being the one to make the biggest scientific contribution towards advancing our understanding of alien life within our galaxy.
The Great Wall is a new asymmetric worker/soldier placement game with engine building themes and a twist in form of a constantly attacking AI (Mongolian Horde) that requires players to sometimes cooperate in order to defeat it. This is a new major board game from Awaken Realms. Players will control ancient clans in China trying to defend against invading Mongolian hordes and build a Great Wall. While every player will want to win (by earning VP = Honor) they also need to sometimes cooperate to defend against the hordes. Each clan will be asymmetric through its chosen Leader (resource production/starting resources/starting workers and units) and this asymmetry will increase as the game progresses (players will hire Advisors with unique skills, often creating unique engines). In The Great Wall, the players take the role of Generals defending the Wall against the Mongol Horde. The game is played over a series of turns called Years, each divided into 4 parts called Seasons. During Spring, new barbaric hordes invade the fields in front of the Great Wall and prepare to launch their assault. Summer is the time when generals prepare for the assault and mobilize their forces. During Fall, players take their turns, playing Command cards, resolving their effects and Activating Locations to gain various benefits. In Winter, the last layer of Defense is activated, then, the hordes try to assault the Walls. During the course of the game, players will create their own unique engines based on their clan strength as well as interact with other players during all phases of the game, trying to get the most Honor points, which can be gained in a lot of different ways. At the end of the game, the player with the most Honor wins. —description from the publisher
You are an amateur dracologist in the world of Wyrmspan, a place where dragons of all shapes, sizes, and colors roam the skies. Excavate a hidden labyrinth you recently unearthed on your land and entice these beautiful creatures to roost in the sanctuary of your caves.
During a game of Wyrmspan, you will build a sanctuary for dragons of all shapes and sizes.
Hear ye, hear ye, come villagers and nobles alike to the royal gathering! In this game, you’ll draft character cards from the center market and add them to your personal 4x4 grid to score various bonuses. Arrange them well, spend your keys at the right time, and look for opportunities to replenish your dwindling 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.
Race across the universe as a Frollik on a mission: find the galaxy's most jaw-dropping hidden gem tourist destinations before anyone else does.
For a Frollik, it's not just about the destination — it's about being the first one to plant their antenna there. Pack your bags and join this raucous race across the space!
Highside is a fast, two-player, tactical abstract strategy game played on a board of interlocking triangles. Players flip pieces to create scoring shapes such as Diamonds, Pinwheels, Pyramids, and Umbrellas while trying to disrupt their opponent’s plans. Easy to learn, quick to play, and full of surprising reversals.
Tanto Cuore is back with a ghostly twist! It appears you have Inherited the abandoned Twilight Manor, which has sat dormant for decades since the family was chased away by the resident ghosts. No one knows for certain what transpired within these walls, but the hauntings have left the property untouched and possibly cursed.
It’s now up to the Twilight sisters to try to bring new life into their ancestral home. How far will they get as troublesome hauntings make things even more challenging while they try to restore the manor? It seems the ghosts aren’t too happy with the renovations and will do everything in their power to stop you!
Tanto Cuore 6 offers several new game mechanics. Here, players are in a rush to complete dilapidated rooms, avoid the ghosts, and perform seances to help with their goals. However, the spirits are not always willing to play along, and they can at times go out of their way to mess up your strategy if they turn evil!
Survive The Island, that is the goal. The island of forty-six hex-tiles is sinking into the ocean. On the island there are hungry kaiju monsters. In the water there are man-eating sharks and sea serpents. All around you are desperate opponents, seeking to save their skin and at your expense. The volcano on this island is about to erupt. So, jump on a raft, or jump in the sea and make a swim for it. Maybe you will make it to another island and Survive the Island!
NOTE: This is a KID-APPROPRIATE "Plus Event", meaning there will be themed treats, spectacles, and prizes at the table. If you are a super-serious player, this is *NOT* the game for you. Parents are welcome to observe, but only children ages 8-16 will be allowed to play in the event.
John is a Robotic Process Automation (RPA) programmer. He has been a software developer for more than 30 years. He is the designer of "Treasure Fleet" the card game, published in 2006. He has been a Tucson resident for 20 years.
Discover the ancient art form of Tea Dragon caretaking within this enchanting world of friendship and fantasy. Create a bond between yourself and your Tea Dragon that grows as you progress through the seasons creating memories to share forever.
Each player's deck represents their own Tea Dragon. From turn to turn, players will choose to draw a card, triggering effects and strengthening their position, or buy a card, improving their deck or scoring points.
The game takes place over four seasons, starting in spring and ending in winter. At the end of winter, the player who has the most points is the winner.
This classic Cheapass card game is something like a cross between trick-taking and gambling. It’s a spicy, mean little card game played by the gravediggers from Parts Unknown. The object of each hand is to eat as few bugs as possible (but at least one), but the real goal is to finish with more coins than you started with. Come play with the inventor, 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 →
Saturday October 3, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am MST BG25
Dive back into Finspan and build a thriving underwater ecosystem filled with colorful reefs, schooling fish, and fearsome sharks! Nurture coral habitats to unlock powerful fish abilities and end-game bonuses, while sharks scatter schools of young fish and leave tasty scraps behind for others to devour. With new fish, new strategies, and plenty of toothy predators, it’s time to take your ocean to the next depth!
As one of the leading scientific researchers in the galaxy, you're in high demand. You've spent the last two years on Alarria, a small terrestrial planet several light-years from Earth. You've been studying the diverse indigenous fauna, and your field research has already yielded some incredible results. However, your days as a simple scientific researcher are about to end.
An asteroid roughly the size of a small country has been picked up on radar hurtling towards Alarria — a planet killer. Your research work has been put on hold as the greatest minds on the planet have been recruited to develop plans. Time is running out as each second brings the asteroid closer to Alarria. Where will you focus your efforts? Which plan has the best chance to succeed? There's no time to waste. If something isn't done soon, the planet itself might cease to exist. Three distinct plans have been set into motion, each with a razor thin chance of succeeding:
A powerful laser is tracking the asteroid's approach and will fire as soon as it comes within range in hopes of reducing it to a mere pebble. An energy shield might be just enough to deflect the approaching asteroid, altering its course and saving Alarria. In a final desperate attempt to preserve some of the unique species of the planet, an evacuation plan has been ordered. The nearby forest moon, Fortuna, has been tested and can support life, and thankfully it's out of the blast zone. You just need to move as many of the species as possible before impact. How to Save a World is a worker-placement game with hand-building and resource management. Each turn, you assign workers to perform critical tasks or spend action cards to help advance your goals. At the end of each round, the projects will be assessed and the asteroid will move ever closer. Can you make the right decisions to avert disaster in this competitive science-fiction game?
Mü is regarded by many as one of the best offerings in the trick-taking genre. Players reveal cards to declare their bids: the highest bidder becomes the Crown and the second highest bidder is the Shield. Both the Shield and Crown choose a trump (either number or suit), then players try to capture tricks to score the most points. The Crown chooses a partner and tries to cover the bid to score bonus points, while the Shield and remaining players seek to stop the Crown from reaching their goal.
The deck contains 60 cards in five colored suits; each suit contains cards numbered from 0 to 9, with two each of the 1 and 7 cards. Cards also have 0, 1, or 2 triangles printed on them to show the point value of that card.
Mü & more: Revised Edition features "an adjusted rule set that makes it easier to get into the game". Vintage Mü rules will be available online, along with rules for other games that constitute the "& more" part of the title.
Mythic Duels is a 2-hour gaming session dedicated to games designed specifically for two players. Choose from a selection of quick, engaging head-to-head games, each offering a different challenge. From tactical battles and clever card play to spatial puzzles and strategic competition.
Featured games include Flamecraft: Duel, Toy Battle, Smitten, and High Tide. Whether you’re looking for a tense tactical showdown, a clever puzzle, or a lighthearted competition, these games are built for two.
Pick your opponent, choose your game, and see who will emerge as the legend!
Welcome to The Grimm Forest, where family members of the legendary Three Little Pigs are having an epic house building competition. But this is no ordinary competition as all the most famous Fairy Tale characters will be looking on and occasionally lending a hand.
I'm a Phoenix-based board-game writer, rulebook editor and podcaster. I love playing heavy euros and wargames, and meeting fellow gamers. I'm active on Twitter and Instagram, where I enjoy spreading my love of the hobby to all types of gamers.
Saturday October 3, 2026 10:00am - 12:00pm MST Women's Space B
Flip & Skip is a two-player strategy game where players compete to collect sets of Scrolls, Stones, and Swords. Special Rune abilities let you flip, swap, stack, block, and manipulate pieces, creating a quick back-and-forth battle of timing and tactics. First player to complete three sets wins.
We each have 5 numbers in front of us. We can all see yours, but can you figure out what they are? In this deduction game, you’ll use clues to determine which five number tiles are in front of you before the other players figure out their own. Ask for the right clues to get more information and draft the right tiles to slow your opponents down.
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 30 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.
The 2000 MB version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer board game included seasons 1-4 of the TV series. I've created season 5-7 AND a bonus game based on the season 3 episode "The Wish"! Players will get to play as "new" Good characters (Angel, Cordelia, Spike, Tara and Faith) and "new" villains (Anyanka, Glory, the Trio, Dark Willow, The First Evil and Caleb) as well as the characters included in the original game!
Use your unique talents to fight monsters collecting their bounties. Bounties add to your total score at the end of the game. Each Hero has their own abilities, and deck of cards to play with. Use attack cards, and items to damage or kill Monsters on the table.
Lords of Waterdeep is a Dungeons and Dragons worker placement game where you control a lord looking to gain power by recruiting adventurers to go on quests and establishing buildings in the city.
No experience needed, I will be happy to teach. Moon Colony Bloodbath is an engine-building, engine-losing tableau game, with a shared deck the players build that makes things happen, many of them bad things that kill people in your moon colony, but some positive, and some that let you build up.
You've inherited a factory from a distant relative. What should your new factory manufacture? Board Games, of course! In this new game from Bezier Games and designer Ben Rosset, you will use resources as components for your board games or as improvements to your factory. Build from a collection of 216 real-world games!
Participants will be invited to choose from a variety of kid friendly card games. If there is interest we can even have a tournament. Games available include: Mantis, Sleeping Queens, Rat-a-Tat Cat, Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza and other variants.
Race across the universe as a Frollik on a mission: find the galaxy's most jaw-dropping hidden gem tourist destinations before anyone else does.
For a Frollik, it's not just about the destination — it's about being the first one to plant their antenna there. Pack your bags and join this raucous race across the space!
A curse has been placed on the Valley of Life. Hearing the spirits of nature cry out for aid, clans of druids have arrived, determined to use their blessings to heal the land and rescue the spirits. It will require courage and also caution, as the curse can overwhelm the careless who wield too much power.
In Mystic Vale, 2 to 4 players take on the role of druidic clans trying to cleanse the curse upon the land. Each turn, you play cards into your field to gain powerful advancements and useful vale cards. Use your power wisely, or decay will end your turn prematurely. Score the most victory points to win the game!
Mystic Vale uses the innovative "Card Crafting System", which lets you not only build your deck, but build the individual cards in your deck, customizing each card's abilities to exactly the strategy you want to follow.
The Basics 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.
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!
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 →
Saturday October 3, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm MST BG25
Our little fairies from legend and myth flit amongst the mushroom gardens, seeking refuge and delight. Build up your mushrooms to attract fairies, and be strategic about which mushrooms you try to visit. In this game, you’ll build a personal tableau of mushrooms which score in different ways. You’ll then send your fairy traveling around the ring, hopefully scoring more points for you than for your opponents.
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 across the universe as a Frollik on a mission: find the galaxy's most jaw-dropping hidden gem tourist destinations before anyone else does.
For a Frollik, it's not just about the destination — it's about being the first one to plant their antenna there. Pack your bags and join this raucous race across the space!
Highside is a fast, two-player, tactical abstract strategy game played on a board of interlocking triangles. Players flip pieces to create scoring shapes such as Diamonds, Pinwheels, Pyramids, and Umbrellas while trying to disrupt their opponent’s plans. Easy to learn, quick to play, and full of surprising reversals.
In Kamigami Battles: Rise of the Old Ones, you will play as one of the Great Old Ones competing for dominance. You will recruit Warriors and Disciples to fight in epic battles against the gods trying to conquer your domain! Each god has a pool of life force called energy, and by reducing all other gods to ZERO energy, you will assert your dominance over the Mythos.
All the bird-loving charm of Wingspan, now in a quicker, pocket-sized package! Build a single powerful row of birds, flip double-sided cards between food and feathered friends, and trigger clever abilities as your flock grows. With birds from around the world and a breezy 30-minute playtime, it’s easy for newcomers to learn while still offering plenty of satisfying combos for Wingspan fans. Come build the perfect little flock!
Come find out about the great racing game: Magical Athlete. This isn't your boring race! Far from it! Great for kids of all ages (reading helps but if parents can help younger ages would do fine) -- even those adult kids too!
I’ve enjoyed board games my entire life but didn’t truly discover this hobby until 2017. I fell hard into it and there’s no looking back now! Enjoy playing and also blinging out my games with my 3D printers and laser cutter. Now doing that full-time (or rather all the time... Read More →
A strategic card game with shapes and lines for players to use in a competition to have the most dots visible at the end of the game! Up to six players build a different board each time they play.
The zombies from Lord of the Fries are back in their newest enterprise, a Brazilian Steakhouse called Meat on Swords. This silly press-your-luck game pits you against your friends in a contest of eating as much as you can, but not too much! 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 →
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.
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.
Pirates of the High Teas is a whimsical set collection game in which players are pirates competing to win their Captain's treasure by serving the most delicious afternoon tea. Players collect and match dishes with tea cards to serve the Captain a perfect meal. To acquire these dishes and teas, players select actions through a strategic worker placement mechanism on the pirate ship that determines turn order and number of cards.
But don't forget, as pirates, there are lots of ways to break the rules! Players can smash their dishes together, creating ridiculous combinations that still pair perfectly. They can also use their cannon to blow up the available cards, send their monkey to steal a card off the top of the deck, and deploy a parrot to smuggle a single card directly to the Captain for points.
At the end of 9 rounds, count your doubloons. The pirate with the most treasure wins.
Ex Libris is a medium-weight worker-placement and tableau building game. Send your assistants into the village to acquire rare books before your opponents can claim them, then carefully organize your library to meet the Inspector’s scoring criteria.
Manage your hand, draft from a shared pool of books, and build your library by arranging shelves and collecting valuable sets. Variable player powers provide each player with unique abilities and strategic opportunities.
Players begin with a ship, and travel from planet to planet, hiring crew, purchasing ship upgrades, and picking up cargo to deliver (jobs) all in the form of cards. Some crew and cargo are illegal, and can be confiscated if your ship is boarded by an alliance vessel. Travelling from planet to planet requires turning over "full burn" cards, one for each space moved. Most do nothing, but you can also encounter an Alliance ship, have a breakdown, or even run into Reavers. Completing jobs gets you cash. First player to complete the story goals wins.
In this cooperative, exploration game you will travel to the Archipelago of Dreams and battle against the forces of darkness as you seek to unravel their sinister plot. A co-op exploration game based on James A Owen's best-selling book series. Knowledge of the books, not required.
At the end of this century a rain of meteors have slammed into Earth, drastically altering the landscape, killing the majority of people and erasing almost all signs of civilization. A few years after the impact, the remaining survivors began to congregate in the ruins of cities where the meteor effects were less severe to try to rebuild and establish a new society.
Years have passed and some of those ruined cities have started to flourish, but their resources that could be salvaged are starting to run out. Infrastructures and developments are still too inefficient to generate the necessary resources for the growing population. So in order to survive, the people of these cities need to venture into the Wastelands.
The Wastelands is a vast land area that was severely impacted by the meteors and only now becoming safe enough to explore again. It is known that there are ruined cities to salvage resources from, but there are unknown dangers as well.
The need for resources, together with the different societies formed in these newly populated cities, has created conflict and distrust that has grown among these factions. So now a race has begun to gather resources, grow and develop as quickly as possible to become the dominant faction to rule, not only over the Wastelands, but over all the nearby factions as well.
You've inherited a factory from a distant relative. What should your new factory manufacture? Board Games, of course! In this new game from Bezier Games and designer Ben Rosset, you will use resources as components for your board games or as improvements to your factory. Build from a collection of 216 real-world games!
Dive into ancient Egyptian myth in Kemet, a fast-paced wargame with slight emergent asymmetry and tense bluffing combat resolution. Players each deploy the troops of an Egyptian tribe and use the mystical powers of the gods – along with their powerful armies – to score points in glorious battles or through invasion of rich territories.
During the game, players take on the role of researchers and saviors of the oceans. You will sail the seas, hire crew, explore the coral reef, clean the ocean sectors of any pollution, and try to accomplish as many missions as possible.
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.
In Ada's Dream, work with Ada Lovelace to help build the first computer, fulfilling her dream in this alternate history Euro Game.
Over the course of the game (18 turns), players take dice from the Workshop Rondel, Give Lectures in Prestigious Institutions, Travel the UK, and Complete Assignments from Ada to gather Prestige Points.
Players add Dice, Gears, and Programs to their blueprint Board in a race to build the first Analytical Engine, using dice rondel and manipulation mechanics and literal "engine building". When any engine is completed, the end of the game is triggered and Prestige points are counted. The player with the most prestige, wins.
In the Divine Comedy, the poet Dante Alighieri enters Hell in search of his beloved Beatrice. Guided by Virgil, he descends through the nine circles, witnessing how each sinner is eternally punished in a manner as horrifying as the sin they committed in life.
Inferno is a soul management game where each player must guide sinners to their respective circles in Hell. The central board consists of two parts: one displaying all 9 circles and the soul registry, while the other represents Florence in the early 14th century, where Dante lived, with its power games and palace intrigues.
A 4x space strategy game you can learn, play, and complete within 3 hours and can play up to 8 players?!? Sounds too good to be true, but this fun, fast paced space strategy game is a light way to play with a ton of friends, foes, or just random people! Randomized, unbalanced starting conditions with exploration, combat, and simultaneous play.
A game for 4-9 players focused on real time trading to get the cubes you need (there are a lot of cubes) which is used to fuel your converters which get you more cubes and eventually victory points. Anything goes with trades and all deals are binding; want to make multi-turn deals that last the rest of the game between 4 players? Go for it! Players have unique factions which will dictate a very different play style for each player.
If you like negotiating, real time gameplay and building an efficient engine, you have to try this game, it's an experience like no other out there. Remastered version of the game and the expansion alternate factions are available. The newest expansion rules which make the auctioning part of the real time trading phase will be used. See the 3 minute video summary to get the jist of the game
Slay the Spire: The Board Game is a co-operative deck-building, dungeon-crawling adventure. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and finally become strong enough to slay the Spire!
Each player starts with a character with unique abilities and a simple deck of cards that they can improve by adding and removing cards during the game. Slay the Spire is also a rogue-like. That means that when you die (and you will die!), start over from the beginning. Take the lessons you learned and try again!
The game is divided into Acts. At the end of an Act you can continue, stop and end the adventure there, or save and continue another time!
If players defeat the final Boss, they win the game! Which Boss you consider to be final depends on how many Acts you want to play. You can stop playing at the end of any Act! When a player’s HP is reduced to 0, they are dead and the party loses the game.
Flip & Skip is a two-player strategy game where players compete to collect sets of Scrolls, Stones, and Swords. Special Rune abilities let you flip, swap, stack, block, and manipulate pieces, creating a quick back-and-forth battle of timing and tactics. First player to complete three sets wins.
Build your nest wisely by attracting the best series of birds to activate powerful combos. In this streamlined version of the popular Wingspan, you’ll use food to attract a line of bird cards to your personal nest. Each turn, you’ll activate a series of abilities, hopefully chaining them together to provide resources and points.
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 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.
All the bird-loving charm of Wingspan, now in a quicker, pocket-sized package! Build a single powerful row of birds, flip double-sided cards between food and feathered friends, and trigger clever abilities as your flock grows. With birds from around the world and a breezy 30-minute playtime, it’s easy for newcomers to learn while still offering plenty of satisfying combos for Wingspan fans. Come build the perfect little flock!
Create your own species in this game before the Apocalypse happens! Score points by playing different trait cards and try and out adapt and survive the other players. The game is played in several rounds with different eras which can wind up causing catastrophes. Each game is as unique as it is wacky!
A cozy village game where players use different tokens to place dragons and cast enchantments. There are different ways to earn points and fulfill goals to win the game!
Come find out about the great racing game: Magical Athlete. This isn't your boring race! Far from it! Great for kids of all ages (reading helps but if parents can help younger ages would do fine) -- even those adult kids too!
I’ve enjoyed board games my entire life but didn’t truly discover this hobby until 2017. I fell hard into it and there’s no looking back now! Enjoy playing and also blinging out my games with my 3D printers and laser cutter. Now doing that full-time (or rather all the time... Read More →
In Trash Pandas, players are raucous raccoons, tipping over trash cans for food (and shiny objects). Players push their luck to acquire more cards, but must stash them in order for them to count as points at the end of the game. When the deck runs out, the game ends and players compare their stashes to see who has the majority for each card type and score points accordingly. The player with the most points wins!
In more detail, on a turn the active player rolls a die in the hope of gaining the benefit of the roll result. With each roll, the player decides to keep rolling or stop and activate the dice results. However, with each additional roll, the odds of busting (getting a duplicate result) increase further and the player risks losing the progress they've made that round. When activating the dice results, the player will draw cards, steal cards from other players, and stash cards. Cards in hand may be used for their listed ability, but they count as points only when stashed.
As the proud owner of one of the tea gardens in the the Chinese Yunnan region, your mission in Tea Garden is to cultivate and expand your empire by establishing new tea gardens along the serene river valley. Tea leaves are your most prized asset, with six grades of tea quality and each region producing a different quality of tea. Transform your fresh, vibrant green tea leaves through fermentation, elevating them to rich, aromatic brown leaves that grow in quality — and value! — as they mature.
Harness the power of your deck of cards to orchestrate up to four main actions each game round. The strength of these cards is important for performing the chosen action; the higher the strength, the better the effects you will achieve. With your cards, you will build new tea gardens, acquire new cards, trade your tea with eager caravans, ferment your tea leaves, and harvest more tea. Couple your main actions with the power of secondary actions to navigate the river, produce tea cups, or practice tea studies at the university.
Whether myth or history, these dinos sure know how to move! In this game, five colorful dinosaurs face off in three heats of an epic race full of breakaways, upsets, and defying the odds. Bet on the right dino and hope for a bit of luck to reap the rewards.
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 30 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 across the universe as a Frollik on a mission: find the galaxy's most jaw-dropping hidden gem tourist destinations before anyone else does.
For a Frollik, it's not just about the destination — it's about being the first one to plant their antenna there. Pack your bags and join this raucous race across the space!
You’re all traveling salesmen, following Robin Hood through Sherwood Forest, selling useless garbage to the poor folks he just gave money to. Bleeding Sherwood was one of the very first and not-so-great Cheapass Games, it only took us 30 years to make it work right. Come 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 →
Bardwood Grove is a tableau-composition euro game where each player assumes the role of a fantastical Bard. Set in The Five Realms universe (Merchants Cove, Rise to Nobility, Cavern Tavern), players will adventure to the Halfling Realm, the home to the finest, highly-talented, and most-legendary Bards of all the land.
As Bards, players will manage a unique tempo dial mechanism to build temporary Song tableaus from your deck, while exploring and activating locations around the lush woodland city. Each Bard starts with asymmetric skill decks that match their style, such as the Bardbarian, Sword Dancer, and Wardrummer. Learn new Bardic skills, tell tales and perform gigs, soothe the dissonant creatures invading the Grove, and contend with other Bards for the most Glory and Fame. Once all Glory has been collected, the Bard with the most combined Glory and Fame wins!
Each turn, players draw two cards from their unique skill deck and play one to their Story (discard pile) for instant benefits, while the other is added to their Song (tableau). Bardwood Grove challenges players to carefully craft their Song tableaus, coordinating them with their Composition cycle that governs how frequently they sing. As players strategically use resources to upgrade their decks, Songs will release powerful combos and allow players to interact with multiple locations. This creates a unique ebb and flow to the game, as players build their songs, and then decide when and where to sing them.
Rumor has it that Bardwood Grove is full of hidden secrets. As the game is played and decisions are made, players will unlock content and evolve the game naturally. An achievement system tied to the choices and performances of each game will guide players through a series of unlockable content. As new content emerges through each play, the game will provide players with new content that is based on unique outcomes and player decisions. Grove locations will change, additional Bardic skills can be unlocke
In this cooperative, exploration game you will travel to the Archipelago of Dreams and battle against the forces of darkness as you seek to unravel their sinister plot. A co-op exploration game based on James A Owen's best-selling book series. Knowledge of the books, not required.
Paint the Roses is a 2-5 player cooperative puzzle game set in the whimsical world of Alice in Wonderland. You and your teammates have been appointed the new Royal Gardeners for the Queen of Hearts but fail to arrange the garden according to the Queen's changing whims and the last thing you hear will be, "Off With Their Heads!".
The Deluxe Edition includes upgraded components like acrylic tiles, a custom GameTrayz insert and the Escape the Castle expansion all in one box.
Paint the Roses Deluxe includes Escape the Castle an expansion to Paint the Roses. After years of being trapped in the castle grounds, you and your fellow gardeners hatch a dangerous plan - to gain the help of a Wonderland friend, trick the Queen of Hearts, and make a daring escape to freedom.
You've inherited a factory from a distant relative. What should your new factory manufacture? Board Games, of course! In this new game from Bezier Games and designer Ben Rosset, you will use resources as components for your board games or as improvements to your factory. Build from a collection of 216 real-world games!
This is a spinoff of the classic game Betrayal at House on the Hill, flavored with Scooby-Doo lore and featuring simpler, family-friendly rules. Everyone starts off exploring a mansion, looking for clues. Then, a member of the gang disappears and that player takes on the role of the villain.
Bring the whole flock! This special 8-player Flock Mode turns Wingspan into a lively big-table event, with two active players taking turns simultaneously to keep the birds and the game flying! Build powerful habitats, discover beautiful birds from across Asia, compete for goals, and watch combos unfold around the table. More birds, more players, more action! Join the flock! NOTE: Has a dinner break at 6:00 PM.
A roll and write game. You roll the dies and use the road, trail or connection symbol to make connections over the board. A light, fast and fun game suitable for a quick game and easy travel.
A roll and write game. You roll the dies and use the road, trail or connection symbol to make connections over the board. A light, fast and fun game suitable for a quick game and easy travel.
A creepy cute strategy game where you balance encounters with hunters, hikers, and researchers as one of four different cryptids. Stage hoaxes, plant decoys, and lurk to build up your myth and legend!
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.
A strategic worker placement and area control game. Players take on the role of vengeful necromancers sending out their loyal minions to do their bidding.
Deep in the tropical jungle to the west of the Everdell Valley lies the country of Emerland, a vibrant land known for its artistic and musical culture, and for its abundance of natural resources, including valuable gems mined from its many underground caverns. Tiny critters found here — mostly insects — are fastidious and clever Helpers, often assisting the larger critters in their work and in optimizing or bringing beauty to their cities and homes.
The jungles are vast and dense, and expeditions into the further realms of the land are undertaken often. There was once a mysterious civilization that dwelt here, long lost to history, but archaeological discoveries are beginning to shed a light on the ancients.
Everdell Emerland is a game of dynamic tableau building and worker placement.
An exceptional party game where imaginary ancient Egyptians are trying to overcome the language barrier with… Aliens.
In each turn Aliens would draw weird symbols, trying to explain which earthly items they’d like to collect. Puzzled Egyptians are to figure out what this could mean. On top of that, Aliens compete for being the first to grab the souvenirs and fly back home, while each human wants to be the best at learning the Alien language!
«First Contact» is perfect for associative-deductive games lovers. The unique theme adds even more fun to the game process, and every setup gives players new puzzles to solve. Incredibly good time guaranteed!
Nightshift is a thematic board game that immerses players into the role of a strip club Dancer. Roll to charm customers into emptying their wallets and earn the most money of the night!
A highly asymmetric game of woodland warfare, featuring all expansions including the new Homeland expansion, which adds the Lilypad Diaspora, Twilight Council, Knaves of the Deepwood, new maps, and a new deck. Will be playing with new deck, and Advanced Setup faction draft. At least some experience with the base game is recommended.
Sail the seven tiny seas in this prototype from James Ernest and Crab Fragment Labs. Littlebeard is a super-light, wind-based miniatures combat game set in an imaginary version of the Age of Sail. James is still working on the core rules, and he could use a few dedicated players to help test them!
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 →
Saturday October 3, 2026 8:00pm - 10:00pm MST BG12
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.
Come check out this bird themed engine-building game and set up the most inviting habitats for birds. Played in four rounds and just gets more fun the longer you play!
Take on the role of a fledgling proprietor in Compania, and build your company to become the wealthiest in the land!
Use hidden dice placement to send your workers out to accomplish goals. Once the dice are revealed, if two or more players are competing for a space, the player with the highest value die takes it. Use your workers to grow your company's buildings to gain greater income. Buy more land, develop factories, and create a network of airships to move your goods
Can you survive the aftermath of a nuclear and biological apocalypse? You are the leader of a faction of survivors competing against others for primacy. Assemble and equip your party, then set out to explore the wastes, claim resources, and actualize your agenda. Build and manage your town to protect your citizens and resources. Make and break treaties to navigate your way through the minefield of bribery, betrayal, and hubris of the other players.
Fallen Land is set in the ruinous aftermath of post-apocalyptic America and is a thematic board game for 1-6 players. Featuring sandbox-style game play, it combines the elements of a strategy board game with card building and role playing. Driven by macabre stories of a world gone mad, players must adapt to the ever-changing variables: the cards, stories, interactions, and other threats.
The second edition contains 757 cards compared to 540 in the first edition. The map now includes Canada and Mexico. It also contains expansions there were previously released separately - Fallen Land: A Journey into Darkness and Fallen Land: Outriders Trading Post.
Brass: Birmingham is an economic strategy game sequel to Martin Wallace's 2007 masterpiece, Brass. Brass: Birmingham tells the story of competing entrepreneurs in Birmingham during the industrial revolution between the years of 1770 and 1870.
It offers a very different story arc and experience from its predecessor. As in its predecessor, you must develop, build and establish your industries and network in an effort to exploit low or high market demands. The game is played over two halves: the canal era (years 1770-1830) and the rail era (years 1830-1870). To win the game, score the most VPs. VPs are counted at the end of each half for the canals, rails and established (flipped) industry tiles.
A sentimental favorite of mine, this was old and slightly weathered when I was still in high school. A risk like dice rolling wargame with enough meat on top to make it actually interesting.
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.
Nightshift is a thematic board game that immerses players into the role of a strip club Dancer. Roll to charm customers into emptying their wallets and earn the most money of the night!
