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.
Build your own life form from a collection of wacky traits using a deck of cards. Structured in rounds and eras until a game ending apocalypse strikes to put a stop to each player's character growth.
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.
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!
Forget a game board! This game is literally dropped onto the table! Toss colorful cubes to create a unique dungeon every round, then use clever geometry to carve out rooms, grab treasure, and avoid dangerous monsters. Dropped Too Deep adds huge monsters, new heroes, quests, treasures, and even cooperative challenges for more dungeon-crawling chaos. Fast, light, and delightfully unpredictable. Come drop into the dungeon!
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 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!
In Tend, players take on the role of a pioneer working for the Zenith corporation to start a homestead on a new alien world.
Tend is a "flip and write" game where players are each building up their own farm and collecting the greatest selection of goods to send back to Zenith HQ for study. All players will be using the same deck of action cards each round to simultaneously take actions on their own sheets.
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.
In Kamigami Battles, you will play as one of the Gods of mythology competing for dominion over the realm. You will recruit ancient Warriors and Disciples to fight in epic battles against the Gods trying to conquer your world! Each God has a pool of life force called energy, and by reducing a God to 0 energy, you can either kill or seal that God away! Players can choose to pair up with their friends in Team Match or wage war on all those who oppose them in Free-For-All. In a Team Match, 4 or 6 players team up in pairs of two, with one player the Main God and the other the Support God, to be the last standing after eliminating all of the opposing Main Gods. In Free-for-All, 2 to 6 players battle for dominance by either eliminating all other Gods or by being first to reach 25 energy. Includes promo pack!
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.
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.
1. The Story The Emperor is dead, and the throne lies empty. As a powerful noble, you must rally your influence to support a princess of your choosing and see her crowned. But you’re not alone rival factions will use coin, cunning, and courtly strategy to claim the crown first. In this fast-paced deck-building game, you must build your economy, secure your domain, and race to 20 Succession Points before your opponents outmaneuver you.
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.
Netrunner is a two-player asymmetric card game set in a dystopian cyberpunk future where legendary hackers know as Runners try to thwart the megacorporation agendas by infiltrating servers and stealing them. The Corp aims to foil attempts by protecting with ICE. Netrunner is a LCG that is ran by the nonprofit organization Null Signal Games after the game Android: Netrunner was sunset by Fantasy Flight Games
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.
Betrayal at House on the Hill is a tile game that allows players to lay out the haunted house room by room, tile by tile, creating a new game board every time. The game is designed for three to six people, each of whom plays one of six possible characters.
Players explore the haunted house, gathering items and discovering secrets, until one of the characters triggers a haunt and one of a hundred unique scenarios occur, ranging from fighting monsters to crumbling reality tearing the house apart.
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.
This game swept Gencon by storm and sold out multiple times. Come play the highly sought after game released by Albi and published by Capstone Games in the U.S. The game last about 1.25 hours with teaching.
The animals escaped the zoo and now they want to get back in (They know where their breakfast will be served.) Help the animals wander the neighborhood and re-enter the zoo in this tile laying game. The game breaks all the normal tile laying mechanics so arrive with an open mind.
"The goal of the game is to help the animals and guide them safely back into their home. Players explore parts of the darkened zoo to discover the best routes home. Each round, players draft tiles and place them on their boards, triggering special actions and building a path back for their animals. Every animal has its own unique way of moving and scoring points, making each game a new adventure!"
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.
Become an astronomer hunting for a mysterious planet hidden at the edge of our solar system! Survey sectors of the sky, gather clues through the companion app, and use clever logic to locate comets, asteroids, dwarf planets, and ultimately Planet X! Publish theories before your rivals and race to make the discovery of a lifetime. Perfect for puzzle lovers, deduction fans, and anyone who has ever looked up and wondered what’s out there!
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.
Abridged description from the publisher: 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.
The game features traditional game mechanisms, such as engine building and resource management, paired with a technological interface unlike any seen before in games, including the titular tower, which holds more than a few secrets.
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 matur
Age of Innovation is a standalone game set in the world of Terra Mystica.
Twelve factions, each with unique characteristics, populate this world of varying terrains. Here you will compete to erect buildings and merge them into cities. Each game allows you to create new combinations of factions, homelands, and abilities so that each game isn't the same as another.
You control one of these factions and will terraform the game map's terrain into your homelands where you can erect your buildings. Proximity to other factions may limit your expansion, but it also gains you significant advantages in the game. This tension adds to the appeal of the Terra Mystica series.
Upgrade your buildings to gain valuable resources such as tools, scholars, money, and power. Build schools to advance in different sciences and collect books, which you can use to make innovations. Build your palace to gain a powerful new ability or build workshops, guilds, and universities to complete your culture.
The number 1 game on bgg, and bafflingly obscure considering that. I've had so many people tell me they were excited to check it out I thought I'd give em all a chance.
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.
Find a crew. Find a job. Keep flying. Cross the 'verse to complete jobs and get paid. In Firefly: The Game – based on the popular Firefly television series created by Joss Whedon – players captain their own Firefly-class transport ship, traveling the 'Verse with a handpicked crew of fighters, mechanics and other travelers. As a captain desperate for work, players are compelled to take on any job — so long as it pays. Double-dealing employers, heavy-handed Alliance patrols, and marauding Reavers are all in a day's work for a ship's captain at the edge of the 'Verse. Firefly: The Game is a high-end thematic tabletop boardgame from Gale Force Nine (GF9) and the first in a series of tabletop hobby board games and miniatures games from GF9 set in the Firefly Universe.
Playing Nemesis will take you into the heart of sci-fi survival horror in all its terror. A soldier fires blindly down a corridor, trying to stop the alien advance. A scientist races to find a solution in his makeshift lab. A traitor steals the last escape pod in the very last moment. Intruders you meet on the ship are not only reacting to the noise you make but also evolve as the time goes by. The longer the game takes, the stronger they become. During the game, you control one of the crew members with a unique set of skills, personal deck of cards, and individual starting equipment. These heroes cover all your basic SF horror needs. For example, the scientist is great with computers and research, but will have a hard time in combat. The soldier, on the other hand... Nemesis is a semi-cooperative game in which you and your crewmates must survive on a ship infested with hostile organisms. To win the game, you have to complete one of the two objectives dealt to you at the start of the game and get back to Earth in one piece. You will find many obstacles on your way: swarms of Intruders (the name given to the alien organisms by the ship AI), the poor physical condition of the ship, agendas held by your fellow players, and sometimes just cruel fate. The gameplay of Nemesis is designed to be full of climactic moments which, hopefully, you will find rewarding even when your best plans are ruined and your character meets a terrible fate.
Arcanum Sanctorum Is hosting a game called spirit island! A game that is in the hard coop game genre.
In the most distant reaches of the world, magic still exists, embodied by spirits of the land, of the sky, and of every natural thing. As the great powers of Europe stretch their colonial empires further and further, they will inevitably lay claim to a place where spirits still hold power - and when they do, the land itself will fight back alongside the islanders who live there.
Spirit Island is a complex and thematic co-operative game about defending your island home from colonizing Invaders. Players are different spirits of the land, each with its own unique elemental powers. Every turn, players simultaneously choose which of their power cards to play, paying energy to do so. Using combinations of power cards that match a spirit's elemental affinities can grant free bonus effects. Faster powers take effect immediately, before the Invaders spread and ravage, but other magics are slower, requiring forethought and planning to use effectively. In the Spirit phase, spirits gain energy, and choose how / whether to Grow: to reclaim used power cards, to seek new power, or to spread their presence into new areas of the island.
The Invaders expand across the island map in a semi-predictable fashion. Each turn they explore into some lands (portions of the island); the next turn, they build in those lands, forming towns and cities. The turn after that, they ravage there, bringing blight to the land and attacking any native islanders present. The islanders fight back against the Invaders when attacked, and lend the spirits some other aid, but may not always do so exactly as you'd hoped. Some Powers work through the islanders, helping them, for example, to drive out the Invaders or clean the land of blight.
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.
Whether you are a Barbarian at heart, a disciplined Dark Mage, or a crafty Strategist type; we are all preparing to face off against the Nightking. Knowing the flow of combat, different card types, and how these all synergize will prepare your Party to face off against even the most powerful foes!
Journey was created to appeal to fans of both TTRPG and JRPGs, sporting a unique retro style of pixel art ranging from 8bit to 32bit styles, all drawn and created by artists. No AI to be seen here!
Journey is an Adventurer party based battle game where you select a team of 3 Adventurers across a collection of Classes, each with their own unique play style, to battle one another in preparation for the greater evil. Unlike traditional TCGs, Journey rounds are much more dynamic due to the Agility system; rather than static turns, the flow of battle can change every Battle Block depending on you or your opponents actions.
Join me for a scripted demo to learn the basics of the system. Then join in free play with pre-constructed starter decks, where I will be there to answer questions and guide everyone through their first few games.
This year's Teaquinox Faire is heating up, and as a contestant, you have four days to prove to the world that your kettle has the mettle to win!
In Tea Witches, tea vendors from across the land must summon and serve lines of witches in order to gain their loyalty, all while sending out magical TeaPups to entice Celebri-Teas and find ways to further enhance their prestige. By growing their loyal fan base, upgrading their hut to maximize service, and collecting all the right tips and toppings they can prove that their tea reigns supreme.
The game lasts four rounds, each representing one day of the Teaquinox Faire. Each day has two phases. In the summoning phase, players simultaneously draw a crowd of witches to their tea hut, being mindful not to push their luck too far as any identical witches will cause a hex, which results in witches leaving the queue.
In the service phase, players take turns sending their adorable TeaPups to various Bootiques in the city to gather toppings and collect tea from the rotating crystal fountain in order to serve witches waiting at their hut. Additionally, TeaPups can help players collect powerful upgrades, attract Celebri-teas, and brew up Special-Teas with bonus abilities. Clever TeaPup placement can also help you complete to-go orders for witches out and about in the city center.
Completing tea orders, attracting celebrities, earning money, and upgrading your tea hut will earn players prestige, and at the end of the fourth day, the player with the most prestige will be declared the greatest tea witch of the Teaquinox Faire!
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.
1. The Story The Emperor is dead, and the throne lies empty. As a powerful noble, you must rally your influence to support a princess of your choosing and see her crowned. But you’re not alone rival factions will use coin, cunning, and courtly strategy to claim the crown first. In this fast-paced deck-building game, you must build your economy, secure your domain, and race to 20 Succession Points before your opponents outmaneuver you.
Netrunner is a two-player asymmetric card game set in a dystopian cyberpunk future where legendary hackers know as Runners try to thwart the megacorporation agendas by infiltrating servers and stealing them. The Corp aims to foil attempts by protecting with ICE. Netrunner is a LCG that is ran by the nonprofit organization Null Signal Games after the game Android: Netrunner was sunset by Fantasy Flight Games
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?
Timeline: In the Third Age of Middle earth - between the Battle of the Five Armies and the Fellowship of the Ring
Summary: Players acquire resources to complete various quests: Provisions (30 green), Travel (24 blue), Might (18 purple), and Gold (12 yellow). Players use Magic (10 white) as a fifth resource, which may be used in place of the others. Once a Quest card is completed, it earns points and provides an ongoing ability. In addition to the resources, Corruption (10 gray) gives an immediate benefit, but too much will bring suffering. By completing specific quest types (The Shire, Gondor, Rohan, Rivendell, and Legends), players can prove their worth and earn Contracts. The game ends when a player has completed a combined total of at least seven Quests and Contracts.
Wyrmspan is a medium-weight engine-building and tableau-management. Build your dragon sanctuary by excavating caves, attracting dragons, and strategically chaining their abilities together to create powerful combos.
Manage limited resources, expand your caves, and choose when to activate abilities to maximize your engine. Compete with other players for dragons, objectives, and Dragon Guild rewards while developing your own unique sanctuary.
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!
Netrunner is a two-player asymmetric card game set in a dystopian cyberpunk future where legendary hackers know as Runners try to thwart the megacorporation agendas by infiltrating servers and stealing them. The Corp aims to foil attempts by protecting with ICE. Netrunner is a LCG that is ran by the nonprofit organization Null Signal Games after the game Android: Netrunner was sunset by Fantasy Flight Games
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?
The Druids of Edora is a game of strategic dice placement. Walk through ancient forests in the footsteps of fairy folk, past monolithic menhirs, and under strands of mistletoe. As druids you will place dice to take actions to gather provisions, gain knowledge, brew potions, and gain bonuses. Build stone structures, collect herbs, and leave your mark in the sacred wood.
Each turn is a few simple steps that with the right strategy will earn you prestige points and bring you closer to victory.
Dive into this fantastic new strategy game from the team behind The Castles of Burgundy.
Prove yourself worthy of the ancient ones and bring glory to your forest.
Command an airship expedition and race to collect shards of a magical falling star! Secretly bid your forces across floating islands, bluff your rivals, uncover hidden information, and build fortresses to strengthen your control. Every reveal brings suspense as you discover who really committed enough power to claim the prize. Easy to learn but packed with clever deduction and strategy. Take to the skies and outwit the competition!
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.
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!
Netrunner is a two-player asymmetric card game set in a dystopian cyberpunk future where legendary hackers know as Runners try to thwart the megacorporation agendas by infiltrating servers and stealing them. The Corp aims to foil attempts by protecting with ICE. Netrunner is a LCG that is ran by the nonprofit organization Null Signal Games after the game Android: Netrunner was sunset by Fantasy Flight Games
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!
The citizens of Verona have grown tired of the constant quarrel between the Capulet and Montague houses. As ruler of the region, Prince Escalus has formed a council to help mediate the conflict and bring peace to Verona. Players act as citizens of Verona and act to either add the characters to the Council or Exile them from the land. Players also wager Influence on character agendas and are awarded accordingly agendas are met.
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.
Within the charming valley of Everdell, beneath the boughs of towering trees, among meandering streams and mossy hollows, a civilization of forest critters is thriving and expanding. From Everfrost to Bellsong, many a year have come and gone, but the time has come for new territories to be settled and new cities established. You will be the leader of a group of critters intent on just such a task. There are buildings to construct, lively characters to meet, events to host—you have a busy year ahead of yourself. Will the sun shine brightest on your city before the winter moon rises?
Everdell is a game of dynamic tableau building and worker placement.
Feed the Kraken is a hidden role deduction game, with three asymmetric factions. All players may be sitting in the same boat, but they want to navigate in different directions! The loyal sailors must bring the ship safely to mainland, whereas the pirates crave to secretly maneuver the ship into the Bermuda Triangle. Meanwhile a crazy cultist is busy convincing parts of the crew to help him summon their dark lord —the Kraken— from the depth of the sea to save them all.
Flamecraft is a light-to-medium-weight worker-placement game. Visit shops to gather resources, collect sets of items, and use them to fulfill contracts and enchant shops for reputation. Multi-use cards provide flexibility as you decide how best to use your resources and abilities.
The modular town board creates a changing play space, while strategic dragon placement and hand management shape your options. End-game bonuses reward thoughtful collection and planning.
Grab your favorite drink and enter Barcadia, where dungeon crawling comes with a very literal health bar: The liquid in your cup! Explore an ever-changing dungeon, roll dice, battle ridiculous monsters, collect power-ups, and sabotage your rivals as you race to defeat the Grand Drink Guardian. Bring your own beer, cocktail, or favorite beverage and prepare for a fast, pun-filled adventure where taking damage means taking a sip!
Come play three different games in 2 hours. These are all great games to play with your family. • Just One: Work together to discover as many Mystery words as possible • Doodle Rush: Draw to get people to guess your words; Guess other people's drawings to score more points. • Inkling: A word game for 3-6 players with an innovative twist.
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 →
Roll for the Galaxy is a dice game of building space empires for 2–5 players. Your dice represent your populace, whom you direct to develop new technologies, settle worlds, and ship goods. The player who best manages his workers and builds the most prosperous empire wins!
This dice version of Race for the Galaxy takes players on a new journey through the Galaxy, but with the feel of the original game.
In Smartphone Inc., you become a CEO of one of the largest smartphone-producing companies in the time when smartphones were only beginning to conquer the world. Research technologies, develop your factory, build your worldwide office network, and outprice your competitors to become the most profitable and successful smartphone company in the world.
Smartphone Inc. is an economic simulation Eurogame. Over five rounds, players program their decisions about price, production, research, and expansion. The game features a unique mechanism of planning, which combines patching mechanisms with bidding and action selection. Each of the rounds consists of eight simple phases: planning, pricing, production, development, research, expansion, selling, and profits.
In the planning phase, all players simultaneously make decisions for the next year by overlaying ("patching") their two plan cards and all of their development tiles. The actions they plan on their cards and tiles in this phase will determine what actions they can perform during all of the later phases.
In the pricing phase, players change the price they charge for their smartphones based on their plan. A lower price helps to go earlier and sell more smartphones on the market, but a higher price, while risky, helps players to earn more money.
In production, all players produce smartphones.
In development, players take development tiles, which expand their planning possibilities in future rounds.
In research, players discover new technologies. Each technology not only expands players' ability to sell smartphones to customers, but also gives them special powers they can use during the game.
In the expansion phase, players open offices in neighbor regions, which allow them to sell in that region and develop their network of offices to more regions in further turns.
In the sale phase, players sell the phones they produced in regions where they have offices. But there is limited space in each region - and
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 →
In Endeavor: Deep Sea, you head an independent research institute with the goal of developing sustainable projects and preserving the fragile balance of marine life. Throughout the game, you’ll recruit field experts and use their abilities to explore new locations, research dive sites, publish critical ecological papers, and launch conservation efforts.
Fog of Love, a 2 player game that's a romantic comedy as a board game! In this (for the most part) co-op storytelling focused game, players are given scenarios where they have to make choices that impact and define both themselves and their partner as they try to achieve their final destiny which may or may not compliment their partner's destiny. A really unique game unlike anything else. Enjoyable if you like to banter, embellish the flavor text on cards, and narrate your turns but want the structured and explicitly defined game mechanics and end game goals of a board game rather than the more loose nature and open ended story telling of role playing games. If it tells you anything about the game, the rules explicitly suggest the primary goal of the game should be to tell a fun story and trying to win should be secondary. See the 3 minute game summary video
Many centuries ago, the Greek, Persian and Assyrian empires controlled vast amounts of land and riches. Yet, despite their fortifications and imposing armies, rumours began spreading of a formidable foe in the lands above the Black Sea. They came on horseback. Fierce warriors, both male and female. Skilled with the sword, axe and bow. But they weren’t mindless savages. Their artisans were renowned for their ability to craft detailed trinkets of gold. They fashioned leather armour and improvised the recurve bow. They trained eagles for hunting and war. Some even believe they inspired the Greek tales of the Amazons. But they were more than legend or fable. They were the Raiders of Scythia.
The aim of Raiders of Scythia is to be the player with the most Victory Points (VP) at the game’s end. VP are gained by raiding Settlements, taking Plunder and completing Quests. Players will need to assemble a Crew, train Animals and gather Provisions. The game ends when there is only 2 unraided Settlements or 2 Quests remaining on the Main Board.
From the publisher: The newest version of the Tales of the Arabian Nights celebrating its 40th anniversary. Enter the lands of the Arabian Nights alongside Sindbad, Scheherazade, Aladdin, and the other legendary heroes of the 1001 Tales. Travel the world encountering imprisoned princesses, powerful `efreets, evil viziers, and such marvels and the enigmatic Magnetic Mountain, the terrifying Ape Island, and the lustrous Crystal Palace.
The classic, award-winning storytelling game returns with you choosing your actions. While gameplay remain essentially the same, updates include 200+ new paragraphs in the story book, gender neutral game play, additional encounter cards, shortened status time periods, new terrain encounter rules, faster time of day shifts, and faster game play with fewer Destiny and Story points needed to win.
aunted is a mashup of town-building and storytelling. You’ll compete to build the best village above and below ground. Send villagers to perform jobs like exploring the cave, harvesting resources, and constructing houses. In Above And Below: Haunted, your village will attract the attention of ghosts. You can spend a turn to banish the ghosts from your building and send one to haunt another player.
Whether you are a Barbarian at heart, a disciplined Dark Mage, or a crafty Strategist type; we are all preparing to face off against the Nightking. Knowing the flow of combat, different card types, and how these all synergize will prepare your Party to face off against even the most powerful foes!
Journey was created to appeal to fans of both TTRPG and JRPGs, sporting a unique retro style of pixel art ranging from 8bit to 32bit styles, all drawn and created by artists. No AI to be seen here!
Journey is an Adventurer party based battle game where you select a team of 3 Adventurers across a collection of Classes, each with their own unique play style, to battle one another in preparation for the greater evil. Unlike traditional TCGs, Journey rounds are much more dynamic due to the Agility system; rather than static turns, the flow of battle can change every Battle Block depending on you or your opponents actions.
Join me for a scripted demo to learn the basics of the system. Then join in free play with pre-constructed starter decks, where I will be there to answer questions and guide everyone through their first few games.
This game swept Gencon by storm and sold out multiple times. Come play the highly sought after game released by Albi and published by Capstone Games in the U.S. The game last about 1.25 hours with teaching.
The animals escaped the zoo and now they want to get back in (They know where their breakfast will be served.) Help the animals wander the neighborhood and re-enter the zoo in this tile laying game. The game breaks all the normal tile laying mechanics so arrive with an open mind.
"The goal of the game is to help the animals and guide them safely back into their home. Players explore parts of the darkened zoo to discover the best routes home. Each round, players draft tiles and place them on their boards, triggering special actions and building a path back for their animals. Every animal has its own unique way of moving and scoring points, making each game a new adventure!"
Dragons & Cats After Dark is a 2-hour late-night gaming session featuring a selection of games inspired by mythical creatures, dragons, and mischievous felines. Choose your adventure and play one or more games during the session, with options ranging from clever card play and set collection to dexterity and spatial challenges.
Featured games include Resign of Dragoness, Seven Dragons, Nekojima, and Cat and the Tower. Whether you’re commanding dragons, collecting colorful sets, balancing cats, or building a precarious tower, there’s a game for every kind of night owl.
Come for the myths, stay for the cats, and try not to wake the dragons!
Come play two easy to learn games in an hour. • Up or Down? A card game with elevators! What could be more fun? • FUSE: A game that plays in 10 minutes or self-destructs! No pressure but those bombs aren't going to defuse themselves!
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 →
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.
Feed the Kraken is a hidden role deduction game, with three asymmetric factions. All players may be sitting in the same boat, but they want to navigate in different directions! The loyal sailors must bring the ship safely to mainland, whereas the pirates crave to secretly maneuver the ship into the Bermuda Triangle. Meanwhile a crazy cultist is busy convincing parts of the crew to help him summon their dark lord —the Kraken— from the depth of the sea to save them all.
Roll for the Galaxy is a dice game of building space empires for 2–5 players. Your dice represent your populace, whom you direct to develop new technologies, settle worlds, and ship goods. The player who best manages his workers and builds the most prosperous empire wins!
This dice version of Race for the Galaxy takes players on a new journey through the Galaxy, but with the feel of the original game.
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.
Dragons & Cats After Dark is a 2-hour late-night gaming session featuring a selection of games inspired by mythical creatures, dragons, and mischievous felines. Choose your adventure and play one or more games during the session, with options ranging from clever card play and set collection to dexterity and spatial challenges.
Featured games include Resign of Dragoness, Seven Dragons, Nekojima, and Cat and the Tower. Whether you’re commanding dragons, collecting colorful sets, balancing cats, or building a precarious tower, there’s a game for every kind of night owl.
Come for the myths, stay for the cats, and try not to wake the dragons!
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!
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.
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!
Welcome ashore! Merchants Cove is a highly asymmetrical eurogame where each player assumes the role of a different fantasy merchant with a unique shop. The merchants contend to sell their goods to the arriving adventurers at the cove’s piers—the most famous markets in the Five Realms. Each player uses their own set of role-specific components and gameplay mechanisms to produce their goods, increase their shop’s efficiency, and—most importantly—get rich!
Though the merchants work independently in their specialized shops, they compete against each other to attract customers, influence the demands for goods, and secure sponsorships from the four faction halls. To get an edge, merchants can employ local townsfolk to work in their shops as staff. Or if they dare to cut corners, they can gain leverage from the corrupt lair of rogues—but at what cost? After three days of selling at the markets, the wealthiest merchant shall be declared the winner!
"For once, Zeus, Greek god of thunder and sky, is in high spirits. Hence, he decides to offer a generous gift to a worthy mortal and invite him, or her, to his realm, to Olympus. To determine a sufficient candidate, Zeus hosts a competition for his entertainment. Twelve legendary tasks are imposed upon the fearless participants: to erect graceful statues, to raise awe-inspiring sanctuaries, to offer capacious offerings, and to slay the most fearsome monsters. The first participant to master all the posed assignments wins the favor of the father of the gods himself.
Indubitably, you will not pass up this golden opportunity, so you clear your ship and rally your crew to follow on the trails of legendary Odysseus through the dangerous waters of the Aegean. But how could you find the righteous path onward? There is but one who can help you. Visit the mysterious oracle of Delphi and let her answers guide your ways.
In Stefan Feld's new game The Oracle of Delphi, the player's ships travel across a large variable game board of hexagonal tiles showing islands and the surrounding waters. Each player aims to reach certain islands to perform the twelve tasks given by Zeus: e.g., to collect offerings of different colors and to deliver them to corresponding temples, or to slay monsters of a specific type (and color), all of which can be discovered on the islands.
In order to execute these color-dependent actions, you are given three colored dice each turn, the so-called "oracle dice". Rolling the dice (at the start of the turn) is equivalent to consulting the oracle, whereas the results represent her answers. The answers determine which actions you will be able to take, but you will always have three actions per turn. However, a slight divergence from your fate is often possible.
In addition to the oracle, you can request support from the gods and you can acquire favor tokens, companions, and other special abilities that will help you win the race against othe
The game is played over eight rounds. You start each round by drafting your tiles from the sets available in the common pool, then you place your routes in front of you, trying to make as many connections as possible; be careful not to lock yourself in with choices that are too constraining. Each round, you can also place cars, trains, or travelers to populate the tiny little landscape you're creating - as long as you have free space on your tiles. The available actions change from round to round, so you need to prepare in advance!
The King's Guild is a worker placement style game where players compete to hire workers, build their guildhall, and collect resources to complete quests.
You are bird enthusiasts—researchers, bird watchers, ornithologists, and collectors—seeking to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves. Each bird extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your habitats (actions). These habitats focus on several key aspects of growth:
Gain food tokens via custom dice in a birdfeeder dice tower Lay eggs using egg miniatures in a variety of colors Draw from hundreds of unique bird cards and play them The winner is the player with the most points after 4 rounds.
In Lorenzo il Magnifico, each player takes the role of the head of a noble family in a city during the Italian Renaissance to gain more prestige and fame — that is, victory points (VP) — than anyone else. To do so, you send your family members to different areas of town, where they can obtain many achievements. In one location, they get useful resources; in another development cards that represent newly conquered territories, sponsored buildings, influenced characters, or encouraged ventures; and somewhere else they activate the effects of their cards.
The guilds have assembled in the mythical town of Buttonville. The larger the group, the better their reward, so gather well and put them to work at just the right time. In this game, you’ll draft cards from a central display, forming sets in your hand, then playing them to your personal tableau. Each character provides a different bonus and bigger sets provide better rewards. But you’ll need to watch your hand limit, so timing is a key element.
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!
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Take your place at the starting line with this award winning dexterity racing game for 1-6 players. Featuring characterful and wacky miniatures, Dodos Riding Dinos is a fun game for all the family. Flick eggs, throw bananas, drop meteorites, roll logs, toss the feather and dash with the Dodo token to win the race!
Waterdeep, the City of Splendors – the most resplendent jewel in the Forgotten Realms, and a den of political intrigue and shady back-alley dealings.
In Lords of Waterdeep, a strategy board game for 2-5 players, you take on the role of one of the masked Lords of Waterdeep, secret rulers of the city. Through your agents, you recruit adventurers to go on quests on your behalf, earning rewards and increasing your influence over the city. Expand the city by purchasing new buildings that open up new actions on the board, and hinder – or help – the other lords by playing intrigue cards to enact your carefully laid plans.
During the course of play, you may gain points or resources by completing quests, constructing buildings, playing intrigue cards, or having other players use the buildings you have constructed. After eight rounds, the player with the most points wins.
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!
A spinoff of the engine-building game Wingspan, Wyrmspan is a fun new take on this system using dragons. Explore, excavate, and entice dragons to come and live in your caverns. Although similar it follows unique mechanisms that differ from Wingspan.
Venture into the frozen wilderness beyond Scythe in this card-driven game of exploration, engine building, and towering mechs! Discover mysterious locations, recruit workers, gather power and guile, and race to complete the most glorious expedition. Gears of Corruption raises the danger with hidden map rewards, versatile hero workers, new characters and mechs, and a corrupted machine roaming the land. Adventure, discovery, and glory await!
Become an Egyptian God, open the gates of your city, and let your troops sing the song of war to please you and claim your dominance as master of Egypt.
Dominoes with a kingdom building twist. Each turn, connect a new domino to your existing kingdom, making sure at least one of its sides connects to a matching terrain type already in play. The game mechanics for obtaining the tiles is clever: the order of who picks first depends on which tile was previously chosen. Make sure to secure tiles with crowns- these royal treasures help to multiply the worth of your kingdom at the end of the game! The game ends when each player has completed a 5x5 grid, and then points are counted based on number of connecting tiles and crowns.
7th Sea: City of Five Sails is an expandable card game set in the swashbuckling world of the 7th Sea roleplaying game by John and Jennifer Wick, and Kevin Wilson. Players control one of five factions as they fight to influence, control, and explore the independent and unruly city of Five Sails. It is typically played with two players, but multiplayer variants will allow more players to get into the game.
During the game, each player represents a leader who, along with their allies, explore locations and fight both with swords and with wits for overall influence over the city. Along with each player’s individual deck, 7th Sea: City of Five Sails also includes an element of randomness in the form of a separate, shared deck that represents the city itself with unusual characters, items, and events that change the focus of the game. Combat is resolved in a unique “back and forth” style reminiscent of challenging swordplay.
Betrayal at House on the Hill is a tile game that allows players to lay out the haunted house room by room, tile by tile, creating a new game board every time. The game is designed for three to six people, each of whom plays one of six possible characters.
Players explore the haunted house, gathering items and discovering secrets, until one of the characters triggers a haunt and one of a hundred unique scenarios occur, ranging from fighting monsters to crumbling reality tearing the house apart.
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!
Based on simple and intuitive hand management, Heat: Pedal to the Metal puts players in the driver's seat of intense car races, jockeying for position to cross the finish line first, while managing their car's speed if they don't want to overheat. Selecting the right upgrades for their car will help them hug the curves and keep their engine cool enough to maintain top speeds. Ultimately, their driving skills will be the key to victory!
Drivers can compete in a single race or use the "Championship System" to play a whole season in one game night, customizing their car before each race to claim the top spot of the podium. They have to be careful as the weather, road conditions, and events will change every race to spice up their championship. Players can also enjoy a solo mode with the Legends Module or add automated drivers as additional opponents in multiplayer games.
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!
Peace and tranquility await. In this game, as a koi pond gardener you’ll select cards and other bonuses from the central display, then add fish, statues, flowers, and other peaceful elements to your personal area. Gather the best team of helpers and plan well to create the most beautiful pond.
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 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 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.
Carcassonne is a tile placement game in which the players draw and place a tile with a piece of southern French landscape represented on it. The tile might feature a city, a road, a cloister, grassland or some combination thereof, and it must be placed adjacent to tiles that have already been played, in such a way that cities are connected to cities, roads to roads, et cetera. Having placed a tile, the player can then decide to place one of their meeples in one of the areas on it: in the city as a knight, on the road as a robber, in the cloister as a monk, or in the field as a farmer. When that area is complete that meeple scores points for its owner.
Based on simple and intuitive hand management, Heat: Pedal to the Metal puts players in the driver's seat of intense car races, jockeying for position to cross the finish line first, while managing their car's speed if they don't want to overheat. Selecting the right upgrades for their car will help them hug the curves and keep their engine cool enough to maintain top speeds. Ultimately, their driving skills will be the key to victory!
Drivers can compete in a single race or use the "Championship System" to play a whole season in one game night, customizing their car before each race to claim the top spot of the podium. They have to be careful as the weather, road conditions, and events will change every race to spice up their championship. Players can also enjoy a solo mode with the Legends Module or add automated drivers as additional opponents in multiplayer games.
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.
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 girl reached into the wood ash and grabbed a palmful, and as she blew it from her palm, the ashes swirled and churned as they moved skyward, lighting up the once dark skies.
The Girl who Made the Stars is a worker placement/tile-laying puzzle game for 1-4 players based on a San African myth about the creation of the milky way and the stars.
In the time of the first people, the night sky was dark and featureless. The village elders prohibited venturing out into the dark starless night for fear of the dangers that lurked there. One night after her mother cooked dinner, a young girl, frustrated with these restrictions, took a bit of ash and roots and cast the red and white embers into the sky, forming the milky way and the other stars, in an attempt to illuminate the night so the villagers could safely collect resources necessary for their survival.
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.
Discover the ancient art form of Tea Dragon care-taking within The Tea Dragon Society Card Game, based on the graphic novel The Tea Dragon Society. 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 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 wins.
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
Power Grid, the classic Euro game about economy efficiency with the newest expansion map, the city of Bremen. This map reduces the number of cities available to connect and eliminates nuclear power from the game. The step 2 and end game city count triggers are lowered and connection costs are now a flat cost for each city.
An interesting, shorter twist on the base game for experienced players, but will teach from scratch for those unfamiliar. 3 to 6 players.
Discover the spectacular birds of Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean in a small-group, 3-player Wingspan adventure! The new hummingbirds flutter between your preserve and a shared garden: Attract them for immediate rewards, return them to advance specialized tracks, and use their constant movement to build clever new combos. With colorful new birds, nectar, and more player interaction, this is Wingspan with an energetic tropical twist!
A fearsome dragon is threatening to burn all the villages in the kingdom! Luckily, dragons are greedy, so if you can bribe him with treasures from the battlefield like a barbarian's axe or a phoenix feather, you might persuade him to spare your village. Unfortunately, other villagers in the kingdom have the same idea. Who can best time their bribes to ensure their treasures are most valued by the dragon when the game comes to an end?
In Please Don't Burn My Village!, which is set in the world of Castle Panic, you want to bribe with the right treasure at the right time to keep the dragon's attention — while buying treasures at the black market and cursing the other villagers' treasures. When no treasure remains, the dragon will burn all of the villages except one. Will yours be the one that survives?
In more detail, players hold a hand of treasure cards that they can use to 1) bribe the dragon, 2) buy more treasure cards from the black market, or 3) draw a treasure card. When they bribe the dragon, they place the cards in sets in front of them, move the token up in value in the dragon's favor, and deal more cards into the black market.
If they instead choose to buy at the black market, they pay from their hand the number of cards indicated on a black market stall, take the cards from that stall into their hand, and move down a treasure in the dragon's favor that matches one of the cards they used to buy their cards. The number of spaces a player moves a token up (when bribing the dragon) or down (when buying at the black market) equals the number cards played. If players don't want to affect the values in the dragon's favor or are out of cards, they can simply draw a card.
The game features a push-your-luck ending: every time someone bribes the dragon, cards are turned over and placed in the black market spaces until a matching card or wild is revealed. When no card is found and the deck runs out, the game ends, play stops and players add any cards in their hand
What is the Uzzle? It is the most fun, competitive, and challenging game you will ever play.
We combined the challenge of puzzles with the competitiveness of board games, and were able to develop the Uzzle.
Shuffle the playing cards and leave them stacked in the center of the table. Then distribute 5 blocks to each player. Flip over the top card and race to see who can solve the Uzzle first by matching the blocks to the pattern on the card. Once you finish, shout "Uzzle!" and grab the card. After taking the card, let the other players examine whether you have correctly arranged your blocks. If you have correctly solved the Uzzle, you get to keep the card and now have 1 win. Players vote on how many wins to play to.
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.
A fearsome dragon is threatening to burn all the villages in the kingdom! Luckily, dragons are greedy, so if you can bribe him with treasures from the battlefield like a barbarian's axe or a phoenix feather, you might persuade him to spare your village. Unfortunately, other villagers in the kingdom have the same idea. Who can best time their bribes to ensure their treasures are most valued by the dragon when the game comes to an end?
In Please Don't Burn My Village!, which is set in the world of Castle Panic, you want to bribe with the right treasure at the right time to keep the dragon's attention — while buying treasures at the black market and cursing the other villagers' treasures. When no treasure remains, the dragon will burn all of the villages except one. Will yours be the one that survives?
In more detail, players hold a hand of treasure cards that they can use to 1) bribe the dragon, 2) buy more treasure cards from the black market, or 3) draw a treasure card. When they bribe the dragon, they place the cards in sets in front of them, move the token up in value in the dragon's favor, and deal more cards into the black market.
If they instead choose to buy at the black market, they pay from their hand the number of cards indicated on a black market stall, take the cards from that stall into their hand, and move down a treasure in the dragon's favor that matches one of the cards they used to buy their cards. The number of spaces a player moves a token up (when bribing the dragon) or down (when buying at the black market) equals the number cards played. If players don't want to affect the values in the dragon's favor or are out of cards, they can simply draw a card.
The game features a push-your-luck ending: every time someone bribes the dragon, cards are turned over and placed in the black market spaces until a matching card or wild is revealed. When no card is found and the deck runs out, the game ends, play stops and players add any cards in their hand
An expanded version of the tasty and cute Sushi Go! card game that makes it easier for more players to join in. The rules give lots of options on different set ups so each game can be its own experience. Earn points by creating sushi combos and compete against the other players to collect the most types of sushi cards.
