Game Events: Dominion Tournament

Calling all Dominion players!

  • What:   Dominion Tournament
  • When:  Saturday, April 20, 2013
  • Where: Off The Charts Games
  • Time:    1:00 pm to Completion
  • Entry Fee:  $5.00
It’s time for another Dominion tournament.  The tournament must have a minimum of 8 players.  Each player will play a minimum of three rounds.  Each game will use the randomizer deck to select the cards in play.

Pit your Dominion skills against other Dominion players for a chance to win.  Grand prize is winner’s choice of one of these Dominion Expansions:
  • Intrigue
  • Alchemy
  • Seaside
  • Cornucopia
  • Prosperity
  • Hinterlands
  • Dark Ages
Come in to the store to register.


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Come and visit us at 30 NW 2nd Street in Historic Downtown Gresham. We have a full range of family games, strategy games, Euro-style games, war games, card games, dice games and more. Also for the puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality puzzles from Ravensburger, TDC, White Mountain, and Cobble Hill.

We proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver area.



Table Top Season 2 Episode 1: Formula D

Wil is back to the table with more great board games on Table Top.  For those of you who aren’t familiar with this.  Table Top is a biweekly YouTube series hosted by Wil Wheaton of Star Trek fame on Felicia Day’s Channel, Geek and Sundry.


Formula D
Asmodee

Today, the game on the table is Formula D.  Wil and guests Greg Benson, Hannan Hart, and Grace Helbig assume race car driver identities and put their racing abilities to the test in a Grand Prix set in Monte Carlo.  Not only are the cars flying around the track but the puns are flying as well.


Let’s watch and see who will crash and burn and who will get the checkered flag and be Grand Prix champion in this game of Formula D.



Come in and get your copy of Formula D.


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Come and visit us at 30 NW 2nd Street in Historic Downtown Gresham. We have a full range of family games, strategy games, Euro-style games, war games, card games, dice games and more. Also for the puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality puzzles from Ravensburger, TDC, White Mountain, and Cobble Hill.

We proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver area.

Game Arrivals: April 1st – 6th

It’s a significant restocking week.  Here are some of the board game that came in:

City Square Off
Gamewright

   New to our store is City Square Off, a 2-player Tetrus-like game.  Our thanks to Robynn and Lauren for bringing in their game and getting us hooked on it.

   In City Square Off, each player has their own city grid and a set of 21 city tiles and begins the game by choosing one of the 4 cityscape starter tiles for the center of their city grid.The game progresses by placing the city tile that matches the drawn shape card until one player can no longer fit a matching tile into their city grid.  City tiles must fit completely within the boundaries of a player’s city grid.

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Arkham Horror
Fantasy Flight
Carcassonne
Z-Man Games

Loot
Gamewright
Dominion Base Cards
Rio Grande Games

Monster Factory
Rio Grande Games
Atlantis Rising
Z-Man Games
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Come and visit us at 30 NW 2nd Street in Historic Downtown Gresham. We have a full range of family games, strategy games, Euro-style games, war games, card games, dice games and more. Also for the puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality puzzles from Ravensburger, TDC, White Mountain, and Cobble Hill.

We proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver area.

Game Events: Week of April 1st – 6th

Come and join in on the fun at this week’s Game Events. It’s a great way to meet other board game enthusiasts and it’s free and fun! This week there will be no Friday Game Night only a Weds Game Night.  


Date: Weds. Apr. 3rd
Time: 6 pm
Place: Off The Charts Games Store

Weds. Featured Games
To learn more about each featured board game click on the game name below it’s picture.


Spin Monkeys
Rio Grande Games
Yspahan
Rio Grande Games

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Date: Fri. Apr. 5th
Place: Off The Charts Games Store
         No Game Night Tonight






No Experience is Necessary! We are happy to teach you the rules and get you started.
Also, while you are here any of the games in our Store Demo Game Library are available for play.




Come Play Board Games It’s Free  It’s Fun!


Come and visit us at 30 NW 2nd Street in Historic Downtown Gresham. We have a full range of family games, strategy games, Euro-style games, war games, card games, dice games and more. Also for the puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality puzzles from Ravensburger, TDC, White Mountain, and Cobble Hill.

We proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver area.

International TableTop Game Day

Thanks to all of you who came today and participated in the First International Table Top Game Day event.  You certainly made this an absolutely fun day – – so many board games were played.  Here are a few of the day’s gamers.


Spencer’s group was 1st to get things rolling.
Gamers come in all ages




























































Monster Factory was definitely a hit.

Ramona and Larry succeeded at Castle Panic
Arkham Horror gets underway.





































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Come and visit us at 30 NW 2nd Street in Historic Downtown Gresham. We have a full range of family games, strategy games, Euro-style games, war games, card games, dice games and more. Also for the puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality puzzles from Ravensburger, TDC, White Mountain, and Cobble Hill.


We proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver area.

International TableTop Day

It’s the First Annual International TableTop Play Games Day.






Date: Saturday, March 30th
Where: Here at Off The Charts Games
Time: All Day from 10:00 am to 7 pm



Join us in participating in this sure to be super fun Game day.  We will be featuring many of the games that Wil Wheaton played with his friends in the Table Top episodes by Felicia Day’s Geek and Sundry YouTube channel.  Plus, we have a great selection of games in our Demo Game Library that you can choose from.  Or, bring in your favorites We’ll have giveaways so come for Free Fun Game Play.

Here is Felicia Day setting the stage for International TableTop Day

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Come and visit us at 30 NW 2nd Street in Historic Downtown Gresham. We have a full range of family games, strategy games, Euro-style games, war games, card games, dice games and more. Also for the puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality puzzles from Ravensburger, TDC, White Mountain, and Cobble Hill.


We proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver area.

Game Arrivals: March 24th – 30th

Here are this week’s game arrivals:

Tune up your bumper car and get
your monkey ready to ride, it’s time to grab some fruit – this is Spin Monkeys! Recently released in December from Rio Grande Games.

You and your fellow monkey players will race your bumper cars around the board grabbing as much fruit as possible.  How good are you at a 90º turn? Or how about a 360º or a 270º turn?  It’s maneuverability skills you’ll need in Spin Monkeys to steer your bumper car towards the fruit and to bounce off the walls and the other bumper cars.  But watch out for the banana peels as they can send you spinning in a new direction.

Our Game Profile will provide you with more information and a video game overview – just click here on Spin Monkeys to connect to the link.  Also, we have a copy in our Demo Game Store Library available for you to come in and try out.

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Yes! We have Pandemic back in stock.


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Other Restocks:

And, we’ve restocked our chess selection.  We now feature French, German, Yugoslav, and Russian style sets.

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Come and visit us at 30 NW 2nd Street in Historic Downtown Gresham. We have a full range of family games, strategy games, Euro-style games, war games, card games, dice games and more. Also for the puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality puzzles from Ravensburger, TDC, White Mountain, and Cobble Hill.

We proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver area.

Game Events: Week of Mar 24th – 30th

Come and join in on the fun at this week’s Game Events. It’s a great way to meet other board game enthusiasts and it’s free and fun! Here is this week’s schedule:

Date: Weds. Mar. 27th
Time: 6 pm
Place: Off The Charts Games Store


Weds. Featured Games
To learn more about each featured board game click on the game name below it’s picture.

Small World
Days of Wonder
Automobile
Mayfair Games
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Date: Fri. Mar. 15th
Time: 6 pm
Place: Off The Charts Games Store


Fri. Featured Games
To learn more about each featured board game click on the game name below it’s picture.

Airlines Europe
Rio Grande Games

Undermining
Z-Man Games

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Date: Sati. Mar. 30th

Time: 10 am – 7 pm An All Day Event
Place: Off The Charts Games Store





Join us in participating in this sure to be super fun Game day.  We will be featuring many of the games from the Geek and Sundry Table Top episodes plus a few more.  We have a great Demo Game Library you can choose from.  Or, bring in your favorites We’ll have giveaways so come for Free Fun Game Play.




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No Experience is Necessary! We are happy to teach you the rules and get you started.

Also, while you are here any of the games in our Store Demo Game Library are available for play.



Come Play ~ ~ It’s Free ~ It’s Fun!





Come and visit us at 30 NW 2nd Street in Historic Downtown Gresham. We have a full range of family games, strategy games, Euro-style games, war games, card games, dice games and more. Also for the puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality puzzles from Ravensburger, TDC, White Mountain, and Cobble Hill.


We proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver area.



Game Events: Game Night Good Times

Last night’s Friday Game Night had many great games played: 

  • Nexus Ops  (winner: David)
  • Power Grid  (winner: Joseph)
  • Tsuro  (winner: Lynn)
  • Small World  (winner: Megan)
  • Kingdom Builder  (winner: Meredith)
  • Star Wars X-Wing  (winner: Joseph)







Today was an Arkham Horror horror day for Phil, Schel, Gabe, Arlo, and Patrick.




Come Play ~ ~ ~ It’s Free ~ ~ ~ It’s Fun!

Come and visit us at 30 NW 2nd Street in Historic Downtown Gresham. We have a full range of family games, strategy games, Euro-style games, war games, card games, dice games and more. Also for the puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality puzzles from Ravensburger, TDC, White Mountain, and Cobble Hill.


We proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver area.

Game Profile: Spin Monkeys

Bumper Car Monkey Mania


Mechanics Hand Management, Simultaneous Action Selection, Point-to-Point
Movement
Theme Monkeys & Bumper Cars
Publication Rio Grande Games, 2012
Ages 13+
Time 45
Players 2-8
Description
“You are a monkey in the
jungle when one day a wayward carnival makes a stop.  You and your fellow monkeys jump in the
bumper cars and away you go.  You have no
idea why there is fruit all over the arena floor, but you aim to grab as much
of it for yourself as possible!”
Tune up your bumper car and get your monkey
ready to ride, it’s time to grab some fruit – this is
Spin Monkeys!  Players begin the game
with 5 movement cards. At the start of each turn, players will simultaneously and
secretly choose one of their cards to play that will determine the spin of
their bumper car. The objective of the game is to race across the board picking
up as much fruit as possible.  There are
only a couple of things to get in the way, like other bumper cars, walls and
even banana peels.  These can cause your
car to stop or spin to move in a new direction. 
These monkeys must be hungry. 
Every time they pick up a banana they leave a slippery banana peel
behind.  Bananas are clearly the favorite
fruit and are worth the most victory points, but apples and oranges aren’t bad
either.  Monkeys continue to careen
around the board until only one type of fruit is left.  Then players add up their points and see who
is the top banana or is that the “top monkey”.
Recently, we sat down and had fun playing this
game.  It isn’t as easy as it looks, you
can find yourself bumping up against the wall and spinning out of control.  The board and components are very bright and
colorful and who can resist the funny monkey faces on the bumper cars. A copy
of 
Spin Monkeys is available in our Store Demo Game Library for you to come in and try out while you are here.

Catch this game overview

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Come and visit us at 30 NW 2nd Street in Historic Downtown Gresham. We have a full range of family games, strategy games, Euro-style games, war games, card games, dice games and more. Also for the puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality puzzles from Ravensburger, TDC, White Mountain, and Cobble Hill.