Game Events: Week of Sept. 9th – 15th

Come and
join in on the fun with Game Night. It’s a
great way to meet other game enthusiasts. Here is this week’s
schedule:


Date: Fri. Sept. 14th
Time: 6 pm
Place:
Off The Charts Games Store

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

Finca
Rio Grande Games
Puerto Rico
Rio Grande Games

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

While these
are the featured games any of the games in our Demo Library are available for
play while you are here.

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

Coming Soon: The Tempest Series

This Fall Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG) is launching 3 new games from the world of Tempest.



Here is an excerpt from AEG describing their new Tempest game concept:

The City-State of Tempest is the home to an unprecendented new idea in board gaming: a persistent world with recurring characters embroiled in an epic tale.

Each game in the Tempest series shares a story, characters, and location with every other game.



AEG’s first 3 games in this new Tempest series are:

Courtier
(Tempest Series)
AEG





Courtier is designed for 2-4 players.  A players’ mission is to act as an influence broker, manipulating the levers of power and granting favors to important supplicants.  This is accomplished by influencing key people.


Players use influence cards to gain sway over a key courtier and power cards to manipulate the board in their favor.  Victory points are earned for completing requests by controlling each of the courtiers listed on a given petition.  Bonus points can be earned from cards and abilities.  The player with the highest score at the end of the game wins.


















Dominare
(Tempest Series) 
AEG

Dominare is designed both as a 2-4 player and a 5-6 player game through the use of a double-sided board.  Additionally, the 2-4 player board side can be used for a highly combative game for 5-6 players.


In Dominare, players are conspirators seeking to control Tempest.  Agents are the key to the game.  Players spread their influence in key city blocks and districts, use agent & district abilities to further their plans, and manipulate the board to their benefit.
“Use your agents well, & influence and power will be yours.  Use them poorly, and… well, you wouldn’t be the first would-be ruler to vanish into the inky waters of the city canals…”
Mercante
(Tempest Series) 
AEG









Mercante is designed for 3-5 players.  It is a game of economic warfare.  Domination of the bustling trade is the ultimate goal of every merchant house in Tempest. Each player controls a merchant house, deploying their trusted agents to purchase goods from the arriving ships and then selling the goods into the most profitable markets.  Players must do more – from “enticing” senators to outright skulduggery – to claim their rightful place at the pinnacle of Tempest’s merchant class.

Players compete to accumulate crowns to finance their operations, and senatorial favors (victory points) to win the game. 











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Come in and see our fabulous selection of strategy games, Euro-style games, war games, family games, card games, dice games. We carry Chess set, Backgammon, Cribbage, and Go sets as well. Additionally for the puzzle enthusiasts, we have a great selection of quality puzzles from Ravensburger, TDC, and White Mountain.




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

Table Top Episode 12 Features: Dixit

Here is the next episode in the Table Top biweekly series hosted by Star Trek’s Wil Wheaton on Felicia Day’s Channel Geek and Sundry.  Today’s featured game is Dixit, winner of the  2010 Spiel des Jahres (Game Of The Year) Award.

Dixit
Asmodee

Take a seat and let’s watch below as Wil and his guest; Beth Riesgraf (actress), Casey McKinnon (actress, indie film maker), and Leo Chu (creator, exec-producer – Supah Ninjas) get very creative and imaginative in a game of Dixit.



Along with Dixit (3-6 player game), we have Dixit Odessey (3-12 player game) and Dixit 2 (expansion deck of new cards) in stock.

Continue to tune in for more Table Top Episodes



Come in and see our fabulous selection of strategy games, Euro-style games, war games, family games, card games, dice games. We carry Chess set, Backgammon, Cribbage, and Go sets as well. Also for the puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality puzzles from Ravensburger, TDC, and White Mountain.
We proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver area.

Game Arrivals: Sept. 2nd – 8th

This week’s arrivals include the following games:


Bang! Gold Rush Expansion
daVinci Games
Bang! Dodge City Expansion
daVinci Games

      
From daVinci Games, the makers of the popular wild west card game, Bang! comes the newest expansion:  Bang! Gold Rush

It’s Gold Rush time!  A cascade of gold nugget will be the reward for the quickest gunslinger!  Now you can gain new and extraordinary equipment to help you during a gunfight. But watch out for the ghastly shadow-gunslingers….they have only one single aim: to blow you away!  Can you gallop your way to the riches creek?

Also back in stock is the popular expansion Bang! Dodge City.  This expansion is double-packed with a Dodge City expansion and a High Noon expansion.


All of these Bang! expansions can be played separately with the base game or combined to give players even more “wild west” action and challenge.


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The Awful Green Things From Outer Space
Steve Jackson Games

Also in this week is another classic game from Steve Jackson Games; The Awful Green Things From Outer Space, Eighth Edition.  This comical 2-player space-themed game takes place aboard a spaceship in outer space.  The crew have discovered that one of the “mineral specimens” taken from one of the visited planets was an egg that has hatched menacing Awful Green Things.  In the game, one player assumes the role of the Awful Green Things, happily growing and eating crewmen.  The other player represents the ship’s crew, fighting for their lives.



Continue
to tune in for the latest in board games.

Come and visit our store. 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, and White Mountain.

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

Game Events: Week of Sept 2nd – 8th

Come and join in on the fun with Game Night. It’s a great way to meet other game enthusiasts. Here is this week’s schedule:


Date: Weds.  Sept. 5th
Time: 6 pmPlace: 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.
TransAmerica
Rio Grande Games
At The Gates of Loyang
Z-Man Games

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Date: Fri. Sept 7th
Time: 6 pm
Place: Off The Charts Games Store

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



Asara
Ravensburger
Lancaster
Queen Games

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

While these are the featured games any of the games in our Demo Library are available for play while you are here.

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

Game Profile: Puerto Rico

 

Prospector, captain, mayor, trader, settler, craftsman, or builder?  Which role will you play in the New World.
 
 
Mechanics Variable Phase Order
Theme Economic
Publication Rio Grande Games/Ravensburger, 2002/2019
Ages 13+
Time 90 – 150
Players 2 – 5
 
Puerto Rico is one of those strategy games where you not only have to plan ahead, it is also critical to be aware of what your opponents are up to.  Each player’s turn starts with the selection of one of seven available roles.  Each role brings a unique advantage to the player selecting it, but allows all players to use that role in turn. Timing of when to select a particular role is critical.
 
Each player has a player board with twelve spaces for plantations and twelve spaces for buildings.  There are five different crops.  Each crop, except corn, must be paired with its matching production building to generate goods.  Goods can then be sold at the trading house
for money or placed on ships to earn victory points.  Money will be necessary to buy not only
production buildings, but also markets, warehouses and a variety of other buildings with added abilities for the player who owns them and populates them with colonists.  Colonists must also be on plantations for them to produce.  In addition to the four types of production buildings and twelve special buildings there are five large buildings whose sole function is to provide victory points at the end of the game.  Each building also has a victory point value.
 
Puerto Rico is one of those games that will have you coming back for more.  The first time you play, you will know you could play better.  There is just a lot to keep track of.  Timing in role
selection is significant.  Then all you to do is manage your buildings, your plantations, your colonists and your money better than everyone else.  There are many paths to victory and it would be fun to try them all.
 
The 2019 Edition adds the two expansions: New Buildings, and The Nobles.  The New Buildings expansion adds forests and 12 new small buildings and 2 large buildings.  The Nobles expansion adds 6 small buildings, 2 small pink Jeweler production building, a large Royal Garden building, and 20 noble tokens.  With the Nobles expansion, exhausting the colonists supply does not trigger the end of the game.  Nobles can be played anywhere and anytime as a colonist.  A noble acts the same as a colonist except as noted on some of the new buildings.  Nobles are worth game end victory points.
 
 
 
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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, White Mountain, Cobble Hill, and Dowdle.
 
We proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver area.

Game Goes “Off The Charts”: Mr. Jack

The elusive Mr. Jack found this secluded spot on the east side of Mt. Hood.  It was a great day for a game and a hike.




Mr. Jack
Asmodee









The game is afoot in this investigators vs Mr. Jack sleuth game.  Read our Game Profile- Mr. Jack to learn more about this game of deduction.

What a great day and a great spot for a relaxing game of Mr. Jack.  But wait, is that the elusive, Mr. Jack below sneaking away in disguise?

Continue to tune in for more games that go “Off The Charts”


Game Arrivals: Aug. 26th – Sept. 1st

This week’s arrivals include the following games:


Dominion: Dark Ages
Rio Grande Games

Rio Grande Games’ newest 500-card Expansion to Dominion has arrived.  In Dominion: Dark Ages there are new Kingdom cards as well as new bad cards to be given to your opponents, new cards to replace starting Estates, and cards you can get via specific other cards.




Munchkin Zombies 3:
Hideous Hideouts
Steve Jackson Games

Also newly released and arriving this week is this Expansion to Munchkin Zombies from Steve Jackson Games.   In Munchkin Zombies 3: Hideous Hideouts you will find places for more yummy brains and portals that will keep your hungry undead on the move as you hunt for tasty survivors.



Trajan
Ammonit Spiele

Newly released in the USA and arriving to our store this Friday is Trajan.  This is another Stefan Feld designed strategy game.  As with Stefan designed games there are many ways to score points.  Trajan is a development game set in 110 AD Rome.  It uses an interesting Mancala-type mechanism at the start of each players turn.  This movement of stones from one bowl and redistributed to the other bowls will determine what action a player will make.



Also back in stock are:
  • Adventures – The Pyramid of Horus
  • D&D Red Box Starter Set
  • Elder Sign
  • Last Night on Earth

Continue
to tune in for the latest in board games.

Come and visit our store. 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, and White Mountain.

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


Game Profile: TransAmerica

Railroads are booming!  Stay one step ahead.



Mechanics Network Building
Theme Railroads
Publication Rio Grande Games, 2001
Ages 13+
Time 30
Players 2 – 6
Description
TransAmerica is a fast-paced-track-laying game.  Each player tries to connect their five
cities scattered across the United States with a network of tracks.  Players may connect their networks to others
and then use the connected networks as their own.  As soon as a player has connected all of
their cities the round ends.  The other
players lose points for unconnected routes thereby moving their scoring marker
down the track towards zero.  The game
ends when at least one player’s locomotive score marker has reached zero
points.  The player with the least
penalty points wins.
Included in the edition
is the Vexation Expansion that adds a whole new layer of strategy. The game follows the
same rules as the basic game.  However,
in addition to shared railroad tracks, each player has 3 colored tracks that
can be placed to block routes from being used by other players.

We
have an open copy of TransAmerica available
in our Demo Games Library for you come in and try.



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check in for the latest in board 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, White Mountain, Cobble Hill, and
Dowdle.

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