Game Events: Week of Aug 26th – Sept.1st

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. Aug. 29nd
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.

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Date: Fri. Aug. 31st
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. 


7 Wonders
Asmodee
Dragon Valley
Diamond K 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: Star Trek The Original Series

Star Trek fans: Coming this fall from Bandai is Star Trek: The Original Series the third in their Star Trek Deck Building Games.

Star Trek: The Original Series
Deck Building Game
Bandai
Star Trek: The Original Series is designed to be played not only as a stand alone game but is also compatible to combine with the other two Editions – The Next Generation: Premier Edition and The Next Generation: Next Phase Edition.

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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 11 Features: Elder Sign



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.  Take a seat and let’s watch below as Wil and guests play a game of Elder Sign.


This week Wil’s guests; Felicia Day (actress, producer, writer), Bill Prady (co-creator, exec. producer, writer – Big Bang Theory), and Mike Morhaime (pres., co-founder – Blizzard Entertainment) work as a team in this cooperative card game of dice and insanity to defeat the Great Old One.  See who ends up carrying the team.






Elder Sign
Fantasy Flight Games

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: Week of August 19th – 25th

This week’s arrivals include the following games:

7 Wonders: Cities
Asmodee

Newly released is the 7Wonders Cities: Expansion. This expansion includes a new set of cards comprising of mercenaries, thieves, spies and diplomats that add another level to player interaction as well as two new Wonders and other goodies.


The Cities Expansion also offers a team-variant feature for up to 8 players.



From Zobomondo/Front 9 are these two dice games:

GoLo



GoLo is Golf in a cup.  The nine dice represent 9 holes and features eagles, birdies, pars, bogeys, and the dreaded “others”.  And just like real golf, there is pressure, decision making, and the total joy of going low.


GoLo is easy to learn and quick to play.










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Go500 Racing
Front 9 Inc.





Experience the thrill of racing action with Go500 Racing dice game. It’s a race to 500 miles, and the first driver there pulls into victory lane.  But to get there they’ll have to avoid crashes, pit stops, flat tires, caution lights, and the dreaded black flag.


Go500 is easy to learn and quick to play.













ARC: The Game
Tech Lab Games

Newly released from Tech Lab Games is ARC: The Game.

ARC is an “expandable card game” based on time travel designed for 2-4 players. Each player represents an Aeon: a time traveler with special abilities who can rift in and out of eras in time. “Eras” are cards that form a playing surface similar to a game board. Depending on which Aeon you choose, the Eras in the game will change. Your goal is to defeat all other Aeons so that you can control time and change the future how you and your allies see fit!

The first edition of ARC is comprised of five themed pre-constructed decks: Cyborg, Engineer, Mercenary, Politician and Purist. Each pre-constructed deck of 64 cards contains multiple copies of most cards included.

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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 August 19th – 25th

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.
Aug. 22nd
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. 

Tobago
Rio Grande Games
Ticket To Ride
Days of Wonder

Ticket To Ride was featured on an episode of Table Top hosted by Star Trek’s, Wil Wheaton.  Table Top features board games and is a bi-weekly YouTube series on Felicia Day’s YouTube channel, Geek.  If you are unfamiliar with the game Ticket To Ride, this episode is a great way to get a feel for the game.  Click here on Ticket To Ride to watch this Table Top episode posted on our website.

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Date: Fri. Aug. 24th
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. 

Airlines of Europe
Rio Grande Games
Maharani
Queen Games

We have not written a Game Profile on Maharani yet. In the meantime to get a feel for this newly released game you can watch this game overview video done at the 2012 Origins convention:




Remember, 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!

New Games Played

This week we had a chance to play 3 games that we had not played before.

Bull’s-eye  ~  Edo  ~ Africana







AFRICANA from Z-Man Games
Doug R. was kind enough to let us play his copy of AFRICANA.  This board game is one you can learn to play in minutes, but has enough going on to keep you coming back many times. The pace is fast and players get to travel to many cities in Africa completing and collecting artifacts.  Thank you Doug R.


You can read our Game Profile to learn more about this game – just click here on AFRICANA.


BULL’s-eye from DNA Family Games
The BULL’s-eye word game turns out to be an easy, fast paced game. Rounds are a minute long and score management takes on new meaning as players race to 100 points.  Designers Doug and Nilda Loriz put on an enthusiastic demo for us.


You can read our Game Profile to learn more about this game – just click here on BULL’s-eye.


EDO from Queen Games
We grabbed  EDO off our demo shelf and got a chance to experience its interesting planning system with game enthusiasts, Schel and Jessica. The game provides lots of options for actions and worker placement on every turn.  The minute this one got done we started thinking of the many ways we could have played better.


You can read our Game Profile to learn more about this game – just click here on EDO.




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At Off The Charts Games, we have a store full 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 Arrivals: Week of Aug 12th – 18th

This week’s arrivals include the following games:


Africana
Z-Man Games

New out from Z-Man Games is Africana.  Step back in time to the late 19th century where European nations set out to explore the secrets of the African continent.


Players travel from city to city completing multiple expeditions under contract.  Clever utilization of the travel routes and completion of many expeditions will yield the finances necessary to acquire adventure cards that contain valuable artifacts.


You can learn more about this game from our connecting here to our Game Profile: Afriana

Cthulhu Fluxx
Looney Labs



New out from Looney Labs is this card game that will drive you insane! 


“The Necronomicon has been stolen, a Farm is undergoing a horrifying Metamorphosis, and abominations stir in Penguin-riddled Tombs beneath the ice.  Will your curiosity lead you to inevitable Doom, or are you actually a secret Cultist?  Gaze upon the ever-changing face of madness with Cthulhu Fluxx.”












Diplomacy
Avalon Hill/Wizards of the Coast



Another classic board game hits our shelves.


Diplomacy challenges players to rely on their own cunning and cleverness, not dice, to determine the outcome of this game of conspiracies and conquest.


This is a classic game of international intrigue, trust, and treachery.












Also back in by popular demand:

  • Mr. Jack
  • Ticket to Ride: Alvin & Dexter
  • Last Night on Earth: The Zombie Game
  • Say Anything
Continue to tune in for the latest in board games.

At Off The Charts Games, we have a store full 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: Africana

Join an Expedition – – Travel  – – Complete the Expedition

 
Publisher: Z-Man Games, 2012
Players: 2 – 4
Time: 60 minutes
Mechanics Set Collection, Card Drafting, Point-to-Point Movement

Africana is a game set in 19th century Africa where European nations set out to explore the secrets of this continent.  Each player will represent a European nation.  Players will use travel cards to move about the board.  In the process
they will join and complete expeditions. Players can buy adventure cards that will require them to travel to a particular city to claim the artifact on that card.  The money to buy cards is awarded for joining expeditions, completing expeditions and claiming artifacts on adventure cards.

Africana is a 60-minute game with simple mechanics but requiring plenty of tactical decision-making. Players must manage their travel cards and their money supply to be able to purchase adventure cards that match well with the ever-changing expedition
cards as they become available.  Completed expeditions are replaced by new expeditions until the expedition card deck is exhausted.  Final scores include points for completed expeditions, claimed adventure cards, plus points for collecting sets of artifacts. Excess coins can also be resold for points at the end of the game.  The player with the most points wins.

 

We have an open copy of Africana available in our Store Demo Library for you come in and try out.

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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, and Cobble Hill.
 
We proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver area

Game Events: Week of Aug. 12th – 18th

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.  Aug. 17th
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. 


Edo
Queen Games
Trollhalla
Z-Man 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: Edo

An extraordinary strategy game involving an interesting planning mechanism.


Mechanics Worker Placement, Resources Management, Simultaneous Action
Selection
Theme Japan 1603 – 1868
Publication Queen Games, 2012
Ages 12+
Time 60
Players 2 – 4
Description
Edo is a worker placement and resource management
game set in Japan in the years 1603 to 1868. 
Players use a unique planning system at the start of each turn.  This involves secretly selecting three actions
out of a possible twelve actions to perform and placing them on a player
planning board.  During this planning phase
players assign their workers to each of their selected actions which will determine
how many times they will be able to perform the actions.  Each player starts the game with four workers
(officials).  Some of the possible
actions include: ◙ allowing players to move a worker from their planning board
to the main board as a Samurai; ◙ allowing players to obtain additional workers
for their planning board.  Some actions
require the pairing of workers on a players’ planning board with Samurais on
the game board before they can be performed. The primary function of a player’s
workers and Samurais is to obtain necessary resources for construction of houses,
trading posts, and fortresses, and for feeding their Samurais.  Each building type requires a combination of
resources and money to construct.  Points
are awarded for the construction of each type of building.  Buildings can be constructed in any of the various
cities including Edo. Each city yields different levels of income at the end of
each round based on the number and type of buildings within that city.  Points and resources can also be gained
through trading with a roving merchant. The first player to gain 12 victory
points through building and trading will be the winner.

We have an open copy of Edo is available in our Store Demo Library for you come in and try out.


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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, and Cobble Hill.

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