New Game Arrivals: May 15th – 19th

New Games to Hit the Shelves This Week:

Skippity
Mindware Games

From Mindware Games comes this easy to learn and fast to play board game for kids 5 and older.

In Skippity fun is just a hop, skip and a jump away.  As the game begins, the board is nearly filled with colorful skippers.  Use straight-line leaps to capture and stack the skippers you hop over. Any skipper can be your jumping piece; they’re all fair game! Capture the colors you need while blocking your opponents from capturing the colors they need. When you have one of each color, it’s a set. The player with the most complete sets wins.

 Awards: 2010 Major Fun Award, Parent’s Choice Silver Award

Restocks This Week: 

Come in and see us for these great games.


At Off The Charts Games, we have a fabulous selection of family games, strategy games, Euro-style games, war games, card games, and dice games. We proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver area. 

Discover Board Games and Discover the Fun!

This Week’s Event Schedule: May 15th – 20th

Game Night this week is on Weds. night.
Also, please note we will be closing the store at 6 pm Friday night.


You don’t have to be an experienced player.  While you are here we will be happy to teach you the rules to get you started.  So, reserve a seat and come for a night of free, fun playing.


The Featured Games Are:


Weds. May 16th   6pm – 8pm


Alien Frontiers
Clever MoJo Games
Read our Alien Frontiers game profile to find out more about the game.
You can also watch this video for a game overview.

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Zooloretto
Rio Grande Games


Read our Zooloretto game profile to find out more about this family friendly game. 


You can also watch this instructional video to learn more.


Come in the store to sign up or send an email from our  Contact Us.  We look forward to having you join us on game night.


At Off The Charts Games, we have a fabulous selection of family games, strategy games, Euro-style games, war games, card games, and dice games. We proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver area. 
Discover Board Games and Discover the Fun!

Happy Mother’s Day

To All The Mom’s  and Mom’s To Be
Give Mom an enjoyable day of game play.  Our tables are available and we have a great selection of demo games to choose from.  We’ll be happy to teach you the rules and get you started.

Here is a small sampling of our demo copy games:
Bohnanza
Rio Grande Games
Cover Your Assets
Grandpa Becks Games

10 Days in Europe
Out of The Box Publishing

Fluxx
Looney Labs
Mr. Jack
Hurrican Games

Come on in to the store and play games.


At Off The Charts Games, we have a fabulous selection of family games, strategy games, Euro-style games, war games, card games, and dice games. We proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver area. 
Discover Board Games and Discover the Fun!

It’s A Piece O’ Cake for Mother’s Day


“A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.”  ~Tennevea Jordan

Here’s a great Mother’s Day treat
Piece O’ Cake ~ easy to learn ~ delicious to play game ~ high quality pie-shaped cake tiles.

Piece O’ Cake
Rio Grande Games

In this lite strategy game you will create 5 cakes each with eleven slices consisting of a combination from 8 flavors.  Each player will have a turn at being the “server” and dividing their cake as they wish. But keep in mind as the “server” you will get last choice of the divided up cake.  From each divided cake you will choose to either keep your slices or to eat them immediately. While eating them immediately guarantees a number of points, collecting them may score you bonus points if you have the most of that variety at the end of the game.  So grab a fork and let’s start eating cake!
Come on in we have a demo copy of
Piece O’ Cake open for you to try.  We’ll be happy to teach you the rules while you’re here in the store.  And, if you didn’t already know, we have tables available for you to sit and play not only 
Piece O’ Cake but any of the games on our demo copy shelf.


At Off The Charts Games, we have a fabulous selection of family games, strategy games, Euro-style games, war games, card games, and dice games. We proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver area. 
Discover Board Games and Discover the Fun!

Friday Night Game Play

May 11th – Tonight’s Featured Games starting at 6pm are:


Stone Age
Rio Grande Games



Stone Age – a worker placing, dice-rolling, don’t forget to feed the workers game.
Not familiar with the game?  Click on the link and read our Game Profile. 








Watch this video for an overview of Stone Age.

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Patrician
Mayfair Games
In Patrician you are a master builder competing to build the tallest tower in Italian cities. 
Not familiar with the game?  Click on the link and read our Game Profile. 

Watch this video for an overview Patrician.




You don’t have to be an experienced player.  So, reserve a seat or just pop in and play.


At Off The Charts Games, we have a fabulous selection of family games, strategy games, Euro-style games, war games, card games, and dice games. We proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver area. 
Discover board games and Discover the fun!

Spring Into Games with These

With Spring comes the start of local farmer’s markets.  Gresham’s Farmer’s Market begins May 12th and is located downtown between 2nd and 3rd street.  Mark your calendars and come to downtown, check out the local fare and when you’re here stop in and say hi and see what new games have arrived.


In keeping with the ‘farmers theme’ we carry these farming-themed games.  You will also find them open and on our demo shelves ready to be played.

Agricola
Z-Man Games

     In Agricola, you are farmers living in two-room wooden huts with an empty farmyard striving to improve your quality of life. Opportunities are plentiful during the course of the game to build up your home, improve your fields, and breed animals. You and your spouse may want to start a family. Doing so, gains you an extra action for each new member.  Just be careful not to start your family too soon or grow to big as you have to be able to feed them all at each Harvest stage.
     A game of Agricola consists of 6 stages which are divided into 14 rounds with a Harvest at the end of each stage.   At the end of the game, the winner is the farmer who has established the best farmyard. Running a farm has never been this exciting!





Agricola: Farmers
of the Moor Expansion
Z-Man Games

Already have Agricola?  Add the Farmers of the Moor expansion to enhance your game play.  This Agricola expansion adds a set of new improvements, forests, horses, and another requirement during the Harvest stage – fuel.  Besides feeding your family you must acquire fuel and heat your home.








At the Gates of Loyang
Z-Man Games
At the Gates of Loyang is the immediate predecessor to Agricola.
     After each harvest, you as framers meet at the gates of Loyang to trade your produce.  You make deliveries to your regular customers and sell vegetables to casual customers for lucrative profit.  But vegetables can also be bartered at market stalls or used as seed to plant new fields.  Helpers, each with different skills are available to assist you in your strategies and tactics.
     A game of At the Gates of Loyang is played over 9 rounds with 3 phases per round. The most successful farmer will be the one who makes the most progress on the Path of Prosperity within the given time frame.


The Farming Game
The Weekend Farmer Co.
     Harvest the fun with the strategy game invented in Goldendale, Washington on the seat of a tractor.
     In The Farming Game, you are farmers starting with 20 acres inherited from your Grandpa but no cash.  Since this isn’t a large enough farm to make a living for a family, you get a part-time job in town.  With each trip around the board you receive a year’s wages which you plow back into the farm.  Your dream is to build your farm large enough to be able to quit the job in town, come home to be your own boss, and farm full time.  If you can do that without going broke, you win the game.
     Put on some overalls ’cause it’s time to plow the back forty on your kitchen table!



So, come to downtown Gresham and you too can be a farmer.




At Off The Charts Games, we have a fabulous selection of family games, strategy games, Euro-style games, war games, card games, and dice games. We proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver area. 
Discover board games and Discover the fun!

This Week’s Game Events: May 9th – 11th

This week we have these strategy games scheduled for a night of free, fun playing.  
Our goal is to provide an opportunity for gamers to meet other gamers. Or, become a gamer.
You don’t have to be an experienced player.  So, reserve a seat and come play.


Weds. May 9th   6pm – 8pm
  We have Small World and Kingdom Builder

Small World
From: Days of Wonder
Kingdom Builder
From: Queen Games


Fri. May 11th   6pm – 8pm
We have Stone Age and Patrician

Stone Age
From: Rio Grande Games
Patrician
From: Mayfair Games

Come in the store to sign up or send an email from our  Contact Us.  We look forward to having you join us on game night.

At Off The Charts Games, we have a fabulous selection of family games, strategy games, Euro-style games, war games, card games, and dice games. We proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver area. 
Discover board games and Discover the fun!

This Just In: Catan Junior

We’re expanding our games aimed at young kids with this just in from Mayfair Games/ Catan Studios:

From Mayfair Games come this fun Catan game for kids ages 6+.


In Catan Junior kids are pirates going from island to island setting up their Pirate Camps that gain them valuable resources (called equipment cards).  Use these equipment cards (wood, barrels, swords, goats, and gold) to build additional ships, build Pirate camps, and purchase Coco Help Cards.  In order to get to the islands, players must build a chain of ships from island to island.  Players may also solicit the help of Coco the Parrot by purchasing Coco Help Cards and may trade their equipment cards with fellow players.  As you’re sailing along just beware of the Ghost Pirate as he will keep you from getting your valuable resources but drive him out and you’ll get to claim the Ghost Castle as yours.  Be the first player to build seven Pirate Camps and you’ll win.




At Off The Charts Games, we have a fabulous selection of family games, strategy games, Euro-style games, war games, card games, and dice games. We proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver area. We are here to help you discover the fun in board games.




News Flash: This Week’s Table Top Episode 3 Features Tsuro, Zombie Dice, and Get Bit

We bring you this week’s Table Top episode hosted by Star Trek’s Wil Wheaton on Felicia Day’s YouTube Channel Geek and Sundry.




This week three games are featured: Tsuro, Zombie Dice, and GetBit!
Wil’s guests are Rod Roddenberry, Ryan Higa, and Freddie Wong.  The interaction among these guys is funny and entertaining.    So, watch and see who has unbelievable luck or “magic” as Wil calls it.






Zombie Dice
Steve Jackson Games
Zombie Dice 2
Steve Jackson Games
Tsuro
Calliope Games



You can find Tsuro and Zombie Dice and Zombie Dice 2 available on our store shelves.



Continue to follow us on Facebook and/or here on our website where we’ll bring you the latest Table Top episode.


At Off The Charts Games, we have a fabulous selection of family games, strategy games, Euro-style games, war games, card games, and dice games. We proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver area. We are here to help you discover the fun in board games.




What’s Happening in Gresham

Jazz is Back! 


Downtown Gresham is having “Adventures in Jazz” this Saturday night from 7pm to 10pm.
Here’s who’s featured:
Tom Grant at Jazzy Bagel
Stan Bock & friends at Local Cow & Hoppy Brewer
Eddie Parente, Linda Hornbuckle, & Frank Tribble at Cafe Delirium
Randy Porter & Tom Wakeling at Boccelli’s
Paul Mazzio & friends at Asian Thai Bistro

It’s all free so come for some great jazz music and stop by and say hi on your way to the jazz.

At Off The Charts Games, we have a fabulous selection of family games, strategy games, Euro-style games, war games, card games, and dice games. We proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver area. We are here to help you discover the fun in board games.