News Flash: This Week’s Table Top Episode 4 Features Ticket To Ride

Alas,  Wil Wheaton does not have a Table Top Episode to entertain us with this week.  But do tune in next week as he will feature the game Munchkin. Until then enjoy this Ticket To Ride Gag Reel Table Top Episode No. 4.




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Come see us for the latest in board games.  At Off The Charts Gameswe 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.

New Game Arrivals: May 22nd – 27th

Just released from Queen Games is this Expansion to Kingdom Builder.

Kingdom Builder Nomads
Queen Games
Kingdom Builder Nomads not only expands your base game of Kingdom Builder  to 5 players but adds even more variation.  Included are four more game boards with five types of nomad tiles, four new types of locations, and three new Kingdom Builder cards that give you the chance to earn gold.

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Finca
Rio Grande Games

Finca is a family friendly game with a cool-looking board and great components.

Players take the roles of Mallorcan farmers, who strive to harvest as many of the island’s tropical fruits: figs, almonds, olives, oranges, grapes, and lemons, as possible.  The players deliver their harvested fruits to the island communities, which have constantly changing requirements during the course of the game.  For these delivers, the players receive victory points.  In the end, the player with the most victory points is the winner.

We have a demo copy of Finca open for you to try.  While you are here in the store we’ll be happy to show you the game and explain the rules.

RESTOCKS This Week Include:

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At Off The Charts Gameswe 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.


Expanding The Demo Game Library: Dragon Valley

Dragon Valley
Diamond K Games
Dragon Valley is open and available in our demo area.



We sat down and played this cool looking board game.  And, cool we found it to be.  If you are looking for something different, this may be right up your alley.  It’s a little castle defense, a little go battle the bad guys, and a little charge ahead and lay siege to the Orc’s homeland.  Each can yield victory points.

There are 2 key elements to the game.  One is the division on each turn of the “stuff” – the King’s Aid Cards, Buildings, and a mix of Friendly Units (knights, archers, trebuchets) and Enemy Units (battering rams, orcs, dragons). The second is how best to maximize your armies and buildings to score victory points while combating the advancing enemies.


Come in and see us for Dragon Valley.  While you’re here in the store we’ll be happy to walk you through the rules.



Continue to  tune in for the latest in board games. At Off The Charts Gameswe 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.


More Game Arrivals: May 15th – 19th

The Games Keep Coming In.  This shipment has something for everyone:

The Adventurers: The Pyramid of Horus
From: Fantasy Flight Games

Deep in the Egyptian desert, an ancient pyramid has just been discovered.  Hieroglyphics near the entrance indicate it was built to honor the falcon-headed god Horus, but they also speak of a cult worshiping the evil god Seth. Eight brave adventurers are preparing to explore the pyramid’s secrets…and its dangers!

In The Adventurers: The Pyramid of Horus, each player takes control of one of eight adventurers represented in the game by a figure and a card.  These skilled Adventurers are ready to take any risk to overcome the dangers waiting inside the Pyramid of Horus and grab as many archaeological relics as they can carry.  The player whose Adventurer escapes alive with the most treasure is the winner.

Save Doctor Lucky
From: Paizo

Save Doctor Lucky is a family board game of high-seas heroism. It is also a stand alone prequel to Kill Doctor Lucky.

Doctor Lucky is a charismatic and well-respected
philanthropist with a heart of gold. Of course, you secretly hate the old
bastard, and you’re probably going to try to kill him someday. But killing him
aboard a sinking ship would be pointless. So you’ve decided to save his life
instead, and do it while someone else is looking. That way, even if you go down
with the ship, you’ll at least go down in history.
And isn’t that what life is all about?

In Save Doctor Lucky, players are passengers on a
sinking ship. You have one goal: to save Doctor Lucky’s life while someone else
is watching. Players rush from deck to deck trying to find items that will aid
them, and trying not to see anyone else who might play the hero. But as the
ship sinks, the board grows smaller, bringing Doctor Lucky and the passengers
together into the few remaining decks.




Tomb: Cryptmaster
From: AEG

Tomb pits opponents against one
another in a fast paced board game of monsters, traps, and treasures. After
assembling your party from a plethora of random characters in the Inn, you set
out into the Tomb. The Tomb is created as the game begins, with each player
hiding treasure, traps, and monsters in each crypt, unknown to the other
players. Do you remember where you left the chest of gold? Better hope your
opponent didn’t put a Pain Eater in the same crypt! No rogues at the Inn today?
Hope you don’t run into a poison dart trap! Tomb captures the fast-paced feel
of a dungeon crawl without the hours of set up before hand. Just grab your
party and go.
 

Each character brings unique
abilities, and with the map changing every game as well as the available
characters, no two games will ever be the same.

The Ladybug
From: Zobmondo
The Ladybug
Game
is designed for interactive play between parents and kids. To enhance the game experience a lively introductory story about the adventures of four
ladybugs – Ella Yellow, Rickie Red, Tommy Teal and Olivia Orange can be read to the players before starting the game.

In The Ladybug Game players help the ladybugs find their way back home (a rosebush) after a
windstorm launches them airborne and they land on a faraway dirt pile. The
first ladybug to find her way “home” is the winner. Along the way, the ladybugs
encounter various hazards such as tall grass, praying mantis’, aphids and ants.

Shake ‘n Take
From: Out of the Box Publishing

Shake ‘n Take a fun family game is a fast and frantic search for Aliens. Each player (Alien Hunter) has their own alien game board.  The Alien Hunters each roll their Shape Die and then quickly capture aliens that have the shape which was rolled. As soon as an Alien Hunter has rolled their Shape Die another player begins shaking the Shaker Egg.  The object of the game is to capture as many aliens as you can before the Alien face appears on the top surface of the die within the Shaker Egg.  The first Alien Hunter to capture all of their aliens is the winner.



At Off The Charts Gameswe 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. 
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News Flash: This Week’s Table Top Episode Features Ticket To Ride

Pull up a chair and get ready for this week’s Table Top Episode hosted by Star Trek’s, Wil Wheaton on Felicia Day’s YouTube Channel, Geek and Sundry.


Ticket To Ride is the featured board game this week.  Watch as Wil  and guests, his wife Anne, Colin Ferguson (actor – Eureka), and Amy Dallen (friend and fellow comic book nerd) have a hilarious time.




 
Ticket To Ride: 1910 

Expansion Deck


Add more destinations


to your Ticket To Ride


base game.



















Ticket To Ride
From: Days of Wonder

























Ticket To Ride is also available in these other editions:

Come in and see us for these great Ticket To Ride games.   We also have a demo copy open for you to try.  We’ll be happy to teach you the rules while you’re here in the store.

At Off The Charts Gameswe 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!

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 Gameswe 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. 

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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 Gameswe 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. 
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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 Gameswe 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. 
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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 Gameswe 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. 
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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 Gameswe 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!