Christmas Must Have: White Elephant The Card Game

The classic White Elephant gift exchange is now simulated in this classic holiday game.


It’s the classic cheapskate dilemma…you have three people on your Christmas list and an aversion to opening your pocketbook.  Luckily you will be attending several White Elephant gift exchange parties where, if you “play your cards right,” you can swap some junk you found in the attic for re-giftable treasures.  Viola!  You fill your gift list for free – the ultimate cheapskate victory. Great Uncle Irwin may just be getting that Fish Pitcher that gurgles when you pour!


Come in for this great holiday game and others at Off The Charts Games.  We are located in Historic Downtown Gresham at 30 NW 2nd Street.



Just In Time For The Holidays These Games and more…

Kingdom Builder:  Who will have the most powerful kingdom at the end of the game?

Do you have what it takes to colonize a new world?  Welcome to the prize of mankind’s explorations, a newly discovered world deep in uncharted space – Alien Frontiers

Curtains up for the opening night!  Being a Show Manager you invest money for your shows, engage the cast for your productions and try to avoid miscasts. Choose which city to stage your show  and celebrate your biggest triumphs or suffer your worst crashes.
Risk: Metal Gear Solid – Tactical  Espionage  Action

Also in and on our shelves are:

  • A Few Acres of Snow – an innovative war game
  • A Game of Thrones: Board Game (2nd Edition) – Plays out the war for Westeros and the claim to the Iron Throne.
  • Belfort – You’ve got Dwarves, Elves, No Gnomes, a handful of supplies, and 7 months to prove that you’re the best builder in Belfort. Now get out there and win!
  • Cowabunga – Catch a wave in this brand new card game of ups and downs!  If you can finish the the game with least amount of wipeouts, you’ll be the big Cow-huna!
Wander in and see all these games and more with a wide of  board games, card games, dice games, and puzzles at Off The Charts Games.  We are located in Historic Downtown Gresham at 30 NW 2nd Street.

New for 2011 and Just In: These fabulous games

Embark on an incredible adventure with this Ticket Ride Map Collection Asia an expansion to Ticket To Ride or Ticket To Ride Europe.  Ride the rails on the Team Asia Map or on the Legendary Asia Map.

 Also out is Hinterlands, the sixth addition to the game Dominion.

Discover Undermining, a great family strategy game where players take on the role of rival miners, hollowing out an alien world in their MTV’s.

Wander in and see these and games and the variety of other board games, card games, dice games, and puzzles at Off The Charts Games.  We are located in Historic Downtown Gresham at 30 NW 2nd Street.

New Release for 2011 and Just In: Undermining!

In 2247 an incredible discovery was made.  Buried within an asteroid hurling through space, are the remains of an ancient alien spacecraft.  As a small mining corporation, you can’t pass up this golden opportunity to expand your company and become wealthy!  Mine beneath the surface of the asteroid, exploit the resources to build upgrades, or fill contracts for star bucks!  Outmaneuver your opponents in your Universal Mining Vehicle and discover alien technologies to aid your in your conquests!  Undermining is a fantastic family stratey game.
Also back in stock is the Multi-Award-winning game: Caylus.
 It’s 1289. To strengthen the borders of the Kindom of France, King Phillip has decided to have a new castle built in the humble village of Caylus. Around the building site a city is slowly rising up. The players are master builders. By building the King’s castle and the city around it, they earn prestige points and gain the King’s favor. When the castle is finished the player who has earned the most prestige points wins the game.


For these and other great games come visit us at Off The Charts Games.  We are located in Historic Downtown Gresham at 30 NW 2nd Street.

A great line-up of games in this week!

 Jet in this week and check out these three great board games from Wattsalpoag Games of Bellevue, Washington:
  • Jet Set – Can you run an International Airline? This economic game will make a world traveler out of you.  Watch the video below.
  • Last Call – Hey, Bartender make me a highball quick!
  • Claim It! – Stake your claim.  It’s gold fever in this claim-jumping game.

These games also hit the shelves this week:
  • Pandemic – A cooperative game where the fate of humanity is in your hands!
  • Tobago – The adventure begins when you assemble the modular board into one of 32 different scenarios.  This is a fabulous family game and winner of the 2010 BoardGameGeek Golden Best Family Game.
  • Quarriors! – The dice game of uber strategic hexahedron monster combat mayhem! 
You can get a look at Quarriors! in this video from this year’s Essen Game Fair Convention

Come in and find out more about this line up of Just In Games at Off The Charts Games.  We are located in Historic downtown Gresham at 30 NW 2nd Street.

Who’s new in Gresham? Come see us and other exciting new businesses at the Fall Chamber Expo!

We’d love to see you at today’s Gresham Chamber of Commerce New Businesses Fall Expo.  We will be showcasing a variety of our board games along side other new businesses that have recently set up shop in Gresham.  It doesn’t cost you to attend so come see who’s here.  The event is from 4:30 pm to 7:00 pm this evening at St. Henry’s Catholic Church Gymnasium at 346 NW 1st Street.

If you can’t make the Expo event then stop in at the store and Ron will happily give you a tour of the games.  At Off The Charts Games we have a fabulous selection of strategy, family, card, and dice games.  We are located at 30 NW 2nd Street in Historic Downtown Gresham.

Just In This Week: Kingsburg and …

Discover this great strategy game, Kingsburg. An excerpt from the game manufacturer – Fantasy Flight Games describes the game as:

“Combining many of the best elements of European and American board game design styles, Kingsburg has been praised for its clever use of dice and its high level of player interaction. Though dice-rolling is a significant mechanic of the game, the presence of luck never feels arbitrary or excessive. Rather, the game encourages players to apply their dice rolls strategically, in ways that simultaneously benefit themselves and vex their opponents. And while a card-drawing mechanic determines the nature and difficulty of yearly NPC enemies (these enemies must be faced by each player individually, and failure against them can cause major setbacks), players can “scout the draw” in advance by influencing the right advisor. This means that players who have devoted resources to acquiring this valuable intelligence can adequately prepare for the coming onslaught while their opponents languish in ignorance… or they can bluff, exaggerating the threat and compelling their opponents to overspend!”

SRC: Fantasy Flight Games

Another fun game just in is Martian Dice where you Swoop, Scoop, and Score! You are the Martians coming to earth to abduct Humans, Cows, and Chickens.  
Catch this video review by Reviews Without Pants.
For the Dungeons and Dragons Enthusiasts is this third in a series of board games by Wizards of the Coast The Legend of Drizzt:  
The adventures of Drizzt Do’Urden, as told in the New York Times best-selling Forgotten Realms novels by R.A. Salvatore, come to life in this thrilling board game. Take on the role of the legendary drow ranger or one of his famous adventuring companions, battle fearsome foes, and win treasure and glory.

Catch a game play video by Wizard of the Coast.
For these and other fun-tastic games come in and visit us at Off The Charts Games. We are located in the historic downtown Gresham at 30 NW 2nd St., Gresham, OR 97080

New Portland game inventor hits the beach!

We support local game inventors!  In this week is Mermaid Beach invented by Portland’s Emily Ehlers.

An excerpt from Oregon Lives’s article covering Emily and how she invented this fun new game

“On her 12th birthday this year, Emily Ehlers, a seventh-grader at West Sylvan Middle School, received a mysterious package from Massachusetts.
“I had a small suspicion that it was my game, so I opened it.” She beams, the delight of the moment still evident.
Inside the package was a game, Mermaid Beach. She had dreamed up the ocean-themed card game when she was in third grade. Four years later there it was, professionally produced and packaged by Gamewright, maker of popular family games like Slamwich, Rat-a-Tat Cat and Sleeping Queens. She was officially a game inventor.”

“Emily and her family spent her third-grade year sailing a boat down the East Coast of the United States and on to the Bahamas. She and her brothers, Jake and Drew, were home-schooled for the year. They spent time playing games, including Sleeping Queens, Emily’s favorite. “When I found out it was invented by a girl, I wanted to do that too,” she says.” 

 SRC: Oregon Live

Other games by local inventor’s that you can find in our store are:

For these and other fun-tastic games come in and visit us at Off The Charts Games. We are located in the historic downtown Gresham at 30 NW 2nd St., Gresham, OR 97080.