New Arrivals of Children’s Games

In this week are these additional super fun children’s board games:

Whoowasit? – Reveal the secrets of the talking animals and find the thief.  A magical chess contains intelligent electronics that ensure the game is different and exciting every time.

Mystery Garden – The “Guess What I See” game. Enter Mystery Garden with all of its fascinating scenery and various magical inhabitants.

Sherlock Deluxe –  The card game where memory and deduction are “Elementary”!

Race To The Roof –  Get ready for this exciting game of pursuit where no two games are alike.  Can you make it to the attic before anyone else?  Parents’ Choice Gold Award.

For these and other fun and exciting strategy games, family games, and puzzles  come and visit us at at Off The Charts Games!  We are located at 30 NW 2nd Street, in Downtown Gresham.  We proudly serve the Gresham, and the greater Portland and Vancouver areas.

In This Week Two Strategy Games About Portugal

Macao, the mysterious harbor city on the south coast of China, is the Portuguese trading center in the far east at the end of the 17th century.  In this game, players take on the roles of the energetic adventurers who sought their fortunes in Macao.  Whether as captain or governor, as craftsman or scholar, numerous exciting functions are offered.  Who will use his various possible actions the wisest?  Who will have the best plan and can acquire the most prestige by the end of the game?

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Interested in wine-making? Vintage is a game for anyone who is interested in making their own wine. This game is about the Douro River Valley of Portugal, the oldest demarcated wine producing region in the world, designated World Heritage, and the production of port wine.  In the game, you will attempt to buy wine-growing estates and plant them with the best grape varieties to try and produce the highest quality port wine – a Vintage.

Other games arriving this week include:

A Game of Thrones: The Card Game – When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die.  There is no middle ground.

Lord of the Rings Adventure Packs: Hunt for Gollum -and- Hills of Enyn Muil

Munchkin Expansion Packs 

Have you Herd? – a fascinating and highly addicting animal dice game.

For these and other fun and exciting strategy games, family games, and puzzles  come and visit us at at Off The Charts Games!  We are located at 30 NW 2nd Street, in Downtown Gresham.  We proudly serve the Gresham, and the greater Portland and Vancouver areas.

This Just In Star Trek Expeditions and More

Star Trek Expeditions:   A Cooperative Mission Game designed by award winning game designer Reiner Knizia.
 

Play as Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Uhura as the U.S.S. Enterprise enters orbit around the planet Nibia. You find the President of Nibia less happy to see you than the invitation suggested, and Mr. Spock has detected evidence that another starship may have recently been in orbit.

You must lead your away team down to the planet’s surface and discover what has changed Nibia’s relationship with the Federation, and unravel the mysteries of Nibia! 

Ready your phasers, and prepare to beam down!

Also in are these All “Star” games:

Star Fluxx – From Looney Labs; “Just when you thought that Fluxx had gone as far as it could go – it blasts off for the Stars!”

Survive: Escape from Atlantis –  An underwater volcano has erupted and the island of Atlantis is sinking into the sea! Unless the people of Atlantis escape in time, all the inhabitants are doomed! Get to safety via boat, but watch for the sea serpents, sharks, and whales.

Nuns on the Run – The novices are on the loose! Temptation has lured them out of their cells, and they hope not to be caught by the abbess and the prioress. But the guards are swift and their hearing is excellent, so it will take craftiness and a bit of luck in order to make it back to their beds without being caught!

Kinder Bunnies – A “Hare” raising good time for young children.  Kinder Bunnies is loaded with colorful animals characters, activities and interactive game play.



For fun and exciting strategy games, family games, and puzzles in Gresham and in the greater Portland and Vancouver area please come and see us at Off The Charts Games!  We are located at 30 NW 2nd Street, in Downtown Gresham.

Just in Time for Halloween this Frightenly Fun Game:

From Z-Man  Games comes this zombie game based on Robert Kirkman’s comic book series:

“Enter the world of Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead! Become a player and take on the role of a survivor in a world suddenly full of zombies. With only one companion at the start of the game, each player must struggle to gather resources, find other survivors, and eventually find a refuge from the zombies . . .”

Also in are these All “Star” games:

Star Trek Expeditions – A cooperative mission game designed by award winning game designer Reiner Knizia.

Star Fluxx – From Looney Labs; “Just when you thought that Fluxx had gone as far as it could go – it blasts off for the Stars!”

Survive: Escape from Atlantis –  An underwater volcano has erupted and the island of Atlantis is sinking into the sea! Unless the people of Atlantis escape in time, all the inhabitants are doomed! Get to safety via boat, but watch for the sea serpents, sharks, and whales.

Nuns on the Run – The novices are on the loose! Temptation has lured them out of their cells, and they hope not to be caught by the abbess and the prioress. But the guards are swift and their hearing is excellent, so it will take craftiness and a bit of luck in order to make it back to their beds without being caught!

Kinder Bunnies – A “Hare” raising good time for young children.  Kinder Bunnies is loaded with colorful animals characters, activities and interactive game play.

For fun and exciting strategy games, family games, and puzzles in Gresham and in the greater Portland and Vancouver area please come and see us at Off The Charts Games!  We are located at 30 NW 2nd Street, in Downtown Gresham.

This Just In: Wasabi and others

Come in and see the games new in this week one of which is Wasabi.

An excerpt from the makers describe the game as follows:

“In Wasabi! you and the other players are apprentice chefs competing to assemble your quota of unique sushi recipes in a rapidly dwindling space.  Draw a variety of delicious ingredients into your hand from the pantry and play them one at a time onto the board, building off of other previously-placed ingredients in the attempt to complete recipes of varying difficulty…. Completing a recipe with style will earn you bonus points, but you might not always have the time to set up such stylish maneuvers…balancing speed with technique will be crucial if you plan to win the game!”

Other great games that arrived this week include:

K2 – Standing in the blazing sun, you look down to where your tent awaits you. But to reach it, you must go through the blizzard raging on the toughest stretch. Can you do it?

Gobblet – Gobble up, line up and win!

Guillotine – The revolutionary card game where you win by getting a head.

Zombies!!! – This one’s a No-Brainer!

 Please come in and visit us at Off The Charts Games and see this weeks’ arrival of new games.

Discovering Thunderstone

Here is Jake and Dad, Ben, long time Dominion players discovering Thunderstone Dragonspire the fantasy themed deck building card game.

We have Dragonspire open and available for play.  You can find this great game and other Thunderstone game expansions available in our store.

For fun and exciting strategy games, family games, and puzzles in the greater Portland and Vancouver area please come in and see us at Off The Charts Games! We are located at 30 NW 2nd Street, in Downtown Gresham.

Oregon Live Covers Off The Charts Games

Hey everyone, Off The Charts Games also made it into the Oregonian.  Read the fabulous article that April Choi wrote for the Oregonian about our exciting board game store.

Despite being open for only a few weeks, they already have some regulars. 

“We’ve been open four weeks, and they’re coming in every week,” Ron Brown said. “We order weekly. One of our goals is to have something new all the time.”

SRC:  Oregon Live

Please come in and see our selection of games at Off The Charts Games

Off The Charts Games article in the Gresham Outlook

See the wonderful article about our retail store in the Gresham Outlook.  Special thanks to The Outllook’s Anne Endicott and Jim Clark for the story and picture.
Below is a short excerpt from the article:

“There’s a large portion of people who still play board games,” said Ron Brown, who together with wife, Lynn, recently opened Off the Charts Games in Gresham. “You’re connecting with people, interacting, talking and laughing. You can see when you do well. Board games are a great way to sit down after a long week and have a good time.”

SRC: Gresham Outlook

Please come in and see our selection of games at Off The Charts Games

This Just In: Back to the Future The Card Game

Our aim at Off The Charts Games is to continually bring you new products. Just arrived this week is Back to the Future The Card Game.
An excerpt from the rules describes the game as follows:

“In this game you are a time traveler, a descendant of one of the characters in the Back to the Future movies. Unfortunately, other time travelers have been tampering with events in your past, endangering your very existence. You must put things back in the ways that seem right to you, then stop Doc Brown from ever inventing time travel, which will freeze reality the way tyou need it to be, once and for all.

The game is played entirely with cards, but has the feel of a board game since important events are represented by a special grid of 24 cards called the TimeLine.”

Another great game from Looney Labs, the makers of Fluxx and Seven Dragons.

Please come in and visit us at Off The Charts Games and see our new games that came in this week.

Game Profile: Carcassonne

A simple & clever tile laying game that brings new challenges with every turn.

Mechanics Tile Placement
Theme Medieval
Publication Z-Man Games, 2000
Ages 8+
Time 45
Players 2 – 5
Description
In Carcassonne, players
develop an area around the city by placing land tiles. Each turn the area
becomes larger as the players expand and add roads, fields, cities, and
cloisters. Players may also deploy their followers as thieves, farmers,
knights, and monks to control and score points for the roads, farms, cities,
and cloisters. As the players have only a few followers; the wise player will
plan his moves carefully and deploy followers when and where they can earn the
most points.

The game now includes the River and the Abbot mini expansions.  The River gives you a new place to start. The Abbot brings gardens and provides for more scoring options.


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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, TDC, White Mountain, and Cobble Hill.


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