Today, March 8, 2020 is International Women’s Day and we want to recognize women who have had a hand in designing great games.
Inka Brand – along with her husband Markus have jointly
developed and published over 40 games with several being award winners. A few of their games include:
Kristin Looney –
along with her husband founded Looney Labs through which they created and publish the Fluxx card games.
Susan McKinley Ross – founded Idea Duck that designs creative low-tech products
for children and families. Her award
winning game first published in 2006 is still going strong.
Karen Seyfarth – German-style
board game designeralong with her game designer husband Andreas
created:
Thurn
and Taxis
Lisa
Bowman-Steenson – raised in Sweet Home Oregon and currently living in Washington.
Through her company Gut Bustin’ Gamesshe
has created and published humorous games such as:
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Come and visit us at30 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 jigsaw puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality jigsaw puzzles from Ravensburger, Pomegranate, Cobble Hill, and White Mountain.
After lengthy discussions, we are going to suspend game night activity – effective immediately. It is due to the fact that the Coronavirus is now in the Portland area that we feel the need to take a proactive move. While we cannot contain the spread of the virus, we can choose to minimize our role in the potential spread. We love over gaming community and want to keep all of you as safe as possible.
Off The Charts Games will continue to be open during normal business hours. People may really want a new game or new puzzle if we are all going to be spending more time at home. Our sincere hope is that the virus will be contained in the U.S.A. in a short period of time and we can get back to running game events. We are monitoring the situation daily and will keep you informed as we move forward.
Thank you for your understanding.
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Come and visit us at30 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 jigsaw puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality jigsaw puzzles from Ravensburger, Pomegranate, Cobble Hill, and White Mountain.
Come and join in on the fun at our weekly Weds and Friday Board Game Nights. It’s a great way to meet other game enthusiasts and to try out some games. Our store has a bright and cheery atmosphere perfect for an afternoon or evening of game play.
Our Games Library has a wide variety of games available for play while you are here. It’s free and it’s fun! No experience is necessary. We are happy to teach you the rules and get you started. Choose from our library of games or bring in your own games to play.
Here is this week’s schedule:
Board Game Night
Date: Weds. Mar. 3rd
Place: Off The Charts Games Store
Weds. Suggested Games To Try
Here are 2 suggested game picks from our Games Library for you to try. One is aimed at those who want a light strategy game and the other is aimed at those who would like a more challenging strategy game. No experience is necessary! We are happy to teach you the rules and get you started.
To learn more about each suggested board game click on the game name below it’s picture.
Here are 2 suggested game picks from our Games Library for you to try. One is aimed at those who want a light strategy game and the other is aimed at those who would like a more challenging strategy game. No experience is necessary! We are happy to teach you the rules and get you started.
To learn more about each suggested board game click on the game name below it’s picture.
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 jigsaw puzzles from Ravensburger, Pomegranate, White Mountain, and Cobble Hill.
We proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver area.
Here’s a look at the new games that came in this week:
Tiny Towns AEG
Tiny Towns Fortune is the first expansion to the base game Tiny Towns, a one to six-player game of building your tiny town. Amp up your game with new buildings, monuments, and coins. Earn coins by constructing multiple buildings at once which in turn are necessary to construct certain other buildings. Certain buildings and monuments when constructed also provide coins.
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Greetings From Grandville Ravensburger
Adding to our kids selection of games is Greetings From Grandville, a two to four-player colorful sight-seeing game aimed at kids six and up that plays in 20 minutes. Walk, bike, or take the bus or the subway around town to gather sight-seeing destination cards. Be the first to gather four destinations and win the game.
Greetings From Grandville
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Two more games added to our kids games section are these two tile games:
Keys To The Castle Keys To The Ice Castle Outset Media
Both Keys To The Castle and Keys To The Ice Castle are a light strategy tile game aimed at ages 8 and above that play in 10 to 20 minutes.
Keys To The Castle is door flipping madness. Race against your fellow knights through the castle, where behind every door awaits a surprise. By opening and locking doors (the tiles), be the first to cross the precarious maze to the other side.
Keys To The Ice Castle plays the same as Keys To The Castle but features a “frozen” theme, different characters, and a wand card that allows you to move another player.
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Come and visit us at30 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 jigsaw puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality jigsaw puzzles from Ravensburger, Pomegranate, Cobble Hill, and White Mountain.
This week boxes and boxes and more boxes of jigsaw puzzles arrived from Ravensburger, Pomegranate, and Cobble Hill.
Come in and check our great selection.
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Continue to check in for the latest in board games.
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Come and visit us at30 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 jigsaw puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality jigsaw puzzles from Ravensburger, Pomegranate, Cobble Hill, and White Mountain.
Come and join in on the fun at our weekly Weds and Friday Board Game Nights. It’s a great way to meet other game enthusiasts and to try out some games. Our store has a bright and cheery atmosphere perfect for an afternoon or evening of game play.
Our Games Library has a wide variety of games available for play while you are here. It’s free and it’s fun! No experience is necessary. We are happy to teach you the rules and get you started. Choose from our library of games or bring in your own games to play.
Here is this week’s schedule:
Board Game Night
Date: Weds. Feb. 26th
Place: Off The Charts Games Store
Weds. Suggested Games To Try
Here are 2 suggested game picks from our Games Library for you to try. One is aimed at those who want a light strategy game and the other is aimed at those who would like a more challenging strategy game. No experience is necessary! We are happy to teach you the rules and get you started.
To learn more about each suggested board game click on the game name below it’s picture.
Here are 2 suggested game picks from our Games Library for you to try. One is aimed at those who want a light strategy game and the other is aimed at those who would like a more challenging strategy game. No experience is necessary! We are happy to teach you the rules and get you started.
To learn more about each suggested board game click on the game name below it’s picture.
Our Games Library has a wide variety of games available for play while you are here. It’s free and it’s fun! No experience is necessary. We are happy to teach you the rules and get you started. Choose from our library of games or bring in your own games to play.
Come Play ~ ~~It’s Free ~ ~~ It’s Fun!
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 jigsaw puzzles from Ravensburger, Pomegranate, White Mountain, and Cobble Hill.
We proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver area.
Here’s a look at the exciting games that came in recently:
Hats ThunderGryph Games
New from ThunderGryph Games is Hats, a Mad Hatter 2-player (or 4 players played in teams) set collection card game.
You have an invitation at 5 pm at the Mad Hatter’s garden. The table is ready, the cookies taste like buttery heaven, and the tea is strong and spicy. More sugar? The Mad Hatter gives you a bizarre look. “Yes pl...” Time’s up! He interrupts you. Sugar, cookies, and millions of hats fly everywhere. Tea spills all over the tablecloth as he proceeds with a huge smile on his face.
It’s time to play a game!
Hats
In Hats, players compete to acquire the most outstanding hats by exchanging cards in hand with cards on the tea table board. Each card exchange influences how each hat is scored. Players earn points for the hat cards in their collection based on the position of the matching type on the tea table board. If there are two or more hat cards on the tea table board of the same type, keep face up only the card with the lowest plate value, while turning all other cards of that type face down. Each player reveals the final card in their hand as their “favorite hat” type. Players gain points equal to the sum of all cards in their collection that match the type of their “favorite hat” minus the value of the final card in their hand.
Also, having the most different types of hats at the end of the game awards you the last cookie worth 5 bonus points. The player with the highest final score will be declared the maddest.
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Old West Empresario Tasty Minstrel Games
Old West Empresario is a town-building game with dice drafting and engine building mechanics for 2 to 4 players. Players take on the role of an Empresario, building a prosperous town in newly settled western territories. They will need to attract settlers through clever dice drafting and tile placement.
Watch TMG’s video to learn more about Old West Empresario
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New from Renegade Games are these three new games:
Gloomy Graves Renegade Games
In Gloomy Grave, 2 to 4 players work as a gravediggers in this dark fantasy world card game. Players will need to fill their personal crypt with 5 types of corpses. the object is to match those with the same type of corpse in the communal graveyard. Players add to both their personal crypt and the communal graveyard on each turn. Both your crypt and the communal graveyard have specific rules of placement. The corpses of pixies, goblins, unicorns, cyclops, and dragon have begun to pile up, so out got your work cut out for you. Only the clever gravedigger will rule the Gloomy Graves.
Stellar Renegade Games
Stellar is a strategic 2-player card game in which you are stargazers, calibrating your telescopes to bring into view celestial objects of various types: planets, moons, asteroids, interstellar clouds, black holes, even satellites. Each player uses cards to develop their own telescope and fill their own notebook. In each round players are dealt 2 cards and will play one into their notebook and place one in their telescope. The game ends after 12 rounds. The challenge is to fill your notebook with sequential numbers of the different types of objects while your aligning your telescope to have the highest value of printed numbers in the different sections. Your notebook score is based on the total number of stars in your telescope multiplied by the largest sequential set of that same type. With your telescope you are trying to win majority bonus points over your opponents.
Time Chase Renegade Games
Time Chase is a trick-taking game with a time-travel twist for 3 to 6 players. Unlike other trick takers, this one allows players to go back in time and effect the outcomes on previously played tricks, known as events. The first player to control three events in the timeline wins.
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Cosmic Balance Gigadragon
Cosmic Balanceis a game of battling gods, angels, and demons for 2-4 players.
publisher description
Summon your Mortals to capture territories and destroy your enemies. Before playing, each player selects two god powers and factions. God powers are special abilities that break the rules and factions are the cards that make up each player’s deck, such as vampires, knights, wolves, merchants, farmers, giants, shepherds, or thieves. Your cards become the fighting units that conquer and control territories. Gain Good or Evil when you send enemy cards to Heaven or Hell on the Cosmic Balance scale. Choose carefully, as those souls can tip the Cosmic Balance, and bring forth hosts of Angels or Demons to conquer more territories.
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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 jigsaw puzzle enthusiasts we carry a large selection of quality jigsaw puzzles from Ravensburger, Cobble Hill, Pomegranate, and White Mountain.
Come and join in on the fun at our weekly Weds and Friday Board Game Nights. It’s a great way to meet other game enthusiasts and to try out some games. Our store has a bright and cheery atmosphere perfect for an afternoon or evening of game play.
Our Games Library has a wide variety of games available for play while you are here. It’s free and it’s fun! No experience is necessary. We are happy to teach you the rules and get you started. Choose from our library of games or bring in your own games to play.
Here is this week’s schedule:
Board Game Night
Date: Weds. Feb. 19th
Place: Off The Charts Games Store
Weds. Suggested Games To Try
Here are 2 suggested game picks from our Games Library for you to try. One is aimed at those who want a light strategy game and the other is aimed at those who would like a more challenging strategy game. No experience is necessary! We are happy to teach you the rules and get you started.
To learn more about each suggested board game click on the game name below it’s picture.
Here are 2 suggested game picks from our Games Library for you to try. One is aimed at those who want a light strategy game and the other is aimed at those who would like a more challenging strategy game. No experience is necessary! We are happy to teach you the rules and get you started.
To learn more about each suggested board game click on the game name below it’s picture.
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 jigsaw puzzles from Ravensburger, Pomegranate, White Mountain, and Cobble Hill.
We proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver area.
Come and join in on the fun at our weekly Weds and Friday Board Game Nights. It’s a great way to meet other game enthusiasts and to try out some games. Our store has a bright and cheery atmosphere perfect for an afternoon or evening of game play.
Our Games Library has a wide variety of games available for play while you are here. It’s free and it’s fun! No experience is necessary. We are happy to teach you the rules and get you started. Choose from our library of games or bring in your own games to play.
Here is this week’s schedule:
Board Game Night
Date: Weds. Feb. 12th
Place: Off The Charts Games Store
Weds. Suggested Games To Try
Here are 2 suggested game picks from our Games Library for you to try. One is aimed at those who want a light strategy game and the other is aimed at those who would like a more challenging strategy game. No experience is necessary! We are happy to teach you the rules and get you started.
To learn more about each suggested board game click on the game name below it’s picture.
Here are 2 suggested game picks from our Games Library for you to try. One is aimed at those who want a light strategy game and the other is aimed at those who would like a more challenging strategy game. No experience is necessary! We are happy to teach you the rules and get you started.
To learn more about each suggested board game click on the game name below it’s picture.
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 jigsaw puzzles from Ravensburger, Pomegranate, White Mountain, and Cobble Hill.
We proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver area.
Time to catch up on our most recent arrival of new games. Below is a brief overview of the new game arrivals:
Prêt-A-Porter Third Edition Portal Games
In from Portal Games is Prêt-A-Porter: Third Edition, a heavy economic – worker placement board game centered on the fashion world.
Prêt-A-Porter
Prêt-A-Porter simulates running a company in a crowded space, with competitors vying for limited customers and market shares. Players are managers in the fashion industry who will hire employees, design and produce clothing collections, and prepare for high-stakes fashion shows.
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Expedition To Newdale Lookout Games
Game designer, Alexander Pfister has continued his Oh My Goods! saga with his new board game, Expedition To Newdale. One to four players will immerse themselves over the course of eight chapters in an overarching story full of adventure. The chapters can be played in sequence as a campaign or on their own. Various maps with different events, game elements, objectives, and actions challenge players to adapt their strategy to the given conditions and use them to their advantage.
Expedition To Newdale
A chapter goes over 7 rounds. Each round comprises 6 phases, which must be
played in the given order.
Phases I to III are usually played simultaneously; phases IV to VI are always
played in turn order.
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Tiny Epic Tactics Gamelyn Games
Tiny Epic Tactics is the newest in the Tiny Epic series from Gamelyn Games. Tactics has 5 modes of play: 2-4 player competitive, competitive 2 teams, 2-player cooperative, solo adventure, and 2-4 player battle mode.
publisher description
Tiny Epic Tactics utilizes a simple combat system with variable player powers and 3D terrain to achieve endless layers of strategy and fun.
Nesting inside the game box are 5 smaller boxes and a map scroll. Players will set up the game by placing these 5 boxes, plus the box bottom, onto the scroll in designated areas. This creates the environment that players will explore and battle across. Players will have a team of 4 unique heroes: a Fighter, a Wizard, a Rogue and a Beast. Each hero type, and each character within that type, offers unique advantages to movement, attacks, and/or support. Finding the synergy in your team is key to victory.
Volume 7: Ticket To Ride Japan plus Italy is the newest expansion map in Ticket To Ride Map Collections series. You will need the trains and track cards from your Ticket To Ride or Ticket to Ride Europe base game to play on this new double sided game board – Japan on one side and Italy on the flip side.
Japan Map: Zoom across Japan in a bullet train admiring Mount Fuji through the mist or take the Tokyo subway to your final destination. On this map, you face a dilemma between investing in the Bullet Train network, routes that can be used by all players to complete Destination Tickets, or focusing on your individual tracks. Weigh you options carefully because the players who contribute the most to this shared project will be rewarded with a larger bonus…and players who don’t build an Bullet Trains will suffer the consequences.
ItalyMap: As you ride through the countryside, enjoy the
alpenglow on majestic peaks and sunsets behind cypress hedges in glorious Tuscan
landscapes. You can also hop aboard a ferry to reach Sicily or neighboring countries…but
don’t forget why you’re in Italy. Game play is focused on the regions of Italy and on a brand new type of ferry route. Connect cities from all regions in the same network to score extra points.
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Dragonrealm Gamewright
New from Gamewright is Dragonrealm, a fantasy card and dice game for two to four players.
Publisher description
Dare to venture beyond Dragonwood! Collect sets of adventurer cards in order to roll dice, which you will use to explore the mystical lands of Dragonrealm. Sneak into the Witch’s Cabin, search the Ogres’ Treehouse, or storm the Isle of Dragons. Place the majority of adventurers on a location to claim its treasure. But beware of meddling goblins, who pop up to snatch the spoils. Gather the mot gold and become ruler of the realm.
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Flip Over Frog Hub
Help your brightly colored frogs take control of your little corner of the rainforest in Flip Over Frog, a tile game for two to four players ages 6+. Cleverly place frogs on the game board to flip adjacent tiles hiding some frogs and revealing others. At the end of the game, the player with the most frogs face up is the winner. Plan ahead, watch out for snakes, and flip your way to victory.
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Terra Mystica Merchants of the Seas Z-Man Games
Terra Mystica: Merchants of the Seas is the latest and second expansion to Terra Mystica. Merchants of the Seas can be combined with the first expansion, Fire and Ice.
In Terra Mystica: Merchants of the Seas expansion trade is flourishing as ships traverse the rivers and merchants haul their wares across the land. Create a new world of commerce and competition with the new faction abilities, 2 new maps, new bonus cards, and new scoring tiles.
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Tsuro Phoenix Rising Calliope
Tsuro Phoenix Rising is the third in the Tsuro game of paths series. As with the other Tsuro games, Phoenix Rising is for two to eight players. In Phoenix Rising you will soar as a magical Phoenix, restoring light to a darkened world. You will glide through the sky by placing, rotating, and flipping tiles to transform glowing lanterns into brilliant stars. And, as with Tsuro games, your opponents may force you in the wrong direction – or even off the board – but as a Phoenix you may rise from the ashes and return to a strategic position. The player who collects a constellation of seven stars is the winner.
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Fox In The Forest Duet Renegade Games
The Fox in The Forest Duet is two-player cooperative trick-taking card game where players team up to help each other move through the forest. Work together to play tricks and move through the forest. Use the special abilities of the characters to exchange cards with each other, let your teammate follow with any card regardless of suit, and more. Win as a team by collecting all the gems, but be careful to stay on the path and not get lost in the forest.
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Sheeple A Smith Games
Adding to our party games selection is Sheeple, the best game in the ewe-niverse. The sheep from Mary’s flock want to become more civilized, to be more like people – to become Sheeple. To do so, they must walk like people walk, dress like people dress, and most importantly, think like people think.
Players will start in e-lamb-entary school and will advance along a track trying to be the first player to graduate from ewe-niversity. Game play is made up of drawing a card and choosing one of the categories listed on it. Each player will then has a minute to write down as many items from the chosen category as they can think of. Next compared all the word lists and award points where you have matching answers. Tally up your score and advance your Sheeple along the track toward graduation.
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Pirate Loot Minotaur Games
Pirate Loot is a fast-paced card game of treasure and treachery for two to four players. Players will each recruit a scurvy crew of cutthroat pirates. Outwit your foes with a clever captain, pillage the treasure with a greedy first mate, five them the broadside with the brutal gunner, or just take it easy with the lazy cabinboy. each pirate you play adds to the strength of your crew, but you must act fast. When the ships sail, only the best are coming home with the loot.
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Tiny Polka Dot Math For Love
Tiny Polka Dot is the playful way to fall in love with numbers. Tiny Polka Dot is an award-winning colorful card game aimed at kids three to eight. It has 16 easy-to-learn games that playfully teach math, from counting and early numeracy to arithmetic and logic.
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Antiquity Quest Grandpa Becks
Antiquity Quest is a set collection card game for two to six players. Each player is dealt two sets of 10 cards at the start of a round. You’ll pick up one set, this is called a hand. The second set, called a cache, remains face down on the table until you’ve played all of the cards from your hand.
Players will take turns drawing, playing, and discarding cards as they work on creating their own collections and sabotaging the collections of their opponents.
Collections consist of Antiquity and Treasure cards. The six suits of Antiquity cards represent six ancient civilizations. Treasures are their own suit and are more rare and valuable. The more challenging a collection is to create, the more it’s worth.
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Cover Your Kingdom Grandpa Becks
Cover Your Kingdom is a follow-up set collection card game to Cover Your Assets.
publisher description
Your mission in this adventure is to gain Magic for your Kingdom. To achieve this you’ll need to form Clans of Punderful creatures, like Uniquehorns, Peglegasus, Pigxies, or LepreCon Men, by forming them in pairs.
Special Creatures with powerful abilities add to the fun, letting you do things like swap Clans with a rival, move a Clan from the top to the bottom of a stack, or remove it from the game entirely!
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Come and visit us at30 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, Pomegranate, White Mountain, and Cobble Hill.
