Game Events: Week of Sept. 17th – 23rd

We don’t just sell board games, we also provide tables and a library full of open board games, card games, and dice games for you to come in and play.  The tables are open during store hours as well as during our Weds and Friday evening Open Game Play Nights.


Come and join in on the fun as 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!

Come meet local game demonstrator Mike.


In addition this week we are having another Envoy New Game Demo Event. These events provides you the opportunity to learn about and play a featured new game by an Envoy local gamer.















Here is this week’s schedule:



Open Game Play
Date: Weds. Sept 20th
Time: 6 pm
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.


Takenoko
Asmodee
Isle Of Skye
Mayfair Games

Takenoko
Isle Of Skye
Weds. New Game Demo Splash  (6:30 pm – 9:30 pm)


New Game Splash Events provides you the opportunity to see and play a newly released game.  Tonight we have 2 games featured:
Wasteland Express
Delivery Service

Pandasaurus Games
Mike will be here to demo Wasteland Express Delivery Service.


Take on the role of the half-insane drivers for the last delivery company left of earth: the Wasteland Express Delivery Service. In order to scratch out a living in this deranged universe, drivers will deliver goods and guns between the handful of settlements pockmarked throughout the hellscape that you call home and take on missions from the handful of factions still trying to hold onto the last dregs of civilization.



Battlestations 2nd Edition
Gorilla Games

Devin will be here to demo Battlestations 2nd Edition.




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Battlestations is an asymmetric game where all but one player will work together to solve the mission while the one player controls the enemy. This multi-map game simulates a starship with players moving around and taking action on board the starship while simultaneously the starship is on another board moving through space. It is also a roleplaying game in which your characters grow throughout campaigns, picking up experience points, upgrades, and new abilities.

This sessions are free, so come and have so fun.


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Open Game Play
Date: Fri. Sept. 22nd
Time: 6 pm
Place: Off The Charts Games Store

Fri. 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.

Castles Of Burgundy
The Card Game
Come Play ~ ~ It’s Free ~ It’s Fun!



Come and visit us at 30 NW 2nd Street in Historic Downtown GreshamWe 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, White Mountain, and Cobble Hill.

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





Game Arrivals: Sept. 11th – 15th

More of your favorite games arrived this week.



  New Game Expansion!
Five Tribes
Whims Of The Sultan
Days Of Wonder
Whims Of The Sultan is the latest expansion to the base game Five Tribes, a worker displacement game. You can play this expansion as a solo expansion with Five Tribes or combine it with Thieves Of Naqala and Artisans Of Naqala expansions

The Sultanate of Naqala continues to flourish.  This time of prosperity has attracted more competitors than grains of sand in the desert, so if you expect to remain on top, you’ll have to learn some new tricks….

The Whims Of The Sultan expansion takes the game up to 5 players.  Included are 5 new city tiles, a Great Lake tile, 22 Whim of the Sultan cards, and 2 Djinn cards. 


Image result for five tribes whims of the sultan

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    New Game Edition!
Red Dragon Inn 6 Villains
Red Dragon Inn 6 Villains is the latest in the Red Dragon Inn series. The adventure is over, but the party’s just getting started card game. 

This can be played as a stand-alone game or combined with any of the other Red Dragon Inns











Red Dragon Inn 6 Villains brings these 4 new evil characters:

Bad: Makes sure you make

all the right choices in life.


Worse: she’s the one making

the decisions for you.

Bad: a vampire not looking for

         a pint of ale.


Worse: “Don’t worry. It’s joost a

              nibble.”

Bad: her pet scarabs help her

            take care of those greedy

            dungeon delvers.

Worse:  those scarabs can give

      you a bad case of mummy rot.

Bad: The King of All Goblins isn’t
particularly intimidating or powerful.
Worse: he’s however, clever enough
to hire thugs who are.


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    Back In Stock!
Sagrada
Floodgate Games
Sagrada is a dice drafting and window crafting game. Players will draft dice and use tools-of-the-trade to carefully construct their individual stained glass window player board.








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    Back In Stock!
The Voyages Of Marco Polo
Z-Man Games
In The Voyages of Marco Polo, players embody one of the many people who worked with and around Marco Polo during his travels. As such, each player will take on the role of a different historical figure with their own special abilities that shape the course of the game

Each round, players roll their five dice to determine what actions they can perform. Gather goods such as pepper, silk, and gold, then travel from city to city selling them to fulfill contracts and earn money. You choose the two dice that determine how far you move each turn, so it’s up to you strike a balance between getting closer to your destination and stopping along the way to sell your goods.

The Voyages Of Marco Polo



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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, White Mountain, and Cobble Hill.







Game Profile: Raiders Of The North Sea

Raid, plunder, and die
gloriously in battle.

Classification Strategy Game
Mechanics Worker Placement, Hand Management, Set Collection
Publication Renegade Games 2017
Ages 12+
Time 60 – 120
Players 2 – 4

Description
Vikings, prepare to
raid settlements, take plunder and make offerings to the chieftain.  In
Raiders Of The
North Sea
each player will need
to hire a crew, amass provisions and gain armor. Then they will set off to raid
harbors, outposts, monasteries, and fortresses. 
Harbors are the easiest to raid, but yield less plunder.  Fortresses are hard to raid, but provide the
most plunder.  After a raid players may
need to reload crew and provisions to get ready for the next raid.  Provisions are necessary in order to launch
raids.  Sometimes, alas, players can lose
crew members in a raid.  Crew members not
returning from raids earn Valkyrie, and Valkyrie can earn points.
Raiders Of The
North Sea
is a worker placement game.  It has a great twist in the way it
works.  On each turn a player will place
a Viking on an action space performing the respective action and then remove a
Viking from another action space performing that respective action.  There are 3 different color Vikings and each
is effective only on certain action spaces. 
The Viking removed for the second action is the one that will be used to
place at the start of the next turn. 
This creates some interesting tension, i.e.  a player needs a gray Viking for the next
turn, but the action they want to take is occupied by a black or a white
Viking.
The winner of the game
is the player with the most points.  The
player with the most points is the player that raids the best and uses their
plunder to best to gain victory points. 
Some points can be gained by raiding the various locations.  Those points can go up by having a more
successful raid using more armor, stronger crewmen, and a little luck with the
dice roll.  Points can also be gotten by
using plunder to make offerings to the Chieftain.  There are 3 offering tiles available
requiring a mix of plunder to be satisfied. 
Points are awarded for purchasing substantial amounts of armor.  Additionally, points are awarded to earning a
lot of Valkyrie.  Therefore, losing crew
members isn’t all bad.

Raiders Of The North Sea

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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, White Mountain, and Cobble Hill.

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

Game Events: Week of Sept. 10th – 16th

We don’t just sell board games, we also provide tables and a library full of open board games, card games, and dice games for you to come in and play.  The tables are open during store hours as well as during our Weds and Friday evening Open Game Play Nights.

Come and join in on the fun as 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!



Here is this week’s schedule:



Open Game Play
Date: Weds. Sept. 13th
Time: 6 pm
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.

Five Tribes
Days Of Wonder
Alien Frontiers
Game Salute

Five Tribes
Alien Frontiers
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Open Game Play
Date: Fri. Sept. 15th
Time: 6 pm
Place: Off The Charts Games Store

Fri. 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.

Sanssouci
Ravensburger

Tasty Minstrel Games

Sanssouci
Come Play ~ ~ It’s Free ~ It’s Fun!



Come and visit us at 30 NW 2nd Street in Historic Downtown GreshamWe 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, White Mountain, and Cobble Hill.

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

Game Arrivals: Sept 5th – 9th

Here is this week’s exciting game arrivals:



  New Game!
Seikatsu
IDW Games
Seikatsu (“life” in Japanese) is an abstract strategy game for 1 to 4 players. 

Players plant a shared garden between each of their pagodas, and compete to have the most breathtaking view of the finished garden.  Players take turns drawing and playing garden tiles that feature both a bird and a flower to create flocks of birds and rows of flowers. When the Garden board gets completely filled, the game is over. To
determine the winner, each player will score for
the rows of flowers they have planted, and will
add those points to the points earned for Flocks
of birds throughout the game.







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    New Expansion!
Quadropolis
Public Services
Days Of Wonder
Quadropolis: Public Services is an expansion to the base game Quadropolis, a game of city building where each player is competing to build the highest scoring metropolis.

The Public Services expansion adds new public services buildings such as Police Station, Fire Station, Maternity Ward, and Processing Plant.









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    New Expansion!
Smash Up
Big In Japan
AEG
Big In Japan is the next expansion to the base game Smash Upa fast-paced shuffle building card game that you can’t live without.

Smash Up is back after a vacation in the far east, and it brought all new factions like you’ve never seen before.

The Kaiju storm onto the scene and show you why we call the set Big In Japan.  Magical Girls use their spells and the power of teamwork to win the base.  The mighty Mega Troopers defeat any foe with their martial arts skills…and giant flippin’ robot.  And finally because we had to have them all, the Itty Critters will defeat any challengers, if you have the heart of the…wait, sorry, mixing references.










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    New Themed Game!
Munchkin
Rick and Morty
USAopoly/SJG
Rick and Morty is the newest theme in the line of Munchkin, the kick open the door, fight the monster, grab the treasure, reach level 10 and win card game.

Munchkin: Rick And Morty fuses the classic card game fun of monster-slaying and role-playing with cyborgs, aliens, and demons from the popular television series, Rick And Morty. Play as Rick, Morty, Beth, Jerry, Summer, or Mr. Poopybutthole to defeat the greatest adversaries in the Rick and Morty universe and become the hero as you reach Level 10 for the win.

Image result for munchkin Rick and morty

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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, White Mountain, and Cobble Hill.

We proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver.

Game Goes Off The Charts: Skyward

Shellrock Lake in the Roaring River Wilderness seemed like a good spot to chill out and to play our next game to go “Off The Charts”.


Skyward
Rule & Make

Skyward is a clever and unique strategy card drafting game set in an airborne city.  The game is all about the card split and the selection of which stack to take.  Each faction has cards with strong abilities. The key is to quickly build a powerful combination. 


I decided to use the Makers faction as the centerpiece of my strategy.  Several turns later I got a hold of the Nexus card that once launched would nicely enhance what I was trying to do. Meanwhile, Lynn launched both the Beacon and the Landing Pad from the Seers faction to eek out a point victory.


To learn more about Skyward click here on Game Profile: Skyward.  Additionally, Skyward is available in our Demo Games Library for you to come in and play.




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Come and visit us at 30 NW 2nd Street in Historic Downtown GreshamWe 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, White Mountain, and Cobble Hill.
We proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver area.

Game Profile: Skyward

A clever and unique strategy
card drafting game set in an airborne city.


Classification Strategy Card Game
Mechanics Card Drafting, Hand Management, Set Collection
Publication Rule & Make 2017
Ages 14+
Time 40
Players 2 – 4
Description
Skyward delivers a good punch for a small box game.  The game features a small board and a good
size deck of cards featuring cards from 4 different factions plus a few cards
for vehicles and critters.  Each faction
has a variety of buildings that can be launched with varying points and varying
abilities.  Each faction’s buildings are
unique to their faction.  Scoring
combinations can even cross faction lines.  The premise of the game is four previously warring
factions have formed a truce in order to build the first airborne city,
Skyward.  Players
compete in using a combination from the factions to build the highest scoring
airspace.
A game of Skyward starts by assigning the 1st
player, or Warden role for the first round Split phase.  The Warden will draw cards, face up, equal to
4 times the number of players. Now the fun begins. The Warden will divide these
cards into a number of stacks equal to the number of players. The Warden
chooses which cards and how many go into each stack – they do not have to be
equally divided. The Warden will place the Warden token on one of the
stacks.  In turn order and beginning with
the player to the Warden’s left, each player will choose one of the stacks of
cards to add to their hand.  The Warden
will get the last remaining stack.  Ooh it can
make for an interesting dilemma for the Warden when creating the stacks.  The player who selects the stack with the
Warden token immediately becomes the first player for the Launch phase, receives
a cog token, and will be the Warden in the next round.  Cog tokens are used as a wild symbol when paying
a building’s launch cost.
In turn order starting
with the new Warden, players can choose a building card from their hand to
launch by paying the appropriate faction cost. Additionally, they may discard 3
cards to obtain a wild cog token.  There
is a hand limit of 6 cards at the end of the turn.  After everyone has launched or passed the
new, the new Warden begins the next round by drawing and splitting another set
of cards.  The game ends when the launch
deck is exhausted or any player has 6 or more launched buildings in their
airspace.
The game is all about
the card split and the selection of which stack to take.  Each faction has cards with strong abilities.
The key is to quickly build a powerful combination.  This is not a long game.  It is likely a player will launch 6 buildings
within 6 rounds.

We have an open copy of Skyward available in our Demo Games
Library for you come in and try.


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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, White Mountain, and Cobble Hill.

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

Game Events: Week of Sept. 3rd – 9th

We don’t just sell board games, we also provide tables and a library full of open board games, card games, and dice games for you to come in and play.  The tables are open during store hours as well as during our Weds and Friday evening Open Game Play Nights.

In addition this week we are an Envoy sponsored new game demo splash event. These events provides you the opportunity to learn about and play a featured new game by an Envoy local gamer.

Board Game: Grand Austria Hotel

Come and join in on the fun as 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!


Here is this week’s schedule:




Open Game Play
Date: Weds. Sept 6th
Time: 6 pm
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.

Kingsburg
Fantasy Flight
Grand Austria Hotel
Mayfair Games

Kingsburg

Weds. New Game Demo Splash  (6:30 pm – 9:30 pm)

New Game Splash Events provides you the opportunity to see and play a new game coming on the market.
Wasteland Express
Delivery Service
Pandasaurus Games


 New Game Splash Events provides you the opportunity to see and play a newly released game.


Tonight, Mike will be here to demo Wasteland Express Delivery Service.

This event is free, so come and have so fun.

Take on the role of the half-insane drivers for the last delivery company left of earth: the Wasteland Express Delivery Service. In order to scratch out a living in this deranged universe, drivers will deliver goods and guns between the handful of settlements pockmarked throughout the hellscape that you call home and take on missions from the handful of factions still trying to hold onto the last dregs of civilization.


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Open Game Play
Date: Fri. Sept. 8th
Time: 6 pm
Place: Off The Charts Games Store

Fri. 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.

New York 1901
Blue Orange Games
In The Year Of 
The Dragon
Ravensburger

New York 1901
In The Year Of The Dragon

Come Play ~ ~ It’s Free ~ It’s Fun!



Come and visit us at 30 NW 2nd Street in Historic Downtown GreshamWe 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, White Mountain, and Cobble Hill.

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

Game Arrivals: Week of Aug. 28th – Sep. 1st

Here is this week’s exciting game arrivals:

   New Game Arrival!
Codenames Duet
Czech Games Edition
First came Codenames and then Codenames Pictures, both a team word game.  Now the popular Codenames comes in a 2-player version, Codenames Duet.

In Codenames Duet your joint objective is to identify 15 agents while avoiding the assassin.  Of the 25 word cards arranged
in a 5×5 grid in the center of the table, you will have a key that identifies
about 7-8 that are your secret agents “codename”. Your partner will have a key that
identifies the other 7-8 words that are your secret agents codename. By giving each
other one-word clues that can point to multiple words, you try to find all the
agents before your turns run out.

Codenames Duet comes with 100 Duet double-sided key cards and 200 double-sided word cards with all new words that are compatible with the original Codenames.

Codenames Duet
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   New Game Arrival!
Skyward
Rule & Make

After generations of turmoil, four factions have finally put their differences aside to work together for a better tomorrow. As a commitment to their newfound alliance the worlds’s first airborne city, Skyward, is to be built right above the intersecting borders of the four realms. 

Skyward is a competitive card drafting game for 2 to 4 players.  Each round buildings and resources are provided for the city of Skyward and a Warden is appointed. As the Warden, you take the control of how resources are split into piles, but lose the ability to choose the pile you split. Each round starts with a Split followed by individual player turns. The object of the game is to develop your realm’s airspace with the most valuable buildings.




We have an open copy of Skyward available for you to come in and play. 

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Restocks:
  • 7Wonders Duel: Pantheon
  • Arkham Horror: The Card Game




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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, White Mountain, and Cobble Hill.

We proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver.

Game Events: Week of Aug. 27th – Sept.2nd

We don’t just sell board games, we also provide tables and a library full of open board games, card games, and dice games for you to come in and play.  The tables are open during store hours as well as during our Weds and Friday evening Open Game Play Nights.


Come and join in on the fun as 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!


Here is this week’s schedule:



Open Game Play
Date: Weds. Aug. 30th
Time: 6 pm
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.

Eldritch Horror
Fantasy Flight
Quadropolis
Days Of Wonder
Eldritch Horror
Quadropolis
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Open Game Play
Date: Fri. Sept. 1st
Time: 6 pm
Place: Off The Charts Games Store

Fri. 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.

Yamatai
Days Of Wonder
Notre Dame
Ravensburger

Yamatai
Notre Dame
Come Play ~ ~ It’s Free ~ It’s Fun!



Come and visit us at 30 NW 2nd Street in Historic Downtown GreshamWe 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, White Mountain, and Cobble Hill.

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