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Game Arrivals: Beyond The Black

Post author By Off The Charts Games
Post date July 21, 2017

It’s here it’s here! Beyond The Black the first expansion to Tiny Epic Galaxies.

Beyond The Black introduces Pilots, Advanced Ships, Exploration, and more. It’s time to extend your horizons.

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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 July 16th – 22nd

Post author By Off The Charts Games
Post date July 16, 2017

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 having another Envoy New Game Event. These events provides you the opportunity to learn about and play a featured new game by an Envoy local gamer.

Board Game: Flash Point: Fire Rescue

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. July 19th

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.

Flash Point
Fire Rescue
Indie Boards & Games

Orléans

Tasty Minstrel Games

Orléans

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Open Game Play

Date: Fri. July 21st

Time: 6 pm

Place: Off The Charts Games Store

Fri. Suggested Games To Try

To learn more about each suggested board game click on the game name below it’s picture.

CVlizations
Granna

Catan with
Explorers & Pirates
Mayfair Games

Catan with Explorers & Pirates Expansion

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Envoy New Game Demo – Free Event

Date: Sat. Jul 22nd

Time: Noon – 5:00 pm

Place: Off The Charts Games Store

Envoy Game Demo Events provide you the opportunity to see and play a newly released game or game expansion. Envoy’s local gamer, Devin will be here to present Not Alone, an asymmetrical card game in which one player (the Creature) plays against the stranded explorers (the Hunted).

Not Alone
Stronghold Games

This event is free, so come and have some fun!

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

Come and visit us at 3 0 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.

Games Go “Off The Charts”: Villages Of Valeria, Honshu, and Pyramids

Post author By Off The Charts Games
Post date July 13, 2017

This past Monday was a gorgeous day to take a few games “Off The Charts”. After taking care of some necessary chores we packed a few games in our backpacks and headed out.

A short hike along the Clackamas River brought us to a perfect spot for some spirited gaming.

Villages Of Valeriaa
Daily Magic Games

The first game that hit the table was Villages Of Valeria, a big village-building card game in a small box.

As usual, Lynn used some powerful Adventurers to outscore me. Whenever we play this game the score always end up close, and this one was no different.

Next we pulled out Honshu and tried the 2-player variant for the first time.

Honshu is a map building card game for 2 to 5 players that we’ve played mostly in the 4-player mode. After playing we found the 2-player variant really works and my massive forests and lakes proved to be enough for a narrow win.

Honshu
Renegade Games

Finally we moved our table to a little shadier spot for a game of Pyramids, a clever card drafting and necropolis building card game I had the best pyramid score, but Lynn pulled away with a ton of glyph icons in the right structures to steal the win. Maybe I should have kept the table in the sun.

Pyramids
Iello

All of three of these games are small box games that make it easy to take anywhere and play. They are available in our Demo Games Library for you to come in and play.

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Continue to tune for more games that go “Off the Charts”

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

Game Events: Week of July 9th – 15th

Post author By Off The Charts Games
Post date July 9, 2017

Come meet Envoy game demonstrator Mike.

In addition this week we are having another Envoy New Game 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. July 14th

Time: 6 pm

Place: Off The Charts Games Store

Weds. Suggested Games To Try

To learn more about each suggested board game click on the game name below it’s picture.

Honshu
Renegade Games

Deus
Asmodee

Honshu

Deus

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Open Game Play

Date: Fri. July 14th

Time: 6 pm

Place: Off The Charts Games Store

Fri. Suggested Games To Try

To learn more about each suggested board game click on the game name below it’s picture.

Trains
AEG

Rialto
Tasty Minstrel Games

Trains

Rialto

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Envoy New Game Splash – Free Event

Date: Saturday July 15th

Time: Noon – 5:00 pm

Place: Off The Charts Games Store

Envoy Game Demo Events provide you the opportunity to see and play a newly released game or game expansion. Envoy’s local gamer, Mike will be here to present Slide Blast, a high-speed, high-energy, trackless racing game with light push your luck, area denial, and strategy elements.

Lazer Ryderz

This event is free, so come and have some fun!

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

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

Game Arrivals: Week of July 3rd – 8th

Post author By Off The Charts Games
Post date July 8, 2017

Here are this week’s exciting game
arrivals:

Sherlock Holmes
Consulting Dectective
Thames Murders & Other Cases
Asmodee

Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective is a cooperative game, where you try to solve mysterious cases by interviewing suspects, searching newspapers and walking the streets for clues. Once you have completed your investigation, compare your detective skills to the master sleuth himself, Sherlock Holmes.

The Thames Murders & Other Cases is a stand alone game providing 10 murder mysteries . Equipped with a copy of The Times, a map of London, a directory, and most importantly, your logic, you will roam the streets of London trying to solve the most heinous crimes.

Another in the Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective series is Jack The Ripper & West End Adventures.

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Not Alone
Stronghold Games

Not Alone is a 2 to 7-player asymmetrical card game. It’s the 25th century and an intergalactic expedition has shipwrecked on Planet Artemia. The crew have discovered they are not alone. One player is The Creature and all other players make up the shipwrecked crew and become The Hunted.

The Creature stalks and pursues the The Hunted by playing Hunt cards and using the mysterious powers of Artemia. Your goal is to assimilate the Hunted to the planet.
The Hunted will explore Artemia using Place cards and Survival cards in an attempt to avoid, confuse or distract the Creature until help arrives.

Come on Saturday, July 22nd to our special free demo event to learn about and play Not Alone.

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Carcassonne
Under The Big Top
Z-Man Games

Carcassonne, the classic tile-laying game has a new expansion, Under The Big Top.

The Circus travels with its animals from place to place. Once the Big Top goes up, nearby meeples come to take in the attractions. Players who can lure meeples to their attractions can earn big points. However, these tiles do not score when completed but when another tile of the same type is played.

Acrobats are true performers. As soon as they find a suitable spot, their 1st instinct is to stack and form a meeple pyramid. In order to add a meeple to a pyramid you must place a tile adjacent the pyramid tile.

The Ringmaster leads a fairly normal life, but he truly shines when he is surrounded by acrobats and the circus adding extra points when adjacent.

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Eldritch Horror
Cities In Ruin
Fantasy Flight

The Human Age is Ending! Cities In Ruin is the latest expansion to the base game Eldritch Horror, a co-operative adventure board game based on H.P. Lovecraft fiction.

This expansion introduces Shadde M’ell, a destructive new Ancient One. Heralding this new threat is the advent of Disasters and Devastation Encounters as well as destructive new Mythos cards. Four weary investigators join the fight, bringing with them new Artifacts, Assets, Spells, and talents to stave off the twilight of humankind.

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Restocks:

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Continue to check in for the latest in board games.

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We proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver.

Happy Birthday America!

Post author By Off The Charts Games
Post date July 4, 2017

From Off The Charts Games we wish everyone a safe and happy 4th of July.

In observance of the holiday we will be closing early today at 4:00 pm. We will see you tomorrow morning when we open at 10:00 am. And, don’t forget Wednesday & Friday Open Game Nights are still on this week.

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

Game Events: Week of July 2nd – 8th

Post author By Off The Charts Games
Post date July 3, 2017

Board Game: Grand Austria Hotel

Here is this week’s schedule:

Open Game Play

Date: Weds. July 5th

Time: 6 pm

Place: Off The Charts Games Store

Weds. Suggested Games To Try

To learn more about each suggested board game click on the game name below it’s picture.

Castles Of Burgundy
The Card Game
Ravensburger

Isle Of Skye
Mayfair Games

Castles Of Burgundy
The Card Game

Isle Of Skye

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Open Game Play

Date: Fri. July 7th

Time: 6 pm

Place: Off The Charts Games Store

Fri. Suggested Games To Try

To learn more about each suggested board game click on the game name below it’s picture.

Steam Park
Iello

Grand Austria Hotel
Mayfair Games

Steam Park

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Envoy New Game Demo – Free Event

Date: Sat. Jul 8th

Time: Noon – 5:00 pm

Place: Off The Charts Games Store

Envoy Game Demo Events provide you the opportunity to see and play a newly released game or game expansion. Envoy’s local gamer, Devin will be here to present Slide Blast, a water slide tile placement family game. Come and see if your slide will be the longest and most exhilarating water slide?

Slide Blast
FoxMind

This event is free, so come and have some fun!

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

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

Game Arrivals: June 25th – 30th

Post author By Off The Charts Games
Post date June 30, 2017

Here’s a look at some of the games that came in this week:

New Game!

Near And Far
Red Raven Games

New in from Red Raven Games is Near And Far, a follow-up to the popular Above And Below.

Journey through a book of maps filled with amazing adventure in this storytelling sequel to Above And Below.

Search for a lost city in a strange and wonderful world of ruins; manage and recruit adventurers, each with a unique identity; read from a book of stories, building an amazing and memorable tale each time you play!

Near And Far is a stand-alone game. Additionally, it’s Adventurers also can be used in Above And Below.

Near And Far

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New Game Expansion!

Legendary: X-Men
Upper Deck Entertainment

Legendary: X-Men is the latest big box expansion to the core game Marvel Legendary, a cooperative deck-building game. It can also be combined with the core game, Legendary Villains.

The new X-Men big box expansion comes with 394 cards that include 15 new heroes such as Cannonball, Dazzler, and Banshee, 7 new villain groups, 5 new henchmen groups, 20 new horrors, and more. Additionally, the new double-sided Masterminds will inject even more challenges.

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Back In Stock!

Century Spice Road
Plan B Games

Century: Spice Road is the first in a trilogy of games each set in different centuries, from the 15th to the 17th, and depicts the major trading systems and routes of these eras.

Century: Spice Road is a 2-5 player game that plays in 30 to 45 minutes. The game moves at a good pace. You will play merchant cards from your hand to collect, upgrade, and trade spices. You’ll spend your spices to claim point cards. During the course of the game you’ll add new merchant cards to your hand giving you additional abilities on future turns. On your turn you will take 1 of 4 possible actions: Acquire a new merchant into your hand paying any associated costs, Play a merchant card into your play area utilizing it’s ability, Rest and take all of the merchant cards from your play area back into your hand, or Claim a point card by spending the required spice cubes.

Century Spice Road

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Back In Stock!

TIME Stories
Lumen Fidei
Space Cowboys

Lumen Fidei is the 5th expansion to the core game T.I.M.E. Stories, a co-operative narrative board game.

Your next mission, codenamed Lumen Fidei, will send you and your teammates back to 15th century Spain…You’ll be attending a secret meeting of Christian military orders, but your objective is a strange stone that has captured the interests of Christians and Moors alike. You need to find and retrieve that stone, bringing it safely back to the T.I.M.E Agency before anyone else can secure it.

This expansion features an additional challenge as the pressure on players is not only about time, but it also involves moral choices, a powerful opponent, and new mechanisms.