Game Events: June 5th – 11th

Not only do we sell board games, we also provide tables and a library full of open 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 to Weds and Friday Open Game Play’s, this Saturday we are having one of our New Game Splash Events that provides you the opportunity to learn about and play a featured new game by a Envoy game hearld.


Board Game: Mow Money

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 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. June 8th
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.

Bullfrogs
Renegade Games
Mow Money
Mayday Games
A game of Bullfrogs in play.
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Open Game Play
Date: Fri. June 10th
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.

Uchronia
Iello
Isle Of Skye
Mayfair Games

A game of Isle Of Skye in play.

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New Game Splash – Free Event
Date: Saturday Jun 11th
Time: Noon – 5 pm

Place: Off The Charts Games Store



51st State
Portal Games
New Game Splash Events provides you the opportunity to see and play a new game coming on the market. 

51st State is a redesigned multi-player card game set in a post-apocalyptic United States.
Mike will be on-hand to demo this game in which players control one of 4 powers (mutants, traders, New Yorkers and Appalachians) and try to build their very own new country. Come, see, and play 51st State.
The event is free, so come and have some fun!
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 puzzles from Ravensburger, White Mountain, Cobble Hill, and Dowdle.

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


Game Review: Agricola – Revised Mayfair-Lookout Games Edition

Agricola
Revised Edition
Mayfair – Lookout Games

As the new Mayfair edition of Agricola will be back on our shelves this week, I took a few minutes do a comparison of the previous Z-Man edition to Mayfair’s new revised edition. I find that the new Mayfair edition is really well done. Mayfair Games’ edition features animeeples in the right shape for the sheep, wild boar, and cattle. The resource cubes have been replaced with resources in their various shapes. Even the family member disks have been replaced with large farmer meeples with cowboy-looking hats. These things don’t change the game play, but they are cool.


The game play remains basically the same as in the older version. One significant change is in the decks of improvement and occupation cards. Rather than 3 separated decks of each type, the card decks have been pared down to a deck of 48 minor improvements, and a deck of 48 occupation cards. Some of the cards have been modified and renamed, but they represent the cards players most often wanted to play. There is also a change in one action space in both the 3-player and 4-player game to a 2nd space where an occupation card may be played. This change plus the addition of 3 small action boards that can be incorporated into the game should make this version more accessible to a wider audience. The first of these additional action boards is for use in a lighter version of game play with player counts from 1 to 4 and is a Side Job of building a stable and/or baking bread. The second additional action board is for use in a 2-player game and adds 4 possible action options. And the third additional action board is for 3 or 4-player games and adds 2 possible action options. It’s not in the rules, but players can add these boards at will to give players more options.


For those who prefer the Agricola we have all played and loved, put those new option back in the box and play the same challenging game we have played in the past. At least now when our meeples need a begging card, they can get it wearing a cool cowboy-looking hat.




We have an open copy of Agricola: Mayfair Revised Edition available in our Demo Games Library for you come in and try.










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

Game Events: May 31st – June 4th

Not only do we sell board games, we also provide tables and a library full of open 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.

Board Game:  World’s Fair 1893
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 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. June 1st
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.

Sea Of Clouds
Iello
Dice City
AEG
A game of Dice City in play.
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Open Game Play
Date: Fri. June 3rd
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.

World’s Fair 1893
Renagade Games
Letter Tycoon
Breaking Games

Watch this video by Game Boy Geek’s for an overview of Letter Tycoon.










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 puzzles from Ravensburger, White Mountain, Cobble Hill, and Dowdle.

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

2016 Spiel des Jahres Game Nominations

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The game nominations for the 2016 Spiel des Jahres (Family Game of the Year) and the Kennerspiel des Jahres (Strategy Game of the Year) awards have recently been announced. These awards are considered the most prestigious awards in the board game world.





The vast field of games is pared down to three games for each category that will contend for their respective category award.  And the nominees are:



Spiel des Jahres (Family Game)


Codenames
Czech Games Edition
Codenames is a team word game.  Two rival spymasters know the secret identities of 25 agents. Their teammates know the agents only by their Codenames and are competing to be the first to identify all of their teams spy cards.

Spymasters give one-word clues that can point to multiple words on the board. Their teammates try to guess words of the right color while avoiding those that belong to the opposing team. All must beware of the Assassin.








Imhotep
Thames & Kosmos
Coming soon.  Imhotep is a game of building monuments by the famous Egyptian architect, Imhotep.

Players quarry and transport their stone blocks on ships to various construction sites to end up in the most valuable positions.  But you alone do not control which sites the ships go to. Depending on where the blocks end up, players earn different point values.









Karuba
Haba
Karuba is a tile-laying race game for treasure hunters aged 8 and above.
Each player plays on their own island card while racing to beat the other players
in the hunt for the most valuable temple treasures. Use the tiles to build paths along
which you move to get to the temple of the same color collecting crystals and gold nuggets along the way.  But be careful!  Many paths have dead ends so you need to be patient and attentive in order to discover the best way through the jungle.
Runner Up Recommended Games:

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Kennerspiel des Jahres (Strategy Game)


Pandemic Legacy
Z-Man Games
The world is on the brink of disaster. In Pandemic Legacy, your disease-fighting team must keep four deadly diseases at bay for a whole year. Each month will bring new surprises, and your actions in each game will have repercussions on the next. Will you let cities fall to the diseases? Will your team be enough to keep the viruses at bay for a whole year? Craft your own unique Pandemic experience with Pandemic Legacy.

















T.I.M.E. Stories
Space Cowboys
T.I.M.E. Stories is a co-operative narrative decksploring board game.

Players are agents in a futuristic Time Survey Agency that detects time discrepancies and sends them on a mission, usually to prevent temporal rifts. Each mission is different, being set in a different atmosphere and having a core mechanism that differs from the next.















Isle Of Skye
Mayfair Games
Isle Of Skye, a quick tile placement and auction game.

Start as a famous Scot chieftain and compete to rise as King as you build your kingdom scoring as many points as you can. Wisely set the price for tiles you draw and manage your money carefully. 

There are 16 scoring cards of which you will use 4 in a given game thus providing variability each time you play.











Runner Up Recommended Games:



Stay tuned in to find out which games win.



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

Game Events: May 22nd – 28th

Not only do we sell board games, we also provide tables and a library full of open 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.

Board Game: New York 1901
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 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. May 25th
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.

New York 1901
Blue Orange Games
Istanbul
AEG
A game of Istanbul in play.

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Open Game Play
Date: Fri. May 27th
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.


Catan
Explorers & PiratesMayfair Games

A game of Catan with
the Explorers & Pirates expansion.
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 puzzles from Ravensburger, White Mountain, Cobble Hill, and Dowdle.

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


Game Profile: World’s Fair 1893

  • Mechanics: Area Control, Area Influence, Card Drafting, Set Collection
  • Publication: Renegade Games, 2016
  • Players 2 – 4
  • Time: 40 Minutes

Description

World’s Fair 1893 is an innocent looking game with a nice theme, 40 minutes of game play and way more depth than you are expecting.  The object of the game is to score the most
points over the three rounds.  The timing of the rounds is marked off on a Ferris wheel that makes up the center of the board.  Player’s actions drive the speed of the Ferris wheel.

A player’s turn is straight forward.  Place one of their player color cubes on one of the 5 exhibit locations that have been placed at random around the Ferris wheel.  They can
then take any special action allowed by an influential figure card acquired on a previous round.  The player then takes all cards that have been placed at this exhibit location where they placed their cube.  The number of cards at an exhibit location can range from 1 to 4. 
These cards include influential figures with a one-time special ability, midway tickets that drive the Ferris wheel forward, and main exhibit cards that are used to build sets for game end scoring.  All of the cards come out of one deck.  You’ll get a random mix of cards at the various locations.  A player’s turn concludes with drawing 3 new cards and placing them at various exhibit locations.
When the Ferris wheel makes a full revolution, a scoring round ensues.  Each midway ticket a player has is worth 1 coin with the player who has the most tickets receiving a 2-coin bonus. Next, each of the 5 exhibit locations around the Ferris wheel is scored.  The player with the majority of cubes in an exhibit location receives 4 victory point tokens and the ability to exchange up to 3 of their main exhibit cards for the same number of approved exhibit tiles for this location’s color.  The player with the second most cubes in this location receives 2 victory point tokens and the ability to exchange 1 main exhibit card for one approved exhibit tile of this same location’s color.  No points or card exchanges are made for placing 3rd or 4th.  Only approved exhibit tiles, coins, and victory point tokens will be scored at the end of the game.  Having a set of each of the 5 colors of approved exhibit tiles is worth 15 victory point.  A set of 4 different colors is worth 10 victory point and on down to 1 point for a single color approved exhibit tile.  As you can see, it is important to place first or second on the exhibit locations in order to convert your non-scoring exhibit cards into scoring exhibit tiles.  The winner of the game is the player with the most points.

The decision where to play that 1 cube each turn isn’t as easy as it looks.  Is it better to grab influential figure abilities or exhibit cards?  Even if the cards look good in a location, is it a location that I can get a majority?  Then will I have enough exhibit cards of that
location to gain the approval tiles?  And finally, how fast do you want the Ferris wheel to turn?  Be careful where you place that 1 cube each turn.  It does make a difference.

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Game Profile: World’s Fair 1893

Step back in time and
experience the wonder of Chicago’s spectacular exposition!


Classification Family Game
Mechanics Area Control, Area Influence, Card Drafting, Set Collection
Publication Renegade Games, 2016
Ages 10+
Time 40
Players 2 – 4
Description
World’s Fair 1893 is an innocent looking game with a nice theme, 40 minutes of
game play and way more depth than you are expecting.  The object of the game is to score the most
points over the three rounds.  The timing
of the rounds is marked off on a Ferris wheel that makes up the center of the
board.  Player’s actions drive the speed
of the Ferris wheel.
A player’s turn is
straight forward.  Place one of their
player color cubes on one of the 5 exhibit locations that have been placed at
random around the Ferris wheel.  They can
then take any special action allowed by an influential figure card acquired on
a previous round.  The player then takes
all cards that have been placed at this exhibit location where they placed
their cube.  The number of cards at an
exhibit location can range from 1 to 4. 
These cards include:  influential
figures with a one-time special ability, midway tickets that drive the Ferris
wheel forward, and main exhibit cards that are used to build sets for game end
scoring.  All of the cards come out of one
deck.  So you’ll get a random mix of
cards at the various locations.  A player’s
turn concludes with drawing 3 new cards and placing them at various exhibit locations.
When the Ferris wheel
makes a full revolution, a scoring round ensues.  Each midway ticket a player has is worth 1 coin
with the player who has the most tickets receiving a 2 coin bonus.  Next, each of the 5 exhibit locations around
the Ferris wheel is scored.  The player
with the majority of cubes in an exhibit location receives 4 victory point
tokens and the ability to exchange up to 3 of their main exhibit cards for the
same number of approved exhibit tiles for this location’s color.  The player with the second most cubes in this
location receives 2 victory point tokens and the ability to exchange 1 main exhibit
card for one approved exhibit tile of this same location’s color.  No points or card exchanges are made for
placing 3rd or 4th.  Only approved exhibit tiles, coins, and
victory point tokens will be scored at the end of the game.  Having a set of each of the 5 colors of
approved exhibit tiles is worth 15 victory point.  A set of 4 different colors is worth 10
victory point and on down to 1 point for a single color approved exhibit tile.  As you can see, it is important to place
first or second on the exhibit locations in order to convert your non-scoring exhibit
cards into scoring exhibit tiles.  The
winner of the game is the player with the most points.
  
The decision where to
play that 1 cube each turn isn’t as easy as it looks.  Is it better to grab influential figure abilities
or exhibit cards?  Even if the cards look
good in a location, is it a location that I can get a majority?  Then will I have enough exhibit cards of that
location to gain the approval tiles?  And
finally, how fast do you want the Ferris wheel to turn?  Be careful where you place that 1 cube each
turn.  It does make a difference.


We have an open copy of World’s Fair 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, Cobble Hill, and Dowdle.

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

Game Events: Week of May 15th – 21st

Not only do we sell board games, we also provide tables and a library full of open 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. 

Board Game: Five Tribes

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 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. May 18th
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
Five Tribes
Days Of Wonder
A game of Flash Point: Fire Rescue in play.

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Open Game Play
Date: Fri. May 20th
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.

Seasons
Asmodee
Orleans
Tasty Minstrel Games

A game of Orleans in 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 puzzles from Ravensburger, White Mountain, Cobble Hill, and Dowdle.

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


Game Arrivals: Week of May 9th – 14th

Here is this week’s exciting game arrivals:




     New Game Arrival!
Sea Of Clouds
Iello
Choose your captain, it’s time to loot for treasures, relics, and rum in Sea of Clouds, a strategic set collection pirate card game from Iello.
      On each turn you will choose which pile of face-down loot cards to take and which your will leave to opponents. With each pile you pass up another card will be added to it for the next player. Do you take the first pile or hope there’s better loot in one of the next piles?
      Additionally, you’ll want to gather a crew of pirates armed with combat strength to aid you in victory and more spoils when each ship boarding phase occurs.
      The various treasure and relic cards provide victory points and/or effects.

Sea Of Clouds




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New Game Expansion!
T.I.M.E. Stories
Under The Mask
Asmodee/Space Cowboys
Under The Maske is the 3rd scenario to the base game, T.I.M.E. Stories,  a co-operative narrative board game.  Players live adventures in various worlds, through the eyes and characteristics of their character. They have to fight, search, discuss, and be clever and convincing to the characters they meet… and sometimes even the other agents.



With Under The Mask 1146 NT Scenario you will enter the Valley of Kings and unravel the pharaoh’s secret.

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      New Game Expansion!
Elder Sign
Grave Consequences
Fantasy Flight

Investigations take a dire turn with Grave Consequences, the latest expansion for Elder Sign. This 50 card expansion pack is divided into 3 modular decks that can be used together or separately:

Phobia cards give investigators lasting negative effects eating away at their sanity.
Epitaph cards build a tiny graveyard for the fallen and introduce random effects when an investigator has been devoured.
Epic Battle cards ramp up the difficulty and danger when battling the Ancient One.








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   New Game Arrival!
Kitty Paw
Renegade Games

Kitty Paw is the newest edition to our children’s selection of games.  Meow meow, this is a cute 15 to 30 minute card game aimed at kids 6 and older. 

What happens when seven cats run into cardboard boxes? Well, a crazy game of kitty hide-and-seek!

Kitty Paw is a dexterity and reaction game. Players try to be the first to complete the kitty combinations shown on the Kitty cards to score victory points (VP). The player with the most VP in the end wins. Each player gets one Kitty card in each round and tries to be the first to create the patterns shown on the cards. Since this is a recognize-and-react game, all players act simultaneously.

Kitty Paw

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     Game Arrival!
Dice City
AEG
Dice City is a dice-crafting game where the buildings and locations in your city become the faces of your dice as you roll them each turn.

Each player starts with a player board and five different colored dice that represent their individual city.  During the game, you will use your dice to activate locations in order to gather resources, armies, and build more powerful buildings. To do this you will roll your dice and assign each one to the corresponding space in your city.  Each color that corresponds to a dice has an associated row.  Each number that can be rolled on the dice has an associated column.  Hopefully, your dice will be friendly to you.
Adding buildings, defeating bandits, and exporting goods with trade ships can reward you with victory points.
Dice City

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     Game Arrival!
Terra
Bézier Games

Terra is a party/trivia game of general geographic information where being close counts.


Terra is played on a double-sided board that has the world map and  3 measurement tracks (year, distance, and population).  One side of the board uses USA measurements and the reverse side uses Metric measurements.  Similarly, the deck of 150 trivia cards are double-sided. The top of one of the trivia cards is revealed providing a topic, photo,and 3 questions. Players will take turn places their player color cubes on the board to identify their answers or guesses.  Score points for correct answers and for being adjacent to the correct answer.





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     Game Arrival!
Francis Drake
Eagle-Gryphon Games
Sail on the adventure of a lifetime in Francis Drake, a worker and ship placement strategy game.


As swashbuckling Elizabethan privateers, players are attempting to emulate the feats of Francis Drake on 3 voyages to the Caribbean heart of Spain’s New World.

     Before setting sail, players must first prepare for their voyages and compete with each other in Plymouth for the limited crew, guns, ships, pinnaces, supplies, and trade goods that will be needed.  Time is of the essence, as it is a race to provision our ships and leave Plymouth Harbor first.
     In the 2nd phase of each round, players will chart a course on the Spanish Main and complete up to 4 missions. You can take on the role of different personalities (Informer, Spanish Admiral, Governor, Queen, English investors, and Drake) to gain special abilities.
Francis Drake
Careful planning of your missions, the right acquisitions, astute strategical maneuvers, setting sail on the first available tide and a touch of Drake’s guile will lead to success over your rival captains.
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Other Restocks:

T.I.M.E. Stories – The Marcy Case Scenario
Dead Man’s Draw










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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 May 9th – 14th

Not only do we sell board games, we also provide tables and a library full of open 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 Saturday we have a New Game Splash Event that provides you the opportunity to learn about and play a featured new game by a Envoy game hearld.

Board Game: Eldritch Horror 

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 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. May 11th
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.

Letter Tycoon
Breaking Games
Rialto
Tasty Minstrel Games

A game of Rialto in play.

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Open Game Play
Date: Fri. May 13th
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.

Broom Service
Ravensburger
Eldritch Horror
Fantasy Flight

A game of Broom Service in play.
Watch this video from Fanstasy Flight for an overview of Eldritch Horror.

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New Game Splash – Free Event
Date: Sat. May 14th
Time: Noon – 5 pm

Place: Off The Charts Games Store


Steam Time
Kosmos

Powered by steam and driven by glory, Steam Time is an odyssey across the arc of civilization. A new game from Kosmos.



Steam Time is a worker (airship) placement game with a shifting central game board.  Each player has an individual airship player board that tracks their levels of steam, marks time, houses various crystals, gold, and their 3 airships. Players will use the combination of all of these resources to gain more of these resources and abilities to get points at end of game.







Envoy herald, Jeff will be on here to demo Steam Time and lead game play for those who want to give it a try.  Come and learn all about this new game.  It’s a free event and it’ll be fun. 

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 puzzles from Ravensburger, White Mountain, Cobble Hill, and Dowdle.

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