Game Events: Week of May 1st – 7th

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: Bin’Fa: The Tao of War

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 4th
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.

Uchronia
Iello
Pandemic
Z-Man Games
A cooperative game of Pandemic in play.

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Open Game Play
Date: Fri. May 6th
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.
SubdivisionBézier Games
Bin’Fa: The Tao Of WarKen Hodkinson
A game of Subdivision 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 April 24th – 30th

New Game Arrival!
Quadropolis
Days Of Wonder
New and just in from Days Of Wonder is Quadropolis a great family city-building game for 2 to 4 players that plays in under an hour.

You are mayors of your own growing city and are competing to develop the most winning city. Over the course of four rounds you will send your architects to the main construction site for buildings to put in your developing city that include parks, shops, tower blocks, harbors, factories, and public services. Each building type has it’s own scoring method.  As soon as your architect takes a building from the construction site board you will place the Urbanist pawn on that spot thereby blocking that row and column of building tiles from the option available to the next player.

Which buildings and how they’re placed in your city will affect your end of game scoring. Some buildings when placed in your city will give you inhabitants and/or energy units which are necessary for activating your various buildings.  Buildings will need to be activated in order to score them. 


Quadropolis is a colorful game that includes two game modes – Classic and Expert, as well as a mini Playgrounds expansion.  The player boards and architect tiles are double-sided to accommodate the Classic and Expert play modes.

Learn more about this game in this video by Rodney Smith of Watch It Played






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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: April 24th – 30th

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. 
Additionally, Saturday – April 30th is International TableTop Game Day.  Learn more about this super fun event below.




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. Apr. 27th
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.

Gravwell
Renagade Games
Rialto
Tasty Minstrel Games

A game of Rialto in play.
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Open Game Play
Date: Fri. Apr. 29th
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.

Medieval Academy
Iello
Deus
Pearl Games

A game of Medieval Academy in play.
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Game Play Celebration
Date: Saturday, April 30th
Place: Off The Charts Games
Time: All Day starting at 10:00 am

Join us at Off The Charts Games for the 4th Annual International TableTop Game Day, a day dedicated to promoting board game fun worldwide.  Inspired and initiated by Wil Wheaton (actor Star Trek fame) and Felicia Day (actress, comedian, writer), people worldwide will come together for a day dedicated to playing board games.  Last year about 5,000 locations worldwide participated. We have participated in this event since it’s inception 4 years ago – this year being no exception. International TableTop Game Day is Saturday, April 30th. 


Gaming will be free and fun all day. We have a great Demo Game Library full of games you can choose to play. Or, bring in your favorite games and play.
No experience is necessary, we are happy to teach the rules and get you started. Bring your friends, bring your family. We’ll have refreshments and giveaways.









We’ve added a bunch of games to our already well stocked Demo Games shelves.
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 April 18th – 23rd

Here is this week’s exciting game arrivals:





    New Game Arrival!
Thunder & Lightning
Z-Man Gam

Thunder & Lightning is a 2-player card game set in Nordic mythology.  The Trickster Loki has stolen Odin’s crown. To aid his son Thor in battle against Loki, Odin has given Thor his prized ring of power.


Players will each take the role of Loki or Thor and meet in an epic battle to vie for control of these two valued objects.  Each will need to use strategy and cunning to defeat their opponent’s allies.  You may even need to risk your prized possession on the battlefield, lest your opponent finds it in your hand.
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  Reprisal of a Classic Game!
Bin’Fa: The Tao Of War
Ken Hodkinson
Originally published in 1977, this classic war game features a modular board, a little bit of dice rolling, a little resource management, and lots of tactics.  It was recently republished after a successful kickstarter campaign.

Bin’Fa: The Tao Of War is based upon ancient Chinese precepts of war.  Players will be in command of an army with the goal of eliminating all enemy forces from the battlefield.  Success depends on ensuring that armies maintain sufficient supplies to provide mobility and firing power.




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Restocks:



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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.

2016 Mensa Select Award Winning Games!

Congratulations to the recipients of this year’s Mensa Select Award!

Each year, members of Mensa meet over one weekend to play and rate the year’s newest board games. The top five games earn Mensa Select® distinction and may display the Mensa Select seal on their packaging. Look for the Mensa Select seal when purchasing games. 

The seal indicates that a game is original, challenging and well designed. Indirectly, it indicates that a game is original and creative in concept, challenging, a good value for the price, easy to comprehend and play, and, above all, fun!

 And the 2016 award-winning games are:


New York 1901
Blue Orange Games
A great family game about
shaping the historic skyline
of New York during the 1901
skyscraper boom.
Favor Of The Pharaoh

Build a dice-rolling
engine
with over 100 tiles and 20
standard and custom dice.
Manipulate and add dice to win.

World’s Fair 1893
Renegade Games
Coming in May!
With simple mechanics
and layers of depths,
collect exhibition sets,
admission tickets, and
control exhibition areas
as the ferris wheel ticks
away the game turns.
Circular Reasoning
Breaking Games
An abstract game where
players race to get all of
their tokens to the center of
a circular board which alters
as the game progresses.  This
impacts how players interact
and how they plan their win.
Last Spike
Columbia Games
Players cooperate to build
a continuous railway from
St. Louis to Sacramento but
will compete to accumulate the
most money before the last
spike is laid.



Past Mensa Select award winning games include Castles of Mad King Ludwig (2015) and Suburbia (2013) by Bézier Games, Lanterns (2015) and Gravwell (2014) by Renegade Games, Forbidden Desert (2013)and Forbidden Island (2010) by Gamewright, Pastiche (2011) by Eagle-Gryphon, and more.





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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 April 17th – 23rd

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 we have 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: Alien Frontiers

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. Apr. 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.

Broom Service
Ravensburger
Origin
Matagot/ Asmodee
A game of Broom Service in play.

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Open Game Play
Date: Fri. Apr. 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.

Wyatt Earp
Eagle-Gryphon Games
Alien Frontiers
Game Salute

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New Game Splash – Free Event
Date: Sat. Apr. 23rd
Time: Noon – 5 pm

Place: Off The Charts Games Store


Mow Money
Mayday Games

Welcome to Walkerville, a landscaper’s paradise of green grass and lush yards. 

Mow Money, an auction bid, set collection card game about yes …mowing lawns!
Spring is in the air and it’s time to fire up those lawn mowers and make some money.
In this clever game you and up to 5 other start-up landscaping companies will vie to grab up as many contracts as possible in an effort to build your business. Each player starts with a push mower and a dream to win the city contract. You will invest money to buy new Lawnmowers and Bid Cards which are necessary to win Contracts and gain victory points.

Mike will be on hand to demo and lead game play.  Come and learn all about this new game – get a game play in.   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.

Game Arrivals: April 11th – 16th

More cool games arrive in this week.



     New Game Arrival!
Nippon
What’s Your Game
From designers Paulo Soledade and Nuno Bizarro Sentieiro (Panamax and Madeira) comes Nippon a fast-paced area control, economic game with challenging decisions.
The theme is Japan during the period when the country transitioned from military controlled isolation to a modern westernized industrial economy. Conglomerates began diversifying their influence and power, and building a complex structure of interconnected companies that would make them giant players in the world’s new industrial era. Each player takes the reins of one of these big corporations and tries to develop it in order to grow and achieve power.




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     New Game Arrival!
Onitama
Arcane Wonders
Onitama is a 2-player quick-playing abstract strategy game that captures the essence of martial arts.  Each player will have 1 Master pawn and 4 Student pawns with which to maneuver around the board with the goal of either capturing the opponent’s Master pawn (the Way of the Stone) or by having your Master pawn land on the opponent’s Temple Arch space (the Way of the Stream). From the 16 available movement cards 5 cards will be drawn at random.  Only these 5 movement cards will  be used during the game.  Each card depicts a movement pattern from which a player will use to maneuver around the board.
Onitama is the next game in the
Dice Tower Essentials games line.

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     New Game Arrival!

Mow Money
Mayday Games



Mow Money, an auction bid, set collection card game about yes …mowing lawns!


Welcome to Walkerville, a landscaper’s paradise of green grass and lush yards. 
Spring is in the air and it’s time to fire up those lawn mowers and make some money.




In Mow Money you and up to 5 other start-up landscaping companies will vie to grab up as many contracts as possible in an effort to build your business. Each player starts with a push mower and a dream to win the city contract. You will invest money to buy new Lawnmowers and Bid Cards which are necessary to win Contracts and gain victory points.





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     New Game Arrival!
Munchkin Marvel
Steve Jackson Games
and USAopoly

Munchkin Marvel is the newest edition in Steve Jackson Games popular Munchkin card game series.

Munchkin Marvel blends the excitement of whacking monsters and grabbing treasures with the iconic characters from the Marvel universe.  You’ll not only have treasure and armor, lots of monsters to slay, but also Allies, Affiliations, Powers, and oversized S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Role cards.  Get ready it’s going to be an epic Marvel battle!
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New Game Expansion!
Munchkin Puppies
Expansion Pack
Steve Jackson Games

Munchkin Puppies is the latest blister pack expansion for the popular card game, Munchkin.

The dogs of war aren’t just loose… they’re adorable too. Get your chew toys and your armor ready, because their bite if far worse than their bark.

Munchkin Puppies contains 30 new cards to teach your old deck new tricks.









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Return of the Abstracts!
Quarto
Gigamic

16 pieces with 4 different
attributes. Line up 4 pieces
of the same attribute to win.
Your opponent chooses the
piece you must play!
Quoridor
Gigamic

The goal is to reach the other
end 1st. Players will put up
fences to block each other’s

way. Who will find the shortest
way out!
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More Restocks:


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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 April 10th – 16th

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: Pandemic

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. Apr. 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.
Pandemic
Z-Man Games
Tzolk’in
Rio Grande Games

Watch our video for an overview to Tzolk’in.



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Open Game Play
Date: Fri. Apr. 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.

Sunrise City
Game Salute
Rococo
Eagle-Gryphon Games

A game of Rococo 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 Apr. 3rd – 9th

Here is this week’s exciting game arrivals:


     New Game Arrival!
Bullfrogs
Renegade Games

Cute looking with lily pad cards and bullfrog meeples, Bullfrogs is a quick area control game of tactical combat.  Players take command of competing frogs clans in an attempt to outmaneuver each other for dominance over the pond.

You will battle for lily pads by deploying, sabotaging and jumping frogs on an ever-changing pond of lily pads.













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     New Game Arrival!
Loot N Run
iello
Loot N Run is a light press-your-luck with a little bluffing card game.

In a game of Loot N Run you are trying to score as points as you can.  You do this by either collecting and hopefully scoring your treasures or by awakening potential monster guardians on your opponents treasure cards.

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    New Game Expansion!
Epic Card Game
Tyrants Expansion Packs
White Wizard Games
Tyrants is the first expansion to the base game, Epic Card Game, a strategy card game of mythic battles.

Harsh tyrants have come to power, ruling the world of Epic with an iron fist.  There are four types of 13-card nonrandom Tyrants packs to choose from:

Helion’s Decit – this great mage has seized power at the Forbidden Citadel and is manipulating events all the way from the city of Covenant to the Dargothian Mountains.
Draka’s Rage – reigns supreme in the Dargothian Mountains and those who don’t submit to his rule risk a fiery death.
Raxxa’s Revenge – this demon tyrant is summoning his minions to spread destruction and solidify his power.
Markus’ Command – enforces his harsh brand of justice on the people of Covenant, rumors of a rebel leader have begun to inspire the masses to fight back.
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Restocks:
  • Epic Spell Wars: Duel At Mt. Skullzfyre
  • Epic Spell Wars: Rumble At Castle Tentakill



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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.

Most Popular Games: 2016 1st Quarter Results

For curious minded folks, we have tallied the numbers and below are Off The Charts Games’ Top 12 Best Sellers for the 1st quarter ended March 31st.


And the winners are….
To learn about the game just click on the game name below it’s picture.

1. Splendor
Space Cowboys
2. Ticket To Ride
Days Of Wonder


3. & 4. Tie
Catan
Mayfair Games
3. & 4. Tie
Pandemic
Z-Man Games

5. & 6. Tie
Codenames
Czech Games Edition
5. & 6. Tie
Dead Mans Draw
Mayday Games
7. Wrath Of Dragons
Catalyst Game Labs
8. Sushi Go
Gamewright
9. Elder Sign
Fantasy Flight
10. & 11. Tie
Batman Fluxx
Looney Labs
10. & 11. Tie
7 Wonders Duel
Asmodee
12. Sheriff Of Nottingham
Arcane Wonders

Classic or new these are all great games.  Come in and find out more about these games. Many are open and available to try out while you are here.

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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.