Game Events: Week of Nov. 2nd – 8th

Come
and join in on the fun at our weekly Open Game Play.  It’s a great way to meet
other game enthusiasts and to try out some games.
 Our Game
Library has a wide variety of games available for
play while you are here.

Here is this
week’s schedule:

Date: Weds. Nov 5th
Time: 6
pm

Place: Off
The Charts Games Store


Weds.
Suggested Games

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

Oddville
What’s Your Game?
Origin
Asmodee/Matagot



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Date: Fri Nov 7th
Time: 6
pm
Place: Off
The Charts Games Store

Fri. Suggested
Games
To learn
more about each featured board game click on the game name below it’s
picture.

Lords of Xidit
Asmodee
Village
Tasty Minstrel Games

Here is Dice Tower’s overview of Lords of Xidit
and 

Here is an overview of Village by Grey Elephant Gaming          
No
experience is necessary! We are happy to teach you the rules and get you
started.




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.

Game Arrivals: Oct. 26th – Oct. 31st



Here is this
week’s arrival of games:


New in are 2 more in the Timeline card game series
from Asmodee, Timeline American History and Timeline Americana. As
with the other themes in this series, each can be played as a stand-alone game
or combined with the other themes.

Timeline
 American History
Asmodee
Timeline
 Americana
Asmodee

The goal in Timeline is to be the
first to rid your hand of cards. A timeline is started in the center of the
table with a starting card date side up.  In turn players will select a card
from their hand only seeing the written historical event and places it before or
after a card already in the timeline.  The card is then flipped over and the
date is revealed.  If it is correctly placed in the timeline it remains.
 However, if it is not in the correct date sequence that card is discarded and
the player must take a card from the draw pile into their hand.  Be the first to
place all your cards and you win.


American History – Do you remember when Harvard College or NASA were founded? Was Watergate before Woodstock?  Put your knowledge of American history to the test.

Americana – Test your knowledge of America’s popular past.  Do you remember when the Red Sox traded Babe Ruth, or when Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic?  When was Route 66 established?

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In from Wizkids is Marvel Dice Masters Uncanny X-Men, a 2-player dice-building game.
Marvel Dice Masters
Uncanny X-Men
Wizkids

In Marvel Dice Masters Uncanny X-Men you will put together a team of Marvel super heroes made up of custom dice and character cards.  Your ultimate goal is to reduce your opponents’ life points to zero.  Throughout the course of the game you will roll your dice to see what resources you have available. You will need to collect energy, recruit new heroes from your collection, and send your team of super heroes into the field to strike at your opponent.  Can you build the more powerful super hero team?


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For fans of Munchkin and Love Letter, AEG and Steve Jackson Games have teamed together for Munchkin Loot Letter.

Munchkin Loot Letter
AEG

Munchkin Loot Letter is based on the award-winning world-wide hits Love Letter, by Alderac Entertainment Group, and Munchkin, by Steve Jackson Games. Loot Letter’s 16 cards provide hours of fun for kids and adults while they scramble to grab all the loot and leave their friends in the dust. Loot Letter also comes with an exclusive Munchkin carrying bag and an exclusive Munchkin game card.

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 Two new expansions arrived:

Revolution – Anarchy

Steve Jackson Games

With this expansion you can:

– Force the Warden to throw your enemies in jail.
– Blackmail the Heretic and take over the Asylum.
– Bribe the Anarchist… effects change every turn.

Additionally you can now have up to 6 players.
Dixit
Daydreams
Asmodee
This game expansion
contains 84 new cards
to enhance the surreal
world of Dixit.


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Restocks:
  • Civilization: Fame & Fortune
  • Civilization: Wisdom & Warefare


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check in for the latest in board games.
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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 Oct. 26th – Oct. 31st

Come
and join in on the fun at our weekly Open Game Play.  It’s a great way to meet
other game enthusiasts and to try out some games.
 Our Game
Library has a wide variety of games available for
play while you are here.
Here is
this week’s schedule:


Date: Weds. Oct 29th
Time: 6
pm

Place: Off
The Charts Games Store


Weds.
Suggested Games

To learn
more about each featured board game click on the game name below it’s
picture.
Sunrise City
Clever MoJo
Coal Baron
R&R Games


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Halloween Game
Night
Date: Fri Oct 31st
Time: 6
pm
Place: Off
The Charts Games Store

Fri. Suggested
Games
To learn
more about each featured board game click on the game name below it’s
picture.
Dead Panic
Fireside Games
Eldritch Horror
Fantasy Flight

Here’s Fantasy Flight’s video  overview of Eldritch Horror.    






No
experience is necessary! We are happy to teach you the rules and get you
started.




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.


Board Game Arrivals: Oct. 19th – 25th

More exciting
games arrived this week.






Newly released from Bézier Games is Subdivision, a sequel to the award winning game, Suburbia.  While Subdivision has a similar theme the game play is completely different.  Additionally, it is a lighter game and plays in a much shorter time – 30 to 45 minutes.  This is a game of master planning a community on a large tract of land.  Hex-shaped tiles are used to convert parcels into residential, luxury, commercial, civic, and industrial zones, and create lakes, parks, roads, sidewalks, and schools to improve a players’ Subdivision.

Subdivision
Bézier Games

This past March we saw
a prototype of Subdivision
at the game trade show
that we attended. We found
this game highly interesting.


Subdivision is a simultaneous-play tile-laying game in which each player is building their own community where the different areas work together harmoniously and efficiently.  

Through drafting and the roll of the Parcel die, players add Zone tiles to their Subdivision, activating other Zones and generating Improvements.  Those Improvements provide money and points, while slowly covering up as many parcels as possible.

Here is a game overview video by game designer Lucas Hedgren:


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Another new game in is Lords of Xidit from Asmodee. Fans of the game Seasons will recognize Lords of Xidit as it is set in the same Xidit universe.  While both games exist in the world of Xidit, the game play is completely different. 
Lords of Xidit
Libellud/Asmodee
What is refreshing and different about Lords of Xidit is it’s game mechanics and it’s end of game winning conditions.  A game of Lords of Xidit is played over the course of 12 rounds. At the beginning of each round players will secretly and simultaneously use a programming board with dials to select their 6 actions. The objective of the game is to accumulate the right amount of gold, castles, and influence to keep from being eliminated during final scoring.  After the 12th round, scores will be posted for the first of the 3 scoring elements.  Players who placed 4th and 5th place (in a 5-player game) are eliminated. Scores are then posted for the remaining players for the 2nd scoring element with the 3rd place player being eliminated.  Finally, scores are posted for the remaining players for the 3rd scoring element with the 2nd place player being eliminated leaving the winner as the last player standing.



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In celebration of Power Grid’s 10 anniversary, Rio Grande Games has released Power Grid deluxe.
Power Grid
Rio Grande Games
Description from Rio Grande Games:

Power Grid deluxe is based on the highly successful game Power Grid.  However, it is not simply the same game with bigger, better and more beautiful components, but rather a version made especially for the 10th anniversary.  Everything is bigger: the double-sided game board now offers all of North America and all of Europe, rather than just the USA and Germany.  The customized wooden parts offer actual generators for the players and different shapes for the resources, among them natural gas instead of garbage.  All the power plants have been changed and we added new resource refill cards to make refilling the resource table easier. 

The game is still Power Grid, with all the exciting auctions, the nerve-racking resource speculations, complex city networks and the tight competition among the players – all the way to the nail-biting end, as several players vie for the win.

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Android Netrunner
Up and Over
Fantasy Flight
Arriving
is the latest data pack for the base game Android
Netrunner, Up and Over.
This data pack contains 60 new cards designed to augment Corp and Runner decks.
Android Netrunner is a 2-player  asymmetrical card game. Hack into the future and change your reality, one run at a time.
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Restocks:
  • Eldritch Horror: Forsaken Lore



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check in for the latest in board games.
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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 Oct. 19th – 25th

Come
and join in on the fun at our weekly Open Game Play.  It’s a great way to meet
other game enthusiasts and to try out some games.
 Our Game
Library has a wide variety of games available for
play while you are here.



Here is this week’s schedule:

Date: Weds. Oct 22nd
Time: 6
pm

Place: Off
The Charts Games Store


Weds.
Suggested Games

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

Kingdom Builder
Queen Games
Kairo
Queen Games


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Date: Fri Oct 24th
Time: 6
pm
Place: Off
The Charts Games Store

Fri. Suggested
Games
To learn
more about each featured board game click on the game name below it’s
picture.

Trains
AEG
Alien Frontiers
Clever Mojo/Game Salute

No
experience is necessary! We are happy to teach you the rules and get you
started.




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.

Game Arrivals: Oct. 12th – 18th

Come
in and see what games are now in stock.


Following is a preview of the games and game expansions that came in this week:



Originally scheduled for a January 2015 release, La Isa arrived ahead of schedule.  This is the latest game from designer Stefan Feld (Bora Bora, Castles of Burgundy, Burges, Rialto, Amerigo and more).


La Isla
Ravensburger
In La Isa you have a team of 5 explorers that you will send to the tropical island of La Isla searching and collecting creatures considered extinct ages ago. You will play cards to perform special functions, receive key resources, and to score victory points for the creatures you have collected.  

The game board is made up of various shaped tiles placed randomly around a 10-sided central tile. There are 45 animal tokens consisting of 5 different types. Only 35 of the animal tokens will be in play in a given game. Each player will have a team of 6 figurine explorers one of which will be a scoring marker.









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Welcome aboard again!  AEG has released Trains: Rising Sun, a follow up to the original game Trains. While Trains Rising Sun is a stand-alone game it can also be combined with the original Trains for even greater combinations and game play.

Trains – Rising Sun
AEG

Like the original Trains, Trains: Rising Sun is a deck-building games where you are building the strongest system of rails. Your cards not only allow you to buy other cards to tune your deck, but they will also allow you to build train stations and rail lines along the game board. The goal of the game is to have the most powerful railway network. You accomplish this by collecting Victory Points from cards, railways, and stations.


In addition to the Nagoya map board for 2 to 4 players, included are 2 map boards designed specifically for 2-player games.

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Just in time for Halloween is Monster Fluxx from Looney Labs.

Monster Fluxx
Looney Labs

Let the monster mash begin.  Add some frightfully fun to your Fluxx game play.

This is a simple card game where everyone begins by drawing a card and then playing one card from their hand.  Seems simple enough.  But that’s just where the fun begins.  Monster Fluxx features monster themed cards that change the basic rules and object of the game creating ghoulish chaos.
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New game expansions include:

Firefly The Game
Blue Sun
Gale Force Nine

Includes new nav, job, and

supply, cards. Two additional
Reaver Cutters and new rules
put the ‘Verse on high alert.
Marvel Legendary
Guardians of the Galaxy
Upperdeck

Getting cosmic with this

expansion. Recruit all 5
Guardians to the game for
some new and amazing
game play.
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In our children’s game section these Ravenburger games arrived:



  • Spell It Out! – new.  Aimed at ages 4 and up this play and learn game develops letter association , spelling strategies, and reading & word recognition.  This game teaches kids which letters belong with which word.
  • Dream Cakes! – back in stock.  Also from Ravensburger, this is a game of creative cake-making aimed at ages 4 and up.  Create scrumptious looking cakes with beautiful mix-an-match pieces.
  • Labyrinth – back in stock. Aimed at ages 7 and up, this popular maze game of twists and turns gets you thinking on how to create a route to your quest while trying to hinder your opponents.  The cards will determine your quest. To create your route through the maze you will insert an extra tile that will move walls and open passages. You will move your player piece along your route stopping at a point that puts you either at your quest or in a position closer to your quest.



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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 Oct. 12th – 18th

Come
and join in on the fun at our weekly Open Game Play.  It’s a great way to meet
other game enthusiasts and to try out some games.
 Our Game
Library has a wide variety of games available for
play while you are here.



Here is this week’s
schedule:

Date: Weds. Oct 15th
Time: 6
pm

Place: Off
The Charts Games Store


Weds.
Suggested Games

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

Relic Runners
Days of Wonder
Revolution
Steve Jackson Games


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Date: Fri Oct 17th
Time: 6
pm
Place: Off
The Charts Games Store

Fri. Suggested
Games
To learn
more about each featured board game click on the game name below it’s
picture.

Downfall of Pompeii
Mayfair Games
Agricola
Z-Man Games

No
experience is necessary! We are happy to teach you the rules and get you
started.




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.

Game Arrivals: Oct. 5th – 11th

Here are this week’s game arrivals:




Newly released from Asmodee is Abyss, a development game of combination-building and set collection that takes place deep down in the lower depths of the ocean and co-designed by notable game creators Bruno Cathala (Five Tribes, Mr. Jack) and Charles Chevallier (Continental Express, Sultaniya).
Abyss
Asmodee
For centuries, creatures without peer have ruled
the depths of the oceans.  Their kingdom, Abyss, is respected by all their
allied nations, who are happy to receive protection from the fearsome monsters
of the deep.  But soon the throne of Abyss will be vacant… Why not claim
it for yourself?
In Abyss players must battle monsters, recruit
allies, and sway the great lords of the deep. The right hand of ally cards will
let you control the lords who will help you seize the kingdoms of the Abyss. Be
careful of your foes, though, because treachery abounds in the lands under the
sea.
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Also newly released is Flea Marketeers from Gut Bustin’ Games, a board game of wheeling, dealing, and stealing.  This is the perfect addition to local game creator Lisa Bowman-Steenson’s other games: Redneck Life, Trailer Park Wars, and Cheap Shot.
Flea Marketeers
Gut Bustin’ Games

In Flea Marketeers players compete to build up their own flea market area.  They will deal in Americana Treasure and resort to swindling the other Marketeers in the process.

Each player will have a price chart to use when buying and selling treasured items. Be mindful of the fact that an item of little value to you may be of great value to your opponent and vise versa. Additionally, Marketeer cards are played during the course of the game and can be beneficial or disrupt your opponent’s plans.

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Also new is AEG’s Lost Legacy: Flying Garden designed by Seiji Kanai and Hayato Kisaragi. Seiji Kanai is the game designer who created the card game, Love Letter.
Lost Legacy –
Flying Garden
AEG

Lost Legacy: Flying Garden is the 2nd in the Lost Legacy series – a card game of risk deduction, and luck stowed in a blue and silver velour pouch.

The game consists of 2 phases. The first phase of the game consists of playing your cards with the goal of eliminating your opponents and seeking to find the Lost Legacy card. The Investigation phase begins when the draw deck runs out in which eligible players get a shot at identifying the Lost Legacy card and thereby winning.

Both Lost Legacy:Starship and Lost Legacy: Flying Garden game can be played as a stand-alone or can be combined but using only one Lost Legacy card to create an even more interesting game and allowing up to 6 players.








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Restocks:



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Continue to
check in for the latest in board games.
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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 Oct. 5th – 11th

Come
and join in on the fun at our weekly Open Game Play.  It’s a great way to meet
other game enthusiasts and to try out some games.
 Our Game
Library has a wide variety of games available for
play while you are here.



This week
there will not be a Friday Game Night. Here is this week’s
schedule:


Date: Weds. Oct 6th
Time: 6
pm

Place: Off
The Charts Games Store


Weds.
Suggested Games

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

Viva Java: The Coffee
Dice Game
Dice Hate Me Games
Istanbul
AEG

No experience is necessary! We are happy to teach you the rules and get you
started.


Date: Fri. Oct. 10th
Place: Off The Charts Games Store
No Friday Game Night Tonight
We will be closing early this evening at 6 pm





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.

Most Popular Games: 3rd Quarter 2014 Results

For the
curious minded, we have tallied the numbers and the results are…..


The following is
this year’s list of our Top 10 Best Sellers for the 3rd quarter ended September 30th.
3. Settlers of Catan
Mayfair Games
4. Pandemic
Z-Man Games
5. & 6. Tie
5. & 6. Tie
Dixit
Asmodee
7. Redneck Life
Gut Bustin’ Games
8. & 9. Tie
Smash Up
AEG
8. & 9. Tie
Small World
Days of Wonder
10. King of Tokyo
Iello

Splendor and Boss Monster are the hottest new games. It was also a great quarter for the classics.  You can learn about each of these game by clicking on the game name beneath the picture.

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board games!
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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, Cobble Hill, and White
Mountain.

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