Boardgames

These scheduled games will all accommodate new players as well as the experienced.
Novice players are welcome and all rules will be taught.

A Game of Thrones: 2nd Edition
(Note: This game is likely to extend into the next slot)
Teacher: Susan Scott
Slot: 7

Amul
Greetings, weary traveler. We are pleased that you have taken refuge with our caravan. While we wait out the sandstorm, perhaps we can pass an hour or so by playing Amul? It is a drafting game wherein you must take a card from the market but also contribute one each turn, resulting in an ever-shifting assortment of goods. You must carefully manage both your face-up collection and the cards kept hidden in your hand until the game concludes. I should also note that the last traveler who took advantage of our hospitality scoffed at the idea and demanded to know why he should learn such a game when he could simply play 7 Wonders for the four hundred and eighty-fifth time instead. Naturally, we tossed him head-first into the camel dung pit and left him for the desert jackals. We'll be setting up over here should you wish to join us.
Teacher: Eric Clark
Slot: 4 (late night!)

Ancient Civilizations of the Inner Sea
Rumble in the Mediterranean! This is not your village elder's slow and steady trading-fish-for-cloth civilization game. This is rock-'em-sock-'em empires, an ever-fluctuating area control affair with asymmetric factions and oodles of unique cards. Are the foul-smelling barbarians from across the sea forcing you to take That? Don't go crying to Zeus; simply choose a plague, an earthquake, or a pirate fleet from your hand and give That right back. When the gods have finished laughing at our pitiful mortal struggles, we will tally up the victory points and determine a winner.
Teacher: Eric Clark
Slot: 6

Ankh: Gods of Egypt
Pick an Egyptian God and fight to stay relevant in the world in this Asymmetric area control game. Players share the same action board to take up to 2 actions and activate events that drive the game towards combat events. Timing is everything in this beautiful deluxe “dudes on a map” area control game.
Teacher: Kyle Gleason
Slots: 1 SOLD OUT, 9 SOLD OUT

Anno 1800
Fulfill the wishes of your population by producing ever more luxurious goods. A game of production trees where you produce low-level goods to chain up to producing various luxury goods in order to fulfill demand cards.
Teacher: Chris Broggi
Slot: 2 SOLD OUT

Ark Nova
In Ark Nova, you will plan and design a modern, scientifically managed zoo, with over 255 possible animal cards. The ultimate goal of owning the most successful zoological establishment, in both accommodating animals and supporting conservation projects all over the world. Each player has a set of five action cards to manage their gameplay, and the power of an action is determined by the slot the card currently occupies.
Teacher: Dustin Gervais
Slots: 3 SOLD OUT, 7 SOLD OUT

Arkham Horror (second edition)
An ancient one is stirring in his slumber, while the cultists are eager to hasten his awakening. You are in 1926 Arkham Massachusetts, roving the city to defeat monsters and collect items and clue tokens that will allow you to succeed at putting the ancient one to rest. Explore other dimensions and seal the mystical gates so other-worldly monsters will be banished from this world!
Teacher: Nicholas Gauthier
Slot: 1

Axis & Allies Anniversary Edition
1980’s classic historical wargame taken to the next level with expanded map, factions, and units! Who will win WWII this time around? (PLEASE NOTE: this game will likely extend into the following slot)
Teacher: Mathew Daigle
Slot: 3

Bang!
Be the last one standing in this wild-west shootout game with hidden roles.
Teacher: Aimee Toms
Slot: 3

Barrage
Harness the flow of snowmelt rivers with your dams, to generate the power needed to win. This game is all strategy!
Teacher: Mathew Daigle
Slot: 6 SOLD OUT

Bequest
Aspiring supervillains squabble over the estate of the recently departed Dr. Schism!
Teacher: Carl Olson
Slot: 10

Betrayal at House on the Hill
Explore a haunted house as a team … until one of you turns traitor!
Teacher: Aimee Toms
Slot: 8 (late night!)

Beyond the Sun
Beyond the Sun is a space civilization game in which players collectively decide the technological progress of humankind at the dawn of the Spacefaring Era, while competing against each other to be the leading faction in economic development, science, and galactic influence.
Teacher: Alan Stern
Slot: 5 SOLD OUT
Teacher: Jeff Kochosky
Slot: 7 SOLD OUT

Blood on the Clocktower
Blood on the Clocktower is a bluffing game where the good players outnumber the evil players. The goal is to find and execute the demon before all of the good players are killed. The game is run by a Storyteller whose job is both to make sure each game is interesting and also to keep the game running smoothly. This game is the next step forward in the social deduction/hidden role genre!
Teacher: Jim Eiche
Slots: 3, 6, 7, 8

Boonlake
Alexander Pfister's latest opus, Boonlake is a rather sprawling game of settling a remote area, building up your settlements, earning bonuses (and victory points), with a wide variety of ways to get there. The interesting action selection mechanism means you're always involved on every player's
Teacher: Linda Baldwin
Slot: 5
Teacher: Todd Dyer
Slot: 9 SOLD OUT

Brass: Birmingham
Be a baron in this Martin Wallace Classic. Play through two eras of the British industrial revolution in this challenging euro game where maximization is key. Build industries tiles with resources that can be used by all players and sell of resource industries to rack in victory points in this heavy Euro.
Teacher: Kyle Gleason
Slot: 10 SOLD OUT

Burncycle
01101000 01101001 robot agent, the time to pull off a heist against the megacorps has arrived. We've done all of the planning. It is your job to execute. Manage your network activity, don't make too much noise, and break into the building. I've said too much over this unsecure channel, meet at 41.55316264055162, -73.0406364730884, at 1665162000000 Unix epoch time.
Teacher: David Spinetti
Slot: 2 SOLD OUT

Bus
Develop a network of public transportation in a quickly expanding city and help the busy residents travel between their houses, the office, and most importantly: the pub! Your job in this classic Splotter game will be to develop an efficient bus line that takes as many passengers as possible to the place they want to be... and to not let the time-space continuum rupture and the universe collapse.
Teacher: Mica Reina
Slot: 2

Carcassonne - The Falcon Mega Challenge!
The classic tile-laying game with a whole bunch of expansions!
Teacher: Chris Brennan
Slot 6

Carnegie
Carnegie was inspired by the life of Andrew Carnegie. Although he started his career as a telegraphist, his role as one of the major players in the rise of the United States‘ steel industry made him one of the richest men in the world. During the game you will recruit and manage employees, expand your business, invest in real estate, produce and sell goods, and create transport chains across the United States. During each round, the active player will choose one of four actions, which the other players may follow. The winner is the player who builds the most prestigious company.
Teacher: Alan Stern
Slot: 9 SOLD OUT

Cascadia
Take turns expanding your terrain and populating it with wildlife. Each turn, you draft a pair of 1 tile and 1 animal to add to your tableau. Each type of animal scores in a different way. You also earn points for matching terrain with the possibility of a bonus if you have the largest or second largest group. Who can construct the best habitat? Let's find out!
Teacher: Alan Stern
Slot: 10

Castles of Burgundy
One of Stefan Feld‘s best games, this is the 2019 reprint with 10 expansions included. Roll dice, compete for limited resources, manage your tableau and actions - a little luck, and a lot of strategy, plenty of fun!
Teacher: Mathew Daigle
Slot: 2

Circadians: Chaos Order
(note: this game may extend into the following slot)
Teacher: Kyle Gleason
Slot: 3 SOLD OUT

Clinic: Deluxe Edition
The classic, brain-burning hospital sim gets an upgrade and wide distribution. Manage your own clinic, try to stay afloat, and become the most popular clinic in town, but beware -- other clinics are competing for patients, doctors, and even treatment facilities. This is a very crunchy game (and may run a trifle long.)
Teacher: Linda Baldwin
Slot: 9

Coffee Traders
Teacher: Todd Dyer
Slot: 3 SOLD OUT

Cooper Island
Teacher: Todd Dyer
Slot: 1

Dead Reckoning
Card crafting meets 4X! Sail the seas while upgrading the cards in your deck to get more powerful abilities. Explore islands and place influence or attack other players trying to sink their ships.
Teacher: Chris Broggi
Slot: 3

Detective Rummy
A new game by Mike Fitzgerald and Ralph H. Anderson. It is an evolution from Mike Fitzgerald's Mystery Rummy series and is a rummy-style card game with a storytelling element revealed in a series of 7 different cases. Players take the roles of detectives vying to solve the cases to gain fame. *note* a number of other prototypes will be available to sample after the game is through!
Teacher: Ralph Anderson (the Designer!)
Slots: 3, 6, 10

Dice Town
Make the best hand of poker to come out on top in this wild west dice chucking game!
Teacher: Aimee Toms
Slot: 10

Dune Imperium
Dune Imperium is a blend of two very popular mechanisms, worker placement and deckbuilding created by the team that brought you Clank! Play as your favorite character in the movie as you trade spice and water to become the ruler of Arrakis. Rise of Ix expansion included
Teacher: Mason Sokol
Slot: 3 SOLD OUT

Dungeons, Dice, and Danger
Try to kill all the monsters before your opponents do in this roll and write game from Richard Garfield (yes, THAT Richard Garfield!). Go through all four dungeons of increasing difficulty. Each dungeon takes about 40 minutes
Teacher: Nicholas Gauthier
Slot: 4 (late night!)

Echidna Shuffle
Teacher: Heidi Hull
Slot: 3

Eclipse: Second Dawn for the Galaxy
A smooth 4x game - Explore, Expand, Exploit, Exterminate - will your reborn space empire come out on top when the end begins?
Teacher: Mathew Daigle
Slot: 7

Escape the Room: Cursed Dollhouse
Teacher: Eric Summerer
Slot: 3 SOLD OUT

Everdell
This is a game played through the four seasons of the year, starting in winter to build a beautiful 15-card city filler with forest critters (mice, hares, hedgehogs) and structures that make the city sing in excitement. The player to create the most efficient way to manage resources, workers, card combination and use of the each season's qualities will be the best city builder in the land of Everdell.
Teacher: Lily Chin
Slot: 9

Fische Frikken Frupadellen
Fische Fluppen Frikadellen is the best economic game from famed designer Friedmann Friese. You run around an island buying and selling various goods to become the first player to collect 3 tiki dolls. Twist is this game can be played with up to 15 players on 3 separate boards where you can travel from one board to another if the current market isnt to your liking. Grab some friends because you dont want to be the one that caused us to only have a 14 player game.
Teacher: Mason Sokol
Slot: 7

Food Chain Magnate
YOU are in charge of the next great food service empire! All you need to do is advertise. And hire cooks. And waitstaff. And delivery guys. And an HR department. Not to mention keep those jokers up the street from poaching your customers. In this dice-free resource management game, you will produce your chosen food and drink, hire the employees you need to keep your business afloat, and market your delicacies to the town to make sure those folks keep coming back for more. In the end, the franchise that outsells the opposition will win the day.
Teacher: Mica Reina
Slot: 6

Forgotten Waters
Work together as the crew of a pirate ship to complete a nautical quest in this app-driven adventure game. While you are all working together, each player is also trying to earn the most personal glory!
Teacher: Nicholas Gauthier
Slot: 2 SOLD OUT

Foundations of Rome
Rome wasn't built in a day, but that's because its citizens insisted on using bricks, marble, and other unwieldy materials. No wonder they vanished from history so quickly! In the gloriously overproduced Foundations of Rome, two to five players will take a far more sensible approach to city-building by competing for land plots and filling them with beautiful, easy-to-manage plastic structures. In the process, they will generate money, victory points, and fierce debate about the relative merits of cardboard tiles. The most successful player will be awarded both the title of Plasticus Maximus and the singular honor of hauling this 21-pound game back to its owner's vehicle or hotel room, depending on the slot.
Teacher: Mindy Kyrkos
Slot 8 (late night!)
Teacher: Eric Clark
Slot: 10 SOLD OUT

GI Joe Deck-Building Game
Teacher: Eric Summerer
Slot: 10 SOLD OUT

Golem
Teacher: Todd Dyer
Slot: 2

Grand Prix
A Formula 1 auto racing game using the same basic system as Thunder Alley with small modifications. Players compete using a team of two cars plus neutral cars depending on the number of players.
Teacher: Chris Broggi
Slot: 7

Great Western Trail
Teacher: Susan Scott
Slot: 2

Hadrian's Wall
In Hadrian's Wall, players take on the role of a Roman General placed in charge of the construction of a milecastle and bordering wall. Over six years (rounds), players will construct their fort and wall, raise defenses, and attract civilians by building services and providing entertainment. Using a "flip and write" mechanic, each player will have two sheets to mark in by spending precious workers in a variety of colors, representing various aspects of the period.
Teacher: Dustin Gervais
Slot: 6 SOLD OUT

Hastilude
Train and equip your knights to earn victory points by entering into jousting tournaments or by completing quests. Use your workers to help aid your knights. Hastilude is a euro style worker placement game with resource management.
Teacher: George Nebesnik (the Designer!)
Slots: 7, 9, 10

Harry Potter Hogwarts Battle
Teacher: Noah Summerer
Slot: 5

Icecool
Teacher: Noah Summerer
Slot: 7

Isle of Cats
Rescue as many cats as you can before the evil Lord Vesh comes to destroy them in this polyomino cat-placement game. You will hopefully draft the cats you need to fill your boat, organize them into families and earn some bonus tiles with the goal of scoring the most points.
Teacher: Don Sutherland
Slot: 6

It's a Wonderful World
Two to seven players draft questionable projects in their competition to become the most successful dystopia in the world of a few hours from now. Will incorporate the Corruption and Ascension expansion, which adds no additional weight to the rules.
Teacher: Dave Lartigue
Slot: 3

John Company (Second Edition)
Promise and cajole your way to the top whilst running the East India Company. John Company is a semi-cooperate negotiation game where players assume roles within the company.
Teacher: Imran Ghare
Slot: 6 SOLD OUT

King of Tokyo
It's a fight to the death when giant monsters battle over Tokyo in this dice-roller.
Teacher: Aimee Toms
Slot: 7

Libertalia: Winds of Galecrest
The new Stonemaier Games’ re-implementaion of the classic Libertalia. Simultaneously select player cards with different abilities to divide up loot. Will you walk away with a treasure chest or a cursed relic?
Teacher: Chris Broggi
Slot: 10 SOLD OUT

Lost Ruins of Arnak
Lost Ruins of Arnak takes place on an uninhabited island in uncharted seas, where explorers have found traces of a great civilization. Now you will lead an expedition to explore the island, find lost artifacts, and face fearsome guardians, all in a quest to learn the island's secrets. Lost Ruins of Arnak combines deck-building and worker placement in a game of exploration, resource management, and discovery.
Teacher: Dustin Gervais
Slot: 9

Maglev Metro
Everyone, humans and robots alike, needs to get around the city! The best way to do this is to have 2-4 competing subway systems hollow out the ground beneath them! Can you customize your train to run more efficiently and score more points?
Teacher: Dave Lartigue
Slot: 5 SOLD OUT

Mechs vs. Minions
Good Morning Yordles! Now is your chance to pilot some of the best Minion Exterminating Chaotic Hmm *inaudible word fudging* or MECHs for short. Exterminate minions, drag crystals, narrowly avoid being blown up by a bomb. Come on down to Rumble's mech school where you are perfectly safe and no one said anything about bombs. Draft cards with friends, program your MECHs and WIN THE GAME!!!
Teacher: David Spinetti
Slot: 3

Menace Among Us
Teacher: Carl Olson
Slot: 6

Mechs vs. Minions
Teacher: David Spinetti
Slot: 5 SOLD OUT

Merchants of Venus - Super Colossal Falcon Edition
Explore strange news worlds...and sell them your junk! The classic pick up and deliver game, Merchant of Venus, gets a Mega Makeover this year with a huge custom board. Deliver your megalith paperweights in style.
Teacher: Keith Corbino
Slots: 2 SOLD OUT, 7

Mice and Mystics
Teacher: Noah Summerer
Slot: 10

Mission to Planet Hexx
Mission to Planet Hexx is a light to medium, card game where you build a game board/map of the universe out of space and planet cards, then race your opponents to be the first to complete your Mission File, (your own personal scorecard). The game contains map building, dice rolling, traditional card game play, and elements of "take that", as it simulates your role as a newly minted space cadet. The game is for 2-4 players, ages 10 & up and should last 30-90 minutes, depending on the number of players. If you are interested, you can play a second session and try out the upcoming expansion, Beyond Mission to Planet Hexx, coming in 2023.
Teacher: James Fitzpatrick (the Designer!)
Slot: Saturday, 10-6 in the open gaming area. No advance sign-up required

My Father's Work
Continue the course of a mad scientist over 3 generations in this worker placement, tablue building game with 3 seperate senarios and a full narrative app. The game is competitive for 2-4 players as you try to create your ultimate scientific goal. It could be anything from a time machine to lycanthropy.
Teacher: Elliot Kravitz
Slot: 2 SOLD OUT

Nemesis
Sci-fi survival horror at its finest! Nemesis is a cooperative or semi-cooperative game in which you and your crewmates must survive on a ship infested with hostile organisms. To win, you have to complete one of the two objectives dealt to you at the start of the game and get back to Earth in one piece. As you move around the ship, you generate noise which eventually attracts the attention of the aliens. The game lends itself to big cinematic moments and dramatic scenes. Can you escape the carnage and survive?
Teacher: Alan Stern
Slot: 2 SOLD OUT

Now or Never
You and up to three other people will compete to build the best village out of the ruins of the old one. Beware the many monsters that lurk in various places across the land and try to maximize your victory points by careful strategizing.
Teacher: Nicholas Gauthier
Slot: 6

On Mars
Be a part of the first Martian colony, striving to be the best contributor in this Vital Lacerda game.
Teacher: Alejandro Silva
Slot: 6 SOLD OUT

Overboss
Teacher: Carl Olson
Slot: 8 (late night!)

Picture Perfect
Your job: take a group photo of some wealthy clients. Your problem: everybody has their own idea about where they want to stand, who they want to stand next to, and everything else. You can't make everybody happy -- probably -- especially if you don't know what they want. This is essentially a competitive, interactive 3D logic puzzle, and an awful lot of fun.
Teacher: Linda Baldwin
Slot: 1

Poetry for Neanderthals
Poetry for Neanderthals is a competitive guessing game where you want your team to guess the word, but here's the catch– you can only speak in single syllables! Your word is lipstick, so normally you'd describe it as facial makeup that goes on your mouth, right? Instead, you tell your team: nice face goo on mouth is red– and hope for the best. Speak good, or get hit with the NO! stick– can you tap into your Neanderthal brain to bring home the most points?
Teacher: Aimee Tomms
Slot: 4

Power Grid: Middle East/South Africa
The classic economic game Power Grid with either the Middle East or South Africa map (the map used will be chosen by the players at game time). In the Middle East, oil is very dominant at the start and declines in step 2 and 3. In South Africa, coal is more plentiful and there are connections to external countries.
Teacher: Chris Broggi
Slot: 6

Prophecy
In this cooperative fantasy game, take the role of an adventurer and search the wilderness for the items and stat buffs that will let you challenge the astral realms. Upon defeating the guardians, you will acquire the five magical artifacts and wrest victory from the jaws of defeat! Play as one of six fantasy races and ten classes.
Teacher: Nicholas Gauthier
Slot: 3

Red Cathedral
Teacher: Carl Olson
Slot: 7 SOLD OUT

Return to Dark Tower
In this game that hails back to the original Dark Tower from 1981, you and up to three other players from the various kingdoms must band together to defeat the adversary that lurks in the titular tower. But it won't be easy! Monsters and random events will try to stop you. The game uses an associated app.
Teacher: Jeff Kochosky
Slot 3 SOLD OUT
Teacher: Nick Gauthier
Slot: 5 SOLD OUT
Teacher: Eric Summerer
Slot: 9 SOLD OUT

Russian Railroads
A lovely worker placement game with a railroad theme, expand your rail lines, or industrial track for victory and glory!
Teacher: Mathew Daigle
Slot: 10 SOLD OUT

Scythe
Use workers and mechs to gather resources and exert control in this alternate history world. While there is combat between players, it is more the threat of combat that influences your actions.
Teacher: Chris Broggi
Slot: 5

Spirit Island
This is an introductory game of one of the hottest co-op games in recent years, which turns all those colonization games on their heads. You are spirits residing peacefully on an island which is being invaded by men in very big boats, and it's up to you and the timid natives to destroy them, or at least frighten them into leaving. Each spirit plays very differently, meaning you need real teamwork to deal with this crisis. If you're curious about Spirit Island, this is your chance to try it out
Teacher: Linda Baldwin
Slot: 2 SOLD OUT

Star Trek: Ascendancy
In this 4X space game based on Star Trek, you will play one of the various factions in a race to be the first one to reach five Ascendancy, or to conquer enough enemy home worlds as an alternative win condition. Explore new worlds, build starship fleets and attempt to either persuade other planets to join you peacefully or make them join you through show of force (Note: this game may extend into the following slot)
(Note: this game may extend into the following slot)
Teacher: Nicholas Gauthier
Slot: 7

Stop Thief!
Teacher: Noah Summerer
Slot: 2

Stroganov
Push your way eastwards over the Urals to explore Siberia. The player who most impresses Ivan the Terrible by amassing the most Glory/VP wins this new worker placement game.
Teacher: Elliot Kravitz
Slot: 1

Terra Mystica
Each player will be a representative of mythical races including dwarves, halfings and witches whom have different abilities they will use to build the best city(s) in a shared world with other factions. You will use workers, money, magic and shipping to gain influence of the land, elements and keys to your city to be the winner that takes it all
Teacher: Lily Chin
Slot: 5

Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition
A new take on Terraforming Mars as it becomes an action selection game where the only actions you get to do are the ones that you and the other players choose. The goal however is still the same, to raise the temperature, oxygen and water levels on Mars and score the most points doing so by the end of the game.
Teacher: Don Sutherland
Slot: 7

Transformers Deck-Building Game
Teacher: Eric Summerer
Slot: 5 SOLD OUT

Unfathomable
Find the traitors amongst the crew to help ensure the SS Atlantica makes it to Boston. Unfathomable is a semi-cooperative game with hidden traitors and is based off Battlestar Galactica.
Imrhan Ghare
Slot: 7 SOLD OUT

Unsettled
Unsettled is a cooperative survival game set in the bizarre and wondrous reaches of an unexplored planet in deep space. There are no enemies and no combat, only an environment where every step, every breath, every particle around you could mean immediate, terrifying, death.
Teacher: Matthew Monin
Slot: 5

We're Doomed
Teacher: Carl Olson
Slot: 4 (late night!)

Whale Riders
Do you miss the smooth, unfussy Euro games of yesteryear? Well, stick this in your blowhole: Whale Riders, an arguably newish release from, dare I say it, good old Reiner Knizia. Two to six players will travel to and fro, acquire cards, say "I wanted that card," and fulfill contracts for pearls (points) and gold (money, believe it or not). After an hour or so of fast–paced gameplay punctuated by admonitions to "stop your blubbering," we can declare a winner, pick the plankton from our teeth, and have the obligatory conversation about how they don't make 'em like this anymore…putting aside the fact that, sometimes, they do.
Teacher: Eric Clark
Slot: 8 (late night!)

Wingspan
In Wingspan, players are bird enthusiasts—researchers, bird watchers, ornithologists, and collectors—seeking to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves. Wingspan is a competitive, medium-weight, card-driven, engine-building board game from Stonemaier Games. It's designed by Elizabeth Hargrave and features over 170 birds illustrated by Beth Sobel, Natalia Rojas, and Ana Maria Martinez.
Teacher: Jeff Kochosky
Slot 6