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Do you enjoy playing board games and looking for a place to find others that also enjoy playing? At Cole Street Game Vault in Enumclaw, WA we have several opportunities to meet up with others in the same boat!
All of our meet ups are open to everyone at any skill level. When we post in the event we'll note if we suggest watching a quick video tutorial of the game prior to attending or if the goal is a casual play group!
We get together every week on Monday evenings. The first week of every month is an Intro To Gaming series where we teach entry-level board games that use the building block mechanics that more complex games use, so new gamers can progress more into the hobby. The last Monday of every month is our Heavy Lifter's Club where a complex strategy game is chosen from our game vault for those members who'd like a chance to play a harder game they've never gotten a chance to, and to meet other gamers with a similar mindset when it comes to playing heavyweight games.
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See all- ObscurioCole Street Game Vault, Enumclaw, WA
Video Tutorial: https://youtu.be/lzXQU_AsOyc?si=ZgW7WErRDMdGXjKA
The Sorcerer is out to get you! Find your way among the illusions, but beware of the traitor in your ranks!
The Grimoire guides their team towards the exit using images, upon which they point at certain details. Working together, the other players have to find the exit as quickly as possible while avoiding picking the wrong cards. However, a member of the team is a traitor looking to lead the other players astray. A wide variety of traps are on your way to the exit of the library, making player communication harder!
Obscurio is a family game, an original mix between an image-based communication game and a secret role game in which the players have to be careful when sharing ideas with their team. Supported by rich contents, Obscurio proposes a fresh new experience in its genre by putting the emphasis on the details of the images and the constant doubt created by the presence of the traitor.
Communicate efficiently and avoid the illusions on your way to escape the Sorcerer's library! - ScovilleCole Street Game Vault, Enumclaw, WA
Video Tutorial: https://youtu.be/sBxntKrGgFU?si=75RHBjflvqw59NJB
The town of Scoville likes it hot! Very hot! That means they love their peppers – but they're too busy eating them to grow the peppers themselves. That's where you come in.
You've been hired by the town of Scoville to meet their need for heat. Your role as an employee of Scoville is to crossbreed peppers to create the hottest new breeds. You'll have to manage the auctioning, planting, and harvesting of peppers, then you'll be able to help the town by fulfilling their orders and creating new pepper breeds. Help make the town of Scoville a booming success! Let's get planting!
A round of Scoville consists of a blind auction, which determines player order, a planting phase, a harvesting phase, and a fulfillment phase. Each round, the players plant peppers in the fields. Throughout the game, the available opportunities for crossbreeding increase as more peppers are planted. When harvesting, players move their pawn through the fields, and whenever they move between two planted fields, they harvest peppers. If, for example, they harvest between fields of red and yellow peppers, they crossbreed those and harvest an orange pepper. Harvested peppers are then used to fulfill the town's peppery desires! - HorrifiedCole Street Game Vault, Enumclaw, WA
Video Tutorial: https://youtu.be/p4fB42w15Tw?si=WBr6hvvqE8TzyTgE
The stakes have been raised. Imagine living in a place so wretched that it's not plagued by one, two, or even three monsters — but seven of the most horrifying fiends!
In this game, you'll come face to face with them all as you work together to rid the town of the maniacal or misunderstood creatures…before it's too late.
Horrified includes high-quality sculpted miniatures (Frankenstein, The Bride of Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, Dracula, The Mummy, The Invisible Man, Creature from the Black Lagoon). Its innovative, easy-to-learn, cooperative gameplay has players working together against the monsters with varying levels of difficulty. Just as each monster is unique, they require different strategies and tactics to be defeated. - Dead of WinterCole Street Game Vault, Enumclaw, WA
Video Tutorial: https://youtu.be/6la-2F6EtyM?si=vviI-8tcsBhftg7j
"Crossroads" is a game series from Plaid Hat Games that tests a group of survivors' ability to work together and stay alive while facing crises and challenges from both outside and inside. Dead of Winter: A Crossroads Game, the first title in this series, puts 2-5 players in a small, weakened colony of survivors in a world in which most of humanity is either dead or diseased, flesh-craving monsters. Each player leads a faction of survivors, with dozens of different characters in the game.
Dead of Winter is a meta-cooperative psychological survival game. This means players are working together toward one common victory condition, but for each individual player to achieve victory, they must also complete their personal secret objective, which could relate to a psychological tick that's fairly harmless to most others in the colony, a dangerous obsession that could put the main objective at risk, a desire for sabotage of the main mission, or (worst of all) vengeance against the colony! Games could end with all players winning, some winning and some losing, or all players losing. Work toward the group's goal, but don't get walked all over by a loudmouth who's looking out only for their own interests!
Dead of Winter is an experience that can be accomplished only through the medium of tabletop games, a story-centric game about surviving through a harsh winter in an apocalyptic world. The survivors are all dealing with their own psychological imperatives, but must still find a way to work together to fight off outside threats, resolve crises, find food and supplies, and keep the colony's morale up.
Dead of Winter has players making frequent, difficult, heavily-thematic, wildly-varying decisions that often have them deciding between what's best for the colony and what's best for themselves. The rulebook also includes a fully co-operative variant in which all players work toward the group objective with no personal goals.