What we’re about
A group for playing modern hobby-style board games in the Tamaqua area, not for playing mass-market games like Monopoly, Exploding Kittens, or really anything from Parker Brothers & Milton Bradley. Modern hobby board games are generally less luck-driven and more tactical/strategic in nature.
Examples include...
Large-group games: Codenames, Spyfall, Just One, Skull, Tsuro, Sushi Go! Party, Wavelength, Mysterium, Monikers
Lightweight Euro-style games: Five Tribes, Istanbul, Viticulture, Lords of Waterdeep, Galaxy Trucker, Dead of Winter
Mid-weight Euro-style games: Russian Railroads, Root, Dominant Species, Terraforming Mars, Tesla vs. Edison, Scoville
Heavy-weight Euro-style games: Lisboa, Feudum, Leaving Earth, Pax Renaissance, Through the Ages
Splotter Games: Indonesia, Roads & Boats, Food Chain Magnate, Horseless Carriage, Bus, The Great Zimbabwe
Train Games: Age of Steam, Baltimore and Ohio, 18xx, Wabash Cannonball, South African Railroads
Abstract games like Hive, Patchwork, Onitama, Azul, Tiny Towns, Santorini
Card games: Dominion, Glory to Rome, Modern Art, Tichu
Dice games: King of Tokyo, Croatian YAMB, Can't Stop, Noch Mal So Gut!
Cooperative games: Yggdrasil, Healthy Heart Hospital, The Crew, Micro Macro
Family games: Carcassonne, The Settlers of Catan, Ticket to Ride, Splendor
Dexterity Games: KLASK, Crokinole, Beasts of Balance, Bausack, PitchCar, Tumblin' Dice
Role-playing games: Dungeons & Dragons, Fiasco, Gooey Cube, Call of Cthulhu
New and veteran gamers are welcome! The games played each night will generally cater to the general experience, skill level, and enjoyment of attendees present.
If you own a game and would like to bring it, please feel free to do so. However, certain games, such as Exploding Kittens, Unstable Unicorns, Cards Against Humanity, Apples to Apples, and Monopoly, will be shunned.
Unless stated otherwise, meetups are free to attend. Often, they are hosted by local businesses, so your patronage to support them is greatly appreciated and encouraged.
If you have ideas for nearby venues/locales for future events, even in the surrounding areas outside of Tamaqua, please let the Meetup group Organizer know.
Organizer: John Mattern
