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Atomic Squash Game Schedule

Last Updated : 05/007/2026

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Event Code	Day	Start Time	Name	Game System	Game Company	Type	GM	Description
1DC26A	Friday	2:00 PM	It's a Wonderful World	It's a Wonderful World	Blackrock Games	Board	Atomic Squash	It’s a Wonderful World is a cards drafting and engine building game from 1 to 5 players. Each round, players will draft 7 cards and then choose which ones will be recycled to immediately acquire Resources, and which ones will be kept for construction to produce Resources each round and/or gain victory points.
1DC26B	Friday	4:00 PM	Flamecraft	Flamecraft	Lucky Duck Games	Board	Atomic Squash	In Flamecraft, 1-5 players take on the role of Flamekeepers, gathering items, placing dragons and casting enchantments to enhance the shops of the town. Dragons are specialized (bread, meat, iron, crystal, plant and potion) and the Flamekeepers know which shops are the best home for each.
1DC27	Friday	2:00 PM	Clank! In! Space!: A Deck-Building Adventure	Clank! In! Space!: A Deck-Building Adventure	Dire Wolf	Board	Atomic Squash	Clank! In! Space! is built on the same game system as Clank!: A Deck-Building Adventure, with players building a personal deck of cards throughout the course of the game, with the cards allowing them to move through the spaceship, attack things, acquire new cards, and — oh yeah — make noise to attract Lord Eradikus and potentially seal their own doom.
1DC36A	Friday	2:00 PM	Carnival of Monsters	Carnival of Monsters	Amigo Games	Board	Atomic Squash	Carnival of Monsters is a card-drafting game in which players try to collect sets of Land Cards so they can capture and display strange and exotic Monsters, hire talented Staff to help run their enterprise, and pursue their own Secret Goals. Points are awarded for displaying Monsters, completing Goals, and earning Gold Crowns (Crowns) over four “Seasons” of play.
1DC36B	Friday	4:00 PM	Lords of Waterdeep	Lords of Waterdeep	Wizards of the Coast	Board	Atomic Squash	In Lords of Waterdeep, a strategy board game for 2-5 players, you take on the role of one of the masked Lords of Waterdeep, secret rulers of the city. Through your agents, you recruit adventurers to go on quests on your behalf, earning rewards and increasing your influence over the city. Expand the city by purchasing new buildings that open up new actions on the board, and hinder – or help – the other lords by playing intrigue cards to enact your carefully laid plans.
2DC27	Friday	7:00 PM	Brass Birmingham	Brass Birmingham	Portal Games	Board	Atomic Squash	(BGG #1) Brass: Birmingham is an economic strategy game sequel to Martin Wallace's 2007 masterpiece, Brass. Brass: Birmingham tells the story of competing entrepreneurs in Birmingham during the industrial revolution between the years of 1770 and 1870.
2DC36A	Friday	7:00 PM	Lightning Train	Lightning Train	Dire Wolf	Board	Atomic Squash	Build your bag to improve your company's resources, then place your chips to open stations and train lines across eight regions of North America. There's a fortune to be made by delivering goods to the cities that need them...but will you work together, or look to cut out the competition? Which stations do you need to secure a route to victory? How can the powerful lightning trains accelerate you past your rivals?
2DC36B	Friday	9:00 PM	Sanctuary: An Ark Nova Game	Sanctuary: An Ark Nova Game	Capstone Games	Board	Atomic Squash	In Sanctuary, you will plan and design a modern, scientifically-managed zoo for animals and visitors. A supply of 135 unique zoo tiles provides you with animals, buildings, and projects. In every game, you want to find the best mix from those available to build the most successful zoological establishment. Different effects on the tiles will help you to achieve conservation goals and to increase the attraction of your zoo
3DC26A	Saturday	9:00 AM	The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship	The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship	Z-man Games	Board	Atomic Squash	The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship is a co-operative game in which each player controls two characters, lending their unique abilities to protect Frodo, battle enemies in pivotal locations, and evade the menacing Nazgûl and Sauron's searching Eye.
3DC26B	Saturday	11:00 AM	Sanctuary: An Ark Nova Game	Sanctuary: An Ark Nova Game	Capstone Games	Board	Atomic Squash	In Sanctuary, you will plan and design a modern, scientifically-managed zoo for animals and visitors. A supply of 135 unique zoo tiles provides you with animals, buildings, and projects. In every game, you want to find the best mix from those available to build the most successful zoological establishment. Different effects on the tiles will help you to achieve conservation goals and to increase the attraction of your zoo
3DC27	Saturday	9:00 AM	Wondrous Creatures	Wondrous Creatures	Bad Comet	Board	Atomic Squash	(BGG 8.1) To win Wondrous Creatures, you must create the most harmonious reserve. To do this, you will need to collect various Creature Cards and Eggs in your reserve. As each Creature Card holds its own unique ability, it's important to bring cards into your reserve that fit and synergize with your strategy. Additionally, it is very important to create a reserve that helps complete the Achievements faster than other players.
3DC36A	Saturday	9:00 AM	Castles of Burgundy	Castles of Burgundy	Alea	Board	Atomic Squash	(BGG #17)The game is set in the Burgundy region of High Medieval France. Each player takes on the role of an aristocrat, originally controlling a small princedom. While playing they aim to build settlements and powerful castles, practice trade along the river, exploit silver mines, and use the knowledge of travelers.
3DC36B	Saturday	11:00 AM	Bomb Busters	Bomb Busters	Cocktail Games	Board	Atomic Squash	In Bomb Busters, there is a set of 48 normal wire cards numbered 1-12 (4 of each value) with some yellow and red wire cards. These are dealt out. Each mission is different, but your goal is always the same: go through all 12 numbers without blowing up!
4DC26	Saturday	2:00 PM	Obsession	Obscession	Kayenta Games	Board	Atomic Squash	(BGG 8.1) Obsession is a game of 16 to 20 turns in which players build a deck of Victorian gentry (British social upper class), renovate their estate by acquiring building tiles from a centralized builders' market, and manipulate an extensive service staff of butlers, housekeepers, underbutlers, maids, valets, and footmen utilizing a novel worker placement mechanic. Successfully hosting prestigious social activities such as Fox Hunts, Music Recitals, Billiards, Political Debates, and Grand Balls increases a player's wealth, reputation, and connections among the elite.
4DC27	Saturday	2:00 PM	Ark Nova	Ark Nova	Capstone Games	Board	Atomic Squash	(BGG #2) In Ark Nova, you will plan and design a modern, scientifically managed zoo. With the ultimate goal of owning the most successful zoological establishment, you will build enclosures, accommodate animals, and support conservation projects all over the world.
4DC36A	Saturday	2:00 PM	Shadow Network	Shadow Network	Talon Strike Studios	Board	Atomic Squash	(BGG 7.2) Shadow Network is a worker placement style game where players are deploying their agents around the globe collecting fragments of intel. These fragments are then promoted to an actionable state that can be used against a high profile target and earning player's influence — the currency in the game. As the players gather intel from a city, intel is also leaked to other cities thereby potentially helping other agencies. Additional agents can be deployed but at a cost. Furthermore, handlers can assist with exchanging intel thereby giving the agency the leg up.
4DC36B	Saturday	4:00 PM	Colassal Castles of Mad King Ludwig	Colassal Castles of Mad King Ludwig	Bezier Games	Board	Atomic Squash	(BGG 7.5) In the tile-laying game Castles of Mad King Ludwig, players are tasked with building an amazing, extravagant castle for King Ludwig II of Bavaria...one room at a time. You see, the King loves castles, having built Neuschwanstein (the castle that inspired the Disney theme park castles) and others, but now he's commissioned you to build the biggest, best castle ever — subject, of course, to his ever-changing whims.
5DC26A	Saturday	7:00 PM	The Hunger	The Hunger	Renegade Games	Board	Atomic Squash	The Hunger is a race in which each vampiric player must optimize their card deck, hunt humans to gain victory points, fulfill secret missions, and eventually acquire a rose and return to the castle before sunrise. The more you hunt, the slower both you and your deck become, which will make it harder and harder to get back before daybreak. Can you become the most notorious vampire without burning to ashes at sunrise?
5DC26B	Saturday	9:00 PM	Flamecraft	Flamecraft	Lucky Duck Games	Board	Atomic Squash	In Flamecraft, 1-5 players take on the role of Flamekeepers, gathering items, placing dragons and casting enchantments to enhance the shops of the town. Dragons are specialized (bread, meat, iron, crystal, plant and potion) and the Flamekeepers know which shops are the best home for each.
5DC27	Saturday	7:00 PM	SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence	SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence	Czech Games Edition	Board	Atomic Squash	(BGG #16) In SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, a eurogame for 1–4 players, you lead a scientific institution tasked with searching for traces of life beyond planet Earth. The game draws inspiration from current or emerging technologies and efforts in space exploration
5DC36A	Saturday	7:00 PM	Raising Robots	Raising Robots	Nauvoo Games	Board	Atomic Squash	In Raising Robots, you are a famous inventor seeking to assemble the greatest collection of robots. Each round, you simultaneously choose and perform two or more actions: upgrade, assemble, design, fabricate, recycle. Every action will be performed with a variable amount of power to make the action better or worse.
5DC36B	Saturday	9:00 PM	Expeditions	Expeditions	Stonemaier Games	Board	Atomic Squash	Expeditions is a competitive, card-driven, engine-building game of exploration. Play cards to gain power, guile, and unique worker abilities; move your mech to mysterious locations and gain cards found among the tiles; use workers, items, meteorites, and quests to enhance your mech; and use power and guile to vanquish corruption.