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Board Games Event Schedule

Last Updated : 06/01/2025

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Event Code	Day	Start Time	Name	Game System	Game Company	Type	GM	Description
1DC15	Friday	2:00 PM	Quartermaster General: 1914	Quartermaster General: 1914	ARES Games	Board	ARES Game Staff	Age 13+. Fast-paced game in the critically acclaimed Quartermaster General series. Pits the Central Powers against the Entente Powers. Based on the popular Quartermaster General system, this card-driven wargame reflects the military, economic, and political intrigue of the time.
1DC17	Friday	2:00 PM	Massive Darkness 2	Massive Darkness 2	Guillotine Games	Board	Jason Lowry	Massive Darkness 2 is a cooperative, dungeon-crawl board game for one to six players. Choose a hero and descend into underground lairs and corridors. Prowling in the darkness, the heroes fight guards and monstrosities, claim legendary weapons, and earn experience until they deserve to be called Lightbringers.
1DC18A	Friday	2:00 PM	Aeterna	Aeterna	ARES Games	Board	ARES Game Staff	Age 14+. Grandeur of Ancient Rome as players take the role of a Roman “Gens” (family) and try to increase their prestige through three Eras - the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic, and the Roman Empire.
1DC18B	Friday	4:00 PM	Altay - Dawn of Civilization	Altay - Dawn of Civilization	ARES Games	Board	ARES Game Staff	Age 13+. Deck-building civilization game set in a mythic age where players lead an ancient society to navigate the challenges brought by human settlers.
1DC22A	Friday	2:00 PM	Builders of Sylvan Dale	Builders of Sylvan Dale	ARES Games	Board	ARES Game Staff	Age 10+. Players design a woodland realm high in the trees, constructing dwellings, bridges, and hanging courtyards. An unique three-dimensional tile placement game.
1DC22B	Friday	4:00 PM	Snails	Snails	ARES Games	Board	ARES Game Staff	Age 10+. There’s no peace on the Gastropodia Islands. Especially not when snails grab their weapons and start a deadly combat. Each squad is ready to show the other mollusks who’s the boss. Bazookas, flamers, mines, barrels full of toxic waste, hammers and drills… These are the snails’ tools of the trade used with a blinding speed unusual for those rather slow creatures.
1DC25A	Friday	2:00 PM	Super Fantasy Brawl	Super Fantasy Brawl	CMON	Board	Jason Sharp	Age 12+. Join us for gladiatorial arena combat. Where the best fighters from across space and time are gathered to do battle for your entertainment. Try to build the best team to crushing out maneuver your opponents for victory. Will you put together the best team? Or will you end up meat for the grinder? Only time will tell.
1DC26A	Friday	2:00 PM	Verdant	Verdant	AEG	Board	S. Fortenberry	Take on the role of a houseplant enthusiast – collecting and caring for plants as you compete to create the coziest, most verdant home! Earn points by providing plants with the lighting conditions they desire, coordinating your interior space with furniture and pets, and racing against your opponents to pot plants and earn bonuses.
1DC26B	Friday	4:00 PM	Let's Go to Japan	Let's Go to Japan	AEG	Board	S. Fortenberry	Plan and experience your dream vacation to Japan! In Let’s Go! To Japan. See can’t-miss tourist attractions and local flavor. Discover activities and strategically place them to create an itinerary for your week-long trip.
1DC34A	Friday	2:00 PM	(New) Roll Player	Roll Player	Thunderworks Games	Board	Atomic Squash	In Roll Player, you will compete to create the greatest fantasy adventurer who has ever lived, preparing your character to embark on an epic quest. Roll and draft dice to build up your character’s attributes. Purchase weapons and armor to outfit your hero. Train to gain skills and discover your hero’s traits to prepare them for their journey.
1DC34B	Friday	4:00 PM	(New) After Us	After Us	Pandesaurus Games	Board	Atomic Squash	After Us is a deck-building and resource management game featuring an original and intuitive combo system in which players are each leading a tribe of apes.
1DC35	Friday	2:00 PM	(New) Darwin's Journey	Darwin's Journey	ThunderGryph Games	Board	Atomic Squash	(BGG 8.2)Darwin's Journey is a worker-placement Eurogame in which players recall Charles Darwin's memories of his adventure through the Galapagos islands, which contributed to the development of his theory of evolution.
1DC41A	Friday	2:00 PM	Broken Alliance: Soulshards ECG	Broken Alliance: Soulshards ECG	Grinning Demon Games	Card	Soulshards GM	Age 13+. The Empire is shattered and great cities struggle for dwindling resources in this high tactics card game for 2 players. Come learn to play with the creators. Send your characters to battle with support of spells and gear. Each use pushes them closer to exhaustion, leaving them vulnerable to defeat. See the full game at GrinningDemonGames.com.
1DC41B	Friday	4:00 PM	Broken Alliance: Soulshards ECG	Broken Alliance: Soulshards ECG	Grinning Demon Games	Card	Soulshards GM	Age 13+. The Empire is shattered and great cities struggle for dwindling resources in this high tactics card game for 2 players. Come learn to play with the creators. Send your characters to battle with support of spells and gear. Each use pushes them closer to exhaustion, leaving them vulnerable to defeat. See the full game at GrinningDemonGames.com.
1DC46	Friday	2:00 PM	Gridmaster	Gridmaster	Open Eyes Games (Unpublished)	Board	Brad Crowell	Age 12+. In this light strategy game, take on the role of an electrician competing for the best use of the power grid. Over six rounds, carefully use your resources to place transistors and capacitors on the grid to boost power and avoid loss - while other electricians try to sabotage your work!
1DC49	Friday	2:00 PM	Terraforming Mars	Terraforming Mars	FryxGames	Board	Zeke Leventhal-Arnold	Age 12+. Mankind is terraforming Mars! Each player's corporation increases Oxygen, Temperature and Water levels to make Mars habitable. Increase your Terraform Rating (TR) by introducing plant life hurling asteroids, building cities, mine the moons of Jupiter or establish greenhouse gas industries to heat up the atmosphere. The corporation with the highest TR wins. This session will use the Prelude, Venus Next, Colonies expansions and the TERRA CIMMERIA map.
1DC65B	Friday	4:00 PM	Monster Slaughter	Monster Slaughter	Ankama	Board	Jason Sharp	Age 12+. This is the age old story of teenagers partying at a cabin in the woods. Then monsters attack and they need to try to survive until daybreak. The twist is you play the monsters. So chose your family of monsters, and see if you can be the fastest, meanest and most bloodthirsty. Do you have the stomach? The backbone? the guts? If not, maybe you can rip them out of an unwilling party guest.
2DC14	Friday	7:00 PM	Ultimate showdown of good and evil	He-Man Clash for Eternia	CMON	Board	Jason Sharp	Age 12+. Eternia has become the nexus of cross-dimensional travel. Now with heroes and villains pouring in, the epic battle between the forces of good and ultimate evil has begun. With characters from cartoons like He-Man, She-Ra, Thundercats, Silverhawks, Blackstar, Thundarr the Barbarian, Dungeons and Dragons, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, King Arthur and the Knights of Justice, Avatar the Last Airbender, Avatar the Legend of Korra, Dragons Lair, Galaxy Rangers, Bionic 6, Samurai Pizza Cats, Gargoyles, Mummies Alive, and Vox Machina. Will evil finally plunge the world into darkness, or will the forces of good triumph as usual?
2DC16	Friday	7:00 PM	Firefly the Board Game (Big Box w/ all expansions)	Firefly the Board Game	Gala Force Nine	Board	David Craig	Find a crew. Find a job. Keep flying. Players captain their own ship, traveling the 'Verse with a handpicked crew of fighters, mechanics, medics an other travelers. As a captain desperate for work, players are compelled to take on any job - so long as it pays. Double-dealing employers, heavy-handed Alliance patrols and marauding reavers are all in a day's work for a captain at the edge of the 'Verse.
2DC25	Friday	7:00 PM	Settlers of Catan	Settlers of Catan	Mayfair Games	Board	O.J.	Be the dominant force on the island of Catan by building settlements, cities, and roads. On each turn dice are rolled to determine what resources the island produces. Collect your resources to build up your civilization to get to 10 victory points and win the game.
2DC26A	Friday	7:00 PM	Ready Set Bet	Ready Set Bet	AEG	Board	S. Fortenberry	Head to the races for a day of cheering, jeering, and betting on your favorite horses, whose fates hang on every roll of the dice. Featuring the High Roller Kickstarter Edition.
2DC26B	Friday	9:00 PM	Calico	Calico	AEG	Board	S. Fortenberry	Create the coziest quilt as you collect and place patches of different colors and patterns. Choosing a personal design to follow, while trying to create color and pattern combinations that are not only aesthetically pleasing, but also able to attract the cuddliest cats!
2DC33A	Friday	7:00 PM	Secret Hitler	Secret Hitler 1st Edition	Goat, Wolf & Cabbage	Board	James Baize	Age 13+. Secret Hitler is a hidden identity social deduction party game. The players assume the roles of liberals and fascists in the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic, with one player becoming Hitler. The Liberals must identify Hitler before he takes power and the fascists work to secretly put Hitler in power. It's a fun game of deception and deduction.
2DC34A	Friday	7:00 PM	(New) Flame Craft	Flame Craft	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.
2DC34B	Friday	9:00 PM	(New) Life of Amazonia	Life of Amazonia	Bad Comet	Board	Atomic Squash	Life of the Amazonia is a strategic meeple placing game that combines bag building and pattern building. Players will restore land, place various animals, and plant trees and flowers to enrich their jungles and create the most ecologically rich jungle. Various lives must be placed in the jungle taking into account each unique characteristic of the plants and animals in order to create synergies within one another.
2DC35	Friday	7:00 PM	(New) Galileo Galilei	Galileo Galilei	Capstone Games	Board	Atomic Squash	Galileo Galilei is a Euro-style game in which you take on the role of an astronomer who will discover new planets, find unknown star systems, develop their telescope, and make a scientific breakthrough in the difficult ages of obscurantism.
2DC36	Friday	7:00 PM	(New) Terraforming Mars	Terraforming Mars	Stronghold Games	Board	Atomic Squash	(BGG #7). In Terraforming Mars, you play one of those corporations and work together in the terraforming process, but compete for getting victory points that are awarded not only for your contribution to the terraforming, but also for advancing human infrastructure throughout the solar system, and doing other commendable things.
2DC41	Friday	7:00 PM	Grand Tourney: Soulshards Board Game	Grand Tournament: Soulshards Board Game	Grinning Demon Games	Board	Soulshards GM	Age 13+. Grow your strength in this 1-4 player worker placement RPG of monster slaying alongside your foes as you train for the honor and glory of winning a grand battle tournament. Come learn to play with the creators. Use your limited time to fight monsters and learn the weaknesses of your enemies while reinforcing against your own with spells, weapons, armor, and tamed monsters. See the full details at GrinningDemonGames.com.
2DC42A	Friday	7:00 PM	Master to Mythics: Behind the Curtain	Master to Mythics: Behind the Curtain	Baskerville Productions	Card	Michael McClure	Age 10+. You and other aspiring magicians work to build your act from the ground up, learning the tricks of the greatest magicians of all time. This pattern-creation, grid-manipulating game has you using the powers of the Master magicians to manipulate the array of Magican Runes to unlock the lore of the Legends and earn the prowess of the Mythics. And the bonus... awaiting you at the end of the game are a variety of ACTUAL magic tricks with full "how to" videos helping you learn the tricks of the trade.
2DC43A	Friday	7:00 PM	Jaipur	Jaipur	GameWorks	Card	Elizabeth Fischer	Age 10+. You are one of the two most powerful traders in the city of Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan, but that's not enough for you because only the merchant with two "seals of excellence" will have the privilege of being invited to the Maharaja's court. You are therefore going to have to do better than your direct competitor by buying, exchanging, and selling at better prices, all while keeping an eye on both your camel herds.
2DC46	Friday	7:00 PM	Gridmaster	Gridmaster	Open Eyes Games (Unpublished)	Board	Brad Crowell	Age 12+. In this light strategy game, take on the role of an electrician competing for the best use of the power grid. Over six rounds, carefully use your resources to place transistors and capacitors on the grid to boost power and avoid loss - while other electricians try to sabotage your work!
2DC49A	Friday	7:00 PM	Space Base	Space Base	Alderac Entertainment Group	Board	Tracy Hanners	Ships begin docked at their stations and are then deployed to sectors as new ships are commissioned under your command. Use cargo vessels to engage in trade and commerce; mining vessels to build reoccurring base income; and carriers to spread your influence. Establish new colonies for a new Commodore in a sector to gain even more influence. Gain enough influence and you can be promoted to Admiral!
2DC65B	Friday	9:00 PM	Carnival of Monsters	Carnival of Monsters	Amigo Games	Board	Glen Grissom	A set collection drafting game. The Royal Monsterlogical society ventures forth to capture and collect monsters from different environments to see who can build the best menagerie. A game by Richard Garfield.
2DC69	Friday	7:00 PM	Distilled	Distilled	Paverson Games	Board	Mike "Greenie" Simpson	Distilled is a highly thematic strategy card game about crafting spirits in a distillery, with resource management and push-your-luck elements. In the game, you have inherited a distillery and are hoping to someday achieve the title of master distiller through purchasing goods, building up your distillery, and creating the world's most renowned spirits. Purchase new ingredients and invest in upgrades to your distillery, all while eventually distilling the spirit and sending it to the warehouse. Once in the warehouse, age your spirit to enhance its flavor and bottle it to sell it for major profits! Achieve the title of Master Distiller by having the most spirit points at the end of the game. Points are obtained by distilling and selling spirits.
3DC14	Saturday	9:00 AM	Clash of the Colossal	Marvel Zombies	CMON	Board	Jason Sharp	Age 12+. The super heroes and villains have teamed up again to stop the zombie apocalypse. The thing is this time they found the cause of it, Cthulhu. Knowing they didn't bring enough fire power, they back off to get someone big enough to go toe to toe with him. The Eater of World's himself, Galactus. Now standing between these titans, they need to wonder still, if they have enough to survive.
3DC15	Saturday	9:00 AM	Quartermaster General: 1914	Quartermaster General: 1914	ARES Games	Board	ARES Game Staff	Age 13+. Fast-paced game in the critically acclaimed Quartermaster General series. Pits the Central Powers against the Entente Powers. Based on the popular Quartermaster General system, this card-driven wargame reflects the military, economic, and political intrigue of the time.
3DC18A	Saturday	9:00 AM	Altay - Dawn of Civilization	Altay - Dawn of Civilization	ARES Games	Board	ARES Game Staff	Age 13+. Deck-building civilization game set in a mythic age where players lead an ancient society to navigate the challenges brought by human settlers.
3DC18B	Saturday	11:00 AM	Aeterna	Aeterna	ARES Games	Board	ARES Game Staff	Age 14+. Grandeur of Ancient Rome as players take the role of a Roman “Gens” (family) and try to increase their prestige through three Eras - the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic, and the Roman Empire.
3DC22A	Saturday	9:00 AM	Builders of Sylvan Dale	Builders of Sylvan Dale	ARES Games	Board	ARES Game Staff	Age 10+. Players design a woodland realm high in the trees, constructing dwellings, bridges, and hanging courtyards. An unique three-dimensional tile placement game.
3DC22B	Saturday	11:00 AM	Snails	Snails	ARES Games	Board	ARES Game Staff	Age 10+. There’s no peace on the Gastropodia Islands. Especially not when snails grab their weapons and start a deadly combat. Each squad is ready to show the other mollusks who’s the boss. Bazookas, flamers, mines, barrels full of toxic waste, hammers and drills… These are the snails’ tools of the trade used with a blinding speed unusual for those rather slow creatures.
3DC25	Saturday	10:00 AM	Catan Qualifier for US Nationals	Settlers of Catan	Catan Studio	Board	Glen Grissom	Check-in begins at 8:30am CDT. This event begins at 10am CDT. Tournament format is 3 rounds of Swiss before final round. Based on player attendance there could be a semifinal round before the final round. The top four players will be seated for the final round. The winner of final round event will be advanced to the 2025 Catan United States Championship to be held in Minneapolis, MN. DateL TBD.
3DC26A	Saturday	9:00 AM	Deep Dive	Deep Dive	AEG	Board	Jon Bancroft	Flip over an ocean tile, and see what you reveal. You can take what you reveal in the shallows or dive deeper, hoping for a larger catch — but the deeper you go, the more plentiful the predators become. As you surface with food, you build sets of three colors. Target the colors you need to complete sets and score the maximum number of points.
3DC26B	Saturday	11:00 AM	Verdant	Verdant	AEG	Board	S. Fortenberry	Take on the role of a houseplant enthusiast – collecting and caring for plants as you compete to create the coziest, most verdant home! Earn points by providing plants with the lighting conditions they desire, coordinating your interior space with furniture and pets, and racing against your opponents to pot plants and earn bonuses.
3DC34A	Saturday	9:00 AM	(New) 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.
3DC34B	Saturday	11:00 AM	(New) Carnival of Monsters	Carnival of Monsters	Amigo	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.
3DC35	Saturday	9:00 AM	(New) Paladins of the West Kingdom	Paladins of the West Kingdom	Renegade Studios	Board	Atomic Squash	(BGG 8.0)Paladins of the West Kingdom is set at a turbulent time of West Francia's story, circa 900 AD. Despite recent efforts to develop the city, outlying townships are still under threat from outsiders.
3DC36	Saturday	9:00 AM	(New) Galactic Cruise	Galactic Cruise	Kinson Key Games	Board	Atomic Squash	(BGG 8.5) Helllo, and welcome to Galactic Cruise. Here, we offer our guests something special: the comfort of a luxury cruise with the innovation of space travel. As the first company to offer extended-stay space vacations, we are excited to have you working for us! As a supervisor of this company, you’ll be expected to not only build these ships and satisfy our guests, but also to help the company thrive by enhancing our company network, inventing new technologies, and growing our workforce.
3DC42A	Saturday	9:00 AM	Master to Mythics: Behind the Curtain	Master to Mythics: Behind the Curtain	Baskerville Productions	Card	Michael McClure	Age 10+. You and other aspiring magicians work to build your act from the ground up, learning the tricks of the greatest magicians of all time. This pattern-creation, grid-manipulating game has you using the powers of the Master magicians to manipulate the array of Magican Runes to unlock the lore of the Legends and earn the prowess of the Mythics. And the bonus... awaiting you at the end of the game are a variety of ACTUAL magic tricks with full "how to" videos helping you learn the tricks of the trade.
3DC42B	Saturday	11:00 AM	Master to Mythics: Behind the Curtain	Master to Mythics: Behind the Curtain	Baskerville Productions	Card	Michael McClure	Age 10+. You and other aspiring magicians work to build your act from the ground up, learning the tricks of the greatest magicians of all time. This pattern-creation, grid-manipulating game has you using the powers of the Master magicians to manipulate the array of Magican Runes to unlock the lore of the Legends and earn the prowess of the Mythics. And the bonus... awaiting you at the end of the game are a variety of ACTUAL magic tricks with full "how to" videos helping you learn the tricks of the trade.
3DC43B	Saturday	11:00 AM	Welcome To…	Flip & Write	Blue Cocker Games	Card	Elizabeth Fischer	Age 10+. In "Welcome To...", players, acting as architects, simultaneously build suburban neighborhoods by strategically placing numbers and applying effects from flipped cards to their score sheets, aiming for the highest score.
3DC46	Saturday	9:00 AM	Gridmaster	Gridmaster	Open Eyes Games (Unpublished)	Board	Brad Crowell	Age 12+. In this light strategy game, take on the role of an electrician competing for the best use of the power grid. Over six rounds, carefully use your resources to place transistors and capacitors on the grid to boost power and avoid loss - while other electricians try to sabotage your work!
3DC47	Saturday	9:00 AM	Dune Imperium (with Rise of Ix)	Dune Imperium	Dire Wolf	Card	Clinton Fischer	Age 14+. Dune: Imperium is a game that uses deck building to add a hidden information angle to traditional worker placement. You start with a unique leader card, as well as a deck identical to those of your opponents. As you acquire cards and build your deck, your choices will define your strengths and weaknesses. Cards allow you to send your Agents to certain spaces on the game board, so how your deck evolves affects your strategy. You might become more powerful militarily, able to deploy more troops than your opponents. Or you might acquire cards that give you an edge with the four political factions represented in the game.
3DC49A	Saturday	9:00 AM	Four Gardens	Four Gardens	Korean Board Games	Board	Tracy Hanners	Long ago, in a beautiful Eastern kingdom, a queen and her people pleased their Gods by building a mystical pagoda. The pagoda housed the four Gods and towered strong over the magnificent kingdom. As time passed, the queen fell ill, and she summoned her people to compete for her crown. The crown would be passed on to the person who could build the most pristine garden around the pagoda. The heir would be chosen by the four Gods themselves. The goal of Four Gardens is to accumulate the most points on the score board by completing landscape cards and finishing sets. Each finished set creates a panoramic view of a garden, and these sets are called (no surprise) "panoramas"
4DC15	Saturday	2:00 PM	WW2 Quartermaster General	WW2 Quartermaster General	ARES Games	Board	ARES Game Staff	Age 13+. Fast-paced game in the critically acclaimed Quartermaster General series. Pits the Central Powers against the Entente Powers. Based on the popular Quartermaster General system, this card-driven wargame reflects the military, economic, and political intrigue of the time.
4DC16	Saturday	2:00 PM	Space Base + Expansions	Space Base	AEG	Board	David Craig	Space Base is a quick-to-learn, quick-to-play dice game using the core "I roll, everyone gets stuff" mechanism seen in other games. It's also a strategic engine builder using a player board (your space base) and tableaus of ship cards you can buy and add to your board. The cards you buy and the order you buy them in have interesting implications on your engine beyond just the ability on the card you buy, making for a different type of engine construction than seen in similar games.
4DC17	Saturday	2:00 PM	Star Trek Ascendancy	Star Trek Ascendancy	Gale Force 9	Board	Mike "Greenie" Simpson	Age 14+. "Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before..." In this Star Trek Game, you will become one of 8 Factions. During this 4X Style game, you will Exploit, Explore, Expand & Exterminate your fellow players in a attempt to be one of the last ones standing, OR win by achieving 5 Ascendancy! Command starships, establish space lanes, construct starbases, and bring other systems under your banner. The great unknown lies before you; with every turn is a new adventure as your ships explore new space systems, encounter new life forms and new civilizations, make wondrous discoveries, and face challenging obstacles, all drawn from the vast fifty year history of Star Trek. You do NOT need to know anything about Star Trek to play. You DO need the extra time this game requires to play. This game averages a little over an hour per player. This is a double session game. Starting in Session 4 and continuing into Session 5.
4DC18A	Saturday	2:00 PM	Altay - Dawn of Civilization	Altay - Dawn of Civilization	ARES Games	Board	ARES Game Staff	Age 13+. Deck-building civilization game set in a mythic age where players lead an ancient society to navigate the challenges brought by human settlers.
4DC18B	Saturday	4:00 PM	Aeterna	Aeterna	ARES Games	Board	ARES Game Staff	Age 14+. Grandeur of Ancient Rome as players take the role of a Roman “Gens” (family) and try to increase their prestige through three Eras - the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic, and the Roman Empire.
4DC22A	Saturday	2:00 PM	Builders of Sylvan Dale	Builders of Sylvan Dale	ARES Games	Board	ARES Game Staff	Age 10+. Players design a woodland realm high in the trees, constructing dwellings, bridges, and hanging courtyards. An unique three-dimensional tile placement game.
4DC22B	Saturday	4:00 PM	Snails	Snails	ARES Games	Board	ARES Game Staff	Age 10+. There’s no peace on the Gastropodia Islands. Especially not when snails grab their weapons and start a deadly combat. Each squad is ready to show the other mollusks who’s the boss. Bazookas, flamers, mines, barrels full of toxic waste, hammers and drills… These are the snails’ tools of the trade used with a blinding speed unusual for those rather slow creatures.
4DC26A	Saturday	2:00 PM	Ready Set Bet	Ready Set Bet	AEG	Board	S. Fortenberry	Head to the races for a day of cheering, jeering, and betting on your favorite horses, whose fates hang on every roll of the dice. Featuring the High Roller Kickstarter Edition.
4DC26B	Saturday	4:00 PM	WarChest	WarChest	AEG	Board	S. Fortenberry	Master skills of ancient Warfare. To succeed you must successfully manage not only your armies on the battlefield, but those that are waiting to be deployed.
4DC30	Saturday	2:00 PM	Campaign Trail (with some expansions)	Campaign Trail	Grey Fox Games	Board	Louis Miller	Age 14+. You are on the campaign trail to become the next President (or Vice President) of the United States. In this game, you will travel the country raising funds, registering voters, advertising your campaign, campaigning in a region, and using your in-game abilities and actions to win the election for your party. Play as the Republican, Libertarian, Green, or Democratic parties, securing states through the Electoral College and debating hot-topic issues in cities across the country. (As an added note, I would like to express that this game does not represent any real-life political events or views but rather is a fun way to engage with the ideas of our political system. Topics and issues in-game are as simple as a symbol on a card and do not represent any political belief, but rather the topic itself, those which will have more influence in certain states than others. Be sure to keep the game fun, engaging, and inclusive. This game is not designed to incite political discourse or animosity, but rather to simplify political systems in a fun, engaging, and inclusive way.)
4DC34A	Saturday	2:00 PM	(New) Shipwrights of the North Sea: Redux	Shipwrights of the North Sea: Redux	Renegade Studios	Board	Atomic Squash	Shipwrights of the North Sea: Redux is set in the early years of the Viking Age, circa 800 AD. As Viking shipwrights, players compete to construct the greatest fleet on the North Sea. Players must collect oak, wool, and iron, as well as getting other craftspeople on board to help. Gold is a precious commodity, and must be spent wisely. As you would expect, the township is filled with an array of characters, bad and worse. Better hope they’re on your side!
4DC34B	Saturday	4:00 PM	(New) Colossal Castles of Mad King Ludwig	Colossal Castles of Mad King Ludwig	Bezier Games	Board	Atomic Squash	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.
4DC35	Saturday	2:00 PM	(New) Isle of Cats	Isle of Cats	The City of Games	Board	Atomic Squash	In the game, you are citizens of Squalls End on a rescue mission to The Isle of Cats and must rescue as many cats as possible before the evil Lord Vesh arrives. Each cat is represented by a unique tile and belongs to a family, you must find a way to make them all fit on your boat while keeping families together.
4DC36	Saturday	2:00 PM	(New) Ark Nova	Ark Nova	Capstone Games	Board	Atomic Squash	(BGG #4) 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.
4DC38A	Saturday	2:00 PM	(New) Betrayal at House on the Hill	Betrayal at House on the Hill	Avalon Hill	Board	Austin F.	Betrayal at House on the Hill is half cooperative half competitive. In the beginning all the players start as allies exploring a house room by room by room tiles to gain items, resolving harmful or helpful events, and collecting Omens. However, they come at a cost, and all Omens have a chance to start the second half of the game called the "haunt". When the Haunt is triggered either one or more or none of the players are chosen as a traitor and then they must try to kill the rest of the team or complete a secret objective while remaining allies work together to stop them.
4DC41	Saturday	2:00 PM	Grand Tourney: Soulshards Board Game	Grand Tournament: Soulshards Board Game	Grinning Demon Games	Board	Soulshards GM	Age 13+. Grow your strength in this 1-4 player worker placement RPG of monster slaying alongside your foes as you train for the honor and glory of winning a grand battle tournament. Come learn to play with the creators. Use your limited time to fight monsters and learn the weaknesses of your enemies while reinforcing against your own with spells, weapons, armor, and tamed monsters. See the full details at GrinningDemonGames.com.
4DC45	Saturday	2:00 PM	The Red Dragon Inn	The Red Dragon Inn	Slugfest Games West LLC	Board	Cheryl Cloninger	Age 13+. You and your party of adventuring companions have spent all day slogging through the dungeon, killing monsters and taking their stuff. Now you’re back in town and ready to party. Drink, gamble and roughhouse with your friends. If you run out of gold you’ll have to spend the night in the stables. Oh...and don’t get too beaten up or drunk. If you black out, your friends will continue to party and take all of your gold.
4DC46	Saturday	2:00 PM	Gridmaster	Gridmaster	Open Eyes Games (Unpublished)	Board	Brad Crowell	Age 12+. In this light strategy game, take on the role of an electrician competing for the best use of the power grid. Over six rounds, carefully use your resources to place transistors and capacitors on the grid to boost power and avoid loss - while other electricians try to sabotage your work!
4DC49A	Saturday	2:00 PM	Hues and Cues	Hues and Cues	The OP Games	Board	Tracy Hanners	What hue do you think of when we say “apple”? Hues and Cues is a vibrant game of colorful communication where players are challenged to make connections to colors with words. Using only one and two-word cues, players try to get others to guess a specific hue from the 480 colors on the game board. The closer the guesses are to the target, the more points you earn. Since everyone imagines colors differently, connecting colors and clues has never been this much fun!
5DC14	Saturday	7:00 PM	Ultimate showdown of good and evil	He-Man Clash for Eternia	CMON	Board	Jason Sharp	Age 12+. Eternia has become the nexus of cross-dimensional travel. Now with heroes and villains pouring in, the epic battle between the forces of good and ultimate evil has begun. With characters from cartoons like He-Man, She-Ra, Thundercats, Silverhawks, Blackstar, Thundarr the Barbarian, Dungeons and Dragons, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, King Arthur and the Knights of Justice, Avatar the Last Airbender, Avatar the Legend of Korra, Dragons Lair, Galaxy Rangers, Bionic 6, Samurai Pizza Cats, Gargoyles, Mummies Alive, and Vox Machina. Will evil finally plunge the world into darkness, or will the forces of good triumph as usual?
5DC16A	Saturday	7:00 PM	Pitch Car	Pitch Car	Ferti	Board	Glen Grissom	Pick a car, build a track and flick your racing car to the finish line!
5DC16B	Saturday	9:00 PM	Pitch Car	Pitch Car	Ferti	Board	Glen Grissom	Pick a car, build a track and flick your racing car to the finish line!
5DC17	Saturday	7:00 PM	Star Trek Ascendancy	Star Trek Ascendancy	Gale Force 9	Board	Mike "Greenie" Simpson	Age 14+. "Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before..." In this Star Trek Game, you will become one of 8 Factions. During this 4X Style game, you will Exploit, Explore, Expand & Exterminate your fellow players in a attempt to be one of the last ones standing, OR win by achieving 5 Ascendancy! Command starships, establish space lanes, construct starbases, and bring other systems under your banner. The great unknown lies before you; with every turn is a new adventure as your ships explore new space systems, encounter new life forms and new civilizations, make wondrous discoveries, and face challenging obstacles, all drawn from the vast fifty year history of Star Trek. You do NOT need to know anything about Star Trek to play. You DO need the extra time this game requires to play. This game averages a little over an hour per player. This is a double session game. Starting in Session 4 and continuing into Session 5.
5DC26A	Saturday	7:00 PM	Let's Go to Japan	Let's Go to Japan	AEG	Board	S. Fortenberry	Plan and experience your dream vacation to Japan! In Let’s Go! To Japan. See can’t-miss tourist attractions and local flavor. Discover activities and strategically place them to create an itinerary for your week-long trip.
5DC26B	Saturday	9:00 PM	Cascadia	Cascadia	AEG	Board	S. Fortenberry	Journey to the Pacific Northwest as you compete to create the most harmonious ecosystem in Cascadia! Earn points by fulfilling wildlife goals and creating the largest habitat corridors. With variable scoring goals, each game of Cascadia brings a new spatial puzzle to your table!
5DC34A	Saturday	7:00 PM	(New) Whistle Stop	Whistle Stop	Bezier Games	Board	Atomic Squash	In Whistle Stop, you make your way west across the country, using your fledgling railroad company to build routes, pick up valuable cargo, and deliver needed goods to growing towns, creating a network of whistle stops that you and your competitors can leverage as you continue to expand your networks.
5DC34B	Saturday	9:00 PM	(New) Expeditions	Expeditions	Stonemaier	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.
5DC35	Saturday	7:00 PM	(New) SETI: Search for Extraterrestial Intelligence	SETI: Search for Extraterrestial Intelligence	Czech Games Edition	Board	Atomic Squash	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.
5DC36	Saturday	7:00 PM	(New) 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.
5DC41	Saturday	7:00 PM	Grand Tourney: Soulshards Board Game	Grand Tournament: Soulshards Board Game	Grinning Demon Games	Board	Soulshards GM	Age 13+. Grow your strength in this 1-4 player worker placement RPG of monster slaying alongside your foes as you train for the honor and glory of winning a grand battle tournament. Come learn to play with the creators. Use your limited time to fight monsters and learn the weaknesses of your enemies while reinforcing against your own with spells, weapons, armor, and tamed monsters. See the full details at GrinningDemonGames.com.
5DC42A	Saturday	7:00 PM	Master to Mythics: Behind the Curtain	Master to Mythics: Behind the Curtain	Baskerville Productions	Card	Michael McClure	Age 10+. You and other aspiring magicians work to build your act from the ground up, learning the tricks of the greatest magicians of all time. This pattern-creation, grid-manipulating game has you using the powers of the Master magicians to manipulate the array of Magican Runes to unlock the lore of the Legends and earn the prowess of the Mythics. And the bonus... awaiting you at the end of the game are a variety of ACTUAL magic tricks with full "how to" videos helping you learn the tricks of the trade.
5DC46	Saturday	7:00 PM	Gridmaster	Gridmaster	Open Eyes Games (Unpublished)	Board	Brad Crowell	Age 12+. In this light strategy game, take on the role of an electrician competing for the best use of the power grid. Over six rounds, carefully use your resources to place transistors and capacitors on the grid to boost power and avoid loss - while other electricians try to sabotage your work!
5DC49	Saturday	7:00 PM	Ascension Tactics	Ascension Tactics	Stone Blade Entertainment	Board	Tracy Hanners	Age 10+. This game is Ascension (the deck builder) meets Battletech (the miniature). No dice involved. Ascension Tactics is a revolutionary new game, pioneering a brand-new genre by combining the best of tactical miniatures games with the fast-paced strategy of deck-building games. Ascension Tactics brings the most iconic characters from the award-winning deck-building game to life.
6DC15	Sunday	9:00 AM	WW2 Quartermaster General	WW2 Quartermaster General	ARES Games	Board	ARES Game Staff	Age 13+. Fast-paced game in the critically acclaimed Quartermaster General series. Pits the Central Powers against the Entente Powers. Based on the popular Quartermaster General system, this card-driven wargame reflects the military, economic, and political intrigue of the time.
6DC18A	Sunday	9:00 AM	Altay - Dawn of Civilization	Altay - Dawn of Civilization	ARES Games	Board	ARES Game Staff	Age 13+. Deck-building civilization game set in a mythic age where players lead an ancient society to navigate the challenges brought by human settlers.
6DC18B	Sunday	11:00 AM	Aeterna	Aeterna	ARES Games	Board	ARES Game Staff	Age 14+. Grandeur of Ancient Rome as players take the role of a Roman “Gens” (family) and try to increase their prestige through three Eras - the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic, and the Roman Empire.
6DC22A	Sunday	9:00 AM	Builders of Sylvan Dale	Builders of Sylvan Dale	ARES Games	Board	ARES Game Staff	Age 10+. Players design a woodland realm high in the trees, constructing dwellings, bridges, and hanging courtyards. An unique three-dimensional tile placement game.
6DC22B	Sunday	11:00 AM	Snails	Snails	ARES Games	Board	ARES Game Staff	Age 10+. There’s no peace on the Gastropodia Islands. Especially not when snails grab their weapons and start a deadly combat. Each squad is ready to show the other mollusks who’s the boss. Bazookas, flamers, mines, barrels full of toxic waste, hammers and drills… These are the snails’ tools of the trade used with a blinding speed unusual for those rather slow creatures.
6DC25	Saturday	9:00 AM	Talisman!	Talisman: The Magical Quest Game 5th Edition	Avalon Hill	Board	Ken Rodeghero	Ages 12+. Welcome, champions, to the magical land of Talisman! The otherworldly artifacts known as Talismans have once more descended onto the mortal plane, signaling the dawn of a new era, and the need for a new ruler! In Talisman: The Magical Quest Game, set forth on an epic adventure, racing to be the first to obtain a Talisman, reach the Crown of Command in the center of the board, and defeat the elder dragon to win.
6DC26B	Sunday	11:00 AM	Verdant	Verdant	AEG	Board	S. Fortenberry	Take on the role of a houseplant enthusiast – collecting and caring for plants as you compete to create the coziest, most verdant home! Earn points by providing plants with the lighting conditions they desire, coordinating your interior space with furniture and pets, and racing against your opponents to pot plants and earn bonuses.
6DC42B	Sunday	11:00 AM	Master to Mythics: Behind the Curtain	Master to Mythics: Behind the Curtain	Baskerville Productions	Card	Michael McClure	Age 10+. You and other aspiring magicians work to build your act from the ground up, learning the tricks of the greatest magicians of all time. This pattern-creation, grid-manipulating game has you using the powers of the Master magicians to manipulate the array of Magican Runes to unlock the lore of the Legends and earn the prowess of the Mythics. And the bonus... awaiting you at the end of the game are a variety of ACTUAL magic tricks with full "how to" videos helping you learn the tricks of the trade.
6DC43B	Sunday	11:00 AM	Welcome To…	Flip & Write	Blue Cocker Games	Card	Elizabeth Fischer	Age 10+. In "Welcome To...", players, acting as architects, simultaneously build suburban neighborhoods by strategically placing numbers and applying effects from flipped cards to their score sheets, aiming for the highest score.
6DC46	Sunday	9:00 AM	Wyrmspan	Wyrmspan	Stonemaier Games	Board	David Craig	You are an amateur dracologist in the world of Wyrmspan, a place where dragons of all shapes, sizes, and colors roam the skies. Excavate a hidden labyrinth you recently unearthed on your land and entice these beautiful creatures to roost in the sanctuary of your caves. During a game of Wyrmspan, you will build a sanctuary for dragons of all shapes and sizes. Your sanctuary begins with 3 excavated spaces—the leftmost space in your Crimson Cavern, your Golden Grotto, and your Amethyst Abyss. Over the course of the game, you will excavate additional spaces in your sanctuary and entice dragons to live there, chaining together powerful abilities and earning the favor of the Dragon Guild.
7DC17	Sunday	2:00 PM	Zombies!!!	Zombies!!!	Twilight Creations	Board	Cheryl Cloninger	Age 13+. The human race is in danger of becoming extinct. The dead have awaken and they are hungry for your brains. Rumors are that a cure has been found. The problem is the location is at the center of the infestation. Do you have what it takes to find the cure and make it to the heliport alive.
7DC26A	Sunday	2:00 PM	Cascadia	Cascadia	AEG	Board	S. Fortenberry	Journey to the Pacific Northwest as you compete to create the most harmonious ecosystem in Cascadia! Earn points by fulfilling wildlife goals and creating the largest habitat corridors. With variable scoring goals, each game of Cascadia brings a new spatial puzzle to your table!
7DC26B	Sunday	4:00 PM	Wormhole	Wormhole	AEG	Board	S. Fortenberry	In a peaceful galaxy, a new technology has been invented: wormholes. They allow ships to warp from one point to another, and open up countless possibilities for commerce and travel. As the captain of a passenger spaceship newly equipped with a wormhole fabricator, you can become the best in the business by building a robust network of wormholes. Link the farthest reaches of space while delivering passengers to become the most successful captain in this golden age of spacefaring. It’s time to bend space and go fast.
7DC41A	Sunday	2:00 PM	Broken Alliance: Soulshards ECG	Broken Alliance: Soulshards ECG	Grinning Demon Games	Card	Soulshards GM	Age 13+. The Empire is shattered and great cities struggle for dwindling resources in this high tactics card game for 2 players. Come learn to play with the creators. Send your characters to battle with support of spells and gear. Each use pushes them closer to exhaustion, leaving them vulnerable to defeat. See the full game at GrinningDemonGames.com.
7DC41B	Sunday	4:00 PM	Broken Alliance: Soulshards ECG	Broken Alliance: Soulshards ECG	Grinning Demon Games	Card	Soulshards GM	Age 13+. The Empire is shattered and great cities struggle for dwindling resources in this high tactics card game for 2 players. Come learn to play with the creators. Send your characters to battle with support of spells and gear. Each use pushes them closer to exhaustion, leaving them vulnerable to defeat. See the full game at GrinningDemonGames.com.
7DC49A	Sunday	2:00 PM	Planet Unknown (Basic)	Planet Unknown	Adam's Apple Games	Board	Zeke Leventhal-Arnold	Age 10+. Our planet has run out of resources, and we are forced to move. We have discovered a series of planets and sent our rovers to test their environment with the hope of colonization. Our rovers have confirmed 1-6 viable colonization options. This session will use the base corporation and planet.
7DC49B	Sunday	4:00 PM	Planet Unknown (Asymmetric)	Planet Unknown	Adam's Apple Games	Board	Zeke Leventhal-Arnold	Age 10+. Our planet has run out of resources, and we are forced to move. We have discovered a series of planets and sent our rovers to test their environment with the hope of colonization. Our rovers have confirmed 1-6 viable colonization options. This session will use the Asymmetric corporations and/or Asymmetric planets.
8DC25	Sunday	7:00 PM	Settlers of Catan	Settlers of Catan	Mayfair Games	Board	O.J.	Be the dominant force on the island of Catan by building settlements, cities, and roads. On each turn dice are rolled to determine what resources the island produces. Collect your resources to build up your civilization to get to 10 victory points and win the game.
8DC41A	Sunday	7:00 PM	Broken Alliance: Soulshards ECG	Broken Alliance: Soulshards ECG	Grinning Demon Games	Card	Soulshards GM	Age 13+. The Empire is shattered and great cities struggle for dwindling resources in this high tactics card game for 2 players. Come learn to play with the creators. Send your characters to battle with support of spells and gear. Each use pushes them closer to exhaustion, leaving them vulnerable to defeat. See the full game at GrinningDemonGames.com.
8DC41B	Sunday	9:00 PM	Broken Alliance: Soulshards ECG	Broken Alliance: Soulshards ECG	Grinning Demon Games	Card	Soulshards GM	Age 13+. The Empire is shattered and great cities struggle for dwindling resources in this high tactics card game for 2 players. Come learn to play with the creators. Send your characters to battle with support of spells and gear. Each use pushes them closer to exhaustion, leaving them vulnerable to defeat. See the full game at GrinningDemonGames.com.