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Meet nearby board game players! Most of our meetups are centered in the Peninsula and South Bay, but we have events in other locations, too, so check out the list. We tend to play games like Settlers of Catan, Carcassone, Puerto Rico, and others of that style. All ages and skills are welcome—the goal is to have fun. Have a game you want try, bring it along! Have an old favorite, but don't know anyone to play, bring it too!
Is there a type of game or group you're interested in, but don't see (family game day, old-style board games, chess/backgammon/go, party games, etc)? Send the organizers a message. Always willing to add more event organizers to host.
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See all- Bay Area Games Day in Los AltosLos Altos Library, Los Altos, CA
IMPORTANT : See the Games Day Web page for all the details about this event. I don't plan to announce every occurrence of Games Day on Meetup. So the best way to keep up with announcements about future meetings, or contact others to plan specific games to play, is to join the Games Day groups.io mailing list. You can join either by clicking the blue "Join This Group" button at the bottom of that Web page, or sending an email to gamesday+subscribe@groups.io
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This daylong tabletop boardgaming meetup has been happening for over 25 years in the community room (Orchard Room) of the main branch of the Los Altos, CA library, in the South Bay near San Jose. We meet on the third Saturday of each month from 10 AM to 8 PM.
UPDATE : Starting with the February 2023 meetup, there are some changes to the pandemic-related rules we had been following. Most notably, masks are no longer required in the community room or library. So these are the 4 main rules you need to pay attention to:
- Do not park next to the library. Instead, park in the lot south of the Community Center (which is southeast of the library), or in the lot next to City Hall (which is north of the library).
- When you come into the room, put a tally mark for each person in your group on the attendance sheet near the door.
- Masks are optional but highly recommended.
- You can bring and consume drinks and packaged food only (like bags of chips) in the room. Eat non-packaged food out in the lobby.
There have been some small updates of other rules that come up less often, so please have another look at the rules for attendees of Games Day before you next attend.
We play mostly recent and classic Eurogames, the kind of games that are marked as hot or ranked high on boardgamegeek.com. But we also play many other sorts of tabletop games, including family games, Ameritrash, and wargames. Here's a BGG geeklist of what got played at the March 2024 event. Attendance is around 30-50 people, so it's easy to find players for most kinds of games.
Although Games Day attendees are mostly hobbyist boardgamers, we do welcome newcomers to gaming, and families with kids.