Seattle Board Games

Venice, the city of bridges and gondolas. Your goal is to gain power and influence: you want to become the éminence grise of Venice. Assign councilmen in the town districts, build precious bridges and buildings, but keep your eye on your finances and the Doge!

Rialto is an easily accessible tactical board game that uses Area Influence, Bidding, & Open Drafting. The goal is to earn the most victory points, which are awarded for a variety of things. The game board displays the six districts of Venice, and players earn VPs for placing council members into these, for building bridges and placing gondolas to connect the districts with one another, and for building advantageous buildings.
The game is played over six rounds, with each round consisting of three phases:

1. Acquire cards: Each player takes a set of cards.
2. Play cards: Players use cards to perform certain actions.
3. Activate buildings: Players may take advantage of their buildings and use their powers.

In phase 1, sets of eight cards are displayed (with six cards face-up and two face-down). Each player takes one set, then reduces his hand to seven cards. A card shows one of six specific characters (Architect, Merchant, etc.) or is a wild card.
Phase 2 consists of six sub-phases in a fixed order, one for each character. In each sub-phase, players choose whether or not to play one or more cards of that specific character. Each card allows them to perfom that character's action, for example:

• Take one piece of gold for each Merchant card you play.
• Place one council member into the current district for each Council card you play.
• Take a building with a value equal to or lower than the number of Architect cards played. The higher its value, the better its function.

Whoever plays the most cards in each such sub-phase receives a bonus of one free action of that type. In case of a tie, whoever is farthest along the "Doge" bar gets the bonus – and of course to advance on the Doge bar, players need to play Doge cards.
Phase 3, players may take advantage of their buildings. For each piece of gold paid, a player may use one of his building's ability.
Players collect VPs both during the game – from special buildings and by building bridges between districts – and at the end of it – for majorities of council members in each district. The value of each district evolves during the game: Each district is adjacent to four other ones, and at the end of the game, they will be connected either via bridges or gondolas. A bridge increases the value of the adjacent districts by 3-6 victory points, whereas a gondola increases this value by 1 point. The player with the most council members in a district earns VPs equal to the district's total value, the player with the secondmost council members earns half this value, and so on. While it's important to establish majorities in the districts, it's also crucial to control their values by cleverly placing those bridges and gondolas.
New players are welcome, and the host is happy to teach if you haven't played before.

"Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see."

During a hellish thunderstorm, a scream echoes through the sleepy town of Ravenswood Bluff. The citizens rush to investigate, and find the beloved local storyteller has been murdered, their body hanging limp from hands of the clocktower in the town square. As blood drips onto the cobblestones below, a realization slowly dawns… a demon has been unleashed, killing by night and taking on human form by day. Can good find the demon in time? Or will evil overrun this once-peaceful town?

Blood on the Clocktower is a bluffing game of murder and mystery, lies and logic, deduction and deception, for five to twenty courageous players and one devious Storyteller.

A social game played in person, seated in a circle, each player receives either a "good" or "evil" token with their unique character on it. Good players share information to solve the mystery, while evil players lie about who they are and what they know. The good team wins if they can piece together their knowledge, trust each other, and execute the demon. The evil team wins if the demon can sow distrust, evade detection, and wipe out the village.

Blood on the Clocktower is a medium-complexity team-based hidden role and murder/mystery game involving a mixture of social deduction and logical deduction, in which a Storyteller hosts and moderates the game to ensure a balanced and rewarding experience for all participants.

New players are welcome, and the hosts are happy to teach if you haven't played before.

5 - 15 players (and one Storyteller) per game; if a waitlist forms we'll try to recruit another Storyteller to run a second game
60 - 120 minutes expected play time per game, depending on turnout and player familiarity; we'll probably be able to play more than once. While the event is scheduled to end at 5:00 PM, our "hard stop" time is 6:00 so we need to be finished up by then no matter what.

What do bored English noblemen do with their free time? They like collecting old junk and then showing it off. Eccentricity is what makes the world go around. Well, your world anyways. As a member of the pretentious "Antique Club" you feel inexplicably compelled to outshine your other snobby friends. What you and your wacko group lack in refinement and true sophistication, you certainly make up for in lack of scruples. You are oddly convinced it is your destiny to become the antique collector with the most valuable collection - by using any means necessary.
Unfortunately, you aren't the only one without a sense of right or wrong. Your egotistical friends are also not above bluffing, trickery or even theft! Outwit your fellow snobs to become the most "Hoity Toity" of them all.

Hoity Toity uses Bluffing, Rock-Paper-Scissors, Set Collection, & Simultaneous Action Selection. You are an English Nobleman buying or stealing various antiquities & collectibles, trying to form the largest and oldest collection. The trick is in guessing what your opponents are likely to do, and planning your choices accordingly — only after everyone's decision is revealed do you know for certain whether you made the right one.
New players are welcome, and the host is happy to teach if you haven't played before.