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Do you enjoy playing board games and looking for a place to find others that also enjoy playing? At Cole Street Game Vault in Enumclaw, WA we have several opportunities to meet up with others in the same boat!
All of our meet ups are open to everyone at any skill level. When we post in the event we'll note if we suggest watching a quick video tutorial of the game prior to attending or if the goal is a casual play group!
We get together every week on Monday evenings. The first week of every month is an Intro To Gaming series where we teach entry-level board games that use the building block mechanics that more complex games use, so new gamers can progress more into the hobby. The last Monday of every month is our Heavy Lifter's Club where a complex strategy game is chosen from our game vault for those members who'd like a chance to play a harder game they've never gotten a chance to, and to meet other gamers with a similar mindset when it comes to playing heavyweight games.
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See all- Dead of WinterCole Street Game Vault, Enumclaw, WA
Video Tutorial: https://youtu.be/6la-2F6EtyM?si=vviI-8tcsBhftg7j
"Crossroads" is a game series from Plaid Hat Games that tests a group of survivors' ability to work together and stay alive while facing crises and challenges from both outside and inside. Dead of Winter: A Crossroads Game, the first title in this series, puts 2-5 players in a small, weakened colony of survivors in a world in which most of humanity is either dead or diseased, flesh-craving monsters. Each player leads a faction of survivors, with dozens of different characters in the game.
Dead of Winter is a meta-cooperative psychological survival game. This means players are working together toward one common victory condition, but for each individual player to achieve victory, they must also complete their personal secret objective, which could relate to a psychological tick that's fairly harmless to most others in the colony, a dangerous obsession that could put the main objective at risk, a desire for sabotage of the main mission, or (worst of all) vengeance against the colony! Games could end with all players winning, some winning and some losing, or all players losing. Work toward the group's goal, but don't get walked all over by a loudmouth who's looking out only for their own interests!
Dead of Winter is an experience that can be accomplished only through the medium of tabletop games, a story-centric game about surviving through a harsh winter in an apocalyptic world. The survivors are all dealing with their own psychological imperatives, but must still find a way to work together to fight off outside threats, resolve crises, find food and supplies, and keep the colony's morale up.
Dead of Winter has players making frequent, difficult, heavily-thematic, wildly-varying decisions that often have them deciding between what's best for the colony and what's best for themselves. The rulebook also includes a fully co-operative variant in which all players work toward the group objective with no personal goals. - TikalCole Street Game Vault, Enumclaw, WA
Video Tutorial: https://youtu.be/U17pjEs8oIQ?si=61sKtpDEylRbRh7i
Tikal is a game of exploration within the Central American jungles in search of lost temples and the treasures within. Players send their team of explorers into the jungle, exposing more and more of the terrain. Along the way, you find temples that require further uncovering and treasures. Players attempt to score points for occupying temples and holding onto treasure.
- It's A Wonderful WorldCole Street Game Vault, Enumclaw, WA
Video Tutorial: https://youtu.be/5V8HAxVshrE?si=EQFhUaw0OBdDFPOv
In It’s a Wonderful World, you are an expanding Empire and must choose your path to your future. You must develop faster and better than your competitors. You’ll carefully plan your expansion to develop your production power and rule over this new world.
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.
When a card is fully built, it’s added to the player’s Empire to increase the player’s production capacity for each round. The mechanical twist being that the production phase works in a specific order. You'll have to plan your constructions carefully! - The Quacks of QuedlinbergCole Street Game Vault, Enumclaw, WA
Video Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcvK6ExuISM
In The Quacks of Quedlinburg, players are charlatans — or quack doctors — each making their own secret brew by adding ingredients one at a time. Take care with what you add, though, for a pinch too much of this or that will spoil the whole mixture!
Each player has their own bag of ingredient chips. During each round, they simultaneously draw chips from their bags and add them to their pots. The higher the face value of the drawn chip, the further it is placed in the pot's swirling pattern, increasing how much the potion will be worth. Push your luck as far as you can, but if you add too many cherry bombs, your pot will explode!
At the end of each round, players gain victory points and coins to spend on new ingredients, depending on how well they managed to fill up their pots. But players whose pots have exploded must choose points or coins — not both! The player with the most victory points at the end of nine rounds wins the game.
