👟 🏁 🎂Speed Gaming for Singles 💨🚀@ East Library – Community Room: May 2nd, 2026
😊 All ages of Single Adults welcome.😊
This is at the East Library East Community Meeting Room.
People seem to like this new format for gaming which will allow everyone to meet more people. Sometimes people attending our "normal" game events only meet a small number of people, because, typically, you sit down with one group and never meet others outside your group. So I call this Speed Gaming. We will split into groups of 4 and then at 20 minute intervals we will announced, 'time’, and people will move to another group. You will have a 5 minute transition period. [The overhead projection screen shows your new location.]
- Goal to maximize the number of unique groups of people, and maximize the amount of socializing with maximum people.
Due to the time frame, we will focus on short game. If a particular game is not complete, there is usually a way to determine a “winner” at the time of the change. If you have any ideas for short games, that are trivial to learn, please bring them. And the games should be easy to learn! We always have lots of choices of different games.
Come have some FUN!!! Get together with others for a fun afternoon of games. Bring your favorite short game.
Typical games:
- Dutch Blitz
- Uno - determine who wins with least cards at "time'
- Phase 10
- Bananagrams
- Balance
- Pit
- Left Center Right
- Who am I
- Dose
- Tenzi
.. Feel free to bring any other games that would work for 4 people
The library does let us bring some food, so please bring something to share: A Snack 🍨, Soda, Water, or best of all make your favorite homemade treat 🍲 to share.🍪🍓😀. As always please take home your leftovers. (No alcohol allowed in our Public Libraries.)
Allergies? To ensure the comfort and safety of all our members, we kindly ask you to refrain from bringing any animals to game events. This restriction does not apply to officially certified service dogs. We have members who have acute allergies.
SEE YOU THERE!
ATTENDANCE:
Please keep your RSVP up-to-date. We have to limit the attendance due to the meeting room size: If you hold a spot and do NOT attend, you keep others from attending. If you are a frequent no show we may have to ban you. So be kind and only RSVP YES if you plan to attend. If your plans change, please change your RSVP preferably DAYS before to allow others to plan!
Meetup changed their policy on wait-list, and they are providing preferred status to those who pay THEM monthly. So to work around this unfair treatment, at times, it may appear like we are approving more people than allowed. This is our, perhaps seemingly convoluted, way to bypass Meetup's BIASED "pay to play" policy. We will do our best to make wait-list fist come, first serve, as is fair!
PS: Starting Last year, you will are no longer be able to message other people on meetup without paying a monthly fee. So if you want to get a hold of a new friend who you met at an event, be assertive and ask them for contact information in person! But also please be respectful of others privacy. They might not want to be in touch!
Meetup calls this feature "Meetup+", but what they are really doing is REVOKING what you previously were able to do for free and charging all users for such features. https://www.meetup.com/blog/new-to-meetup-plus-october-2024/
This new policy should NOT affect your ability to message a meeting organizer. if you do find any other unexpected ODD features, feel free to message me about it.
Name tags:
- Name tags help to facilitate communication. If you are interested, you are encouraged to share your preferred pronouns on your name tag.
See you soon. If you have any questions, feel free to message me. :-)
- Doug
