Games for 50 and Older!

This weekly event series is for people 50 and older to get together and play board and card games in a relaxed, social atmosphere. The general focus is on light- to medium-weight modern board and card games, but there are also a few participants who enjoy heavier games. Older more-or-less modern games also come out from time to time (but we won't be playing Monopoly or Sorry! -- sorry!😲). Adult children under 50 are welcome to bring their 50+ parent(s) with them!

Today's modern board games are usually designed to keep all players in the game until it ends, and some offer more than one path to victory. There are also a lot of fully or partially cooperative games now, something you probably did not experience in your childhood. Interested in learning and playing modern board games? Come on down! This is a safe place to stretch your mind and mingle.

We have three hosts now, with Kevin and Denise normally planning to come every week and Daley every other week. We will try to show only hosts actually planning to come on a given date in the "Attendees" list once the date gets close. (This requires manual intervention on our part as Meetup auto-RSVPs all hosts to all dates.) We should be there at latest by the start time but often ~10 minutes before.

Note that every other week the store hosts a video game event in the big gaming room, so those weeks we will usually be in the main store by the cafe instead. We usually bring signs so new people can find us more easily, but sometimes we forget. We also have several regulars now who bring and teach games from their collections, and the store has an extensive free lending library we can also borrow from.

If you have games you want to play, please go ahead and bring them! Also, don't hesitate to post questions, game preferences, etc. in the discussion threads on the event series and/or the individual events. A bunch of us check and respond to those regularly.

Please RSVP if you can. This helps us get an idea of how many people to expect. In recent weeks we typically have about a dozen people attending.

A brief message about ground rules:

• Try your best to be on time. Otherwise, you may have to wait until a new - or another - game is starting.
• Please respect game components with clean hands and gentle touch.
• Discrimination of any kind and trash-talking will not be tolerated.
• Please also refrain from engaging in politics while at the game table.
• Errors will be made, so please bear with these without hard feelings. It's only a game!
• Win or lose, "It's not the destination, it's the journey" -- Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Welcome "a-board"!