Pardon me, the end of the year is always so busy I didn’t get around to showing you these extra photos, mostly from the tournaments day in November, but also our Picnic in December. Continue reading
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October was such a busy month for board games in Melbourne with the Anti Football League Lunch (photos) , weekly gaming at the NGV Studio’s exhibition of boardgames (photos), and all the Euro Games clubs around Melbourne (eg Corkman, Dockers…) .
Luckily people still found the time and inclination to come to Cafe Games, to get a drink, put their feet up and relax in some less serious game playing … Continue reading
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The groundswell of sporting apathy cannot be denied! The forces of the Anti Football League continue to grow year by year, and this “Grand” Final Day was no exception! Continue reading
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A marvellous turn up in September, with over 100 people there at one point! Great venue at the Celtic Club – these numbers would have been unthinkable a year ago! Continue reading
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For centuries, parlour games have allowed us to fill in random empty moments with great fun. In these modern imaginative times, many exciting new parlour games have been invented just by twisting some of the original rules.
Games such as Categories, Charades, Chinese Whispers and even Scrabble have been re-invented. Many of these games had a run at the August Cafe Games day…
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I’m always pleasantly shocked at how many people are keen on playing “Five Hundred”, the card game. Last month we got together for a special “Cafe Games 500 Night” … Continue reading
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With our numbers decimated by Siew-Li’s concurrent birthday party, we somehow still managed to have a great time playing boardgames!
Others wonder how we can play from midday to 11pm … but the truth is that time speeds up! Many players will guess at the time and find they’re out by 3 or 4 hours … Continue reading
Tags: Board game, boardgames, dayreport, dixit, Mahjong, melbourne, pandemic, Qwirkle, rummikub, social event, Spy Alley, Uno Attack, Uno Stacko, werewolf
Wow, around 100 people joined us at Cafe Games at the Celtic Club in June! Was it the cold weather outside, or the news that we would have the fledgling Mahjong club with us? … Continue reading
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The other weekend a troupe of Cafe Games regulars caught the train out to “Milsims“, one of the finest of Melbourne’s board game stores… Continue reading
Tags: Awful Green Things From Outer Space, Board game, boardgames, carcassonne, dixit, melbourne, milsims
Cafe Games’ big May event took a strangely Irish turn when we encamped in a large function room at the Melbourne Celtic Club. So much room that we could gather our Werewolf circle without needing to move people out of the way! The staff were doubtful we’d be there all day, but we showed them! 
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