Back in 2019!

Yikes! It’s 2019??? Who would have thought we’d make it to our 11th year! 2018 sure was turbulent! These days we’re meeting in the Hawthorn Hotel, a cosy little place very close to Glenferrie and Auburn train stations. 🚂 Maybe one day we’ll be back in the city, but I’ll need to do a lot of work to make that happen.

In the meantime, we’re having a great time, playing lots of fun games 🙂
According to the poll after the January Cafe Games, the top 3 games played were Bananagrams, Decrypto and Codenames Pictures! Definitely quite popular games, but I also noticed that lots of people claimed to have played some games by themselves, like The Resistance, Were-words and The Climbers … so … I guess not everyone responds… 😛

Codenames Pictures! Okay maybe

Fotos From Feb

Seems like February Cafe Games at the Royal Melbourne Hotel was so long ago – what a difference an extra week makes!!

Articulate – either Darryl

Welcome to 2018!

Ha! Back to the Royal Melbourne Hotel in force! Seems everyone was pretty keen to catch up and play some games together after the Christmas holidays. Even got a few rave reviews!

Good Cop Bad Cop … an intriguing twist on the “hidden” roles games like Resistance. You each have 3 cards that add together to make up your role. Other players can peek at individual cards, but might get the wrong idea as the Good Cops might have some bad cards, and the criminals might have some good cards…
(The sci-fi retheme of this is Leaders of Euphoria)

And we’re back!

The closure of The Celtic Club was a bit of a blow, but now we’ve run a successful trial event at the Royal Melbourne Hotel, we’re back in action!!! If you missed it, come along this Saturday 12-8! No dim cellar for us! Bright, natural light, and delicious meals & drinks 🙂

But since then we also had…

The Annual Christmas Games Picnic

(Remember these are Facebook pictures so click through to like, tag friends and comment!)

Timeline card game

Last Month – At The Celtic Club

Well! It’s come down to this! August was our final month at the Celtic Club before it was closed to be demolished. 😦

Still!! We’re not going to sit around moping while there are exciting board games to be played!! 😀

July: Mostly Codenames?

Wow, as you can see from our little video here, there were certainly a lot of games of Codenames that went on in July! (And I probably only caught a selection of them!) Perhaps there were a few other board games too …

Still at the Celtic for now!

Well, I don’t have a good replacement venue yet for Cafe Games, so I’m still open to suggestions (in the CBD, serve food). But in the meantime, they haven’t torn down the Celtic Club yet! We’ve managed to get a couple of months reprieve. These photos of the games we played in May might be nostalgia down the track! Remember to tag your friends in them!

Colourful Board Games! April

Such a colourful range of games and people, it’s hard to believe it’s not Summer! 😀

Party games and cake!

Another day of rollicking fun with great board games, card games and lively friends!

Hedbanz – it’s like

No Happy Salmon?

A quick little video showing some of the board games we played at Cafe Games last in February … pffft, no one got pictures or video of Happy Salmon being played?