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Knitting Circle is a stand-alone follow up to the hit spatial puzzle game Calico! In this gorgeous puzzly tile-laying game for the whole family, players are knitters competing to create the coziest, most beautiful assortment of garments. Learn to play this brand-new game with its creator and RinCon special guest, Emily Vincent (Pink Hawk Game).
Kohaku is a peaceful koi-pond-building, tile-laying game. Each turn, players will draft both a Koi and Feature tile from the central pond board to place into their personal koi pond.
Score points by surrounding flowers with koi containing matching colors, placing frogs next to koi tiles that have dragonflies, and ensuring that baby koi have a safe place to hide by placing them near rocks.
Butterflies score based on line of sight, so make sure to line them up with similar-colored koi. Turtles and statues bring a sense of balance to your pond and score points more easily, but sometimes aren’t as valuable as some of the other features.
You must carefully plan the placement of your tiles, because once they are in your pond, they can’t be moved! With no restrictions on the shape of your pond, you can build a unique layout to maximize your koi pond’s appeal.
After there are no koi tiles available to refill the central pond board, the game ends. Players will total the points scored by each feature in their pond. The player with the most points wins.
Come play Pandemic in the Quick Play Zone! Pandemic is a cooperative game with players representing doctors and scientists racing to cure diseases around the globe. This is a light strategy game open to anyone, and a full rules explanation will be provided. Rules and gameplay should take about 60 minutes.
Looking to try a new game? Have a game you no longer play but think someone else might enjoy? Visit the Game Trade Station! Throughout the weekend, we’ll have a table stocked with a variety of games available for trade (board games, card game, RPG's, etc.). Attendees are invited to bring a gently used game or two from home and swap it for any other item on the table. Please ensure that the items you leave are complete and in good condition, ready to be enjoyed by someone else. Don’t see something you want right away? No worries! The inventory is expected to change continuously throughout the weekend, so check back later for new options.
Based on simple and intuitive hand management, Heat: Pedal to the Metal puts players in the driver's seat of intense car races, jockeying for position to cross the finish line first, while managing their car's speed if they don't want to overheat. Selecting the right upgrades for their car will help them hug the curves and keep their engine cool enough to maintain top speeds. Ultimately, their driving skills will be the key to victory!
In Mountain Goats you work to move your goats to the top of 6 different mountains where they can score points as long as they stay there. You can share spaces with other goats on the way up, but there is only room for one goat at the top of each mountain. If someone else's goat moves to the mountain top, they will kick you off and you'll have to start your trek over.
It's a game about timing. You need to not just get to the top of the mountain, but get there when no one else is in position to knock you off.
It's a game about keeping your eye on your opponents. Maximizing your score, but also making sure you don't let anyone else score too much.
There is the fun chance to knock each other off the mountain. But it doesn't feel too mean because you can only knock back goats that are in a scoring position, and it isn't a huge setback. It is just a normal part of the cycle of the game.
In Sequoia you are trying to grow the tallest trees in 11 different forests. After your 10 turns, if you have the tallest tree, then you get the victory points from that forest. Second place gets a small consolation prize.
Each turn, you get to grow two of your trees. Which trees you choose will determine if you win or lose. Do you keep fighting in a forest with competition, or start growing your tree somewhere else? You'll have to wrestle with the dice to grow the tree you want.
Knitting Circle is a stand-alone follow up to the hit spatial puzzle game Calico! In this gorgeous puzzly tile-laying game for the whole family, players are knitters competing to create the coziest, most beautiful assortment of garments. Learn to play this brand-new game with its creator and RinCon special guest, Emily Vincent (Pink Hawk Game).
Come play Splendor in the Quick Play Zone! Splendor has players collecting gems and trading them for tiles, which provide points as well as discounts towards more valuable gems. This is a light strategy game open to anyone, and a full rules explanation will be provided. Rules and gameplay should take about 45-60 minutes.
It's just like regular Carcassonne, but GIANT! Carcassonne is a tile-placement game in which the players draw and place a tile with a piece of southern French landscape on it. The tile might feature a city, a road, a cloister, grassland or some combination thereof, and it must be placed adjacent to tiles that have already been played, in such a way that cities are connected to cities, roads to roads, etcetera. Having placed a tile, the player can then decide to place one of their meeples on one of the areas on it: on the city as a knight, on the road as a robber, on a cloister as a monk, or on the grass as a farmer. When that area is complete, that meeple scores points for its owner.
Never been to RinCon before? Want to know what it’s all about? Grab yourself a lunch from the concession stand or one of the resort venues and bring it to this informal discussion about all that the convention has to offer. Board members will be on hand to satisfy your curiosity about all things RinCon, including scheduled programming, how to sign up for events, what’s where in the convention site, and questions like, “Where do I get these RinCoins, and what the heck do I do with them?”
When bees are creating honeycomb, they connect their legs together to form a chain, called a festoon. In this game, players compete the be the first to form a festoon. Players take turns placing hexagonal bee tiles adjacent to the other tiles on the table one at a time. The first player who places four bees in a straight line wins.
As players create advantageous patterns and block others, Festoon becomes a game of competitive cooperation. Players must decide whether it is more advantageous to block another player's festoon or set themselves up for victory. The simple rules and strategic gameplay mean that anybody can play it, but victory can only be achieved by the player whose strategy comes out on top.
Come play Gizmos in the Quick Play Zone! Collect the right marbles to buy new parts for your machine, making future actions more powerful and creating fun combos. This is a light strategy game open to anyone, and a full rules explanation will be provided. Rules and gameplay should take about 60 minutes.
Based on simple and intuitive hand management, Heat: Pedal to the Metal puts players in the driver's seat of intense car races, jockeying for position to cross the finish line first, while managing their car's speed if they don't want to overheat. Selecting the right upgrades for their car will help them hug the curves and keep their engine cool enough to maintain top speeds. Ultimately, their driving skills will be the key to victory!
When bees are creating honeycomb, they connect their legs together to form a chain, called a festoon. In this game, players compete the be the first to form a festoon. Players take turns placing hexagonal bee tiles adjacent to the other tiles on the table one at a time. The first player who places four bees in a straight line wins.
As players create advantageous patterns and block others, Festoon becomes a game of competitive cooperation. Players must decide whether it is more advantageous to block another player's festoon or set themselves up for victory. The simple rules and strategic gameplay mean that anybody can play it, but victory can only be achieved by the player whose strategy comes out on top.
Come play Scout in the Quick Play Zone! This is a "ladder-climbing" card game where players play cards from their hand to try to beat the most recent set. But plan carefully, because you cannot change the order of the cards in your hand. This is a light strategy game open to anyone, and a full rules explanation will be provided. Rules and gameplay should take about 45-60 minutes.
Everybody loves the clicky-clacky math rocks! Try your hand at a selection of dice games, including Martian Dice, Farkle, and Tenzi. Play a new game or join others in playing an old favorite!
Long Shot is YOUR ticket to the track. In this exciting family-friendly horse racing board game, up to 8 players bet, buy horses, and strategize as the race unfolds.
Long Shot includes over 100 unique cards allowing players to combine strategies and resources for maximum control of the race. Will you buy a horse or two in the hopes of winning some of the purse, or will you bet it all on the long shot?
Whether a novice or a horse racing enthusiast, everyone's a winner in this interactive strategy game where anytime is post time!
You are a child of Zeus poised to conquer all of Greece, but first you must prove your worth to the gods, as there is another who contests your claim. To determine who shall rule, gods have devised a contest and lent their most powerful forces to both sides of the conflict. Omen: Reign of War is a head-to-head strategic card game where you compete to gain the favor of the pantheon of gods, and prove that you are the rightful heir of Zeus. Powerful forces of antiquity and legend are at your command as you raze and pillage cities, strategically manage your resources, and eliminate your rival’s forces. Choose your battle strategy with rules for standard and draft play, and expand your war with other, fully compatible, games from the 'Omen Saga'!
Over three weeks (rounds), players will use their hand of cards, workers, and resources to do their part in rebuilding the great city of Jerusalem. After six days of work comes a Sabbath day of rest when food will be needed, and the week's work will be reflected upon. The game ends after the third Sabbath has been completed.
A medium-heavy game from Garphill Games that combines several mechanisms from the West Kingdom trilogy.
Kick off your weekend with a social mixer! Enjoy high-tea refreshments and play a sampling of lighter fare from our curated list of garden-themed games, taught by a team of fantastic table hosts (including RinCon special guest Emily Vincent of Pink Hawk Games). Don your fanciest tea-time togs and compete to be society’s best dressed gamer. For each different game you play you will earn an entry into the prize drawings. Yes! There will be multiple prizes! You must be present to win!
Game selection: A Gentle Rain, Bohnanza: Dahlias, Garden Guests, Tussie Mussie, The Garden, High Society, Floriferous, Herbaceous, Honshu, Walking in Provence, Lacuna, Prosperitea, and Pirates of the High Teas.
Prize selection: Votes For Women, Obsession, Darwin's Journey, Last Will, Tussie Mussie, Floriferous, Bohnanza: Dahlias, High Society, and A Gentle Rain
I love strategy board games, especially euro games. I have a large collection and am willing to play my games with anyone who is interested. If there's a game you would like to try, ask me, I probably own it. lol In addition to board games, I DM a RPG group that takes place... Read More →
Come play 7 Wonders in the Quick Play Zone! This is a drafting card game where players will select one card from their hand to play, then pass the rest to the next player. The cards you choose will provide discounts, points, and other various benefits as the game progresses. This is a light strategy game open to anyone, and a full rules explanation will be provided. Rules and gameplay should take about 60 minutes.
When bees are creating honeycomb, they connect their legs together to form a chain, called a festoon. In this game, players compete the be the first to form a festoon. Players take turns placing hexagonal bee tiles adjacent to the other tiles on the table one at a time. The first player who places four bees in a straight line wins.
As players create advantageous patterns and block others, Festoon becomes a game of competitive cooperation. Players must decide whether it is more advantageous to block another player's festoon or set themselves up for victory. The simple rules and strategic gameplay mean that anybody can play it, but victory can only be achieved by the player whose strategy comes out on top.
Fun is in the cards for you at this event! Choose from a selection of great games like Spot it!, Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza, Sushi Go, SET, and Exploding Kittens. Time flies when you're playing cards with others so come play an old favorite with new friends or learn your new favorite card game to share with others!
Based on simple and intuitive hand management, Heat: Pedal to the Metal puts players in the driver's seat of intense car races, jockeying for position to cross the finish line first, while managing their car's speed if they don't want to overheat. Selecting the right upgrades for their car will help them hug the curves and keep their engine cool enough to maintain top speeds. Ultimately, their driving skills will be the key to victory!
Cascadia is a puzzly tile-laying and token-drafting game featuring the habitats and wildlife of the Pacific Northwest. This game is just like regular Cascadia, but GIANT!!!
In the game, you take turns building out your own terrain area and populating it with wildlife. You start with three hexagonal habitat tiles (with the five types of habitat in the game), and on a turn you choose a new habitat tile that's paired with a wildlife token, then place that tile next to your other ones and place the wildlife token on an appropriate habitat. (Each tile depicts 1-3 types of wildlife from the five types in the game, and you can place at most one tile on a habitat.) Four tiles are on display, with each tile being paired at random with a wildlife token, so you must make the best of what's available — unless you have a nature token to spend so that you can pick your choice of each item.
What is Indigenous Futurism and why won't Weyodi OldBear leave it alone? RinCon special guest and writer on the Coyote & Crow RPG Weyodi OldBear explains what Indigenous Futurism is and why it's both useful and compelling. Stop by and learn from her at the presentation venue next to her booth in the vendor area.
When bees are creating honeycomb, they connect their legs together to form a chain, called a festoon. In this game, players compete the be the first to form a festoon. Players take turns placing hexagonal bee tiles adjacent to the other tiles on the table one at a time. The first player who places four bees in a straight line wins.
As players create advantageous patterns and block others, Festoon becomes a game of competitive cooperation. Players must decide whether it is more advantageous to block another player's festoon or set themselves up for victory. The simple rules and strategic gameplay mean that anybody can play it, but victory can only be achieved by the player whose strategy comes out on top.
Come play Trekking Through History in the Quick Play Zone! Select cards from the display representing iconic moments in mankind's history. Choose the right events to cover icons on your board in order to maximize points and gain other bonuses, while also trying to build the largest timelines. This is a light strategy game open to anyone, and a full rules explanation will be provided. Rules and gameplay should take about 60 minutes.
Join Chip, Sweep, and the other kids of Everdell to build the most spectacular make-believe city anyone has ever built. This easy-to-learn worker-placement and tableau-building game will provide family fun while getting the lil’ ones' brains a buzzin’, improving focus, and enhancing young learner skills.
Calico is a puzzly tile-laying game of quilts and cats, in which players compete to sew the coziest quilt as they collect and place patches of different colors and patterns. Try out this classic game with a new Knitting Circle twist! Knitting Circle is the brand-new game designed by RinCon special guest Emily Vincent (Pink Hawk Games), where the rondele mechanism dovetails with Calico.
After a long search in several comic bookstores and online stores, you managed to acquire the most important comic books of all your favorite heroes. Well, almost all of them! Some rare and important editions are still missing from your collection. The first appearance of your favorite villain, that special edition that influenced a generation of story lines, the spetacular debut of the new uniform, the memorable confrontation with the archenemy and the valuable number one! You already know where to find them and you also know that you are not the only one in search of these precious gems. Will you be able to collect all the comics needed to be recognized as the greatest collector of all time?
A ray of moonlight shines in the clearing. The fairies wake up and stretch their wings. Mushrooms pop up from the ground, forming a circle. The first fireflies start to land. Magic is returning to the forest, and now it's time to prepare for winter...
In Fairy Ring, you want to create a mushroom village to house the fairies in the clearing. Guide your fairy carefully, from village to village, through the fairy ring to gather as much mana as possible. You have two seasons to develop your village before winter begins. Each decision counts towards winning the game.
Rolldown Two players face off in a competition to curate odds in their favor. Players take turns rolling and removing dice from the board or playing cards. whoever removes the last pair of dice from the board wins the round. Rolldown is a true blend of luck and strategy.
Rules:
Pieces · Both players start with six dice: a d4, a d6, a d8, a d10, a d12, and a d20. · One player starts with a black set and one player starts with a white set. · The game board has two separate areas for either player to roll their dice in. · The game uses a standard deck of playing cards, jokers included.
Starting a round · Both players start by rolling all their dice. · Both players draw 3 cards. White goes first, but black may reroll one of their own dice before the start of the game, because they are going second.
During play Players take turns back and forth and can use their turn to do one of the following: · Reroll. On their turn a player can choose to reroll one of the dice present on the board. This die may be under their control or the opponents. · Reduce. On their turn a player may remove one of their own dice from the board along with an enemy die that is displaying the same number or lower on its upward face. Because dice are always removed in pairs. You and your opponent should always have the same number of dice in play. · Play a card. A player may play a card in their hand to change a dice's value to a specific number rather than rerolling it. Either player's dice may be targeted by a card. A numbered card changes a dice's value to the number shown on the card. A numbered card cannot be played on a dice that cannot represent that value, for example you may not play a 9 on a D8 A jack turns any dice to a 1. A queen allows you to make two consecutive reroll actions. A king turns any dice to its max value. An ace turns any dice into 1 or its max value. A joker rerolls all the dice on the board. After a card is played it
Dive into the world of Dixit, where each player becomes a storyteller, using creativity to give clues that match beautifully illustrated cards. A captivating game for family and friends that sparks imagination.
You're an eager youth in the quaint village of Rainbow Corners, fighting to survive Doctor Sweet's gauntlet of terrifying carnival games in pursuit of her friendship and an infinite supply of candy. Come test this whimsical candy horror game with game inventor James Ernest.
James Ernest is a prolific tabletop game designer, and the founder of Cheapass Games. His best-known games include Kill Doctor Lucky, Lords of Vegas, Unexploded Cow, and Tak: A Beautiful Game. He is over nine feet tall, celebrates three birthdays each year, and is made entirely of... Read More →
Friday November 15, 2024 8:00pm - 10:00pm MST
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It's just like regular Catan, but GIANT!!! In CATAN (formerly The Settlers of Catan), players try to be the dominant force on the island of Catan by building settlements, cities, and roads. On each turn dice are rolled to determine what resources the island produces. Players build by spending resources (sheep, wheat, wood, brick and ore) that are depicted by these resource cards; each land type, with the exception of the unproductive desert, produces a specific resource: hills produce brick, forests produce wood, mountains produce ore, fields produce wheat, and pastures produce sheep.
Join RinCon special guest and author on the popular RPG Coyote&Crow, Weyodi OldBear. Her vocational school for young gods will guide you through the process of making a world that works, from building logical magic systems to sewer systems, ecologies to economies. In this audience-participation workshop you will collaborate to build a rich new world with internal consistency.
Join the Adventures in Board Gaming team of teachers to learn how to play some current popular games, like Andromeda’s Edge, Doggerland, Flip 7, Tidal Blades, Far Away, World Wonders, Ponzi Scheme, Wandering Towers, and Zoo Vadis. Visit one of their tables to see the AiBG's full library of games.
Join the Adventures in Board Gaming team of teachers to learn how to play some current popular games, like Andromeda’s Edge, Doggerland, Flip 7, Tidal Blades, Far Away, World Wonders, Ponzi Scheme, Wandering Towers, and Zoo Vadis. Visit one of their tables to see the AiBGs full library of games.
Rolldown Two players face off in a competition to curate odds in their favor. Players take turns rolling and removing dice from the board or playing cards. whoever removes the last pair of dice from the board wins the round. Rolldown is a true blend of luck and strategy.
Rules:
Pieces · Both players start with six dice: a d4, a d6, a d8, a d10, a d12, and a d20. · One player starts with a black set and one player starts with a white set. · The game board has two separate areas for either player to roll their dice in. · The game uses a standard deck of playing cards, jokers included.
Starting a round · Both players start by rolling all their dice. · Both players draw 3 cards. White goes first, but black may reroll one of their own dice before the start of the game, because they are going second.
During play Players take turns back and forth and can use their turn to do one of the following: · Reroll. On their turn a player can choose to reroll one of the dice present on the board. This die may be under their control or the opponents. · Reduce. On their turn a player may remove one of their own dice from the board along with an enemy die that is displaying the same number or lower on its upward face. Because dice are always removed in pairs. You and your opponent should always have the same number of dice in play. · Play a card. A player may play a card in their hand to change a dice's value to a specific number rather than rerolling it. Either player's dice may be targeted by a card. A numbered card changes a dice's value to the number shown on the card. A numbered card cannot be played on a dice that cannot represent that value, for example you may not play a 9 on a D8 A jack turns any dice to a 1. A queen allows you to make two consecutive reroll actions. A king turns any dice to its max value. An ace turns any dice into 1 or its max value. A joker rerolls all the dice on the board. After a card is played it
Join the Adventures in Board Gaming team of teachers to learn how to play some current popular games, like Andromeda’s Edge, Doggerland, Flip 7, Tidal Blades, Far Away, World Wonders, Ponzi Scheme, Wandering Towers, and Zoo Vadis. Visit one of their tables to see the AiBG's full library of games.
Join the Adventures in Board Gaming team of teachers to learn how to play some current popular games, like Andromeda’s Edge, Doggerland, Flip 7, Tidal Blades, Far Away, World Wonders, Ponzi Scheme, Wandering Towers, and Zoo Vadis. Visit one of their tables to see the AiBGs full library of games.
In Cascadia: Landmarks, players create sprawling habitats and place beautiful natural landmarks within them. An expansion to the award winning game Cascadia.
Rolldown Two players face off in a competition to curate odds in their favor. Players take turns rolling and removing dice from the board or playing cards. whoever removes the last pair of dice from the board wins the round. Rolldown is a true blend of luck and strategy.
Rules:
Pieces · Both players start with six dice: a d4, a d6, a d8, a d10, a d12, and a d20. · One player starts with a black set and one player starts with a white set. · The game board has two separate areas for either player to roll their dice in. · The game uses a standard deck of playing cards, jokers included.
Starting a round · Both players start by rolling all their dice. · Both players draw 3 cards. White goes first, but black may reroll one of their own dice before the start of the game, because they are going second.
During play Players take turns back and forth and can use their turn to do one of the following: · Reroll. On their turn a player can choose to reroll one of the dice present on the board. This die may be under their control or the opponents. · Reduce. On their turn a player may remove one of their own dice from the board along with an enemy die that is displaying the same number or lower on its upward face. Because dice are always removed in pairs. You and your opponent should always have the same number of dice in play. · Play a card. A player may play a card in their hand to change a dice's value to a specific number rather than rerolling it. Either player's dice may be targeted by a card. A numbered card changes a dice's value to the number shown on the card. A numbered card cannot be played on a dice that cannot represent that value, for example you may not play a 9 on a D8 A jack turns any dice to a 1. A queen allows you to make two consecutive reroll actions. A king turns any dice to its max value. An ace turns any dice into 1 or its max value. A joker rerolls all the dice on the board. After a card is played it
You're still trying to kill Doctor Lucky, and this time his mysterious private island is trying to kill you! Play The Island of Doctor Lucky with designer and RinCon special guest James Ernest and see if you can finally put the old man out of his misery!
James Ernest is a prolific tabletop game designer, and the founder of Cheapass Games. His best-known games include Kill Doctor Lucky, Lords of Vegas, Unexploded Cow, and Tak: A Beautiful Game. He is over nine feet tall, celebrates three birthdays each year, and is made entirely of... Read More →
Friday November 15, 2024 10:00pm - 11:00pm MST
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Rolldown Two players face off in a competition to curate odds in their favor. Players take turns rolling and removing dice from the board or playing cards. whoever removes the last pair of dice from the board wins the round. Rolldown is a true blend of luck and strategy.
Rules:
Pieces · Both players start with six dice: a d4, a d6, a d8, a d10, a d12, and a d20. · One player starts with a black set and one player starts with a white set. · The game board has two separate areas for either player to roll their dice in. · The game uses a standard deck of playing cards, jokers included.
Starting a round · Both players start by rolling all their dice. · Both players draw 3 cards. White goes first, but black may reroll one of their own dice before the start of the game, because they are going second.
During play Players take turns back and forth and can use their turn to do one of the following: · Reroll. On their turn a player can choose to reroll one of the dice present on the board. This die may be under their control or the opponents. · Reduce. On their turn a player may remove one of their own dice from the board along with an enemy die that is displaying the same number or lower on its upward face. Because dice are always removed in pairs. You and your opponent should always have the same number of dice in play. · Play a card. A player may play a card in their hand to change a dice's value to a specific number rather than rerolling it. Either player's dice may be targeted by a card. A numbered card changes a dice's value to the number shown on the card. A numbered card cannot be played on a dice that cannot represent that value, for example you may not play a 9 on a D8 A jack turns any dice to a 1. A queen allows you to make two consecutive reroll actions. A king turns any dice to its max value. An ace turns any dice into 1 or its max value. A joker rerolls all the dice on the board. After a card is played it
Come play Azul in the Quick Play Zone! Select the best tiles at just the right time to complete your mosaic. Planning and timing, with a little luck, are all important to building the best sets and not breaking any tiles. This is a light strategy game open to anyone, and a full rules explanation will be provided. Rules and gameplay should take about 45-60 minutes.
Calico is a puzzly tile-laying game of quilts and cats, in which players compete to sew the coziest quilt as they collect and place patches of different colors and patterns. Try out this classic game with a new Knitting Circle twist! Knitting Circle is the brand-new game designed by RinCon special guest Emily Vincent (Pink Hawk Games), where the rondele mechanism dovetails with Calico.
When bees are creating honeycomb, they connect their legs together to form a chain, called a festoon. In this game, players compete the be the first to form a festoon. Players take turns placing hexagonal bee tiles adjacent to the other tiles on the table one at a time. The first player who places four bees in a straight line wins.
As players create advantageous patterns and block others, Festoon becomes a game of competitive cooperation. Players must decide whether it is more advantageous to block another player's festoon or set themselves up for victory. The simple rules and strategic gameplay mean that anybody can play it, but victory can only be achieved by the player whose strategy comes out on top.
Magician's Challenge is a new (2024) card game where you collect magic prop cards to win points by "performing" a set of tricks. Take the role of a Magician for whom certain types of Props are wild and add points to the tricks you perform. Use your Sneaky cards gain advantages over your opponents. 2-4 Players. Games last about 15 minutes per player. Ages 8+. Fun for families, teens, and adults. Hosted and taught by the game's designer.
Become the greatest wizard of the Annual Grand Rite by collecting and managing your Materia to feed your familiar and learn your spells. Act quickly to use your powers early...or wait to unleash them at full strength. Your path to victory is full of choices and combined tactics!
In SpellBook, each player, accompanied by a familiar, possesses a grimoire and collects Materia to master spells and feed their familiar. The game provides pre-drawn spell sets for use in the early rounds, but soon players start drawing spells randomly or create their own spell combinations that are common to all players. Each spell combination gives an effect that lasts the rest of the game, and the more ingenious the combination, the more powerful the effect. As the rounds progress, the game becomes a different experience every time, with more than 2,100 spell combinations being possible.
TacTile is an abstract strategy engine building game. Race across the modular board while building your action engine. Chain wild combos each turn if you can land on the right tiles!
Prehistory. Hot. Primordial. Dull. You’ve been dominating the Earth for longer than you can remember. Then again, with a brain the size of a walnut, you’ve also been standing there for longer than you can remember. Nevertheless, you’re completely sure that it’s been ten million and twenty-five years since anything interesting has happened. So you decide to cajole your buddies into a race across Skull Island. The winner is the first dinosaur to jump headfirst into the volcano. And you’re gonna need that head. Join RinCon special guest James Ernest in a session of his 25th anniversary game. This session is part of the Kids' Track
James Ernest is a prolific tabletop game designer, and the founder of Cheapass Games. His best-known games include Kill Doctor Lucky, Lords of Vegas, Unexploded Cow, and Tak: A Beautiful Game. He is over nine feet tall, celebrates three birthdays each year, and is made entirely of... Read More →
Saturday November 16, 2024 9:00am - 10:00am MST
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Looking to try a new game? Have a game you no longer play but think someone else might enjoy? Visit the Game Trade Station! Throughout the weekend, we’ll have a table stocked with a variety of games available for trade (board games, card game, RPG's, etc.). Attendees are invited to bring a gently used game or two from home and swap it for any other item on the table. Please ensure that the items you leave are complete and in good condition, ready to be enjoyed by someone else. Don’t see something you want right away? No worries! The inventory is expected to change continuously throughout the weekend, so check back later for new options.
What's better than being a hero who goes on adventures and fights monsters? Why, owning the shop they spend their treasure at of course! In Bargain Quest, players take the role of shop owners who draft equipment cards to outfit the various heroes who come to town. Points are scored based on how well your hero does in combat, as well as how much money you earn along the way. Hire employees and expand your shop to be the best after three monsters have been defeated.
This is a pirate-themed tactical race game with player interaction and side goals (e.g. detouring for treasure). The winner is the player who best balances their position in the race with their success at the side goals. The game ends on the turn when at least one player's ship reaches the finish line, completing one circuit around the island of Jamaica. At that point, players are awarded different amounts of gold in accordance with how far away from the finish line they were when the race concluded. This gold is added to any gold a player gathered along the way by detouring from the race to search for valuable treasure, by stealing gold or treasure from other players, or just by loading gold as directed by the cards the player played during the race. The player with the most total gold acquired through all these means is then declared the winner.
Union Stockyards is a mid-weight economic euro game with unique features: - A supply/demand driven market that is central to game play. - Low randomness -- market changes due to player decisions. - A worker-placement game where your workers may go on strike. - Extensively-researched historical theme about one of the great industrial wonders of U.S. Gilded Age.
This session will include the published game plus a prototype of the Westward Expansion. The expansion adds more years (rounds), more actions, and a deeper decision space.
"What did you wish you knew the very first time you sat down to GM a tabletop RPG?"
This is the question that our panel of experienced GMs is going to address this year. If you've ever wanted to GM a tabletop RPG but felt intimidated, anxious or uncertain about it, you will be our honored guest! If you have started to GM a tabletop RPG but ran into a problem, struggled or couldn't quite find your feet. we welcome you to a community of practitioners who have all "been there." And if you're an experienced GM in our community, please come and share your wisdom and let us learn from your mistakes as well. The GM's Conference has been a place for the community to meet for many years, and this year it is turning to how to cultivate that community's best practices from the very first session.
Join a band of three other heroes as you are tasked with seeking a nefarious jewel known as the Soul of the Night, racing against the malignant forces of Zargon. This powerful relic must not fall into the hands of the enemy.
HeroQuest is a classic dungeon delving quest game where heroes seek riches and fame as they fight their way through hordes of monsters in terrifying dungeons.
In a time when the world balances on a knife’s edge, a perilous mission awaits. A Fire Nation princess has been abducted, and rumors swirl of her being taken to the Temple of Four Elements, an ancient, long-forgotten structure hidden deep within the mountains. Once a sanctuary for benders of all nations, the temple now stands as a dark monument to ancient power.
Set during the era of Avatar Kyoshi, your team of heroes must unite their bending skills and cunning to infiltrate the temple, unravel its mysteries, and rescue the princess before her captors unleash a force that could tear the world asunder. But be warned—within the temple, the very elements themselves are restless, waiting to test your resolve.
Will you master the ancient energies of the temple or fall prey to its forgotten dangers? The fate of the Four Nations may rest in your hands.
In Tales from the Loop, a story told through play is called a Mystery. The players play as the Kids, a group of friends, aged 10-15, living in the late 1980s. The Kids encounter machines and creatures that have come to exist because of the Loop, a huge underground particle accelerator built in the late 1960s.
The Mystery is titled Summer Break and Killer Birds
When bees are creating honeycomb, they connect their legs together to form a chain, called a festoon. In this game, players compete the be the first to form a festoon. Players take turns placing hexagonal bee tiles adjacent to the other tiles on the table one at a time. The first player who places four bees in a straight line wins.
As players create advantageous patterns and block others, Festoon becomes a game of competitive cooperation. Players must decide whether it is more advantageous to block another player's festoon or set themselves up for victory. The simple rules and strategic gameplay mean that anybody can play it, but victory can only be achieved by the player whose strategy comes out on top.
Magician's Challenge is a new (2024) card game where you collect magic prop cards to win points by "performing" a set of tricks. Take the role of a Magician for whom certain types of Props are wild and add points to the tricks you perform. Use your Sneaky cards gain advantages over your opponents. 2-4 Players. Games last about 15 minutes per player. Ages 8+. Fun for families, teens, and adults. Hosted and taught by the game's designer.
Come play Nunatak: Temple of Ice in the Quick Play Zone! Select cards from the display to place your ice pillars on the board and build the mighty temple. Points are earned for careful placement as well as clever card selection. This is a light strategy game open to anyone, and a full rules explanation will be provided. Rules and gameplay should take about 60 minutes.
Become the greatest wizard of the Annual Grand Rite by collecting and managing your Materia to feed your familiar and learn your spells. Act quickly to use your powers early...or wait to unleash them at full strength. Your path to victory is full of choices and combined tactics!
In SpellBook, each player, accompanied by a familiar, possesses a grimoire and collects Materia to master spells and feed their familiar. The game provides pre-drawn spell sets for use in the early rounds, but soon players start drawing spells randomly or create their own spell combinations that are common to all players. Each spell combination gives an effect that lasts the rest of the game, and the more ingenious the combination, the more powerful the effect. As the rounds progress, the game becomes a different experience every time, with more than 2,100 spell combinations being possible.
TacTile is an abstract strategy engine building game. Race across the modular board while building your action engine. Chain wild combos each turn if you can land on the right tiles!
Verdant is a puzzly spatial card game in which you take on the role of a houseplant enthusiast trying to create the coziest interior space by collecting and arranging houseplants and other objects within your home
Prehistory. Hot. Primordial. Dull. You’ve been dominating the Earth for longer than you can remember. Then again, with a brain the size of a walnut, you’ve also been standing there for longer than you can remember. Nevertheless, you’re completely sure that it’s been ten million and twenty-five years since anything interesting has happened. So you decide to cajole your buddies into a race across Skull Island. The winner is the first dinosaur to jump headfirst into the volcano. And you’re gonna need that head. Join RinCon special guest James Ernest in a session of his 25th anniversary game.
James Ernest is a prolific tabletop game designer, and the founder of Cheapass Games. His best-known games include Kill Doctor Lucky, Lords of Vegas, Unexploded Cow, and Tak: A Beautiful Game. He is over nine feet tall, celebrates three birthdays each year, and is made entirely of... Read More →
Saturday November 16, 2024 10:00am - 11:00am MST
GIANT Games (53)
Dinosaur Tea Party is a game of pure deduction for 2-5 homo sapiens that plays in about 15 minutes. Each player takes a card corresponding to one of the dino guests. Players take turns asking each other questions or guessing a dinosaur’s name. If someone guesses your name, draw a new card. The first player to correctly guess three names, wins the game.
Gnome Hollow is a spatial, tile-placement, worker-placement game in which you grow a tabletop garden of mushrooms and flowers. Every piece is a hand-painted watercolor that captures the whimsical feel of gnomes and nature. Turns are deceptively simple: Players place tiles into the garden, and move a gnome to take a single action on their turn. Come to Gnome Hollow and experience a peaceful garden, the thrill of competing to harvest buckets of mushrooms, and the reward of gathering in all your shiny treasures!
The Mayor has enlisted some of humanity's greatest visionaries to help build Skyrise: a magnificent city in the sky, dedicated to art, science, and beauty. But only one artisan can be remembered as the greatest! Prove your genius by using a brilliant spatial auction system to win sites to build in, earning favor across Islands and factions, scoring secret and public objectives, courting mysterious Patrons, and building your own unique Wonder. Skyrise tells an interactive story of a growing cityscape, hard decisions, scarce resources, and ever-rising stakes that will keep you enthralled until the final scores are revealed.
The nefarious Marquise de Cat has seized the great woodland, intent on harvesting its riches. Under her rule, the many creatures of the forest have banded together. This Alliance will seek to strengthen its resources and subvert the rule of Cats. In this effort, the Alliance may enlist the help of the wandering Vagabonds who are able to move through the more dangerous woodland paths. Though some may sympathize with the Alliance’s hopes and dreams, these wanderers are old enough to remember the great birds of prey who once controlled the woods.
Meanwhile, at the edge of the region, the proud, squabbling Eyrie have found a new commander who they hope will lead their faction to resume their ancient birthright. The stage is set for a contest that will decide the fate of the great woodland. It is up to the players to decide which group will ultimately take root.
In Root, players drive the narrative, and the differences between each role create an unparalleled level of interaction and replayability.
When bees are creating honeycomb, they connect their legs together to form a chain, called a festoon. In this game, players compete the be the first to form a festoon. Players take turns placing hexagonal bee tiles adjacent to the other tiles on the table one at a time. The first player who places four bees in a straight line wins.
As players create advantageous patterns and block others, Festoon becomes a game of competitive cooperation. Players must decide whether it is more advantageous to block another player's festoon or set themselves up for victory. The simple rules and strategic gameplay mean that anybody can play it, but victory can only be achieved by the player whose strategy comes out on top.
Magician's Challenge is a new (2024) card game where you collect magic prop cards to win points by "performing" a set of tricks. Take the role of a Magician for whom certain types of Props are wild and add points to the tricks you perform. Use your Sneaky cards gain advantages over your opponents. 2-4 Players. Games last about 15 minutes per player. Ages 8+. Fun for families, teens, and adults. Hosted and taught by the game's designer.
Come play Project L in the Quick Play Zone! Use your various pieces to complete your selected puzzles, earning you points and additional pieces towards larger puzzles. Select the right puzzles and plan your actions carefully to maximize your points. This is a light strategy game open to anyone, and a full rules explanation will be provided. Rules and gameplay should take about 45-60 minutes.
Become the greatest wizard of the Annual Grand Rite by collecting and managing your Materia to feed your familiar and learn your spells. Act quickly to use your powers early...or wait to unleash them at full strength. Your path to victory is full of choices and combined tactics!
In SpellBook, each player, accompanied by a familiar, possesses a grimoire and collects Materia to master spells and feed their familiar. The game provides pre-drawn spell sets for use in the early rounds, but soon players start drawing spells randomly or create their own spell combinations that are common to all players. Each spell combination gives an effect that lasts the rest of the game, and the more ingenious the combination, the more powerful the effect. As the rounds progress, the game becomes a different experience every time, with more than 2,100 spell combinations being possible.
TacTile is an abstract strategy engine building game. Race across the modular board while building your action engine. Chain wild combos each turn if you can land on the right tiles!
Verdant is a puzzly spatial card game in which you take on the role of a houseplant enthusiast trying to create the coziest interior space by collecting and arranging houseplants and other objects within your home
Boop is an absolutely adorable 2-player abstract strategy game. Kittens and cats are on a bed (the board is a little bed with a gridded quilt), and boop each other off the bed; 3 grown up cats snuggled in a row win!
This event is intended as an easy meetup time for folks who participated in the online Math Trade and/or Virtual Flea Market to exchange items. All exchanges for this meetup have been pre-arranged, so if you have no idea what a Math Trade or Virtual Flea Market are, you can ignore this :) If you're interested in buying or selling at a flea market during RinCon, check out the Used Game Flea Market on Saturday at 2-4!
For folks doing exchanges, we will plan to meet near the Quick Play Zone just inside the main gaming hall. You are more than welcome to arrange another meetup time for your individual trades, but please communicate with your trade partners if you know you will not be able to attend this event. You are also welcome to send someone else to complete your trades, but again, please communicate this ahead of time with your trade partners.
Link to Math Trade BGG Geeklist: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/344336/tucson-rincon-2024-no-ship-math-trade
Link to Virtual Flea Market BGG Geeklist: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/344369/tucson-rincon-2024-no-ship-virtual-flea-market
What's better than being a hero who goes on adventures and fights monsters? Why, owning the shop they spend their treasure at of course! In Bargain Quest, players take the role of shop owners who draft equipment cards to outfit the various heroes who come to town. Points are scored based on how well your hero does in combat, as well as how much money you earn along the way. Hire employees and expand your shop to be the best after three monsters have been defeated.
Are you a table top role-playing enthusiast? Do you play with family, friends, or at a school club? Maybe you've never gotten a chance to play yourself and this is your time to finally experience the magic! Come play this quick to jump into one-shot adventure with others just like you. Participants will receive the campaign module to take home for replay opportunities. Characters will be premade as far as stats, but you get to decide who they are trait-wise. This will be a collaborative and team building adventure with a mystery the party needs to solve together. Each challenge will highlight and give each player the chance to show off their combat, problem-solving, and role playing skills.
Join the Adventures in Board Gaming team of teachers to learn how to play some current popular games, like Andromeda’s Edge, Doggerland, Flip 7, Tidal Blades, Far Away, World Wonders, Ponzi Scheme, Wandering Towers, and Zoo Vadis. Visit one of their tables to see the AiBG's full library of games.
Join the Adventures in Board Gaming team of teachers to learn how to play some current popular games, like Andromeda’s Edge, Doggerland, Flip 7, Tidal Blades, Far Away, World Wonders, Ponzi Scheme, Wandering Towers, and Zoo Vadis. Visit one of their tables to see the AiBGs full library of games.
When bees are creating honeycomb, they connect their legs together to form a chain, called a festoon. In this game, players compete the be the first to form a festoon. Players take turns placing hexagonal bee tiles adjacent to the other tiles on the table one at a time. The first player who places four bees in a straight line wins.
As players create advantageous patterns and block others, Festoon becomes a game of competitive cooperation. Players must decide whether it is more advantageous to block another player's festoon or set themselves up for victory. The simple rules and strategic gameplay mean that anybody can play it, but victory can only be achieved by the player whose strategy comes out on top.
Come play Gizmos in the Quick Play Zone! Collect the right marbles to buy new parts for your machine, making future actions more powerful and creating fun combos. This is a light strategy game open to anyone, and a full rules explanation will be provided. Rules and gameplay should take about 60 minutes.
Magician's Challenge is a new (2024) card game where you collect magic prop cards to win points by "performing" a set of tricks. Take the role of a Magician for whom certain types of Props are wild and add points to the tricks you perform. Use your Sneaky cards gain advantages over your opponents. 2-4 Players. Games last about 15 minutes per player. Ages 8+. Fun for families, teens, and adults. Hosted and taught by the game's designer.
Become the greatest wizard of the Annual Grand Rite by collecting and managing your Materia to feed your familiar and learn your spells. Act quickly to use your powers early...or wait to unleash them at full strength. Your path to victory is full of choices and combined tactics!
In SpellBook, each player, accompanied by a familiar, possesses a grimoire and collects Materia to master spells and feed their familiar. The game provides pre-drawn spell sets for use in the early rounds, but soon players start drawing spells randomly or create their own spell combinations that are common to all players. Each spell combination gives an effect that lasts the rest of the game, and the more ingenious the combination, the more powerful the effect. As the rounds progress, the game becomes a different experience every time, with more than 2,100 spell combinations being possible.
TacTile is an abstract strategy engine building game. Race across the modular board while building your action engine. Chain wild combos each turn if you can land on the right tiles!
We need to keep talking about this, until we don't need to anymore. This panel will focus on the many faces of inclusion, what diversity means, and how to support them at our gaming tables, throughout our events, and in our industry.
Panelists: Chaz Kemp (Chaz Kemp Art) Emily Vincent (Pink Hawk Games) Weyodi Old Bear Wuratsaakupu (Coyote & Crow)
Never been to RinCon before? Want to know what it’s all about? Grab yourself a lunch from the concession stand or one of the resort venues and bring it to this informal discussion about all that the convention has to offer. Board members will be on hand to satisfy your curiosity about all things RinCon, including scheduled programming, how to sign up for events, what’s where in the convention site, and questions like, “Where do I get these RinCoins, and what the heck do I do with them?”
When bees are creating honeycomb, they connect their legs together to form a chain, called a festoon. In this game, players compete the be the first to form a festoon. Players take turns placing hexagonal bee tiles adjacent to the other tiles on the table one at a time. The first player who places four bees in a straight line wins.
As players create advantageous patterns and block others, Festoon becomes a game of competitive cooperation. Players must decide whether it is more advantageous to block another player's festoon or set themselves up for victory. The simple rules and strategic gameplay mean that anybody can play it, but victory can only be achieved by the player whose strategy comes out on top.
Magician's Challenge is a new (2024) card game where you collect magic prop cards to win points by "performing" a set of tricks. Take the role of a Magician for whom certain types of Props are wild and add points to the tricks you perform. Use your Sneaky cards gain advantages over your opponents. 2-4 Players. Games last about 15 minutes per player. Ages 8+. Fun for families, teens, and adults. Hosted and taught by the game's designer.
A whimsical set collection game of piracy and pastries! Enter a charming world where you play as tea-loving pirates competing to serve the perfect afternoon tea with a pinch of piracy and a dash of destruction. RinCon special guest Emily Vincent (Pink Hawk Games) demos her newest creation.
Join the Adventures in Board Gaming team of teachers to learn how to play some current popular games, like Andromeda’s Edge, Doggerland, Flip 7, Tidal Blades, Far Away, World Wonders, Ponzi Scheme, Wandering Towers, and Zoo Vadis. Visit one of their tables to see the AiBG's full library of games.
Join the Adventures in Board Gaming team of teachers to learn how to play some current popular games, like Andromeda’s Edge, Doggerland, Flip 7, Tidal Blades, Far Away, World Wonders, Ponzi Scheme, Wandering Towers, and Zoo Vadis. Visit one of their tables to see the AiBGs full library of games.
You're an eager youth in the quaint village of Rainbow Corners, fighting to survive Doctor Sweet's gauntlet of terrifying carnival games in pursuit of her friendship and an infinite supply of candy. Come test this whimsical candy horror game with game inventor James Ernest.
James Ernest is a prolific tabletop game designer, and the founder of Cheapass Games. His best-known games include Kill Doctor Lucky, Lords of Vegas, Unexploded Cow, and Tak: A Beautiful Game. He is over nine feet tall, celebrates three birthdays each year, and is made entirely of... Read More →
Saturday November 16, 2024 2:00pm - 4:00pm MST
BG22
It's just like Cascadia, but GIANT! Play this year's brand new giant game crafted by Karen, your very own RinCon convention chair. Cascadia is a puzzly tile-laying and token-drafting game featuring the habitats and wildlife of the Pacific Northwest. The Landmarks expansion adds beautiful natural landmarks, which give each environment its own look and feel, while also providing dynamic endgame scoring bonuses!
Test your might in a fight against an ancient threat in the Tanglewilds. As a Humblewood oneshot you will be playing as a anthormophic animals. I will be providing a variety of pre made characters.
Join us for a fantastic opportunity to buy and sell board games!
Sellers: Bring your priced games and set up on Saturday at 2:00 PM. You will need to purchase the $10 “Table at the Flea Market” add-on with your RinCon registration via Zeffy. If you’re already registered, you can buy it separately. You’ll get half of a large six-foot round table, with potential for more space depending on the number of sellers. Be ready to manage your own items and sales. Most buyers will have cash, but it’s great to have QR codes available for digital payments. Buyers: The doors open at 2:30 PM. Come with cash in hand and hunt for fantastic deals until 4:00 PM! Whether you’re looking for a rare find or just a great bargain, there’s something for everyone.
A Pathfinder Society Special designed for 1st- through 8th-level characters (subtiers 1-2, 3-4, 5-6 & 7-8).
The Pathfinder Society is approached by the Queen of Kyonin for their assistance in investigating a demon-obsessed elf noble and his ominous plans for an isolated town within the forests of Kyonin in exchange for allowing the Society to once again operate within the nation. The travel there is treacherous, however once the Pathfinders arrive, the town is besieged by a power beyond any one elf no matter his plans and ambition. The teams of Pathfinders must work together effectively and quickly to prevent the corruption of the forest and the town!
When bees are creating honeycomb, they connect their legs together to form a chain, called a festoon. In this game, players compete the be the first to form a festoon. Players take turns placing hexagonal bee tiles adjacent to the other tiles on the table one at a time. The first player who places four bees in a straight line wins.
As players create advantageous patterns and block others, Festoon becomes a game of competitive cooperation. Players must decide whether it is more advantageous to block another player's festoon or set themselves up for victory. The simple rules and strategic gameplay mean that anybody can play it, but victory can only be achieved by the player whose strategy comes out on top.
Magician's Challenge is a new (2024) card game where you collect magic prop cards to win points by "performing" a set of tricks. Take the role of a Magician for whom certain types of Props are wild and add points to the tricks you perform. Use your Sneaky cards gain advantages over your opponents. 2-4 Players. Games last about 15 minutes per player. Ages 8+. Fun for families, teens, and adults. Hosted and taught by the game's designer.
A whimsical set collection game of piracy and pastries! Enter a charming world where you play as tea-loving pirates competing to serve the perfect afternoon tea with a pinch of piracy and a dash of destruction. This session is hosted by creator and RinCon special guest, Emily Vincent (Pink Hawk Games).
When bees are creating honeycomb, they connect their legs together to form a chain, called a festoon. In this game, players compete the be the first to form a festoon. Players take turns placing hexagonal bee tiles adjacent to the other tiles on the table one at a time. The first player who places four bees in a straight line wins.
As players create advantageous patterns and block others, Festoon becomes a game of competitive cooperation. Players must decide whether it is more advantageous to block another player's festoon or set themselves up for victory. The simple rules and strategic gameplay mean that anybody can play it, but victory can only be achieved by the player whose strategy comes out on top.
Magician's Challenge is a new (2024) card game where you collect magic prop cards to win points by "performing" a set of tricks. Take the role of a Magician for whom certain types of Props are wild and add points to the tricks you perform. Use your Sneaky cards gain advantages over your opponents. 2-4 Players. Games last about 15 minutes per player. Ages 8+. Fun for families, teens, and adults. Hosted and taught by the game's designer.
What does it take to become top dog? Find out in this family-friendly card game about moving man’s best friend! The game is super-easy to learn and supports drop-in play so come by and pick your puppy.
Come play Scout in the Quick Play Zone! This is a "ladder-climbing" card game where players play cards from their hand to try to beat the most recent set. But plan carefully, because you cannot change the order of the cards in your hand. This is a light strategy game open to anyone, and a full rules explanation will be provided. Rules and gameplay should take about 45-60 minutes.
The Minotaur protects a Secret Temple inside a Labyrinth. Be the first to lead your men to the Temple while avoiding the Minotaur, which can be used by players to attack their opponents and knock them out of the maze. You can cleverly place walls to block your opponents and reshape the maze during play.
Clear and simple rules make this game playable for all ages from 5-6 and up. Primarily a children's game, but also fun for adults, particularly when played with their kids. This game is played on a board made of real LEGO pieces.
Join the Adventures in Board Gaming team of teachers to learn how to play some current popular games, like Andromeda’s Edge, Doggerland, Flip 7, Tidal Blades, Far Away, World Wonders, Ponzi Scheme, Wandering Towers, and Zoo Vadis. Visit one of their tables to see the AiBG's full library of games.
Join the Adventures in Board Gaming team of teachers to learn how to play some current popular games, like Andromeda’s Edge, Doggerland, Flip 7, Tidal Blades, Far Away, World Wonders, Ponzi Scheme, Wandering Towers, and Zoo Vadis. Visit one of their tables to see the AiBGs full library of games.
Kind of like "Whose Line Is It, Anyway" for game designers. Watch and participate as our illustrious team of board game designers (James Ernest of Crab Fragment Labs and Emily Vincent of Pink Hawk Games) come up with silly new games from scratch. The twist is that you, the audience, get to add to the fun by submitting concepts, mechanics, and materials along the way that they must then build into the final products.
"Sooo, it's a dice drafting game... about taco trucks that are really a front for DC-based spies... and we're supposed to incorporate WHAT?!?"
James Ernest is a prolific tabletop game designer, and the founder of Cheapass Games. His best-known games include Kill Doctor Lucky, Lords of Vegas, Unexploded Cow, and Tak: A Beautiful Game. He is over nine feet tall, celebrates three birthdays each year, and is made entirely of... Read More →
When bees are creating honeycomb, they connect their legs together to form a chain, called a festoon. In this game, players compete the be the first to form a festoon. Players take turns placing hexagonal bee tiles adjacent to the other tiles on the table one at a time. The first player who places four bees in a straight line wins.
As players create advantageous patterns and block others, Festoon becomes a game of competitive cooperation. Players must decide whether it is more advantageous to block another player's festoon or set themselves up for victory. The simple rules and strategic gameplay mean that anybody can play it, but victory can only be achieved by the player whose strategy comes out on top.
Magician's Challenge is a new (2024) card game where you collect magic prop cards to win points by "performing" a set of tricks. Take the role of a Magician for whom certain types of Props are wild and add points to the tricks you perform. Use your Sneaky cards gain advantages over your opponents. 2-4 Players. Games last about 15 minutes per player. Ages 8+. Fun for families, teens, and adults. Hosted and taught by the game's designer.
Come play Splendor in the Quick Play Zone! Splendor has players collecting gems and trading them for tiles, which provide points as well as discounts towards more valuable gems. This is a light strategy game open to anyone, and a full rules explanation will be provided. Rules and gameplay should take about 45-60 minutes.
Knitting Circle is a stand-alone follow up to the hit spatial puzzle game Calico! In this gorgeous puzzly tile-laying game for the whole family, players are knitters competing to create the coziest, most beautiful assortment of garments. Learn to play this brand-new game with its creator and RinCon special guest, Emily Vincent (Pink Hawk Game).
Two rival spymasters know the secret identities of 25 agents. Their teammates know the agents only by their codenames. To win the game, your team will need to contact all of your agents in the field before the other team finds their own agents. And watch out for the assassin – meet him in the field and your team is done!
Codenames is simple to explain and easy to understand, with no limit to size of the teams – you can play in four people as well as in twelve!
Join the Adventures in Board Gaming team of teachers to learn how to play some current popular games, like Andromeda’s Edge, Doggerland, Flip 7, Tidal Blades, Far Away, World Wonders, Ponzi Scheme, Wandering Towers, and Zoo Vadis. Visit one of their tables to see the AiBG's full library of games.
Join the Adventures in Board Gaming team of teachers to learn how to play some current popular games, like Andromeda’s Edge, Doggerland, Flip 7, Tidal Blades, Far Away, World Wonders, Ponzi Scheme, Wandering Towers, and Zoo Vadis. Visit one of their tables to see the AiBGs full library of games.
In Flamecraft, 1-5 players take on the role of Flamekeepers, gathering items, placing dragons and casting enchantments to enhance the shops of the town. Dragons are specialized (bread, meat, iron, crystal, plant and potion) and the Flamekeepers know which shops are the best home for each. Visit a shop to gain items and a favor from one of the dragons there. Gathered items can be used to enchant a shop, gaining reputation and the favors of all the dragons in the shop. If you are fortunate enough to attract fancy dragons then you will have opportunities to secure even more reputation.
Step into the magical world of Crab Fragment Labs, as James Ernest teaches some of the finest quick non-gambling games in his collection. Players can bounce freely between tables of Tresotti, Autumn Leaves, Tablero di Berona, and Prudh, and play a mix of quick-playing board and card games!
James Ernest is a prolific tabletop game designer, and the founder of Cheapass Games. His best-known games include Kill Doctor Lucky, Lords of Vegas, Unexploded Cow, and Tak: A Beautiful Game. He is over nine feet tall, celebrates three birthdays each year, and is made entirely of... Read More →
Saturday November 16, 2024 8:00pm - 11:00pm MST
BG43
If Mari has to sit at the Registration Desk, then there's going to be music involved. There will be no music with expletives, but her taste can be all over the place. You are guaranteed to feel the need to dance at least 5% of the time. No requests accepted, just take the journey.
Knitting Circle is a stand-alone follow up to the hit spatial puzzle game Calico! In this gorgeous puzzly tile-laying game for the whole family, players are knitters competing to create the coziest, most beautiful assortment of garments. Learn to play this brand-new game with its creator and RinCon special guest, Emily Vincent (Pink Hawk Game).
Two rival spymasters know the secret identities of 25 agents. Their teammates know the agents only by their codenames. To win the game, your team will need to contact all of your agents in the field before the other team finds their own agents. And watch out for the assassin – meet him in the field and your team is done!
Codenames is simple to explain and easy to understand, with no limit to size of the teams – you can play in four people as well as in twelve!
Join the Adventures in Board Gaming team of teachers to learn how to play some current popular games, like Andromeda’s Edge, Doggerland, Flip 7, Tidal Blades, Far Away, World Wonders, Ponzi Scheme, Wandering Towers, and Zoo Vadis. Visit one of their tables to see the AiBG's full library of games.
Join the Adventures in Board Gaming team of teachers to learn how to play some current popular games, like Andromeda’s Edge, Doggerland, Flip 7, Tidal Blades, Far Away, World Wonders, Ponzi Scheme, Wandering Towers, and Zoo Vadis. Visit one of their tables to see the AiBGs full library of games.
Cascadia: Rolling is a series of puzzly flip-and-roll-and-write games featuring the habitats and wildlife of the Pacific Northwest! Simultaneously roll dice, collect wildlife, and complete habitat cards to fill in different environments in Cascadia.
Two rival spymasters know the secret identities of 25 agents. Their teammates know the agents only by their codenames. To win the game, your team will need to contact all of your agents in the field before the other team finds their own agents. And watch out for the assassin – meet him in the field and your team is done!
Codenames is simple to explain and easy to understand, with no limit to size of the teams – you can play in four people as well as in twelve!
In Flamecraft, 1-5 players take on the role of Flamekeepers, gathering items, placing dragons and casting enchantments to enhance the shops of the town. Dragons are specialized (bread, meat, iron, crystal, plant and potion) and the Flamekeepers know which shops are the best home for each. Visit a shop to gain items and a favor from one of the dragons there. Gathered items can be used to enchant a shop, gaining reputation and the favors of all the dragons in the shop. If you are fortunate enough to attract fancy dragons then you will have opportunities to secure even more reputation.
Cascadia: Rolling is a series of puzzly flip-and-roll-and-write games featuring the habitats and wildlife of the Pacific Northwest! Simultaneously roll dice, collect wildlife, and complete habitat cards to fill in different environments in Cascadia.
Magician's Challenge is a new (2024) card game where you collect magic prop cards to win points by "performing" a set of tricks. Take the role of a Magician for whom certain types of Props are wild and add points to the tricks you perform. Use your Sneaky cards gain advantages over your opponents. 2-4 Players. Games last about 15 minutes per player. Ages 8+. Fun for families, teens, and adults. Hosted and taught by the game's designer.
Deep in the forests of the North lives an enchanting elf tribe called the Frogriders. Each spring, they hold a tournament in which their four major squads perform a mock battle. Whoever best manages to capture valuable units and make clever use of their special abilities will take the victory!
Frogriders is a tactical family game in which you collect the custom-molded plastic figures by making them leap over one another. Each of the collected Frogriders enables you to keep it for scoring or return it to the tribe's village in order to use its special ability. Due to the many different privilege cards and several scoring cards (of which only a few are used each game), there are a lot of tactical nuances to discover and many strategies to employ to win at Frogriders!
Looking to try a new game? Have a game you no longer play but think someone else might enjoy? Visit the Game Trade Station! Throughout the weekend, we’ll have a table stocked with a variety of games available for trade (board games, card game, RPG's, etc.). Attendees are invited to bring a gently used game or two from home and swap it for any other item on the table. Please ensure that the items you leave are complete and in good condition, ready to be enjoyed by someone else. Don’t see something you want right away? No worries! The inventory is expected to change continuously throughout the weekend, so check back later for new options.
When bees are creating honeycomb, they connect their legs together to form a chain, called a festoon. In this game, players compete the be the first to form a festoon. Players take turns placing hexagonal bee tiles adjacent to the other tiles on the table one at a time. The first player who places four bees in a straight line wins.
As players create advantageous patterns and block others, Festoon becomes a game of competitive cooperation. Players must decide whether it is more advantageous to block another player's festoon or set themselves up for victory. The simple rules and strategic gameplay mean that anybody can play it, but victory can only be achieved by the player whose strategy comes out on top.
James Ernest is a prolific tabletop game designer, and the founder of Cheapass Games. His best-known games include Kill Doctor Lucky, Lords of Vegas, Unexploded Cow, and Tak: A Beautiful Game. He is over nine feet tall, celebrates three birthdays each year, and is made entirely of... Read More →
Sunday November 17, 2024 9:00am - 10:00am MST
UnPub A
Masks: A New Generation is a superhero roleplaying game in which a team of young heroes fights villains, saves lives, and tries to figure out who they are—noble paragons? Dark avengers? Or regular kids? All against the backdrop of Halcyon City, the greatest city in the world.
A Pathfinder Society Scenario designed for 3rd- through 6th-level characters.
One of the most urgent letters to reach the Grand Lodge in the recent flood of troubling correspondence contained grim news indeed: a renowned Pathfinder Venture-Captain vital to the Society's operations in the oppressive nation of Cheliax has gone missing! Fearing the worst, the Society dispatches experienced agents to the venture-captain's home in search of any clue as to what might have happened.
The Devil-Wrought Disappearance is part of the ongoing story of the Year of Shattered Sanctuaries. It is the first scenario in a two-part arc detailing the events befalling a Pathfinder Society lodge in the nation of Cheliax. Other arcs explore other locations across the Inner Sea. While the arcs can be played in any order, it is recommended that players experience the scenarios within each individual arc in order.
Magician's Challenge is a new (2024) card game where you collect magic prop cards to win points by "performing" a set of tricks. Take the role of a Magician for whom certain types of Props are wild and add points to the tricks you perform. Use your Sneaky cards gain advantages over your opponents. 2-4 Players. Games last about 15 minutes per player. Ages 8+. Fun for families, teens, and adults. Hosted and taught by the game's designer.
Build your kingdom and try to have the most glorious one! In Kingdomino, the more connected plots of the same landscape you have, the more points you gain. But be careful: if you don’t have the related buildings you won’t score any points! Play this classic game on a grand scale with RinCon's GIANT game!
When bees are creating honeycomb, they connect their legs together to form a chain, called a festoon. In this game, players compete the be the first to form a festoon. Players take turns placing hexagonal bee tiles adjacent to the other tiles on the table one at a time. The first player who places four bees in a straight line wins.
As players create advantageous patterns and block others, Festoon becomes a game of competitive cooperation. Players must decide whether it is more advantageous to block another player's festoon or set themselves up for victory. The simple rules and strategic gameplay mean that anybody can play it, but victory can only be achieved by the player whose strategy comes out on top.
James Ernest is a prolific tabletop game designer, and the founder of Cheapass Games. His best-known games include Kill Doctor Lucky, Lords of Vegas, Unexploded Cow, and Tak: A Beautiful Game. He is over nine feet tall, celebrates three birthdays each year, and is made entirely of... Read More →
Sunday November 17, 2024 10:00am - 11:00am MST
UnPub A
Fractured Sky is a game of deduction, sneaky strategy, and resource management set on a fantastical island. Players lead their kingdom in the hunt for shards of fractured falling stars, which are rumored to grant wishes to those that can amass enough of them. Using airships, players send their armies to regions with the star shards, but finding those is not always easy and hiring seers to predict their falls can be worth the investment. Over time, players will increase their presence on the island, placing permanent buildings to give them advantages like extra resources or increasing the size of their troop numbers. Only one wish will be granted, so who will amass the most shards before the final star falls?
In River of Gold, players take on the role of river merchants allied with legendary samurai clans, each vying to exploit the river to earn wealth, glory, and wisdom. Will you invest in developing ports, markets, shrines, and more along the banks of the busy river? Or will you rely upon sailing the river of gold, growing your wealth and influence through delivery contracts, visiting the nobility, and garnering a bit of divine favor during tough times?
In the world at large as well as in gameplay we are routinely presented with economics as a dichotomy, capitalism on one side and communism on the other. What if someone were to tell you there was another option, one so common in fandom that almost everyone has experienced it in one form or another? What would you say if someone were to tell you successful cultures have organized themselves along the same principles? Discover a third option in this exploration of the gift economy in Comanche culture and in fandom. Stop by and visit Weyodi Old Bear, RinCon special guest and writer on the Coyote & Crow RPG, at the presentation venue next to her booth in the vendor area.
Knitting Circle is a stand-alone follow up to the hit spatial puzzle game Calico! In this gorgeous puzzly tile-laying game for the whole family, players are knitters competing to create the coziest, most beautiful assortment of garments. Learn to play this brand-new game with its creator and RinCon special guest, Emily Vincent (Pink Hawk Game).
Magician's Challenge is a new (2024) card game where you collect magic prop cards to win points by "performing" a set of tricks. Take the role of a Magician for whom certain types of Props are wild and add points to the tricks you perform. Use your Sneaky cards gain advantages over your opponents. 2-4 Players. Games last about 15 minutes per player. Ages 8+. Fun for families, teens, and adults. Hosted and taught by the game's designer.
When bees are creating honeycomb, they connect their legs together to form a chain, called a festoon. In this game, players compete the be the first to form a festoon. Players take turns placing hexagonal bee tiles adjacent to the other tiles on the table one at a time. The first player who places four bees in a straight line wins.
As players create advantageous patterns and block others, Festoon becomes a game of competitive cooperation. Players must decide whether it is more advantageous to block another player's festoon or set themselves up for victory. The simple rules and strategic gameplay mean that anybody can play it, but victory can only be achieved by the player whose strategy comes out on top.
James Ernest is a prolific tabletop game designer, and the founder of Cheapass Games. His best-known games include Kill Doctor Lucky, Lords of Vegas, Unexploded Cow, and Tak: A Beautiful Game. He is over nine feet tall, celebrates three birthdays each year, and is made entirely of... Read More →
Sunday November 17, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm MST
UnPub A
In Habitats, each player builds a big wildlife park without cages or fences. The animals in your park need their natural habitats: grassland, bush, rocks or lakes. The zebra needs a big area of grass and some water adjacent, for example, while a bat needs rocks and bush and water, a hart needs bush and grass, and a crocodile needs mainly water. There is a snake, baboon, bee, elephant, otter, lizard, turtle, eagle, meerkat, scorpio, hog, catfish, rhino, etc., each with its own landscape requirements — 68 different animals in total.
Each player starts their individual park with an entrance tile, and they are each represented in the marketplace of animal tiles by a ceramic figure (or a wooden ranger meeple in some editions). On a turn, a player takes the tile to their left, right or front; moves their figure to the space just vacated; then draws a tile to place where their figure started the turn.
When adding an animal tile in your park, you add its main landscape — the base space for the animal — to your park, too. While placing this new animal, its own piece of landscape can help to fulfill the requirements of your other animals' requirements, e.g., the water on a hippo tile fulfilling the adjacent otter's need for water. Thus, fulfilling every animal's desire for land becomes a more and more difficult task with each tile you add.
Aside from expanding your park with different landscape types, flora and animals, you can improve its profitability by building extra entrance roads, trek spots, and watchtowers.
Habitats lasts three seasons, with each season giving each player 6-9 new tiles for their parks. Whoever has best met the goal of the season receives bonus points, with a smaller number of points for second and third place. At the end of the game, each player scores for each tile in their park based on whether that tile's requirements are satisfied. Whoever scores the most points wins!
Here to Slay is a competitive role-playing fantasy strategy card game that's all about assembling a party of Heroes and slaying monsters (and sometimes sabotaging your friends too) from the creators of Unstable Unicorns.
In this game, you’ll assemble a full party of heroes to slay dangerous monsters while working to avoid the sabotage of your foes. The game also includes items you can equip to your heroes, 1V1 challenge cards, and roll modifiers to tip the odds in your favor.
The first person to successfully slay three monsters, or build a full party with six classes, wins the game!
Join the Adventures in Board Gaming team of teachers to learn how to play some current popular games, like Andromeda’s Edge, Doggerland, Flip 7, Tidal Blades, Far Away, World Wonders, Ponzi Scheme, Wandering Towers, and Zoo Vadis. Visit one of their tables to see the AiBG's full library of games.
Join the Adventures in Board Gaming team of teachers to learn how to play some current popular games, like Andromeda’s Edge, Doggerland, Flip 7, Tidal Blades, Far Away, World Wonders, Ponzi Scheme, Wandering Towers, and Zoo Vadis. Visit one of their tables to see the AiBGs full library of games.
Knitting Circle is a stand-alone follow up to the hit spatial puzzle game Calico! In this gorgeous puzzly tile-laying game for the whole family, players are knitters competing to create the coziest, most beautiful assortment of garments. Learn to play this brand-new game with its creator and RinCon special guest, Emily Vincent (Pink Hawk Game).
Magician's Challenge is a new (2024) card game where you collect magic prop cards to win points by "performing" a set of tricks. Take the role of a Magician for whom certain types of Props are wild and add points to the tricks you perform. Use your Sneaky cards gain advantages over your opponents. 2-4 Players. Games last about 15 minutes per player. Ages 8+. Fun for families, teens, and adults. Hosted and taught by the game's designer.
Easy to learn and quick to play, Ticket to Ride: First Journey is the perfect introduction to the Ticket to Ride series. Players collect train cards, claim routes on the map, and try to connect the cities shown on their tickets to achieve victory. So climb aboard and embark on your very own railway adventure!
When bees are creating honeycomb, they connect their legs together to form a chain, called a festoon. In this game, players compete the be the first to form a festoon. Players take turns placing hexagonal bee tiles adjacent to the other tiles on the table one at a time. The first player who places four bees in a straight line wins.
As players create advantageous patterns and block others, Festoon becomes a game of competitive cooperation. Players must decide whether it is more advantageous to block another player's festoon or set themselves up for victory. The simple rules and strategic gameplay mean that anybody can play it, but victory can only be achieved by the player whose strategy comes out on top.
James Ernest is a prolific tabletop game designer, and the founder of Cheapass Games. His best-known games include Kill Doctor Lucky, Lords of Vegas, Unexploded Cow, and Tak: A Beautiful Game. He is over nine feet tall, celebrates three birthdays each year, and is made entirely of... Read More →
Sunday November 17, 2024 12:00pm - 1:00pm MST
UnPub A
When bees are creating honeycomb, they connect their legs together to form a chain, called a festoon. In this game, players compete the be the first to form a festoon. Players take turns placing hexagonal bee tiles adjacent to the other tiles on the table one at a time. The first player who places four bees in a straight line wins.
As players create advantageous patterns and block others, Festoon becomes a game of competitive cooperation. Players must decide whether it is more advantageous to block another player's festoon or set themselves up for victory. The simple rules and strategic gameplay mean that anybody can play it, but victory can only be achieved by the player whose strategy comes out on top.
Magician's Challenge is a new (2024) card game where you collect magic prop cards to win points by "performing" a set of tricks. Take the role of a Magician for whom certain types of Props are wild and add points to the tricks you perform. Use your Sneaky cards gain advantages over your opponents. 2-4 Players. Games last about 15 minutes per player. Ages 8+. Fun for families, teens, and adults. Hosted and taught by the game's designer.
TacTile is an abstract strategy engine building game. Race across the modular board while building your action engine. Chain wild combos each turn if you can land on the right tiles!
Build a coral reef! In the game Reef, players take on the role of a coral reef, carefully selecting colors and patterns in which to grow and expand. On each turn, players can choose to pick up a new card from a choice of four, or play a card that is already in hand. Each card provides two reef pieces and a pattern that scores points if the existing reef has it (after placing the two new pieces). Whoever has the most points when the reef pieces (or card deck) run out wins!
Join the Adventures in Board Gaming team of teachers to learn how to play some current popular games, like Andromeda’s Edge, Doggerland, Flip 7, Tidal Blades, Far Away, World Wonders, Ponzi Scheme, Wandering Towers, and Zoo Vadis. Visit one of their tables to see the AiBG's full library of games.
Join the Adventures in Board Gaming team of teachers to learn how to play some current popular games, like Andromeda’s Edge, Doggerland, Flip 7, Tidal Blades, Far Away, World Wonders, Ponzi Scheme, Wandering Towers, and Zoo Vadis. Visit one of their tables to see the AiBGs full library of games.
In this adventure you will be playing as a group of children trying to get back their pet Owlbear that a Mysterious Circus stole from them. Will you be able to save your pet?
This year, RinCon is partnering with the Diana Jones Award’s Emerging Designer Program. This is a scholarship fund to amplify the voices of up-and-coming designers, with a focus on creators from marginalized communities. Help us help the EDP bring fresh, new, and diverse voices to the tabletop games community.
So, what IS this event? Watch in awe and amazement as Brendan LaSalle, creator of Xcrawl, writer on Dungeon Crawl Classics from Goodman Games, and GM extraordinaire, leads a group of RinCon luminaries on a madcap adventure through a Dungeon Crawl Classics world. The twist? For a donation to the EDP fund, you, the audience, will get to throw in whatever idea, concept, or event you like, and Brendan will have to incorporate it into the session on the fly, and our special guest players will have to roll with it! We promise, hilarity will ensue! And one lucky RinCon attendee will have a chance to play in this game, too - there will be a silent auction for the final player seat at the table.
The Spendoza family’s desperate marriage into the Duchy of Krohnshire was meant to secure their faltering fortunes, but instead, it has unleashed horrors upon the land. Since the arrival of the new Duchess, monstrous creatures have begun terrorizing the grain shipments vital to all of Zytost. Hulking, savage beasts are burning wagons and driving farmers from their fields, threatening to cripple the region’s breadbasket.
Zytost’s cities, mines, and border armies all depend on Krohnshire’s grain to survive. If this vital supply falls, the entire nation could follow. Your party has been tasked with uncovering the origin of these monsters, putting a stop to their attacks, and ensuring the next shipment leaves Krohnshire intact. With the fate of the duchy—and perhaps all of Zytost—hanging in the balance, failure is not an option. Will your group be able to track down the sinister force behind these attacks and restore order to the region, or will Krohnshire and all of Zytost fall to ruin?
Crest Saga is a high-fantasy tabletop RPG currently in open beta, focusing on a customizable and collaborative experience for players. It uses a "dice suite" system with exploding dice, which adds unpredictability and excitement to gameplay. One of its standout features is the Crest magic system, allowing players to combine various magical abilities to shape their character's journey—whether for good or corruption. The game emphasizes flexibility, offering room for role-playing, character development, and tactical combat without restrictive classes, making it accessible for a wide range of play styles.
Developed by a group of friends passionate about RPGs, Crest Saga aims to break away from traditional systems, providing more freedom in character creation and storytelling. The game world is designed as a multiverse where magic and monsters constantly reshape reality, and players can explore different settings within that framework. If you're interested in trying it, Crest S
When bees are creating honeycomb, they connect their legs together to form a chain, called a festoon. In this game, players compete the be the first to form a festoon. Players take turns placing hexagonal bee tiles adjacent to the other tiles on the table one at a time. The first player who places four bees in a straight line wins.
As players create advantageous patterns and block others, Festoon becomes a game of competitive cooperation. Players must decide whether it is more advantageous to block another player's festoon or set themselves up for victory. The simple rules and strategic gameplay mean that anybody can play it, but victory can only be achieved by the player whose strategy comes out on top.
Magician's Challenge is a new (2024) card game where you collect magic prop cards to win points by "performing" a set of tricks. Take the role of a Magician for whom certain types of Props are wild and add points to the tricks you perform. Use your Sneaky cards gain advantages over your opponents. 2-4 Players. Games last about 15 minutes per player. Ages 8+. Fun for families, teens, and adults. Hosted and taught by the game's designer.
A whimsical set collection game of piracy and pastries! Enter a charming world where you play as tea-loving pirates competing to serve the perfect afternoon tea with a pinch of piracy and a dash of destruction. RinCon special guest Emily Vincent (Pink Hawk Games) demos her newest creation.
The magic of the Theatre runs in your veins. You are a theatrical agent, sending Shakespearian actors to work in various plays, earning fame and favors. Come and test this new game with designer James Ernest!
James Ernest is a prolific tabletop game designer, and the founder of Cheapass Games. His best-known games include Kill Doctor Lucky, Lords of Vegas, Unexploded Cow, and Tak: A Beautiful Game. He is over nine feet tall, celebrates three birthdays each year, and is made entirely of... Read More →
TacTile is an abstract strategy engine building game. Race across the modular board while building your action engine. Chain wild combos each turn if you can land on the right tiles!
What does it take to become top dog? Find out in this family-friendly card game about moving man’s best friend! The game is super-easy to learn and supports drop-in play so come by and pick your puppy. This game will be taught by the designer.
Join the Adventures in Board Gaming team of teachers to learn how to play some current popular games, like Andromeda’s Edge, Doggerland, Flip 7, Tidal Blades, Far Away, World Wonders, Ponzi Scheme, Wandering Towers, and Zoo Vadis. Visit one of their tables to see the AiBG's full library of games.
Join the Adventures in Board Gaming team of teachers to learn how to play some current popular games, like Andromeda’s Edge, Doggerland, Flip 7, Tidal Blades, Far Away, World Wonders, Ponzi Scheme, Wandering Towers, and Zoo Vadis. Visit one of their tables to see the AiBGs full library of games.
When bees are creating honeycomb, they connect their legs together to form a chain, called a festoon. In this game, players compete the be the first to form a festoon. Players take turns placing hexagonal bee tiles adjacent to the other tiles on the table one at a time. The first player who places four bees in a straight line wins.
As players create advantageous patterns and block others, Festoon becomes a game of competitive cooperation. Players must decide whether it is more advantageous to block another player's festoon or set themselves up for victory. The simple rules and strategic gameplay mean that anybody can play it, but victory can only be achieved by the player whose strategy comes out on top.
Magician's Challenge is a new (2024) card game where you collect magic prop cards to win points by "performing" a set of tricks. Take the role of a Magician for whom certain types of Props are wild and add points to the tricks you perform. Use your Sneaky cards gain advantages over your opponents. 2-4 Players. Games last about 15 minutes per player. Ages 8+. Fun for families, teens, and adults. Hosted and taught by the game's designer.
A whimsical set collection game of piracy and pastries! Enter a charming world where you play as tea-loving pirates competing to serve the perfect afternoon tea with a pinch of piracy and a dash of destruction. RinCon special guest Emily Vincent (Pink Hawk Games) demos her newest creation.
The magic of the Theatre runs in your veins. You are a theatrical agent, sending Shakespearian actors to work in various plays, earning fame and favors. Come and test this new game with designer James Ernest!
James Ernest is a prolific tabletop game designer, and the founder of Cheapass Games. His best-known games include Kill Doctor Lucky, Lords of Vegas, Unexploded Cow, and Tak: A Beautiful Game. He is over nine feet tall, celebrates three birthdays each year, and is made entirely of... Read More →
TacTile is an abstract strategy engine building game. Race across the modular board while building your action engine. Chain wild combos each turn if you can land on the right tiles!
Can you and your fellow ninja claim the four golden weapons and keep them away from the skeleton general and his army before they overrun the ninja fortress? You would think so, given that the weapons are hidden within your fortress, but ninja are sometimes so sneaky that they forget where they hid things. Start looking, ninja!
In Ninjago: The Board Game, players must work together to claim the weapons and fight back the skeleton guards you'll encounter. This game is played on a board made of real LEGO pieces.
You’ve played the games, attended the special events and panels, and bought yourself some new swag, and you’re ready to head home with all your great memories. In this event, we’ll all celebrate and thank this year’s special guests; RinCon will highlight the money we’ve raised for our chosen charities and announce the winners of the Flora/Fauna raffle; and you can meet the masterminds behind the convention. Join us to cap off your RinCon experience in style.
When bees are creating honeycomb, they connect their legs together to form a chain, called a festoon. In this game, players compete the be the first to form a festoon. Players take turns placing hexagonal bee tiles adjacent to the other tiles on the table one at a time. The first player who places four bees in a straight line wins.
As players create advantageous patterns and block others, Festoon becomes a game of competitive cooperation. Players must decide whether it is more advantageous to block another player's festoon or set themselves up for victory. The simple rules and strategic gameplay mean that anybody can play it, but victory can only be achieved by the player whose strategy comes out on top.
Magician's Challenge is a new (2024) card game where you collect magic prop cards to win points by "performing" a set of tricks. Take the role of a Magician for whom certain types of Props are wild and add points to the tricks you perform. Use your Sneaky cards gain advantages over your opponents. 2-4 Players. Games last about 15 minutes per player. Ages 8+. Fun for families, teens, and adults. Hosted and taught by the game's designer.
TacTile is an abstract strategy engine building game. Race across the modular board while building your action engine. Chain wild combos each turn if you can land on the right tiles!
