🎲 Board Game Night: Ticket to Ride and Cascadia
​This month, our spotlight games both take inspiration from the expansive beauty of North America: Ticket to Ride and Cascadia. We will have friendly hosts for these games who are already very familiar with how they're played and are prepared to share their knowledge with you. While these games will be first-come-first-serve, we're aiming to run multiple rounds of these so if you miss the first one, don't fret!
​"But what if I want to play something else," I hear you say. We've got you covered!
​Introducing: Freeplay. If the games on the menu just aren’t for you, or they hit capacity, we invite you to take refuge in the Freeplay area, where you can play whatever you like. Bring Your Own Game (BYOG) is encouraged, but we also have a small selection in our burgeoning games library which you're more than welcome to. If you're planning to BYOG, please let us know in the questionnaire when you sign up!
​We’ll kick things off officially around 6:30, but we encourage you to swing by anytime after 6:00 to call dibs on a spotlight game or set up something you’d like to run.
​Ticket to Ride
​Host: Lou H
Players: 2-5
​Since its introduction and subsequent awards, Ticket to Ride has become the epitome of a "gateway game" -- simple enough to be taught in a few minutes, and with enough action and tension to hook veteran players' attention.
​Players collect cards of various types of train cars which can be used to claim railway routes in North America. The longer the routes, the more points they earn. Additional points come to those who fulfill Destination Tickets – goal cards that connect distant cities; and to the player who builds the longest continuous route.
​How to Play Ticket to Ride | 10:43
​Cascadia
​Host: Wally Z
Players: 1-4
​Cascadia is a puzzly tile-laying and token-drafting game which features the habitats and wildlife of the Pacific Northwest. Players take turns building out their own terrain area and populating it with wildlife. You start with three hexagonal habitat tiles, and each turn choose a new habitat tile and a wildlife token, then place each in an appropriate position next to your other tiles. But choices are limited, so you must make the best of what's available.
​The game features a great push-and-pull: Will you prioritize creating large wildlife corridors, vying for the largest habitats? Or will you instead try satisfy the different species conditions, such as hawks wanting to be near lots of other wildlife or wolves wanting to be separate from other wolves?
​How to Play Cascadia | 10:20