Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 11th Movember 2025.  As usual, we will start playing shorter games from 7.30pm as people arrive, until 8pm when we will start something a little longer.  The pub is now doing food again, so those that will be eating will be arriving from around 6.30pm. This week, the "Feature Game" will be…

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 28th October 2025.  As usual, we will start playing shorter games from 7.30pm as people arrive, until 8pm when we will start something a little longer.  The pub is now doing food again, so those that will be eating will be arriving from around 6.30pm. This week, the "Feature Game" will be…

Today is the conclusion of the largest annual gathering of gamers in Europe.  The Internationale Spieltage is known to gamers worldwide simply as "SPIEL" or "Essen" and is a four day fair with lots of new releases scheduled to coincide with the event, just in time for Christmas sales.  This year, there have been lots of exciting new games available to be seen including…

Happy Birthday to Us! Our next meeting will be Tuesday 14th October 2025, when we will be celebrating our thirteenth birthday.  We will be eating together to celebrate at 7pm, with cake and games afterwards. As is now traditional on our birthday, the "Feature Game" will be Crappy Birthday.  This is a party game where players give each other comedy birthday presents and the recipient has to decide who gave the best and worst gifts.

BoardGOATS is has reached its Troublesome Teens! It is over thirteen years since our first boardGOATS meeting at the Horse and Jockey in Stanford-in-the-Vale. We now typically have over ten, lovely people every time many of whom make a special effort to travel some distance to join us—without you, boardGOATS wouldn't exist, so we really appreciate it all the effort you folks make.  Here's to another year of great games!

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 30th September 2025.  As usual, we will start playing shorter games from 7.30pm as people arrive, until 8pm when we will start something a little longer.  The pub is now doing food again, so those that will be eating will be arriving from around 6.30pm. This week, the "Feature Game" will be…

A few weeks ago, while many of us were playing games, two members of the group were visiting the village of Velké Popovice in Czechia.  Part of the reason for their visit was to go on the Kozel Brewery tour.  The first references to the Popovice Brewery come from the mid-sixteenth century, but the first batch of the dark Velkopopovický Kozel beer was brewed on 15th December 1847. 

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 16th September 2025.  As usual, we will start playing shorter games from 7.30pm as people arrive, until 8pm when we will start something a little longer.  The pub is now doing food again, so those that will be eating will be arriving from around 6.30pm. This week, the "Feature Game" will be…

Following on from Little Lime's visit last time, this week we had special visits from Mister Mint (aka Vermillion), Little Mint (aka Sable), and Little Ivory (aka Tangerine).  While everyone else got their collective acts together, Family Mint ordered their supper and got down to a quick couple of rounds of Panda Panda, a set collecting game with cute panda artwork. 

The Deutscher Spiele Preis is awarded anually based on an open vote from German games clubs, gamers in German-speaking countries and people in the gaming industry.  It recognises the "Best Children's Game" and a top ten list of the "Best Family and Adult Games".  Although the order of the top three in each category won't be announced until the Internationale Spieltage in Essen…

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 2nd September 2025.  As usual, we will start playing shorter games from 7.30pm as people arrive, until 8pm when we will start something a little longer.  Following a recent change of hands, the pub is now doing food again, so those that will be eating will be arriving from around 6.30pm. This week, the "

This being the summer, Lime brought LIttle Lime to join in the evening, but as there is a curfew for under-eighteens (due to licencing restrictions), the first game had to get off the mark quickly.  Together with Pink and Plum, they quickly got going with the well known favourite and Spiel des Jahres winning game, Azul.  This is known to everyone, so needed little clarification, though they group decided to use one of the alternate boards from the…

Things were late starting, largely due to the delayed arrival of Blue and Pink with their copy of the "Feature Game", the the shiny new Emberleaf.  It was Plum's Special Birthday—there have already been two in the last few weeks (Jade and Pine, with Black a few months ago) and more to come in the not too distant future—so there was a bit of chat, card signing and some amazing chocolate cakes provided by Sapphire. 

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 19th August 2025.  As usual, we will start playing shorter games from 7.30pm as people arrive, until 8pm when we will start something a little longer.  Following a recent change of hands, the pub is now doing "basket meals", so those that will be eating will be arriving from around 6.30pm. This week, the "

The evening began quietly and for a while Blue, Purple and Black wondered whether they were going to be the only ones and had got the wrong week, but before long, people trickled in.  The hot weather seemed to have sapped a lot of the enthusiasm from everyone, but eventually, two groups began playing Port Royal. This is a fairly simple "Push-your-Luck" game where players are merchants in the Caribbean. 

The evening started with a lot of chat about the new and used games people had picked up at UK Games Expo a few days ago, with everyone very keen to play their new acquisitions.  The "Feature Game" was to be one of these, a a shiny new pre-release copy of Sierra, flown in specially for the fair by a chap from…

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 5th August 2025.  As usual, we will start playing shorter games from 7.30pm as people arrive, until 8pm when we will start something a little longer.  Following a recent change of hands, the pub has now started doing "basket meals", so those that will be eating will be arriving from around 6.30pm. This week, the "

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 22nd July 2025.  As usual, we will start playing shorter games from 7.30pm as people arrive, until 8pm when we will start something a little longer.  Following a recent change of hands, the pub has just started doing "basket meals", so those that will be eating will be arriving from around 6.30pm. This week, to mark…

This week, Jade was proactive and quickly got a group together to play the "Feature Game", which was to be Flip 7.  This is a quick, push-your-luck card game along the lines of Blackjack and recently won a Golden Geek award and received a nomination for the Spiel des Jahres.  The group have already played it a…

Last weekend, this year's Spiel des Jahres (German Game of the Year) winner was announced as Bomb Busters, by Hisashi Hayashi, the designer of Trains, MetroX (aka Voll Verplant), String Railway and Yokohama.  Based on the earlier Bomb Squad by the same designer, this is a cooperative, card driven game, where players work together to try to defuse a bomb before it explodes. 

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 8th July 2025.  As usual, we will start playing shorter games from 7.30pm as people arrive, until 8pm when we will start something a little longer.  Due to a recent change of hands, the pub is NOT doing food at the moment. This week, the "Feature Game" will be the the shiny new game, …

For some, the evening began early with fish and chips in the garden to mark a special visit from Plum's Aunt Damson.  The evening took an even more special turn as it was the day before Pine's Big Birthday, so there was cake.  Green also put in one of his special appearances, bringing his mum, Saffron, with him.  Salmon came for the second time, and lastly, Orange, who had acquired a motorbike and was therefore now able to travel, also came for the first time in about eighteen months. 

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 24th June 2025.  As usual, we will start playing shorter games from 7.30pm as people arrive, until 8pm when we will start something a little longer.  Due to a recent change of hands, the pub is NOT doing food at the moment. This week, the "Feature Game" will be the Ein Auftrag geht noch…

The evening began with a quick game of the popular Blackjack based game, Flip 7.  This is a quick, push-your-luck card game along the lines of Port Royal where players turn over cards and gamble on not revealing the same number twice taking it in turns to decide whether they want to “flip” or ” stick”. The catch is that each numbered card appears in the deck that number of times (i.e there is one one, two twos and so on).

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 10th June 2025.  As usual, we will start playing shorter games from 7.30pm as people arrive, until 8pm when we will start something a little longer.  Due to a recent change of hands, the pub is NOT doing food at the moment. This week, the "Feature Game" will be Sierra (