Board games
Just Scrabble Challenge
Beat Alex at Scrabble in English and get 15% off for life — ours or yours, whichever ends first. Applications at the bar.
Everything on our shelf — 46 titles. Just ask at the bar.
5 Second Rule
Name three dog breeds. Easy — until the timer gives you five seconds and everyone is staring, waiting for you to fluster.
Activity kompakt
The compact edition of the party classic: you explain words by talking, miming or drawing.
A quick family game for two to six. Gladiators compete for gold and glory — while dodging a hungry lion.
A party game where you play a hero challenging your friends — and they hold cards designed to embarrass you right back.
Pick-up sticks, played since the 18th century: draw single sticks from a jumbled pile without disturbing the rest.
Build your own craft brewery — buy equipment, hire staff and brew better beer than the competition.
A party game for horrible people. Fill in the blanks with the worst card in your hand and hope the judge shares your sense of humour.
Lay tiles of southern French landscape and place meeples on them to claim cities, roads and cloisters. Ours comes with expansions.
Jetpack handball in space. Two players lead teams through a fast, chaotic sport of the far future.
An award-winning two-player game of skill: Red and Blue struggle for control of a 6×6 grid.
Describe your card with a phrase and the others try to spot it. Too obvious or too obscure and you score nothing.
Dixit: Odyssey
Dixit for a bigger table — up to twelve players and a fresh deck of artwork. Works standalone or as an expansion.
You start with a meagre kingdom and a poor hand. Each turn you buy better cards, building a deck that powers itself.
Dominoes
The classic tile game: match the pips and lay your stones. The standard set is the 28 “double six” tiles.
Dookoła Świata z Janem Pawłem II
A Polish travel game published in 2010, marking the anniversary of John Paul II's election as pope.
End of Atlantis: Revised Edition
You lead a noble family on sinking Atlantis. The prophecy is coming true and the island is about to go under.
Poland's answer to Monopoly, published in 1983. Buy, build, and bankrupt your friends.
Russian roulette with kittens. Keep drawing cards until someone pulls an exploding kitten and is out.
A party game so packed with action it doesn't need to pretend to be a drinking game.
Kingdoms merge and grow stronger, to everyone's benefit. Only — what about grandad's old crest? Can it still be saved?
A hidden-role game for five to eight. A seer warned Caesar to beware the Ides of March — and someone here holds the dagger.
A Polish tile-laying game: build track piece by piece and get your train home before anyone else.
A tower of 54 wooden blocks. Pull one out, put it on top. Whoever topples it loses.
Observation and reflexes. When two cards match, you lunge for the totem — and usually grab someone else's hand.
Dominoes, but you build a kingdom with them. Pick tiles and arrange your lands so they pay off together.
Queue outside a shop in communist-era Poland and try to get the goods before the delivery runs out. The frustration is authentic.
Risky Mixes
The witch needs guinea pigs for her new potions, and you — her loyal goblin minions — have just volunteered.
A ghost shows the players dreams as images. The mediums must work out who killed whom, with what and where — and the ghost cannot speak.
A potion-brewing, potion-drinking card game for three to six fearless wizards.
A co-operative game about a handful of space stations in an odd corner of the galaxy — and the invasion that just arrived.
The boss dumped a pile of assignments on everyone, all due tomorrow. There's nothing for it but to stay late.
Rival mediums compete to divine a secret object and prove they can reach the world beyond.
The classic, on a standard 52-card deck. Hands, bets and bluffs — the rest is how well you read the table.
Form words on the board from seven drawn letter tiles. Rarer letters and better squares score more. The English-language set.
Form words on the board from seven drawn letter tiles. Rarer letters and better squares score more. The Polish-language set.
A Polish take on Scrabble, popular for its lower price, with two variants of play.
A competitive adventure for two to four players, set among space stations and terraforming robots.
Chess
The two-player abstract strategy game on an 8×8 board. Fifteen minutes to learn the rules, a lifetime for the rest.
Codenames
Two spymasters know the identities of 25 agents. Their teams know only the codenames, and must find their own without hitting the assassin.
Codenames: Pictures
The same rules as Codenames, but the grid is strange pictures instead of words — which makes giving clues much harder.
Charades in three rounds over the same set of names: first describe, then one word only, finally mime alone.
Shed your hand by matching colour or number. Forget to call “uno” and you draw two.
Pixel Tactics
A head-to-head game of tactical combat. Each player has an identical deck of 25 cards and drafts a leader from it.
Pixel Tactics 2
The second outing for the 25-card tactical duel — new heroes, the same fast skirmishes.
Ticket To Ride: Berlin
The city-sized entry in the series: build tram lines across Berlin, starting from Unter den Linden.
Ticket to Ride: Europe
A rail adventure across Europe, from Edinburgh to Constantinople and Lisbon to Moscow. Collect carriages and connect the cities.
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