Wednesdays We Teach — CONQUEST PRINCESS

A Galaxy in Peril! The Fashion Tyrant Mu-gahgah steps up her invasion.

The Temporal Intergalactic Armed Response Agency, or TIARA, is our brave new hope. Warriors dress for battle, face off against the worst classic space problems: Invaders from Space, Giant Mecha-Monsters and the dreaded Mu-gahgah herself.

Prepare for battle: Fashion is Power!

Conquest Princess: Fashion is Power is a cooperative, 1-4 player, bag-builder board game. A single bag of destiny determines your fate. Manipulate probability to complete your mission.

Players take their turn spending action coins on: Move, Shoot & Engage.
Move - your Agents, tiles, or obstacles
Shoot - blast away with any personal weapons
Engage - activate special location powers

Each game players must complete their assigned mission before they run out of power or the timeline resets.

Join Gamer Guide Jess as she teaches you how to play CONQUEST PRINCESS.

Join Guest Gamer Guide Matt as he takes you through the thrilling social deduction game Blood on the Clocktower!

In the quiet village of Ravenswood Bluff, ‌a demon walks amongst you...

During a hellish thunderstorm, on the stroke of midnight, there echoes a bone-chilling scream. The townsfolk rush to investigate and find the town storyteller murdered, their body impaled on the hands of the clocktower, blood dripping onto the cobblestones below. A Demon is on the loose, murdering by night and disguised in human form by day. Some have scraps of information. Others have abilities that fight the evil or protect the innocent. But the Demon and its evil minions are spreading lies to confuse and breed suspicion. Will the good townsfolk put the puzzle together in time to execute the true demon and save themselves? Or will evil overrun this once peaceful village?

Blood on the Clocktower is a bluffing game enjoyed by 5 to 20 players on opposing teams of Good and Evil, overseen by a Storyteller player who conducts the action and makes crucial decisions. The goal of the game is to successfully deduce and execute the demons before they outnumber the townfolk.

During a 'day' phase players socialize openly and whisper privately to trade knowledge or spread lies, culminating in a player's execution if a majority suspects them of being Evil. Of a 'night' time, players close their eyes and are woken one at a time by the Storyteller to gather information, spread mischief, or kill.

The Storyteller uses the game's intricate playing pieces to guide each game, leaving others free to play without a table or board. Players stay in the thick of the action to the very end even if their characters are killed, haunting Ravenswood Bluff as ghosts trying to win from beyond the grave.

If you arrive late to a game, you can enter after it's started as a powerful Traveller character with unusual talents and questionable allegiances. Each character comes with their own special ability and no two players in a game are ever the same character.

Blood on the Clocktower is free with your paid admission. We will be playing in the Crow’s Nest from 7-9:30 p.m.

Crochet 4 Day: LGBT friendly “Queer-chet” class for beginners! Looking to learn how to crochet, meet people, and hang out? Join Kaleb Norman of Crochet 4 Days!

This class includes everything you need — Yarn, Hook, Instructions, and Fun!

Tickets are just $25 and you get to keep the creation, yarn, and hook!

Click here to purchase tickets!

Join us as we battle to victory (points)! On Sunday, Nov. 24, we will play PATCHWORK!

These monthly board game tournaments will feature different games and pit player against player in a battle royale!

Don’t know how to play? No worries! Come early on Sunday and we will teach you!

The Details

Patchwork Tournament is free with admission. Registered players are guaranteed at least 2 games. Tables will be of 2, of course!

Games beginning promptly at 2:30 p.m., so plan to show up by 2:20. We hope to be finished around 6:00 p.m. give or take.

Prizes

First place prize: $25 gift certificate to Village Meeple

Second place prize: $15 gift certificate to Village Meeple

Third place prize: $10 gift certificate to Village Meeple

Register Ahead

Call (417.324.4563), email (info@villagemeeple.com) or come in person to register your spot!

In spirit of Thanksgiving, we at Village Meeple would like to invite you to our Friendsgiving dinner!

On Sunday, Nov. 24, at 2pm, we will have food and friendship to share. This will be pot-luck style, so we would love it if you are willing/able to bring something to share!

We will be providing the meat (turkey or ham, we haven’t decided yet), so if you do plan on coming, could you fill out this quick questionnaire so we know how many people you expect?

https://forms.gle/ZePc27tUf9fTr5J38

Feel free to stay after for our Patchwork Tournament!

Come join Guest Gamer Saunsu as she demos KIWI CHOW DOWN!

Control your ravenous kiwi flock to outnumber your opponents and claim dominance over island sections.

Kiwi Chow Down is played over four seasons with each season having a different objective to earn rewards. Each season has three rounds and you can either build, move or feed depending on the cards in your hand and the strategy you want to adopt.

When you build you claim benefits for your kiwi flock both immediately and at the beginning of each season.

Kiwi birds are hungry and love to be fed. When you feed them, they grow and can push other smaller kiwi out of the way, or even off the island. Be careful though – too much food and they explode!

Move your kiwi flock to strategic areas to outnumber your opponents. Use your leader or larger kiwi birds to push other players kiwis out of the way or off the board.

At the end of each season place domain markers to claim your territory. Domain markers = victory points. When the game ends, the player with the most victory points wins.

Meeting new people is hard! Let us help make that a little easier by providing a common focus — Board Games!! It’s like a nice third person for you to all focus your attention on.

So, whether you’ve just moved here, your gamer friends moved away, you want to play a game that needs a higher player count, or you’re just looking for some new people to hang out with, Game Friends Assemble (GFA) is for you!

Cost is just the usual admission. Come solo or with friends. All are welcome!

Ready for Adventure?

Join our Dungeon Master Randy as he takes you through a weekly Dungeons & Dragons campaign. This League is perfect for Beginners who want to learn the ropes of Dungeons & Dragons in a safe space.

We have everything you need to get started, all you need is yourself and a sense of adventure!

Free with your paid admission.

Come join Guest Gamer Saunsu as she demos FURNACE!

Furnace is an engine-building Eurogame in which players take on the roles of 19th-century capitalists building their industrial corporations and aspiring to make as much money as they can by purchasing companies, extracting resources, and processing them in the best combinations possible.

Each player starts the game with a random start-up card, the resources depicted at the top of that card, and four colored discs valued 1-4.

The game is played over four rounds, and each round consists of two phases: Auction and Production. During the auction, 6-8 company cards are laid out with their basic sides face up. Players take turns placing one of their discs on one of these cards, but you cannot place a disc on a card if a disc of the same value or color is already present. Thus, you'll place discs on four cards.

Once all the discs are placed, the cards are resolved from left to right. Whoever placed the highest-valued disc will claim this card, but first anyone with a lower-valued disc on this card will gain compensation, either the resources depicted multiplied by the value of their disc or a processing ability (exchange X for Y) up to as many times as the value of their disc.

Once all the cards have been claimed or discarded, players enter the production phase, using their cards in the order of their choice. Each company card has one action — either production or processing — on its basic side and two actions on its upgraded side. During the production phase, you can use each of your cards once to gain resources, process those resources into other resources or money, and upgrade your cards.

At the end of four rounds, whoever has the most money wins.

Furnace also includes capitalist cards that contain unique effects, and if you want, you can choose to deal one out to each player at the start of the game. For an additional challenge, you can require players to create a "production chain", with each newly acquired company card being placed somewhere in that chain and locked in position for the remainder of the game.

Wednesdays We Teach — TRICKDRAW

In Trickdraw, you collect gold and call on allies to become the local hero (or villain!) of the mercantile town Trickdraw Junction.

Cards can be played two different ways. Face down as gold (worth 1 point), or face up to perform actions. With only 10 points to win, any card you draw is guaranteed to push you toward victory.

The real trick comes not in how you use your cards the first time but in how you REUSE them. As you play, you’ll discover numerous ways to flip the cards in front of you. And whenever you flip a card face up, you can activate it again immediately!

You can also do the opposite. Flipping a spent card face down gives it new value as 1 point. This mechanic lets you find creative uses for your resources, giving all cards relative value. Your best card one turn may be better face down the next.

These tools allow for strong combos, sneaky plays, and cheeky bluffs. New strategy will emerge each time you play, and no game will feel quite like the last.

Join Gamer Guide Jess as she teaches you how to play TRICKDRAW.

Join Guest Gamer Guide Matt as he takes you through the thrilling social deduction game Blood on the Clocktower!

In the quiet village of Ravenswood Bluff, ‌a demon walks amongst you...

During a hellish thunderstorm, on the stroke of midnight, there echoes a bone-chilling scream. The townsfolk rush to investigate and find the town storyteller murdered, their body impaled on the hands of the clocktower, blood dripping onto the cobblestones below. A Demon is on the loose, murdering by night and disguised in human form by day. Some have scraps of information. Others have abilities that fight the evil or protect the innocent. But the Demon and its evil minions are spreading lies to confuse and breed suspicion. Will the good townsfolk put the puzzle together in time to execute the true demon and save themselves? Or will evil overrun this once peaceful village?

Blood on the Clocktower is a bluffing game enjoyed by 5 to 20 players on opposing teams of Good and Evil, overseen by a Storyteller player who conducts the action and makes crucial decisions. The goal of the game is to successfully deduce and execute the demons before they outnumber the townfolk.

During a 'day' phase players socialize openly and whisper privately to trade knowledge or spread lies, culminating in a player's execution if a majority suspects them of being Evil. Of a 'night' time, players close their eyes and are woken one at a time by the Storyteller to gather information, spread mischief, or kill.

The Storyteller uses the game's intricate playing pieces to guide each game, leaving others free to play without a table or board. Players stay in the thick of the action to the very end even if their characters are killed, haunting Ravenswood Bluff as ghosts trying to win from beyond the grave.

If you arrive late to a game, you can enter after it's started as a powerful Traveller character with unusual talents and questionable allegiances. Each character comes with their own special ability and no two players in a game are ever the same character.

Blood on the Clocktower is free with your paid admission. We will be playing in the Crow’s Nest from 7-9:30 p.m.

It’s Jigsaw Puzzle Showdown time!

It’s time for an epic JIGSAW PUZZLE SHOWDOWN! Teams of up to 4 work together to be the first to complete the 500-piece puzzle. The winning team will win a treasures.

Only $30 and you get to keep the puzzle when you’re done! There are only spots for 6 teams available, so sign up soon! Click here or swing by the cafe to reserve your team!

Come join Guest Gamer Saunsu as she demos TREKKING THE WORLD!

Trekking the World 2nd Edition is a light strategy game where you race to the world’s most iconic destinations, draft itineraries, collect souvenirs, and gain powers that combo.

The 2nd edition is a complete mechanical overhaul based on analysis of thousands of online comments about 1st Edition, and our evolving design principles.

Meeting new people is hard! Let us help make that a little easier by providing a common focus — Board Games!! It’s like a nice third person for you to all focus your attention on.

So, whether you’ve just moved here, your gamer friends moved away, you want to play a game that needs a higher player count, or you’re just looking for some new people to hang out with, Game Friends Assemble (GFA) is for you!

Cost is just the usual admission. Come solo or with friends. All are welcome!

Ready for Adventure?

Join our Dungeon Master Randy as he takes you through a weekly Dungeons & Dragons campaign. This League is perfect for Beginners who want to learn the ropes of Dungeons & Dragons in a safe space.

We have everything you need to get started, all you need is yourself and a sense of adventure!

Free with your paid admission.

Come join Guest Gamer Saunsu as she demos ART SOCIETY!

In Art Society, you are an art connoisseur trying to impress your peers by putting together the most fashionable art collection of them all!
Bid on the hottest works of art, then arrange them on your drawing room wall into a tastefully curated gallery that’s the envy of the local art scene.

But beware! Fashion is fleeting, and trends are difficult to predict. The paintings that you and your fellow collectors do not buy will eventually make their way to the museum, changing the worth of your collection.

In the end, whose wall will be the talk of town?

Crochet Your Own Plush Gnome!

Join us on Wednesday, Nov. 13th from 7-9pm at the cozy Village Meeple Board Game Cafe for a creative evening where you’ll learn to crochet an adorable plush gnome! Perfect as a charming gift or a whimsical addition to your décor, this little gnome is sure to bring smiles.

Whether you’re looking to refine your skills or explore new techniques, our experienced instructors will guide you through each step. While some basic crochet experience is required, this project uses simple stitches. We’ll provide everything you need—including a gnome kit in your choice of three delightful color packs:

Blue and Grey
Sage Green and Sunflower Yellow
Red and Sage Green

You will also get the pattern in two sizes, a small gnome that we will make in class and the pattern for a larger gnome you can make at home. All you need to bring is your enthusiasm and a bit of patience!

Click Here for more information!

Wednesdays We Teach — BARK AVENUE

Bark Avenue is a competitive route optimization pick up and deliver game centered around a day in the life of a dog walker in upper Manhattan. Players balance walking several dogs at once with competing needs - including walk length, preferred activities, bathroom breaks, and compatibility with your other dogs.

You will be challenged with solving the puzzle of returning dogs on time and determining which dogs to walk next! In between walks, use public transportation to your advantage to position yourself for the best walks.

As you progress in your dog walking career, your good ratings will unlock new abilities, such as walking more dogs simultaneously, going off leash at the dog park, and taking more end-of-turn actions, including pickups and activities like visiting pet shops. Be wary of returning dogs late, because you could lose out on most the pay!

At 45 minutes - 1 hour, this Gateway+ game is targeted at all players and pulls in dog lovers, providing fun for new gamers and critical thinking and optimization problems for seasoned gamers.

Join Gamer Guide Jess as she teaches you how to play BARK AVENUE.

Come join Guest Gamer Saunsu as she demos PATRICIAN: TOWERS OF INFLUENCE!

The definitive version of a Michael Schacht classic, Patrician: Towers of Influence features an updated presentation, new two-player rules, and two expansion modules.

Welcome to 13th Century Italy, a time when wealthy Patrician families build magnificent towers to represent their power and prosperity: the more influential the family, the taller the tower! You are a master builder, ready to profit from the vanity of the Patrician families. You take building orders, adding floor after floor, and when a tower is complete, you’ll be there to take the credit. At the end of the game, the builder with the most victory points wins!

Patrician: Towers of Influence is delightfully effortless to play. Each turn, play a Building card, which allows you to add to a tower in the matching city. Some cards allow you to take special actions that help you or hinder others. Next, take the face-up card from the pile next to the city where you just built a tower. As the game goes on, players will continue to build up the various towers, and points are scored for who controls the tallest towers in each city, as well as for playing Patrician portrait card sets. In the end, the builder with the most points wins!

This new version of the classic game includes several expanded ways to enjoy the game. When playing with two players, you compete against the Architetto, a wily bot opponent who thwarts your plans. The Trade Routes and Delegates modules can optionally be added in to increase the decisions and affect final scoring.

In partnership with The Library Center, join us for our monthly book club! Each month we will select a board game to play and discuss the books we’ve been reading this month. This is a great way to learn/play a board game, find new books to read, find new friends, and to have a great time for FREE!

For November, we will play Trekking the National Parks. Trek the trails that define our nation’s most valuable public resource – the National Parks!

Trekking the National Parks is a spirited family board game that lets players experience the U.S. National Parks in a fun and competitive way.

Up to six players compete in a cross country race to visit the National Parks and collect the most points. Gathering colored trek cards allows players to move across the map and claim valuable park cards. If a player is the first to visit a National Park, they collect that park's colored stone, which award bonus points at the end of the game. Players must jockey for position and make tough tactical decisions at every turn to emerge victorious!

Admission for the book club is free!

Meeting new people is hard! Let us help make that a little easier by providing a common focus — Board Games!! It’s like a nice third person for you to all focus your attention on.

So, whether you’ve just moved here, your gamer friends moved away, you want to play a game that needs a higher player count, or you’re just looking for some new people to hang out with, Game Friends Assemble (GFA) is for you!

Cost is just the usual admission. Come solo or with friends. All are welcome!

Come join Guest Gamer Saunsu as she demos PATZCUARO!

Every November 2nd in a magical land called Mexico, families build wonderful monoliths decorated with stories and tradition. With their memories, meals and favorite objects altars are decorated in honor of the memory of their loved ones who rest in peace. Today we will build the best of those altars in the city that lives this holiday like no other: Pátzcuaro.

In Pátzcuaro players are responsible for going to a cultural market to get the letters of objects that make up their altars and build them.

Ready for Adventure?

Join our Dungeon Master Randy as he takes you through a weekly Dungeons & Dragons campaign. This League is perfect for Beginners who want to learn the ropes of Dungeons & Dragons in a safe space.

We have everything you need to get started, all you need is yourself and a sense of adventure!

Free with your paid admission.

Wednesdays We Teach — SURVIVE THE ISLAND

Survive The Island is a cutthroat game in which players seek to evacuate their adventurers — especially those of a high value — from a sinking island to maximize their score.

An island made up of forty hex-tiles is slowly sinking into the ocean as tiles are removed from the board. Each player controls ten people (valued 1-5) that they try to move towards the safety of the surrounding islands before the main island's volcanoes finally erupt. Players can either swim or use rafts to travel, but must avoid sea serpents, kaiju, and sharks on their way to safety.

Join Gamer Guide Jess as she teaches you how to play SURVIVE THE ISLAND.

Come join Guest Gamer Saunsu as she demos CLOUDSHIP!

Cloudship is a co-operative dexterity game about watering flowers from your magical Cloudship. Each turn, roll dice to see which areas need water, which you will drop from the ship suspended above the playfield. But dropping extra water, or hailstones, may keep you from completing before the storms arrive!

Our Mini Meeple Day Camp is a perfect way to introduce our littles (4-5 years old) to board gaming, while making a few friends along the way.

Each camp (coming up Saturday, November 2, from 1-3 p.m.) will be themed, including the board game and STEM activity.

A typical day’s schedule

• 12:50-1:05 — Drop off & table activity

• 1:00-1:20 — Board Game

• 1:20-1:30 — Bathroom break

• 1:30-2:00 — STEM activity

• 2:00-2:30 — Bathroom Break & Snack Time

• 2:30-2:50 — Mini Meeples Movement Time

• 2:50-3:00 — Table Activity & Pick up

Details

Saturday, November 2, from 1-3 p.m.

Cost is $25/child. This gives you 2 hours to wander Target* all by your sweet self! *insert preferred store name here.

Our day camp will be in the Crow’s Nest, to help keep the class all together easier.

We will provide the child with a snack and STEM activity that they can take home! And, you get 25% off the board game(s) we played during camp!

The Instructor

Miss Kailee is so excited to be involved in the first year of summer camps at Village Meeple! She loves coming here, and can’t wait to share some amazing games and lessons with you!

She has a degree in childhood education & children’s ministry. She has been working with kids since she was 15 years old.

She loves spending time with friends and family, playing games and doing puzzles. Her favorite kids’ game is It’s a Small World.

Her goal for our kids programming is to allow kids a safe space to make new friends, try out some new games, and maybe learn a little along the way without even realizing it.

Register

To register, please call (417) 324-4563 or email info@villagemeeple.com.

Parents, take some time for yourselves! You need a date night, or a nap, or a game night….or a nap….

Let Village Meeple watch the kids for a few hours for you! Our Parents Night Out runs from 6-9 p.m. Friday, November 1, and is for ages 5-12.

Our teacher, Miss Kailee, will play 1-2 board games with them, as well as do a craft. Kids will also get pizza for dinner. Please let us know if you have any dietary/allergy concerns. Also, bring a labeled water bottle for your child.

Cost is $25/kid. Spots are very limited, so get your child signed up soon!

Call (417) 324-4563 or online.

Wednesdays We Teach — DUNGEON DATE

Date an owlbear, make friends with a gelatinous cube, backstab your best friend’s orc boyfriend! Dungeon Date is a fast, fun card game for 2 to 4 fresh-faced adventurers. Build an outfit of stylish adventuring gear, then use your sweet look to romance, befriend, and slay a dungeon-full of monsters!

Each turn, players choose and reveal action cards, visiting one of four dungeon doors to encounter monsters in the dungeon. Romance, befriend, or slay the monster you encounter by matching the style symbols for that action on the monster card. Plan carefully around the other adventurers in the dungeon -- if you visit the same door, you must fight, comparing fight values from your current action card plus the card you played on the previous turn. Visit the stylomancer to enchant your outfit with additional style symbols and claim a personal style. At the end of the dungeon season, score renown from sets of monsters collected and for in-fashion style symbols in your final outfit. Most renown wins!

Join Gamer Guide Jess as she teaches you how to play DUNGEON DATE.

Join Guest Gamer Guide Matt as he takes you through the thrilling social deduction game Blood on the Clocktower!

In the quiet village of Ravenswood Bluff, ‌a demon walks amongst you...

During a hellish thunderstorm, on the stroke of midnight, there echoes a bone-chilling scream. The townsfolk rush to investigate and find the town storyteller murdered, their body impaled on the hands of the clocktower, blood dripping onto the cobblestones below. A Demon is on the loose, murdering by night and disguised in human form by day. Some have scraps of information. Others have abilities that fight the evil or protect the innocent. But the Demon and its evil minions are spreading lies to confuse and breed suspicion. Will the good townsfolk put the puzzle together in time to execute the true demon and save themselves? Or will evil overrun this once peaceful village?

Blood on the Clocktower is a bluffing game enjoyed by 5 to 20 players on opposing teams of Good and Evil, overseen by a Storyteller player who conducts the action and makes crucial decisions. The goal of the game is to successfully deduce and execute the demons before they outnumber the townfolk.

During a 'day' phase players socialize openly and whisper privately to trade knowledge or spread lies, culminating in a player's execution if a majority suspects them of being Evil. Of a 'night' time, players close their eyes and are woken one at a time by the Storyteller to gather information, spread mischief, or kill.

The Storyteller uses the game's intricate playing pieces to guide each game, leaving others free to play without a table or board. Players stay in the thick of the action to the very end even if their characters are killed, haunting Ravenswood Bluff as ghosts trying to win from beyond the grave.

If you arrive late to a game, you can enter after it's started as a powerful Traveller character with unusual talents and questionable allegiances. Each character comes with their own special ability and no two players in a game are ever the same character.

Blood on the Clocktower is free with your paid admission. We will be playing in the Crow’s Nest from 7-9:30 p.m.