Sessions

Fortnightly on Sunday
afternoons (1pm-5pm)

Location
Room E.103 (Building E)
University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs
Map

Upcoming Meetings:

July 2025
* July 13th (10am - 5pm)
* July 27th

August 2025
* August 10th
* August 24th

September 2025
* September 7th
* September 21st

Admission
First-time visitor: free
Non-members: $2
Members: free
(membership $20/yr)

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Borrowing Sheet 2024

They Still Didn’t Kill Kenny!

Last Night on Earth: The Zombie Game

In some ways this is a follow up to the “They Didn’t Kill Kenny” session report from my fellow The Boardgamers club member Danny. Last night on Earth made it to the table for a second week at our fortnightly club […]

They didn’t kill Kenny!

Last Night on Earth: The Zombie Game Last Sunday at theBoardgamers I felt like trying a zombie game of some sort, having played none of them. I suggested “Zombies” but Phil pushed for “Last Night on Earth” because it was “just like the other game […]

Gloom, my uncertain first encounter, its all too sad

It was the start of the third meeting of our shiny new board game club, The Boardgamers, and Jo, Craig and I wanted something quick to play while the others were playing their own quick games. I hadn’t played Gloom and liked the look of it, so off we went.

I got […]

Session Report – 6th December, 2009

Attendees: 7

Session Theme: Days of Wonder

Games Played
Shadows over Camelot x1 – Good triumphed (there was no traitor)
Memoir ’44 x1 – Phil won
Ticket to Ride: Märklin Edition x1 – Joanna won
Magic: The Gathering CCG x1 – Blake won

Next Session’s Theme: Best of 2009

Session Report – 22nd November, 2009

Atendees: 12

Session Theme: Herr Knizia

Games Played
Monsterpocalypse x1 – Danny won
Escalation! x1 – Peter won
Space Beans x1 – Craig won
Wings of War – Famous Aces x1 – not sure who won
Lord of the Rings x1 […]

In Silicon Valley, Settlers is the new Golf

Boardgame Settlers of Catan, a hyper-social strategy board game, has become the new “in” thing in Silicon Valley. My guess is that more Silicon Valley elites play Settlers than play golf.

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Settlers of Catan is available at every session of The […]

Preparing Calendar and Themes for 2010

Well, we are in the process of putting a calendar together for next year and creating a list of themes.

The idea behind the themes is just to give us a light prod to cycle through the vast array of boardgames that we have and enjoy playing. The themes are not exclusive and we always […]

Session Report – 8th November, 2009

Attendees: 13

Session Theme: Heavy

Games Played
Twilight Imperium 3rd Edition x1 – Stephen won
Ticket to Ride: Europe x1 – Ben won
10 Days in Asia x2 – Joanna & Eve won
Puerto Rico x1 – Ben won
Spy Alley x1 – Peter won

Session Report – 25th October 2009

25th October, 2009 – Session Report

Attendees: 14

Session Theme: Horror…

Games Played
10 Days in the USA x1 – Phaedra won
Escalation! x1 – Phaedra won
Carcassonne x1 – Alex won
Scrappers x1 – Steve won
Wings of War – Famous Aces x1 […]

Long Sessions

We have some games that need longer sessions such as Civilisation, Twilight Imperium and Arkham Horror with extensions.

So every now and then we arrange for a session to go over time (from 5pm to 9pm). This allows some longer games to be played. On those […]