Sessions

Fortnightly on Sunday
afternoons (1pm-5pm)

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

Upcoming Meetings:

January 2025
* January 12th
* January 26th

February 2025
* February 9th
* February 23rd

March 2025
* March 9th
* March 23rd

Admission
First-time visitor: free
Non-members: $2
Members: free
(membership $25/yr)

Download the 2025 Calendar

Borrowing Sheet 2024

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.

Read more …

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 […]

The Boardgamers gets a web site

This is the first post for The Boardgamers blog. You can find out more about us just now at boardgame geek. More detail will be appearing on this site as time goes by.

Who Are We?

The Boardgamers are a boardgame club on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland Australia (about an hour […]

Session Report – 11th October 2009

Attendees: 17

Session Theme: Negotiation

Games Played
Escalation! x1 Joanna won
Bohnanza x2 – Phil & Blythe won
Lifeboats x1 – Matt won
The Settlers of Catan x1 – Joanna won
Wings of War – Famous Aces x5 – Various winners
[…]