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Friday, January 24
 

12:00pm EST

Attraction
Friday January 24, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EST
1-5p, 60 Minutes Collect magnetized stones by sliding them across the table. But be careful, while opposites attract, but like sides repel against each other! This is drop in and Out
Speakers
Friday January 24, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EST
Ballroom A - Game Room Table A Access via the Ballroom Assemble Hall. Across from Ops Deski!

1:00pm EST

Attraction
Friday January 24, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EST
1-5p, 60 Minutes Collect magnetized stones by sliding them across the table. But be careful, while opposites attract, but like sides repel against each other! This is drop in and Out
Speakers
Friday January 24, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EST
Ballroom A - Game Room Table A Access via the Ballroom Assemble Hall. Across from Ops Deski!

1:00pm EST

Railroad Ink
Friday January 24, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EST
1-6p 60 Minutes In the critically acclaimed puzzle game series Railroad Ink™, you roll the dice and draw the routes to connect the exits around your board.
Speakers
Friday January 24, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EST
Ballroom A - Game Room Table B Access via the Ballroom Assemble Hall. Across from Ops Deski!

2:00pm EST

Dixit
Friday January 24, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EST
3-8p 60 Minutes Each turn in Dixit, one player is the storyteller who chooses one of the six cards in his or her hand, then expresses an idea, with sounds or words, that is reflected on that card's image, and places the card face down on the playing surface. Each other player then selects the card in his or her hand that best matches that expression, and passes the selected card to the storyteller, face down as well.
Speakers
Friday January 24, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm EST
Ballroom A - Game Room Table B Access via the Ballroom Assemble Hall. Across from Ops Deski!

3:00pm EST

Wingspan
Friday January 24, 2025 3:00pm - 5:00pm EST
1-5p 120 Minutes Wingspan is a competitive, medium-weight, card-driven, engine-building board game from Stonemaier Games. It's designed by Elizabeth Hargrave and features over 170 birds illustrated by Beth Sobel, Natalia Rojas, and Ana Maria Martinez.
Speakers
Friday January 24, 2025 3:00pm - 5:00pm EST
Ballroom A - Game Room Table A Access via the Ballroom Assemble Hall. Across from Ops Deski!

4:00pm EST

Fairy Ring
Friday January 24, 2025 4:00pm - 5:00pm EST
2-4p 60 Minutes Players draft mushroom cards and place them in a fairy ring.  Then, fairies go around the fairy ring landing on mushrooms collecting mana for the players.  Most mana collected wins.
Speakers
NB

Nick Baker

Game Room Staff
Friday January 24, 2025 4:00pm - 5:00pm EST
Ballroom A - Game Room Table B Access via the Ballroom Assemble Hall. Across from Ops Deski!

5:00pm EST

River City Glassworks
Friday January 24, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm EST
1-5p 60 Minutes Players choose different pieces of glass to add to their collection. Players will want different sets of seven glass plus high amounts of certain kinds. But make sure you have room on your board for what you choose!
Speakers
NB

Nick Baker

Game Room Staff
Friday January 24, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm EST
Ballroom A - Game Room Table B Access via the Ballroom Assemble Hall. Across from Ops Deski!

6:00pm EST

Super” CAREFUL!
Friday January 24, 2025 6:00pm - 6:50pm EST
-  The IDEAL Tower deconstruction Game from 1967 BUT with additional pieces and rules.
-  There is some chance of plastic pieces falling on participants.
-  Multiple sets available, can be either separate or combined into larger game for more participants.

Speakers
Friday January 24, 2025 6:00pm - 6:50pm EST
Petosky Located on 2nd floor, to the right as you exit the elevator or stairs

6:00pm EST

Wyrmspan
Friday January 24, 2025 6:00pm - 7:30pm EST
1-5p 90 Minutes You are an amateur dracologist in the world of Wyrmspan, a place where dragons of all shapes, sizes, and colors roam the skies. Excavate a hidden labyrinth you recently unearthed on your land and entice these beautiful creatures to roost in the sanctuary of your caves.
Speakers
Friday January 24, 2025 6:00pm - 7:30pm EST
Ballroom A - Game Room Table A Access via the Ballroom Assemble Hall. Across from Ops Deski!

7:00pm EST

Shifting Stones
Friday January 24, 2025 7:00pm - 8:00pm EST
1-5p 60 Minutes Leave no stone unturned! Nine mystical tiles lie before you in a grid of rocky ruins. Rearrange the tiles to match one or more of the patterns in your hand. The catch is that you must sacrifice a card every time you swap or flip a tile. Carve out the most points in Shifting Stones, and your victory will be set in stone!
Speakers
avatar for Cheryl Orosz

Cheryl Orosz

Game Room Staff
As a longtime games afficianado, I strongly believe in the power of play to enlighten and entertain.
Friday January 24, 2025 7:00pm - 8:00pm EST
Ballroom A - Game Room Table B Access via the Ballroom Assemble Hall. Across from Ops Deski!

7:00pm EST

Dune
Friday January 24, 2025 7:00pm - 10:00pm EST
2-6p 180 Minutes Imagine you can control the forces of a noble family, guild, or religious order on a barren planet which is the only source for the most valuable substance in the known universe.
Speakers
Friday January 24, 2025 7:00pm - 10:00pm EST
Ballroom A - Game Room Table C Access via the Ballroom Assemble Hall. Across from Ops Deski!

8:00pm EST

Tea Dragon Society
Friday January 24, 2025 8:00pm - 9:00pm EST
1-4p 60 Minuets Collect memories and bond with a tea dragon in this cute deck-building game based on the graphic novel by Kay O’Neill.
Speakers
VM

Veronica Machak

Game Room Staff
Friday January 24, 2025 8:00pm - 9:00pm EST
Ballroom A - Game Room Table A Access via the Ballroom Assemble Hall. Across from Ops Deski!

9:00pm EST

Werewords
Friday January 24, 2025 9:00pm - 10:00pm EST
1-10p 60 Minutes Discover the werewolves and save the village (or terrorize the town with your werewolf buddies) in this twenty-questions-meets-social-deception mash up!
Speakers
VM

Veronica Machak

Game Room Staff
Friday January 24, 2025 9:00pm - 10:00pm EST
Ballroom A - Game Room Table A Access via the Ballroom Assemble Hall. Across from Ops Deski!
 
Saturday, January 25
 

10:00am EST

Dice Forge
Saturday January 25, 2025 10:00am - 11:00am EST
1-4p, 60 Minutes Give each player a set of six-sided dice, but players get to customize sides by replacing them with better sides. Can you build and roll your way to victory?
Speakers
JM

Jason Miller

Game Room Staff
Saturday January 25, 2025 10:00am - 11:00am EST
Ballroom A - Game Room Table A Access via the Ballroom Assemble Hall. Across from Ops Deski!

11:00am EST

Intarsia
Saturday January 25, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm EST
2-4p 60 Minutes Players are rebuilding wooden floors in a Parisian cafe.  Buy wooden pieces by paying cards, but the more you pay for, the more different cards you get back.  By the designer of Azul.
Speakers
NB

Nick Baker

Game Room Staff
Saturday January 25, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm EST
Ballroom A - Game Room Table A Access via the Ballroom Assemble Hall. Across from Ops Deski!

12:00pm EST

Draft and Write Records
Saturday January 25, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm EST
2-6p 60 Minutes It's time to start a band and hit the road! Choose cards to get your band together, roadies and technicians as well, get skills and play in venues to make synergies and unlock even more!
Speakers
NB

Nick Baker

Game Room Staff
Saturday January 25, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm EST
Ballroom A - Game Room Table A Access via the Ballroom Assemble Hall. Across from Ops Deski!

1:00pm EST

So you want to be a Game Master
Saturday January 25, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EST
Tips and Tricks
Speakers
avatar for Stephanie Lorée

Stephanie Lorée

Writer & Copy Editor
Born and still based in Ohio, Stephanie Lorée writes fantasy fiction and occasionally moonlights as a rock star. Her stories have appeared in places like Abyss & Apex and as tie-in fiction for the Pathfinder RPG. In 2013, she was a finalist for the Writers of the Future award... Read More →
avatar for Ursula Whitcher

Ursula Whitcher

Ursula Whitcher is a writer, mathematician, and poet whose work has appeared in places including The Deadlands, Frivolous Comma, and Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. A collection of linked short stories, North Continent Ribbon, is published by Neon Hemlock Press.
avatar for Jeff Beeler

Jeff Beeler

Stilyagi Air Corps
Event planningScience FictionGamingHistoryReference work
Saturday January 25, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm EST
Ballroom C Access via the Ballroom Assemble Hall.

1:00pm EST

Decrypto
Saturday January 25, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm EST
3-8p 60 Minutes Players compete in two teams in Decrypto, with each trying to correctly interpret the coded messages presented to them by their teammates while cracking the codes they intercept from the opposing team.
Speakers
Saturday January 25, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm EST
Ballroom A - Game Room Table B Access via the Ballroom Assemble Hall. Across from Ops Deski!

2:00pm EST

Hardback
Saturday January 25, 2025 2:00pm - 5:00pm EST
1-5p, 180 minutes Deck-building word game, a prequel to Paperback. As an aspiring 19th-century novelist, you work to pen your next masterpiece, earning prestige along the way. Specialize your deck in certain genres to exploit card combinations, and press your luck to draw extra cards — but make sure you can still string a word together!
Speakers
VM

Veronica Machak

Game Room Staff
Saturday January 25, 2025 2:00pm - 5:00pm EST
Ballroom A - Game Room Table A Access via the Ballroom Assemble Hall. Across from Ops Deski!

2:00pm EST

Lords of Waterdeep
Saturday January 25, 2025 2:00pm - 5:00pm EST
2-5p, 180 minutes Become one of Waterdeep’s secret societies and recruit adventurers to complete quests. Can you fulfill your secret objectives to score the most renown in the city?
Speakers
JM

Jason Miller

Game Room Staff
Saturday January 25, 2025 2:00pm - 5:00pm EST
Ballroom A - Game Room Table C Access via the Ballroom Assemble Hall. Across from Ops Deski!

3:00pm EST

Too Many Bones.
Saturday January 25, 2025 3:00pm - 7:00pm EST
1-4p 240 Minutes Too Many Bones comes loaded for bear by breaking into a new genre: the dice-builder RPG. This game takes everything you think you know about dice-rolling and turns it on its head. Dripping with strategy, this fantasy-based RPG puts you in the skin of a new race and takes you on an adventure to the northern territories to root out and defeat growing enemy forces and of course the infamous "baddie" responsible.
Speakers
Saturday January 25, 2025 3:00pm - 7:00pm EST
Ballroom A - Game Room Table D Access via the Ballroom Assemble Hall. Across from Ops Deski!

4:00pm EST

CuBirds
Saturday January 25, 2025 4:00pm - 5:00pm EST
2-5p 60 Minutes Every day, dozens of birds have a stop on the fences of our countryside. When it is time to leave, all these birds mix together, unable to organize themselves into flocks to fly home. Help them find their way back to their nest.
Speakers
avatar for Cheryl Orosz

Cheryl Orosz

Game Room Staff
As a longtime games afficianado, I strongly believe in the power of play to enlighten and entertain.
Saturday January 25, 2025 4:00pm - 5:00pm EST
Ballroom A - Game Room Table B Access via the Ballroom Assemble Hall. Across from Ops Deski!

5:00pm EST

Shifting Stones
Saturday January 25, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm EST
1-5p 60 Minutes Leave no stone unturned! Nine mystical tiles lie before you in a grid of rocky ruins. Rearrange the tiles to match one or more of the patterns in your hand. The catch is that you must sacrifice a card every time you swap or flip a tile. Carve out the most points in Shifting Stones, and your victory will be set in stone!
Speakers
avatar for Cheryl Orosz

Cheryl Orosz

Game Room Staff
As a longtime games afficianado, I strongly believe in the power of play to enlighten and entertain.
Saturday January 25, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm EST
Ballroom A - Game Room Table B Access via the Ballroom Assemble Hall. Across from Ops Deski!

6:00pm EST

Tea Dragon Society
Saturday January 25, 2025 6:00pm - 7:00pm EST
1-4p 60 Minuets Collect memories and bond with a tea dragon in this cute deck-building game based on the graphic novel by Kay O’Neill.
Speakers
VM

Veronica Machak

Game Room Staff
Saturday January 25, 2025 6:00pm - 7:00pm EST
Ballroom A - Game Room Table A Access via the Ballroom Assemble Hall. Across from Ops Deski!

6:00pm EST

Tyrants of the Underdark
Saturday January 25, 2025 6:00pm - 9:00pm EST
2-4p, 180 Minutes The drow houses of the Underdark struggle for control of their realm. Can you recruit your unique forces from your combined deck to outwit your enemies?
Speakers
JM

Jason Miller

Game Room Staff
Saturday January 25, 2025 6:00pm - 9:00pm EST
Ballroom A - Game Room Table C Access via the Ballroom Assemble Hall. Across from Ops Deski!

7:00pm EST

Faraway
Saturday January 25, 2025 7:00pm - 8:00pm EST
1-6p 60 Minuets You and your opponents play as travelers documenting an epic journey through a distant land. Play cards from your hand to a row to score points, but with a twist—cards are scored in the opposite order from how they were played. Anticipate where you will end up to score big!
Speakers
VM

Veronica Machak

Game Room Staff
Saturday January 25, 2025 7:00pm - 8:00pm EST
Ballroom A - Game Room Table A Access via the Ballroom Assemble Hall. Across from Ops Deski!

8:00pm EST

Wingspan
Saturday January 25, 2025 8:00pm - 10:00pm EST
1-5p 120 Minutes Wingspan is a competitive, medium-weight, card-driven, engine-building board game from Stonemaier Games. It's designed by Elizabeth Hargrave and features over 170 birds illustrated by Beth Sobel, Natalia Rojas, and Ana Maria Martinez.
Speakers
Saturday January 25, 2025 8:00pm - 10:00pm EST
Ballroom A - Game Room Table A Access via the Ballroom Assemble Hall. Across from Ops Deski!

9:00pm EST

Codenames
Saturday January 25, 2025 9:00pm - 10:00pm EST
2-10p 60 Minutes Teams try to identify which agents are on their team with one word clues. But watch out, there’s an assassin out there ready to foil your plans!
Speakers
Saturday January 25, 2025 9:00pm - 10:00pm EST
Ballroom A - Game Room Table B Access via the Ballroom Assemble Hall. Across from Ops Deski!

9:00pm EST

Kids games as drinking games 21+
Saturday January 25, 2025 9:00pm - 10:00pm EST
1-5p 60 Minutes Have you ever thought this kids game could be slightly better! BYOB - Because these games are meant to be played while consuming alcoholic beverages, please bring your own.
Speakers
Saturday January 25, 2025 9:00pm - 10:00pm EST
Mackinac -Consuite Located on the 1st floor, past the elevators - before the Ops Desk.
 
Sunday, January 26
 

11:00am EST

The Full Monty (Python) FLUXX
Sunday January 26, 2025 11:00am - 11:50am EST
-           Six (or more) Players “SUPER FLUXX” card game  using the Complete Monty Python and The Holy Grail Fluxx Set PLUS ALL of the published Expansions/Cards for it, -AND- Fantasy Fluxx tossed in as well.
Speakers
Sunday January 26, 2025 11:00am - 11:50am EST
Ballroom A - Game Room Table D Access via the Ballroom Assemble Hall. Across from Ops Deski!

11:00am EST

Bohnanza
Sunday January 26, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm EST
2-7p 60 Minutes In the game, you plant, then harvest bean cards in order to earn coins.
Speakers
avatar for Cheryl Orosz

Cheryl Orosz

Game Room Staff
As a longtime games afficianado, I strongly believe in the power of play to enlighten and entertain.
Sunday January 26, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm EST
Ballroom A - Game Room Table A Access via the Ballroom Assemble Hall. Across from Ops Deski!

11:00am EST

Tyrants of the Underdark
Sunday January 26, 2025 11:00am - 2:00pm EST
2-4p, 180 Minutes The drow houses of the Underdark struggle for control of their realm. Can you recruit your unique forces from your combined deck to outwit your enemies?
Speakers
JM

Jason Miller

Game Room Staff
Sunday January 26, 2025 11:00am - 2:00pm EST
Ballroom A - Game Room Table C Access via the Ballroom Assemble Hall. Across from Ops Deski!

12:00pm EST

Historical Gaming!
Sunday January 26, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EST
 A panel discussing historical games. From mancala and 9 man's Morris, to hnefetafl and the royal game of ur.
Speakers
avatar for Wayland Smith

Wayland Smith

Author, Gamer, Fandom
Wayland Smith is the pen name for a native Texan who has lived in Massachusetts, New York, Washington DC, and presently makes his home in Virginia. His rather unlikely list of jobs includes private investigator, comic book shop owner, ring crew for a circus (then he ran away from... Read More →
avatar for Lloyd Williams

Lloyd Williams

Game Room Staff
I am a long-time gamer, both of board games and RPGs. I love good sci-fi and fantasy novels so tell me about any new authors you like.
Sunday January 26, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm EST
Isle Royale/ Leelanau Located on 2nd floor, to the right as you exit the elevator or stairs.

12:00pm EST

River City Glassworks
Sunday January 26, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm EST
1-5p 60 Minutes Players choose different pieces of glass to add to their collection. Players will want different sets of seven glass plus high amounts of certain kinds. But make sure you have room on your board for what you choose!
Speakers
NB

Nick Baker

Game Room Staff
Sunday January 26, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm EST
Ballroom A - Game Room Table A Access via the Ballroom Assemble Hall. Across from Ops Deski!

1:00pm EST

Trogdor!!
Sunday January 26, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm EST
1-6p, 60 Minutes A cult of hooded creepos calling themselves the Keepers of Trogdor have devoted their lives to aiding the mighty dragon in his quest for total and complete burnination. That's where YOU come in!
Speakers
VM

Veronica Machak

Game Room Staff
Sunday January 26, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm EST
Ballroom A - Game Room Table A Access via the Ballroom Assemble Hall. Across from Ops Deski!

2:00pm EST

Railroad Ink
Sunday January 26, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm EST
1-6p 60 Minutes In the critically acclaimed puzzle game series Railroad Ink™, you roll the dice and draw the routes to connect the exits around your board.
Speakers
Sunday January 26, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm EST
Ballroom A - Game Room Table A Access via the Ballroom Assemble Hall. Across from Ops Deski!
 
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