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| - I don't remember how I first heard about this place, but when my board-game-loving husband and I found ourselves about five minutes away, right at opening time, with absolutely nothing on our schedule for the rest of the day, we knew the time had come to visit. It was a bit awkward at first, as we were obviously the first people in and we had no idea what we were doing, but after confessing our newb-ness to the staff guy we quickly found ourselves set up at a table with fast-refilling water and makeshift coasters and a zillion board games to choose from.
Since we ourselves own and play a lot of board games, we made sure to choose only ones we'd either never heard of or not yet had a chance to play elsewhere, with mixed results. Games that were awesome included Splendor and Jaipur, while on the other end of the spectrum we found ourselves with a weird zombie deck-building game with a terrible instruction manual or terrible gameplay or, more likely, both. On the plus side, once we realized it was bad we were able to put it right back on the shelf and try out something new!
We spent about four hours checking out various awesome games, and so when we got hungry in the middle of that we took advantage of the happy hour specials to get a tasty-sounding appetizer. It was definitely tasty, but also teensy, and didn't seem worth even the discounted price. We would probably have had better luck with a regular sandwich, but we were too cheap to order one that day. Next time, perhaps?
Food woes aside, this is definitely a fun place to come spend several hours and absolutely worth the $5/person cover charge to check out the huge variety of games that is hard to come by in the demo section of a regular game store. I will definitely be back on a future Cleveland visit, probably with a few more friends in tow!
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