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Seventh Meeting (+Crokinole Tournament)
>>Friday, October 15, 2010
Our seventh meeting! New and old members more than welcome!
If you missed any of our meetings, come to this one and just hop in on
a game. Find an officer if you need help with anything. This week, we'll be hosting another Crokinole tournament! All new and experienced players are welcome.
Details:
●7:00pm - 11:00pm
●Busch Campus Center - Room 174
Eigth Meeting (UNOFFICIAL)
>>Friday, October 22, 2010
Due to a room reservation conflic, we will not be hosting our meeting in the normal location of BCC-174.
Stay tuned for details on where and when this meeting will be held.
past·events
Seventh Meeting (+Crokinole Tournament)
>>Friday, October 15, 2010
Our seventh meeting! New and old members more than welcome!
If you missed any of our meetings, come to this one and just hop in on
a game. Find an officer if you need help with anything. This week, we'll be hosting another Crokinole tournament! All new and experienced players are welcome.
Details:
●7:00pm - 11:00pm
●Busch Campus Center - Room 174
Eigth Meeting (UNOFFICIAL)
>>Friday, October 22, 2010
Due to a room reservation conflic, we will not be hosting our meeting in the normal location of BCC-174.
Stay tuned for details on where and when this meeting will be held.
past·events
Sixth Meeting (+Diplomacy)
>>Friday, October 8, 2010
Interested in some intrigue? Join others for a game of
pure skill and diplomatic discussions: Diplomacy. Play some games, make
some friends, and have a great time!Details:
●7:00pm - 11:00pm
●Busch Campus Center - Room 174
Fifth Meeting (+Crokinole Tournament Finale)
>>Friday, October 1, 2010
Our fifth meeting! New and old members more than welcome!
If you missed any of our meetings, come to this one and just hop in on
a game. Find an officer if you need help with anything. Our Crokinole
tournament will be coming to its shocking conclusion this week!Details:
●7:00pm - 11:00pm
●Busch Campus Center - Room 174
●Voting Status: Pending
Fourth Meeting (+Crokinole Tournament)
>>Friday, September 24, 2010
This meeting was a normal meeting with an added
Crokinole tournament bonus! Over twenty-four people signed up, and only
six remain! The shocking conclusion will come during meeting five.
Third Meeting (Game Voting Edition)
>>Friday, September 17, 2010
This meeting was great. Lots of great games played,
and lots of great people showed up! Popular game-purchase votes
included Ca$h 'n' Guns, Neuroshima Hex!, and even Blokus. We'll see
what money we can spend, and buy new games accordingly!Second Meeting (Free Candy Edition)
>>Friday, September 10, 2010
This meeting featured free candy and plenty of good
times. Possibly the best part of this meeting was the huge game of
poker with high candy-based stakes. Click the photo to the left to see
what we're talking about.First Meeting & Info Session
>>Friday, September 3, 2010
The first meeting was a huge success! We had at least
fifty people show up and play a ton of games! Though the official
meeting ended early, many new and returning memebers stuck around the
student center until closing time, playing Villa Paletti, Dealer, and
Crokinole.Fall Involvement Fair
>>Monday, August 30, 2010
We made it through the sweltering heat and got eight pages
full of interested students. Despite the epic tanning and burning, it
was a great time. Next year, bring one of those tent things!About Unplugged
General
Board games bring people together and form friendships in ways no other
social activity can. Unplugged aims to provide a regular meeting place
and time for Rutgers students and friends to play all kinds of board
games, from party games to war games, we cover it all.Games
Unplugged as a club owns over thirty different board games, freely
available for any member to play during and after meetings. Many of our
members bring their own games, and new purchases are made regularly, so
the stock is always fresh. You could go an entire semester without
playing the same game twice! Click the 'games' tab above for a
comprehensive list of most of the games available to members of the
club.Members
Unplugged currently has about thirty-five active members, many of whom
often bring friends. Membership is completely free, and grants access to
all club-owned games and voting rights for new game purchases.
Attendance is entirely optional, and meetings are meant to fit as many
schedules as possible. Come whenever is convenient!Meetings
Relax and have fun after a long week of study and work, meetings are
held on Friday nights from 7:00pm-11:00pm in Busch Campus
Center Room 174. Some unofficial meetings will be held in the Busch Campus
Center throughout the semester due to scheduling conflicts; check
this website or sign up for the mailing list for updates.History
In 2008, Josh Yearsley formed Unplugged - The Board Gaming Club. Josh
was president until he graduated at the end of the 2010 spring semester.
During his time with the club, Unplugged gained nearly 25 board games
and played an important role at Rutgers events like LeoCon and Rutgers
Day. As of the 2010 fall semester, Dan Carew has taken the role of club
president.
Agricola
>>1-5 players | 2-3 hours | farming
In Agricola, you're a farmer in a wooden shack with your
spouse and little else. On a turn, you get to take only two actions, one
for you and one for the spouse, from all the possibilities you'll find
on a farm: collecting clay, wood, or stone; building fences; and so on.
You might think about having kids in order to get more work
accomplished, but first you need to expand your house. And how will you
feed everyone?!Amun-Re
>>3-5 players | 80-110 minutes | auction
Each player wants, as pharaoh, to build the most pyramids.
He must first acquire a province, where he can trade and farm. With his
profits, he can buy new provinces and building stones to erect pyramids.
The player must make clever use of his power cards, and always offer
appropriate sacrifices to Amun Re. Players must always keep his eyes on
his goal of the building of the eternal pyramids or risk falling behind
in points.Apples to Apples
>>4-10 players | 20-40 minutes | party
Apples to Apples consists only of two decks of cards:
Things and Descriptions. Each turn, the current referee selects a
Description and players try to pick, from the cards in their hands, the
Things that best match that Description. The unusual combinations of
Things and Descriptions are humorous to the extreme, and will quickly
have the entire room in an uproar.Battle Line
>>2 players | 20-30 minutes | deduction
Two opponents face off across a 'battle line' and attempt
to win the battle by taking 5 of 9 flags or 3 adjacent flags. Flags are
decided by placing cards into 3 card poker-type hands on either side of
the flag (similar to straight flush, 3 of a kind, straight, flush, etc).
The side with the highest 'formation' of cards wins the flag.Carcassonne
>>2-5(6) players | 60-90 minutes | city building
A clever tile-laying game. The southern French city of
Carcassonne is famous for its unique Roman and Medieval fortifications.
The players develop the area around Carcassonne and deploy their
followers on the roads, in the cities, in the cloisters and in the
fields. The skill of the players to best develop the area will determine
who is victorious.Catch Phrase
>>4-16 players | 20-30 minutes | party
Quick, rattle off as many clues until somebody on your
team yells the word or phrase you want to hear. Get as physical as you
want. Gesture. Say anything you want. Just keep talking. And keep
passing. 'Cause if the buzzer goes off while you're holding the disk,
the other guys get the point in Catch Phrase... the fast-passing,
fast-talking game.Caylus
>>2-5 players | 120-150 minutes | city building
For the time being, Caylus is but a humble village. Around
the building site, a city is slowly rising up.The players embody master builders. By building the King's castle and developing the city around it, they earn prestige points and gain the King's favor. When the castle is finished, the player who has earned the most prestige wins the game.
Chess
>>2 players | 50-70 minutes | abstract
Chess is an abstract strategy board game that represents
medieval warfare on an 8x8 board with alternating light and dark
squares. Though Chess is available to play at Unplugged meetings, you
should check out the Rutgers Chess
Club if you want a deeper challenge and further instruction.Crokinole
>>2-4 players | 5-15 minutes | dexterity
This game is like shuffleboard in the round. Players
take turns flicking disks on a board, trying to score points by
attaining central regions. The main stipulation being that contact with
the other teams' pieces must be made in order for the disk to remain on
the board afterward. Although the game uses quite a bit of skill to
flick the disks, there's a very significant strategy element to the
game.
Dominion
>>2-4 players | 20-40 minutes | card
In Dominion, each player starts with an identical, very
small deck of cards. In the center of the table is a selection of other
cards the players can "buy" as they can afford them. Through their
selection of cards to buy, and how they play their hands as they draw
them, the players construct their deck on the fly, striving for the most
efficient path to the precious victory points by game end.Endeavor
>>3-5 players | 90-100 minutes | exploration
A game of world exploration and empire building. You
represent a European empire colonizing the Mediterranean and shipping to
all parts of the world to increase the empire's glory and status in
Industry, Culture, Finance and Politics.Go
>>2 players | 80-100 minutes | abstract
Go, known in Chinese as weiqi and in Korean as baduk, is an
ancient board game for two players that is noted for being rich in
strategy despite its simple rules. Though Go is available to play at
Unplugged meetings, you should check out the Rutgers Go Club
if you want a deeper challenge and further instruction.Knights of Charlemagne
>>2-4 players | 20-30 minutes | card
In this quick, fun, and fairly abstract game. Players
play cards in an effort to acquire tiles that are either color-coded or
number-coded. Players take turns, first playing a card onto a tile that
matches either the card's number or its color, then drawing to refill
their hands. Each tile is evaluated, and whichever player has the most
cards played to that tile gets that tile's points. The player with the
highest score is the winner.Last Night on Earth: The Zombie Game
>>2-6 players | 80-110 minutes | survival
Last Night on Earth is a survival horror board game that
pits small-town Heroes head-to-head against a limitless horde of Zombies
(players can play on the Hero team or as the Zombies). A modular board
randomly determines the layout of the town at the start of each game and
there are several different scenarios to play, adding lots of
replayability. Strategic Depth and Strong Cooperative Play keeps the
game interesting.Mahjong
>>4 players | 80-240 minutes | set collection
Originating in China in the mid-19th century, it was
introduced to the U.S. in the 1920s. Mah-Jongg is a traditional Chinese
game using illustrated tiles, with game play similarities to rummy. It
is a popular gambling game, but wagering real stakes is by no means
necessary to have fun playing.Memoir '44
>>2 players | 60-70 minutes | wargamr
Memoir '44 ™ is a historical boardgame where players
face-off in stylized battles of some of the most famous historic battles
of World War II including Omaha Beach, Pegasus Bridge, Operation Cobra
and the Ardennes.Nexus Ops
>>2-4 players | 80-110 minutes | science fiction
Nexus Ops is a light-medium science fiction war game. The
game boasts a hexagonal board that is dealt differently every time, as
well as cool "glow" miniatures and lots of combat. Players control
competing futuristic corporations that battle each other for control of
the moon's Rubium Ore. By winning battles and fulfilling Secret
Missions, you can obtain victory points.Niagra
>>3-5 players | 30-50 minutes | exploration
Niagara is set in the not particularly safe world of
rushing waterfalls. In the late 18th Century, the Shawnee and Iroquois
Indians pointed white Desperadoes, Mercenaries and Adventurers in the
direction of hidden caches of valuable jewels, in the hopes of turning
them against one another and away from their territorial expansion
ambitions. Players play as some of those Adventurers.Pandemic
>>2-4 players | 50-60 minutes | co-operative
You are specialists at the CDC/Atlanta where you watch
several virulent diseases break out simultaneously all over the world.
The team mission is to prevent a world-wide pandemic outbreak, treating
hotspots while researching cures for each of the four plagues before
they get out of hand.Power Grid
>>2-6 players | 100-140 minutes | strategy
The object of Power Grid is to supply the most cities with
power when someone's network gains a predetermined size. In this new
edition, players mark pre-existing routes between cities for connection,
and then bid against each other to purchase the power plants that they
use to power their cities.
Puerto Rico
>>3-5 players | 80-110 minutes | economic
Growing up to five different kind of crops: Corn, Indigo,
Coffee, Sugar and Tobacco, players must try to run their business more
efficiently than their close competitors; growing crops and storing them
efficiently, developing San Juan with useful buildings, deploying their
colonists to best effect, selling crops at the right time, and shipping
their goods back to Europe for maximum benefit.Ra
>>2-5 players | 50-60 minutes | auction
The players seek to expand their power and fame and there
are many ways to accomplish this: Influencing Pharaohs, Building
monuments, Farming on the Nile, Paying homage to the Gods, Advancing the
technology and culture of the people. Ra is an auction and set
collecting game where players may choose to take risks for great rewards
or... And all this is for the glory of the Sun God Ra!RISK 2210 A.D.
>>2-5 players | 3-4 hours | wargame
Set in the not-so-distant future, battles are now fought
by machines of destruction, known as MODS, for short. Human commanders
still lead these mechanized troops, but these commanders each have
special powers and abilities. These come into play via the use of
Command cards, which add a new dimension to the game. Now, the battle is
not just for the continents, but the sea and moon are also
battlegrounds.RISK - The Lord of the Rings Trilogy Edition
>>2-4 players | 2-4 hours | wargame
If you're familiar with RISK, you know the basics of this
game. Armies move across a map, fighting each other in an attempt to
gain control of the world. But RISK - LORT adds some new elements,
including mission cards, forts, leaders, and The One Ring, a game device
used to speed up gameplay and force decision making.Saint Petersburg
>>2-4 players | 40-60 minutes | economic
Saint Petersburg is a card game in which you acquire
workers for income, build buildings for fame, and attract aristocrats to
your city in order to gain the most fame at the end of the game.San Juan
>>2-4 players | 40-50 minutes | city building
In each round or governorship, each player in turn selects
from one of the available roles, triggering an event that usually
affects all players, such as producing goods or building. The person who
picks the role gets a privilege, such as producing more goods or
building more cheaply. Victory points are gained exclusively by
building, and the game ends as soon as one player has put up 12
buildings.Scattergories
>>2-6 players | 30-45 minutes | party
Scattergories is a great game for any group to play. In
the game each player fills out a category list 'with answers that begin
with the same letter.' If no other player matches your answers, you
score points. The game is played in rounds. After 3 rounds a winner is
declared, and a new game can be begun.Shadows Over Camelot
>>3-7 players | 80-110 minutes | co-operation
Shadows over Camelot proposes an atypical journey, where
you and your fellow players must collaborate to defeat the game! At
first glance, this task seems simple enough. Shouldn’t a band of young
and noble Knights - fleet of foot and sound of mind - easily defeat a
game that plays itself? Alas your quest is further complicated by the
ever-present possibility of a Traitor in your midst, waiting to strike
at the worst possible moment...Small World
>>2-5 players | 80-100 minutes | fantasy
In Small World, players vie for conquest and control of a
world that is simply too small to accommodate them all. Small World is
inhabited by a zany cast of characters such as dwarves, wizards,
amazons, giants, orcs and even humans; who use their troops to occupy
territory and conquer adjacent lands in order to push the other races
off the face of the earth.Stone Age
>>2-4 players | 50-70 minutes | prehistoric
Players struggle to survive the Stone Age by working as
hunters, collectors, farmers, and tool makers. As you gather resources,
and raise animals, you work to build the tools needed to build your
civilization.Super Scrabble
>>2-4 players | 50-70 minutes | word
Super Scrabble takes the popular competitive word-spelling
game to a whole new level by super-sizing it with 216 more squares,
quadruple letter scores, and quadruple word scores. Put your
dictionary-memorization skills to the test as you face off against your
friends!The Red Dragon Inn
>>2-4 players | 40-50 minutes | party
In Red Dragon Inn, you and your friends are a party of
heroic adventurers. You've raided the dungeon, killed the monsters, and
taken the loot. Now you're back, and what better way to celebrate your
most recent victory than to spend an evening drinking, gambling, and
roughhousing. The last person sober enough to remain conscious enough to
hold onto his Gold Coins wins the game.The Settlers of Catan
>>3-4 players | 80-110 minutes | civilization
In The Settlers of Catan, players try to be the dominant
force on the island of Catan by building settlements, cities, and roads.
On each turn dice are rolled to determine what resources the island
produces. Players collect these resources to build up their
civilizations to get to 10 victory points and win the game.
Multi-award-winning and one of the most popular games in recent history
due to its amazing ability to appeal to all audiences.Thurn and Taxis
>>2-4 players | 40-50 minutes | transportation
In Thurn & Taxis, players build post office routes
across Bavaria and the regions around, collecting bonus points in
various ways. The board shows a map of all the towns, with roads leading
from each one to some of its neighbors. There are various colored
regions around the board, most with one or two towns, and a large region
with all the Bavarian towns in the center.Ticket to Ride (new)
>>2-5 players | 40-50 minutes | trains
With elegantly simple gameplay, Ticket to Ride can be
learned in 3 minutes, while providing players with intense strategic and
tactical decisions every turn. Players collect cards of various types
of train cars they then use to claim railway routes in North America.
The longer the routes, the more points they earn. Additional points come
to those who fulfill Destination Tickets – goal cards that connect
distant cities.Villa Paletti
>>2-4 players | 20-30 minutes | dexterity
An architectural rush to the skies for 2 - 4 budding
architects with a good head for heights. Players take turns stacking and
restacking columns and layers as they compete to be the player with the
most, highest placements of coulmns before everything comes tumbling
down.Wasabi! (new)
>>2-4 players | 40-50 minutes | family
Wasabi! is a light and fast game where you compete against
other players to assemble your quota of unique sushi recipes in a
rapidly dwindling space. Players draw a variety of delicious ingredients
into their hand from the pantry and play them one at a time onto the
board, building off of each other's previously-placed ingredients in the
attempt to complete recipes of varying difficulty.Contact Information
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