Issue 77 October 2019

5 Ganes of Mystery & the Macabre for HalloweenIntroduce a little fun and creepiness to your Halloween gaming with these 5 board games...

Free Learn to Play Sessions & Open GamingLearn more about the games on this month’s schedule...

Game Auction RecapBargains galore! See who won what, who got the best deals...

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FREE Open Gaming & Learn to Play Events Saturdays in October! For centuries, Halloween has been a holiday �lled with magic, fortune telling and mystery. To commemorate that, we’ve chosen games suited to those themes for our October Learn to Play events.

As fortune would have it, two super fun games of potion brewing just came back in to stock. �ese two games and another from the wizarding world of Harry Potter will provide the magical element of our October Learn to Play events.

For fortune telling, we thought you might prefer to choose your own, so we’ve selected a choose-your-own-adventure game, a harrowing escape from an abandoned cabin and a light trick-or-treat roll-and-write game.

Finally, as the veil between this world and the next thins, we’ll delve into mystery. A ghost will ask you to

investigate its murder and a strange phone call will lead you to a macabre Lovecraftian mystery of unspeakable horror. Magic, fortune telling and mystery - we’ll teach you how to play!

Of course, if you’d rather hunt zombies, play a super hero or try something more tame, you can always join us for Free Open Gaming. You’ll have access to our extensive game library of over 400 games and our three game rooms that can comfortably accommodate 30 gamers.

Dying to know more about those games of magic, fortune telling and mystery? Read on.

Saturday, October 12 Magic: Quacks of Quedlinburg, Potion Explosion & Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle

�e Quacks of Quedlinburg is a light-hearted, push-your-luck, bag-building game of potion brewing. Mix up some wacky concoctions to impress the folks at the fair. Compete

to see who can build the biggest potion using weird ingredients like rats, pumpkins,

garden spiders, crow skulls, toadstools, mandrake, ghost’s breath, moths, and cherry bombs! Be careful, though. If you add too many cherry bombs, your potion will explode in your face!

2 to 4 players, ages 10 and up, can play Quacks of Quedlinburg in about 45 minutes. Drop by and we’ll teach you how to play!

Potion Explosion is a game of potion-crafting, marble-crashing and set collection that’s incredibly fun!

It's time for the �nal exams of the Potions class! Under the helpful tutelage

of the Headmaster, you’ve learned how to handle volatile ingredients,

represented by colorful marbles, and turn them into fantastical potions! �e rules are always the

same: take an Ingredient marble from the Dispenser and watch the others fall. If you connect marbles of the same color, they explode... and you can take them too!

Complete your potions using the marbles you collect, and drink them to unleash their magical powers. Remember, though, that to win the Student of the Year Award, being quick won't be enough; you'll also need to brew the most valuable potions! You can score additional points by completing �ve di�erent types of potions and three of the same kind.

2 to 4 players, ages 14 and up can play Potion Explosion in 30 to 45 minutes. Come on by and we’ll teach you how to play.

Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle is set in the wizarding world of the famous Harry Potter books, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle is a cooperative deck-building game. Taking on the roles of Harry, Hermione, Ron and Neville, you and your chums must consolidate your defenses and work together to defeat the villains harassing your school.

Harry Potter: Hogwart's Battle is a campaign-style game featuring seven boxes that you'll open as you play through the storyline featured in the books and movies. �is allows young and/or newbie gamers to grow into the game as you reenact the seven-book story.

While the player characters don't start with any special powers per se, each one has his or her own unique starting deck. As you progress through the seven games, your characters will gain knowledge and skills, just like the young wizards in the books.

Each of the seven numbered games can be played multiple times. �is isn't a Legacy game. You can pick up the story anywhere you want, and play with di�erent people each time. �e components and artwork are top-notch, making the game highly thematic despite being essentially a card game. Love it!

2 to 4 players, ages 11 through adult, can play a session of Harry Potter: Hogwart's Battle in 30 to 60 minutes.

We recently added a copy of the expansion, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle - Monster Box of Monsters, to our game library. So we can break that out, too, for those looking

Hako Onna is a horror game of reverse hide-and-seek, a one-against-all exploration game. One player plays Hako Onna (the Woman in the Box), and the rest are Visitors, who are trying to escape from the mansion.

As Visitors, you’ll try to not make any noise as you search the shadowy rooms of the mansion for information, items to protect yourself, and a way to escape what you do not see, but know is there. Beware! If you stumble upon Hako Onna, you’re dead.

3 to 5 players, ages 10 and up, can play this creepy game in 90-120 minutes. In stock now at Here Be Books & Games.

2. Escape-Room-in-a-Box GamesWhen you’re looking for a little mys-tery to solve on Halloween, you can’t go wrong with the Exit: �e Game and Unlock! series of escape-room-in-a-box games.

Escape Rooms are puzzle adventures you have to solve in a speci�c amount of time - usually an hour or two. �ey can be quite costly: $50 per person is not unusual. How-ever, for $15, less than half the cost of one admission to a live Escape Room experience, you and your friends can solve a similar puzzling mystery at home with an escape-room-in-a-box à la Unlock! and Exit: �e Game.

�e Unlock! and Exit: �e Game series have numerous adventures you can choose from. Explore a pharoah’s tomb, thrawt the plans of an evil mastermind in a cartoon adventure, recover a mysterious serum, explore a sinister mansion, uncover the midnight mysteries in a mysterious museum, solve the murder on the Orient Express or escape from the abandoned cabin in which you sought

shelter

Player count ranges from 1 to 6 players. Play time is usually an hour. �e games also come in a variety of di�culty levels. Some are even designed so you can include kids. In stock now.

Above and Below supports 2 to 4 players, ages 13 and up and plays in about 90 mintues. Drop by and we’ll teach you how to play!

Exit: �e Game - �e Abandoned Cabin is an escape-room-in-a-box.

Your car breaks down in the middle of nowhere and you're looking for shelter to get through the night. Luckily, you �nd an abandoned cabin in the woods near the road. You enter thankfully and spend an uneventful night. �e next morning, however, when you try to leave, you discover the door is locked! Iron bars on the windows prevent you from escaping. Searching the cabin for some means of exit, you discover a book and a strange disk.... Drop by anytime and we’ll teach you how to play!

Welcome to... Halloween. Choose a trick or a treat, circling either a ghost or a candy when you build houses in Welcome To...Halloween, a thematic neighbor-hood expansion for Welcome to...

Welcome to... is a super fun roll-and-

write game! Each turn, you’ll �ip cards from three piles to display three di�erent action sets. Each set shows a house number that you must assign to one of the houses in your community and an optional corresponding action you can take. �e house numbers on each street must ascend left to right, with two exceptions: 1) the Bis Action, which lets you break that rule by duplicating a house number for a penalty or 2) a round-about on the street.

Race to be the �rst to complete the three public goals, one of which is related to the special Halloween board. Choos-ing a trick or treat when you build a house is another special feature of the Halloween expansion which also features new artwork.

Game play is simultane-

ous in Welcome to... Halloween, so lots of people, ages 10 and up, can play at the same time! Playtime is about 45 minutes. �ere are lots of ways to build your community and many paths to a happy Halloween in Welcome To...Halloween! We’ll teach you!

Saturday, October 26 Mystery: Mysterium & Mansions of Madness

Mysterium is a beautiful, pure cooperative game of communi-cation. Murder most foul has been committed at Warwick Manor and a group of eminent psychics have been called together for a seance to investi-gate. �at’s you.

In Mysterium, one player plays the ghost of the

murder victim and the others psychic investigators who must discover who committed the murder, where and with what weapon. �e ghost may only communicate with the psychics through dream-like images depicted on gorgeously illustrated cards. �e psychics have just 7 hours (rounds) to interpret the visions sent by the ghost: exposing the murderer, uncovering the location and determining the murder weapon. Intuition, cooperation and inspired guesswork will be key to your success.

Two to seven players, ages 10 and up, can play Mysterium in about 45 minutes.

Join us at Here Be Books & Games and we’ll teach you how to play.

Mansions of Madness is an app-driven, fully-cooperative board game chock-full of theme: creepy monsters, mysterious occurrences, and cultists. �e

cultists are bent on opening a mystic portal to allow the Great Old Ones entrance to our world. One look at these horri�c god-like beings is enough to drive you insane.

To save the world, however, you and your fellow Investi-gators must endure and solve the mystery. You'll explore strange places and encounter ghastly monsters in this immersive board game that feels a lot like a roleplaying game. I love it!

1 to 5 adventurous souls, ages 14 and up, can play Man-sions of Madness 2nd Edition in two to three hours, depending on the scenario. A full review is available on �eGlassMeeple.com. Let us teach you how to play!

Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club MeetingFriday, October 11, 6pm to 8pmReading: Elric of Melnibone by Michael Moorcock (Jason’s pick).

Read the current book and join us for loads of geeky talk at our next Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club meeting. Newcom-ers are always welcome!

Our meetings are full of lively discus-sions of the current book, other stu� we’ve read recently, movies and TV shows we’ve watched and assorted other geeky stu�. It’s always fun, even when some of us don’t like that month’s book.

�e Sci-Fi & Fantasy Book Club meets once a month at Here Be Books & Games. We read fantasy and science �ction, old and new, including urban fantasy and alter-nate history.

Upcoming Titles:• Wanderers by Chuck Wendig or Severance by Ling

Ma or Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente or Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik or Tiamat’s Wrath by James S. A. Corey or Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia or �e Bird King by G. Willow Wilson or Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan (Carmen)

• Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings (Jason)• Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson (Je�)• Way Station by Cli�ord D. Simak (Jonathan)• Extracted by R.R. Haywood (Tim)

Attending members each suggest a book to add to our reading list. �en we pick one book to read each month until they’re all read. Rinse and repeat. A full list of all the

books we’ve read so far in Book Club is available on our web site at: hbbng.biz/book-club/.

It’s easy to join in on the fun: just read the current book and come to the meeting.

Board Game Auction RecapWe auctioned o� over 200 games in 129 lots at our seventh Game Auction at Here Be Books & Games on Saturday, September 21. Buyers scored killer deals and several took home stacks of games!

Derrick Chariker (left) proudly took home a lot that included A Song of Ice &

Fire: Stark vs Lannister Starter Set, some special �gures and a very cool bag

($75). Alexander Hale acquired a lot that included Catan & Catan Seafarers with both 5-6 player extensions ($38) and a Cutthroat Caverns lot that included the base game

and four expansions ($35)!

Jonathan Tudor (right) went home with a good-sized stack of board games that included the classic Stone Age which he won with a $26 bid. Two of the games from the North Sea trilogy, Explorers of the North Sea and Shipwrights of the North Sea, went for $28 to Diane St. Romain. Blake Whitaker won the bidding on several games including a copy of Dominion Intrigue for just $10.

Morgan Savick (left) took home three stacks of games. He won an incredible lot made up of Splendor, Sheri� of Nottingham, 13 Clues, Game of 49, Munchkin and de Stijl for just $37! I bid in proxy on several games for Dan Yohman, nabbing a lot of two Saboteur games and an

expansion for $10 and San Juan and Patronize together for $12.

for a more challenging experience or if someone wants to play the new character Luna Lovegood. In order to win with the Monster Box, you have to defeat all the new Creatures as well as the Villains, and deal with all the Encounters, too.

Grab a broomstick and swing by. We’ll teach you how to play!

Saturday, October 19 Fortune Telling: Above and Below, Exit: The Game - The Abandoned Cabin & Welcome To... Halloween

Above and Below is a light worker placement game of town-building and storytelling.

When your village was sacked by barbarians, you searched far and wide for the perfect place to build a new home. �en you found it! Not only was it perfect, but nearby you discovered a vast network of underground caverns �lled with treasure, rare resources, and untold adventure. Unwilling to limit your new life to the surface, you immediately start organizing expeditions to explore the riches below while continuing to expand your village above.

In Above and Below, you’ll send your villagers to perform jobs like exploring the caverns below, harvesting resources, building houses and training new workers. Each villager has unique skills and abilities, and you must decide how best to use them. Will you send Cyndi on the expedition below? �at’s where the storytelling is! Or will you keep her above to teach important skills to one of the young-sters, so you can send a bigger party later?

When you send a group of villagers to explore the caverns below, one of your friends reads what happens to you from a book of paragraphs. You'll be given a choice of how to react. A lot will depend on who you sent on the expedition, and how kindly or not so kindly you treat with strangers. Your fortune is yours to tell in Above and Below.

3. Choose Your Own Adventure GamesChoose Your Own Adventure games are just that: narrative adventure games in which you choose, what doors to open, which fork in the road to take, how to react to circumstances and more. Each game features cooperative play and a unique adventure with a mystery to uncover. Two titles are available so far.

In Choose Your Own Adventure: House of Danger, you and your friends are in for a perilous and laughter-�lled adventure. You’ll make risky choices, collect bizarre clues, and face mortal challenges as you explore the weird and strange house.

In Choose Your Own Adventure: War with the Evil Power Master, you and your plucky young team of heroes must endeavor to save the galaxy from the evil power master bent on global destruction.

You can break up play into multiple sessions - by chapter - or play one long

session if you so choose. When I played �e House of Danger with �ve other people, we were so caught up in the story we couldn’t stop and played the whole game through in one session.

You can play both Choose Your Own Adventure titles multiple times to uncover more secrets and di�erent endings. No two play-throughs are quite the same.

Choose Your Own Adventure Games can be played solo or with as many people as you wish. �e titles above are recommended for ages 10 and up. Playtime is about 60 minutes for one chapter; each game has multiple chapters. In stock now at Here Be Books & Games.

4. ObscurioObscurio is an image-based communication and secret-role family game. You’ve got to be careful when sharing ideas with your team, because there may a traitor in your ranks!

�ematically, you are trapped in the Sorcerer’s libraty and he’s

out to get you! Find your way among the

Kelsey Roach (right) looked pretty happy with his two acquisitions: Battlelore ($30) and �e World of Warcarft Adventure Game ($15).

Jason Bush didn’t have to �ght as hard as I expected he would for a set of Red Dragon Inn Promo cards; several other big fans of the game weren’t able to attend this time. I picked up a playmat featuring a map of Middle-Earth for my game table at the store. I �gure it will make rolling dice a lot quieter. It came with two other playmats - one was for Elysium which I passed on to Ian - and Lord of the Rings: �e Card Game - Attack on Dol Guldur which I aim to pass on to someone else, too.

Nick Kraftor (right) seemed pretty happy with the three stacks of games he bought. His bids won him the classics Puerto Rico ($19) and Dominion ($10), as well as the popular Kingsburg ($15) and Legendary: A Marvel Deckbuilding Game ($15) among others.

While everyone scored really good deals at the game auction, and many took home one or more stacks of games, Liz Yanzer certainly took home the most games. Check out her haul below. If you look closely, you can see the top of a Bohnanza game behind the bottom right corner of the Ramen Fury game she’s holding. Bohnanza is on top of a fourth pile of games!

We all took a break about two-thirds of the way through

to recharge with complimen-tary brownies and chocolate chip cookies. �e break was refreshing. When we resumed, the rest of the auction �ew by. �en I retired to my o�ce with Jennifer and Diane to do the paperwork so Tim could start checking people out.

Many thanks to everyone who participated whether as a buyer, seller or both! We really appreciate the sellers who submitted their games early, giving Tim more time to research them. We also appreciate the buyers who RSVPed so we could better gauge how many to expect.

A special thanks goes out to Ian, Diane, Jennifer and Bailey for all their hard work and assistance. Tim and I could not do the auction without them. Ian arrived hours early to help Tim organize the lots in auction order, which made the process go even smoother than before. I think we’re getting this down to a science.

Look for the next game auction sometime in January. You can sign up to receive text messages on our website or in the store, join us on Meetup, and/or follow us on Face-book to receive noti�cation of the next game auction and other events at Here Be Books & Games.

5 Games of Mystery and the Macabre for HalloweenHalloween has always been a holiday of mystery and the macabre. So to introduce a little fun and creepiness to your Halloween gaming, I’ve put together a list of �ve games of mystery with some that border on the macabre.

1. Hako OnnaI’m gonna start with the one that I think sounds the creepiest: Hako Onna.

�e scary men arrived. My father, in a panic, pushed me down into a way-too-small box. I heard my bones snap, but dared not scream. I heard angry voices...then nothing. Father never came back. I was left alone. �at was a long time ago. Im not alone anymore. Sometimes, people come play. I like to play hide and seek. When I tire of playing, I eat.

810 Travelers Blvd, Ste A2, Summerville, SC 29485(843) 695-1498 Tue & Wed 1 to 7pm, Fri & Sat 11am to 7pmBoard game store & gaming salon. We'll teach you how to play!

Save the Date!Saturday, October 5, 2pm to 12amGame Night

Wednesday, October 9, 1pm to ?Free Midweek Gaming

Friday, October 11, 6pm to 8pmBook Club Meeting - Reading: Elric of Melnibone by Michael Moorcock

Saturday, October 12, 1pm to 7pmFree Open Gaming & Learn to PlayQuacks of Quedlinburg, Potion Explosion & Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle

Wednesday, October 16, 1pm to ?Free Midweek Gaming

Saturday, October 19, 1pm to 7pmFree Open Gaming & Learn to PlayAbove and Below, Exit: �e Game - �e Abandoned Cabin & Welcome to... Halloween

Wednesday, October 23, 1pm to ?Free Midweek Gaming

Saturday, October 26, 1pm to 7pmFree Open Gaming & Learn to PlayMysterium & Mansions of Madness

Wednesday, October 30, 1pm to ? Free Midweek Gaming

Saturday, November 2, 2pm to 12amGame Night

INSIDE: • Free Open Gaming & Learn to Play• Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club• 5 Games of Mystery and the

Macabre for Halloween • Game Auction Recap • Game Library Additions• New Arrivals & Back in Stock

illusions towards the exit. �e helpful Grimoire (one of the players) will guide you using images, by pointing at certain details.

Working together, the rest of the players must �nd the exit as quickly as possible, while avoiding picking the wrong cards. Watch out for the traitor who will try to lead you astray. To make things even harder - as if they weren’t di�cult enough - you’ll encounter a wide variety of traps that will impede player communication on your way to the exit!

Supported by rich content, Obscurio provides a fresh new experience by putting the emphasis on the details of the images and the constant doubt created by the presence of a traitor. Communicate e�ciently and avoid the illusions as you escape the Sorcerer's library in Obscurio!

Obscurio supports 2 to 8 players, ages 10 and up, with a playtime of about 40 minutes. In stock now at HBB&G.

5. HorrifiedImagine living in a place so wretched that it's not plagued by one, two, or even three monsters — but seven of the most horrifying �ends! In Horri�ed, you'll come face to face with them all as you work together

to rid your town of the maniacal or misunderstood creatures - before it's too late.

Horrifed is a cooperative board game in which you and your fellow heroes must work together to defend your town against the onslaught of Dracula, �e Wolfman, Frankenstein, �e Bride of Frankenstein, �e Mummy, �e Invisible Man and �e Creature from the Black Lagoon. Each monster is unique and requires di�erent strategies and tactics to be defeated.

Horri�ed includes high-quality sculpted miniatures and an innovative, easy-to-learn, cooperative gameplay with varying levels of di�culty. 1 to 5 players, ages 10 and up, can play Horri�ed in about 60 minutes. In stock now.

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FREE Open Gaming & Learn to Play Events Saturdays in October! For centuries, Halloween has been a holiday �lled with magic, fortune telling and mystery. To commemorate that, we’ve chosen games suited to those themes for our October Learn to Play events.

As fortune would have it, two super fun games of potion brewing just came back in to stock. �ese two games and another from the wizarding world of Harry Potter will provide the magical element of our October Learn to Play events.

For fortune telling, we thought you might prefer to choose your own, so we’ve selected a choose-your-own-adventure game, a harrowing escape from an abandoned cabin and a light trick-or-treat roll-and-write game.

Finally, as the veil between this world and the next thins, we’ll delve into mystery. A ghost will ask you to

investigate its murder and a strange phone call will lead you to a macabre Lovecraftian mystery of unspeakable horror. Magic, fortune telling and mystery - we’ll teach you how to play!

Of course, if you’d rather hunt zombies, play a super hero or try something more tame, you can always join us for Free Open Gaming. You’ll have access to our extensive game library of over 400 games and our three game rooms that can comfortably accommodate 30 gamers.

Dying to know more about those games of magic, fortune telling and mystery? Read on.

Saturday, October 12 Magic: Quacks of Quedlinburg, Potion Explosion & Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle

�e Quacks of Quedlinburg is a light-hearted, push-your-luck, bag-building game of potion brewing. Mix up some wacky concoctions to impress the folks at the fair. Compete

to see who can build the biggest potion using weird ingredients like rats, pumpkins,

garden spiders, crow skulls, toadstools, mandrake, ghost’s breath, moths, and cherry bombs! Be careful, though. If you add too many cherry bombs, your potion will explode in your face!

2 to 4 players, ages 10 and up, can play Quacks of Quedlinburg in about 45 minutes. Drop by and we’ll teach you how to play!

Potion Explosion is a game of potion-crafting, marble-crashing and set collection that’s incredibly fun!

It's time for the �nal exams of the Potions class! Under the helpful tutelage

of the Headmaster, you’ve learned how to handle volatile ingredients,

represented by colorful marbles, and turn them into fantastical potions! �e rules are always the

same: take an Ingredient marble from the Dispenser and watch the others fall. If you connect marbles of the same color, they explode... and you can take them too!

Complete your potions using the marbles you collect, and drink them to unleash their magical powers. Remember, though, that to win the Student of the Year Award, being quick won't be enough; you'll also need to brew the most valuable potions! You can score additional points by completing �ve di�erent types of potions and three of the same kind.

2 to 4 players, ages 14 and up can play Potion Explosion in 30 to 45 minutes. Come on by and we’ll teach you how to play.

Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle is set in the wizarding world of the famous Harry Potter books, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle is a cooperative deck-building game. Taking on the roles of Harry, Hermione, Ron and Neville, you and your chums must consolidate your defenses and work together to defeat the villains harassing your school.

Harry Potter: Hogwart's Battle is a campaign-style game featuring seven boxes that you'll open as you play through the storyline featured in the books and movies. �is allows young and/or newbie gamers to grow into the game as you reenact the seven-book story.

While the player characters don't start with any special powers per se, each one has his or her own unique starting deck. As you progress through the seven games, your characters will gain knowledge and skills, just like the young wizards in the books.

Each of the seven numbered games can be played multiple times. �is isn't a Legacy game. You can pick up the story anywhere you want, and play with di�erent people each time. �e components and artwork are top-notch, making the game highly thematic despite being essentially a card game. Love it!

2 to 4 players, ages 11 through adult, can play a session of Harry Potter: Hogwart's Battle in 30 to 60 minutes.

We recently added a copy of the expansion, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle - Monster Box of Monsters, to our game library. So we can break that out, too, for those looking

Hako Onna is a horror game of reverse hide-and-seek, a one-against-all exploration game. One player plays Hako Onna (the Woman in the Box), and the rest are Visitors, who are trying to escape from the mansion.

As Visitors, you’ll try to not make any noise as you search the shadowy rooms of the mansion for information, items to protect yourself, and a way to escape what you do not see, but know is there. Beware! If you stumble upon Hako Onna, you’re dead.

3 to 5 players, ages 10 and up, can play this creepy game in 90-120 minutes. In stock now at Here Be Books & Games.

2. Escape-Room-in-a-Box GamesWhen you’re looking for a little mys-tery to solve on Halloween, you can’t go wrong with the Exit: �e Game and Unlock! series of escape-room-in-a-box games.

Escape Rooms are puzzle adventures you have to solve in a speci�c amount of time - usually an hour or two. �ey can be quite costly: $50 per person is not unusual. How-ever, for $15, less than half the cost of one admission to a live Escape Room experience, you and your friends can solve a similar puzzling mystery at home with an escape-room-in-a-box à la Unlock! and Exit: �e Game.

�e Unlock! and Exit: �e Game series have numerous adventures you can choose from. Explore a pharoah’s tomb, thrawt the plans of an evil mastermind in a cartoon adventure, recover a mysterious serum, explore a sinister mansion, uncover the midnight mysteries in a mysterious museum, solve the murder on the Orient Express or escape from the abandoned cabin in which you sought

shelter

Player count ranges from 1 to 6 players. Play time is usually an hour. �e games also come in a variety of di�culty levels. Some are even designed so you can include kids. In stock now.

Above and Below supports 2 to 4 players, ages 13 and up and plays in about 90 mintues. Drop by and we’ll teach you how to play!

Exit: �e Game - �e Abandoned Cabin is an escape-room-in-a-box.

Your car breaks down in the middle of nowhere and you're looking for shelter to get through the night. Luckily, you �nd an abandoned cabin in the woods near the road. You enter thankfully and spend an uneventful night. �e next morning, however, when you try to leave, you discover the door is locked! Iron bars on the windows prevent you from escaping. Searching the cabin for some means of exit, you discover a book and a strange disk.... Drop by anytime and we’ll teach you how to play!

Welcome to... Halloween. Choose a trick or a treat, circling either a ghost or a candy when you build houses in Welcome To...Halloween, a thematic neighbor-hood expansion for Welcome to...

Welcome to... is a super fun roll-and-

write game! Each turn, you’ll �ip cards from three piles to display three di�erent action sets. Each set shows a house number that you must assign to one of the houses in your community and an optional corresponding action you can take. �e house numbers on each street must ascend left to right, with two exceptions: 1) the Bis Action, which lets you break that rule by duplicating a house number for a penalty or 2) a round-about on the street.

Race to be the �rst to complete the three public goals, one of which is related to the special Halloween board. Choos-ing a trick or treat when you build a house is another special feature of the Halloween expansion which also features new artwork.

Game play is simultane-

ous in Welcome to... Halloween, so lots of people, ages 10 and up, can play at the same time! Playtime is about 45 minutes. �ere are lots of ways to build your community and many paths to a happy Halloween in Welcome To...Halloween! We’ll teach you!

Saturday, October 26 Mystery: Mysterium & Mansions of Madness

Mysterium is a beautiful, pure cooperative game of communi-cation. Murder most foul has been committed at Warwick Manor and a group of eminent psychics have been called together for a seance to investi-gate. �at’s you.

In Mysterium, one player plays the ghost of the

murder victim and the others psychic investigators who must discover who committed the murder, where and with what weapon. �e ghost may only communicate with the psychics through dream-like images depicted on gorgeously illustrated cards. �e psychics have just 7 hours (rounds) to interpret the visions sent by the ghost: exposing the murderer, uncovering the location and determining the murder weapon. Intuition, cooperation and inspired guesswork will be key to your success.

Two to seven players, ages 10 and up, can play Mysterium in about 45 minutes.

Join us at Here Be Books & Games and we’ll teach you how to play.

Mansions of Madness is an app-driven, fully-cooperative board game chock-full of theme: creepy monsters, mysterious occurrences, and cultists. �e

cultists are bent on opening a mystic portal to allow the Great Old Ones entrance to our world. One look at these horri�c god-like beings is enough to drive you insane.

To save the world, however, you and your fellow Investi-gators must endure and solve the mystery. You'll explore strange places and encounter ghastly monsters in this immersive board game that feels a lot like a roleplaying game. I love it!

1 to 5 adventurous souls, ages 14 and up, can play Man-sions of Madness 2nd Edition in two to three hours, depending on the scenario. A full review is available on �eGlassMeeple.com. Let us teach you how to play!

Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club MeetingFriday, October 11, 6pm to 8pmReading: Elric of Melnibone by Michael Moorcock (Jason’s pick).

Read the current book and join us for loads of geeky talk at our next Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club meeting. Newcom-ers are always welcome!

Our meetings are full of lively discus-sions of the current book, other stu� we’ve read recently, movies and TV shows we’ve watched and assorted other geeky stu�. It’s always fun, even when some of us don’t like that month’s book.

�e Sci-Fi & Fantasy Book Club meets once a month at Here Be Books & Games. We read fantasy and science �ction, old and new, including urban fantasy and alter-nate history.

Upcoming Titles:• Wanderers by Chuck Wendig or Severance by Ling

Ma or Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente or Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik or Tiamat’s Wrath by James S. A. Corey or Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia or �e Bird King by G. Willow Wilson or Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan (Carmen)

• Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings (Jason)• Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson (Je�)• Way Station by Cli�ord D. Simak (Jonathan)• Extracted by R.R. Haywood (Tim)

Attending members each suggest a book to add to our reading list. �en we pick one book to read each month until they’re all read. Rinse and repeat. A full list of all the

books we’ve read so far in Book Club is available on our web site at: hbbng.biz/book-club/.

It’s easy to join in on the fun: just read the current book and come to the meeting.

Board Game Auction RecapWe auctioned o� over 200 games in 129 lots at our seventh Game Auction at Here Be Books & Games on Saturday, September 21. Buyers scored killer deals and several took home stacks of games!

Derrick Chariker (left) proudly took home a lot that included A Song of Ice &

Fire: Stark vs Lannister Starter Set, some special �gures and a very cool bag

($75). Alexander Hale acquired a lot that included Catan & Catan Seafarers with both 5-6 player extensions ($38) and a Cutthroat Caverns lot that included the base game

and four expansions ($35)!

Jonathan Tudor (right) went home with a good-sized stack of board games that included the classic Stone Age which he won with a $26 bid. Two of the games from the North Sea trilogy, Explorers of the North Sea and Shipwrights of the North Sea, went for $28 to Diane St. Romain. Blake Whitaker won the bidding on several games including a copy of Dominion Intrigue for just $10.

Morgan Savick (left) took home three stacks of games. He won an incredible lot made up of Splendor, Sheri� of Nottingham, 13 Clues, Game of 49, Munchkin and de Stijl for just $37! I bid in proxy on several games for Dan Yohman, nabbing a lot of two Saboteur games and an

expansion for $10 and San Juan and Patronize together for $12.

for a more challenging experience or if someone wants to play the new character Luna Lovegood. In order to win with the Monster Box, you have to defeat all the new Creatures as well as the Villains, and deal with all the Encounters, too.

Grab a broomstick and swing by. We’ll teach you how to play!

Saturday, October 19 Fortune Telling: Above and Below, Exit: The Game - The Abandoned Cabin & Welcome To... Halloween

Above and Below is a light worker placement game of town-building and storytelling.

When your village was sacked by barbarians, you searched far and wide for the perfect place to build a new home. �en you found it! Not only was it perfect, but nearby you discovered a vast network of underground caverns �lled with treasure, rare resources, and untold adventure. Unwilling to limit your new life to the surface, you immediately start organizing expeditions to explore the riches below while continuing to expand your village above.

In Above and Below, you’ll send your villagers to perform jobs like exploring the caverns below, harvesting resources, building houses and training new workers. Each villager has unique skills and abilities, and you must decide how best to use them. Will you send Cyndi on the expedition below? �at’s where the storytelling is! Or will you keep her above to teach important skills to one of the young-sters, so you can send a bigger party later?

When you send a group of villagers to explore the caverns below, one of your friends reads what happens to you from a book of paragraphs. You'll be given a choice of how to react. A lot will depend on who you sent on the expedition, and how kindly or not so kindly you treat with strangers. Your fortune is yours to tell in Above and Below.

3. Choose Your Own Adventure GamesChoose Your Own Adventure games are just that: narrative adventure games in which you choose, what doors to open, which fork in the road to take, how to react to circumstances and more. Each game features cooperative play and a unique adventure with a mystery to uncover. Two titles are available so far.

In Choose Your Own Adventure: House of Danger, you and your friends are in for a perilous and laughter-�lled adventure. You’ll make risky choices, collect bizarre clues, and face mortal challenges as you explore the weird and strange house.

In Choose Your Own Adventure: War with the Evil Power Master, you and your plucky young team of heroes must endeavor to save the galaxy from the evil power master bent on global destruction.

You can break up play into multiple sessions - by chapter - or play one long

session if you so choose. When I played �e House of Danger with �ve other people, we were so caught up in the story we couldn’t stop and played the whole game through in one session.

You can play both Choose Your Own Adventure titles multiple times to uncover more secrets and di�erent endings. No two play-throughs are quite the same.

Choose Your Own Adventure Games can be played solo or with as many people as you wish. �e titles above are recommended for ages 10 and up. Playtime is about 60 minutes for one chapter; each game has multiple chapters. In stock now at Here Be Books & Games.

4. ObscurioObscurio is an image-based communication and secret-role family game. You’ve got to be careful when sharing ideas with your team, because there may a traitor in your ranks!

�ematically, you are trapped in the Sorcerer’s libraty and he’s

out to get you! Find your way among the

Kelsey Roach (right) looked pretty happy with his two acquisitions: Battlelore ($30) and �e World of Warcarft Adventure Game ($15).

Jason Bush didn’t have to �ght as hard as I expected he would for a set of Red Dragon Inn Promo cards; several other big fans of the game weren’t able to attend this time. I picked up a playmat featuring a map of Middle-Earth for my game table at the store. I �gure it will make rolling dice a lot quieter. It came with two other playmats - one was for Elysium which I passed on to Ian - and Lord of the Rings: �e Card Game - Attack on Dol Guldur which I aim to pass on to someone else, too.

Nick Kraftor (right) seemed pretty happy with the three stacks of games he bought. His bids won him the classics Puerto Rico ($19) and Dominion ($10), as well as the popular Kingsburg ($15) and Legendary: A Marvel Deckbuilding Game ($15) among others.

While everyone scored really good deals at the game auction, and many took home one or more stacks of games, Liz Yanzer certainly took home the most games. Check out her haul below. If you look closely, you can see the top of a Bohnanza game behind the bottom right corner of the Ramen Fury game she’s holding. Bohnanza is on top of a fourth pile of games!

We all took a break about two-thirds of the way through

to recharge with complimen-tary brownies and chocolate chip cookies. �e break was refreshing. When we resumed, the rest of the auction �ew by. �en I retired to my o�ce with Jennifer and Diane to do the paperwork so Tim could start checking people out.

Many thanks to everyone who participated whether as a buyer, seller or both! We really appreciate the sellers who submitted their games early, giving Tim more time to research them. We also appreciate the buyers who RSVPed so we could better gauge how many to expect.

A special thanks goes out to Ian, Diane, Jennifer and Bailey for all their hard work and assistance. Tim and I could not do the auction without them. Ian arrived hours early to help Tim organize the lots in auction order, which made the process go even smoother than before. I think we’re getting this down to a science.

Look for the next game auction sometime in January. You can sign up to receive text messages on our website or in the store, join us on Meetup, and/or follow us on Face-book to receive noti�cation of the next game auction and other events at Here Be Books & Games.

5 Games of Mystery and the Macabre for HalloweenHalloween has always been a holiday of mystery and the macabre. So to introduce a little fun and creepiness to your Halloween gaming, I’ve put together a list of �ve games of mystery with some that border on the macabre.

1. Hako OnnaI’m gonna start with the one that I think sounds the creepiest: Hako Onna.

�e scary men arrived. My father, in a panic, pushed me down into a way-too-small box. I heard my bones snap, but dared not scream. I heard angry voices...then nothing. Father never came back. I was left alone. �at was a long time ago. Im not alone anymore. Sometimes, people come play. I like to play hide and seek. When I tire of playing, I eat.

illusions towards the exit. �e helpful Grimoire (one of the players) will guide you using images, by pointing at certain details.

Working together, the rest of the players must �nd the exit as quickly as possible, while avoiding picking the wrong cards. Watch out for the traitor who will try to lead you astray. To make things even harder - as if they weren’t di�cult enough - you’ll encounter a wide variety of traps that will impede player communication on your way to the exit!

Supported by rich content, Obscurio provides a fresh new experience by putting the emphasis on the details of the images and the constant doubt created by the presence of a traitor. Communicate e�ciently and avoid the illusions as you escape the Sorcerer's library in Obscurio!

Obscurio supports 2 to 8 players, ages 10 and up, with a playtime of about 40 minutes. In stock now at HBB&G.

5. HorrifiedImagine living in a place so wretched that it's not plagued by one, two, or even three monsters — but seven of the most horrifying �ends! In Horri�ed, you'll come face to face with them all as you work together

to rid your town of the maniacal or misunderstood creatures - before it's too late.

Horrifed is a cooperative board game in which you and your fellow heroes must work together to defend your town against the onslaught of Dracula, �e Wolfman, Frankenstein, �e Bride of Frankenstein, �e Mummy, �e Invisible Man and �e Creature from the Black Lagoon. Each monster is unique and requires di�erent strategies and tactics to be defeated.

Horri�ed includes high-quality sculpted miniatures and an innovative, easy-to-learn, cooperative gameplay with varying levels of di�culty. 1 to 5 players, ages 10 and up, can play Horri�ed in about 60 minutes. In stock now.

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FREE Open Gaming & Learn to Play Events Saturdays in October! For centuries, Halloween has been a holiday �lled with magic, fortune telling and mystery. To commemorate that, we’ve chosen games suited to those themes for our October Learn to Play events.

As fortune would have it, two super fun games of potion brewing just came back in to stock. �ese two games and another from the wizarding world of Harry Potter will provide the magical element of our October Learn to Play events.

For fortune telling, we thought you might prefer to choose your own, so we’ve selected a choose-your-own-adventure game, a harrowing escape from an abandoned cabin and a light trick-or-treat roll-and-write game.

Finally, as the veil between this world and the next thins, we’ll delve into mystery. A ghost will ask you to

investigate its murder and a strange phone call will lead you to a macabre Lovecraftian mystery of unspeakable horror. Magic, fortune telling and mystery - we’ll teach you how to play!

Of course, if you’d rather hunt zombies, play a super hero or try something more tame, you can always join us for Free Open Gaming. You’ll have access to our extensive game library of over 400 games and our three game rooms that can comfortably accommodate 30 gamers.

Dying to know more about those games of magic, fortune telling and mystery? Read on.

Saturday, October 12 Magic: Quacks of Quedlinburg, Potion Explosion & Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle

�e Quacks of Quedlinburg is a light-hearted, push-your-luck, bag-building game of potion brewing. Mix up some wacky concoctions to impress the folks at the fair. Compete

to see who can build the biggest potion using weird ingredients like rats, pumpkins,

garden spiders, crow skulls, toadstools, mandrake, ghost’s breath, moths, and cherry bombs! Be careful, though. If you add too many cherry bombs, your potion will explode in your face!

2 to 4 players, ages 10 and up, can play Quacks of Quedlinburg in about 45 minutes. Drop by and we’ll teach you how to play!

Potion Explosion is a game of potion-crafting, marble-crashing and set collection that’s incredibly fun!

It's time for the �nal exams of the Potions class! Under the helpful tutelage

of the Headmaster, you’ve learned how to handle volatile ingredients,

represented by colorful marbles, and turn them into fantastical potions! �e rules are always the

same: take an Ingredient marble from the Dispenser and watch the others fall. If you connect marbles of the same color, they explode... and you can take them too!

Complete your potions using the marbles you collect, and drink them to unleash their magical powers. Remember, though, that to win the Student of the Year Award, being quick won't be enough; you'll also need to brew the most valuable potions! You can score additional points by completing �ve di�erent types of potions and three of the same kind.

2 to 4 players, ages 14 and up can play Potion Explosion in 30 to 45 minutes. Come on by and we’ll teach you how to play.

Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle is set in the wizarding world of the famous Harry Potter books, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle is a cooperative deck-building game. Taking on the roles of Harry, Hermione, Ron and Neville, you and your chums must consolidate your defenses and work together to defeat the villains harassing your school.

Harry Potter: Hogwart's Battle is a campaign-style game featuring seven boxes that you'll open as you play through the storyline featured in the books and movies. �is allows young and/or newbie gamers to grow into the game as you reenact the seven-book story.

While the player characters don't start with any special powers per se, each one has his or her own unique starting deck. As you progress through the seven games, your characters will gain knowledge and skills, just like the young wizards in the books.

Each of the seven numbered games can be played multiple times. �is isn't a Legacy game. You can pick up the story anywhere you want, and play with di�erent people each time. �e components and artwork are top-notch, making the game highly thematic despite being essentially a card game. Love it!

2 to 4 players, ages 11 through adult, can play a session of Harry Potter: Hogwart's Battle in 30 to 60 minutes.

We recently added a copy of the expansion, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle - Monster Box of Monsters, to our game library. So we can break that out, too, for those looking

Hako Onna is a horror game of reverse hide-and-seek, a one-against-all exploration game. One player plays Hako Onna (the Woman in the Box), and the rest are Visitors, who are trying to escape from the mansion.

As Visitors, you’ll try to not make any noise as you search the shadowy rooms of the mansion for information, items to protect yourself, and a way to escape what you do not see, but know is there. Beware! If you stumble upon Hako Onna, you’re dead.

3 to 5 players, ages 10 and up, can play this creepy game in 90-120 minutes. In stock now at Here Be Books & Games.

2. Escape-Room-in-a-Box GamesWhen you’re looking for a little mys-tery to solve on Halloween, you can’t go wrong with the Exit: �e Game and Unlock! series of escape-room-in-a-box games.

Escape Rooms are puzzle adventures you have to solve in a speci�c amount of time - usually an hour or two. �ey can be quite costly: $50 per person is not unusual. How-ever, for $15, less than half the cost of one admission to a live Escape Room experience, you and your friends can solve a similar puzzling mystery at home with an escape-room-in-a-box à la Unlock! and Exit: �e Game.

�e Unlock! and Exit: �e Game series have numerous adventures you can choose from. Explore a pharoah’s tomb, thrawt the plans of an evil mastermind in a cartoon adventure, recover a mysterious serum, explore a sinister mansion, uncover the midnight mysteries in a mysterious museum, solve the murder on the Orient Express or escape from the abandoned cabin in which you sought

shelter

Player count ranges from 1 to 6 players. Play time is usually an hour. �e games also come in a variety of di�culty levels. Some are even designed so you can include kids. In stock now.

Above and Below supports 2 to 4 players, ages 13 and up and plays in about 90 mintues. Drop by and we’ll teach you how to play!

Exit: �e Game - �e Abandoned Cabin is an escape-room-in-a-box.

Your car breaks down in the middle of nowhere and you're looking for shelter to get through the night. Luckily, you �nd an abandoned cabin in the woods near the road. You enter thankfully and spend an uneventful night. �e next morning, however, when you try to leave, you discover the door is locked! Iron bars on the windows prevent you from escaping. Searching the cabin for some means of exit, you discover a book and a strange disk.... Drop by anytime and we’ll teach you how to play!

Welcome to... Halloween. Choose a trick or a treat, circling either a ghost or a candy when you build houses in Welcome To...Halloween, a thematic neighbor-hood expansion for Welcome to...

Welcome to... is a super fun roll-and-

write game! Each turn, you’ll �ip cards from three piles to display three di�erent action sets. Each set shows a house number that you must assign to one of the houses in your community and an optional corresponding action you can take. �e house numbers on each street must ascend left to right, with two exceptions: 1) the Bis Action, which lets you break that rule by duplicating a house number for a penalty or 2) a round-about on the street.

Race to be the �rst to complete the three public goals, one of which is related to the special Halloween board. Choos-ing a trick or treat when you build a house is another special feature of the Halloween expansion which also features new artwork.

Game play is simultane-

ous in Welcome to... Halloween, so lots of people, ages 10 and up, can play at the same time! Playtime is about 45 minutes. �ere are lots of ways to build your community and many paths to a happy Halloween in Welcome To...Halloween! We’ll teach you!

Saturday, October 26 Mystery: Mysterium & Mansions of Madness

Mysterium is a beautiful, pure cooperative game of communi-cation. Murder most foul has been committed at Warwick Manor and a group of eminent psychics have been called together for a seance to investi-gate. �at’s you.

In Mysterium, one player plays the ghost of the

murder victim and the others psychic investigators who must discover who committed the murder, where and with what weapon. �e ghost may only communicate with the psychics through dream-like images depicted on gorgeously illustrated cards. �e psychics have just 7 hours (rounds) to interpret the visions sent by the ghost: exposing the murderer, uncovering the location and determining the murder weapon. Intuition, cooperation and inspired guesswork will be key to your success.

Two to seven players, ages 10 and up, can play Mysterium in about 45 minutes.

Join us at Here Be Books & Games and we’ll teach you how to play.

Mansions of Madness is an app-driven, fully-cooperative board game chock-full of theme: creepy monsters, mysterious occurrences, and cultists. �e

cultists are bent on opening a mystic portal to allow the Great Old Ones entrance to our world. One look at these horri�c god-like beings is enough to drive you insane.

To save the world, however, you and your fellow Investi-gators must endure and solve the mystery. You'll explore strange places and encounter ghastly monsters in this immersive board game that feels a lot like a roleplaying game. I love it!

1 to 5 adventurous souls, ages 14 and up, can play Man-sions of Madness 2nd Edition in two to three hours, depending on the scenario. A full review is available on �eGlassMeeple.com. Let us teach you how to play!

Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club MeetingFriday, October 11, 6pm to 8pmReading: Elric of Melnibone by Michael Moorcock (Jason’s pick).

Read the current book and join us for loads of geeky talk at our next Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club meeting. Newcom-ers are always welcome!

Our meetings are full of lively discus-sions of the current book, other stu� we’ve read recently, movies and TV shows we’ve watched and assorted other geeky stu�. It’s always fun, even when some of us don’t like that month’s book.

�e Sci-Fi & Fantasy Book Club meets once a month at Here Be Books & Games. We read fantasy and science �ction, old and new, including urban fantasy and alter-nate history.

Upcoming Titles:• Wanderers by Chuck Wendig or Severance by Ling

Ma or Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente or Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik or Tiamat’s Wrath by James S. A. Corey or Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia or �e Bird King by G. Willow Wilson or Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan (Carmen)

• Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings (Jason)• Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson (Je�)• Way Station by Cli�ord D. Simak (Jonathan)• Extracted by R.R. Haywood (Tim)

Attending members each suggest a book to add to our reading list. �en we pick one book to read each month until they’re all read. Rinse and repeat. A full list of all the

books we’ve read so far in Book Club is available on our web site at: hbbng.biz/book-club/.

It’s easy to join in on the fun: just read the current book and come to the meeting.

Board Game Auction RecapWe auctioned o� over 200 games in 129 lots at our seventh Game Auction at Here Be Books & Games on Saturday, September 21. Buyers scored killer deals and several took home stacks of games!

Derrick Chariker (left) proudly took home a lot that included A Song of Ice &

Fire: Stark vs Lannister Starter Set, some special �gures and a very cool bag

($75). Alexander Hale acquired a lot that included Catan & Catan Seafarers with both 5-6 player extensions ($38) and a Cutthroat Caverns lot that included the base game

and four expansions ($35)!

Jonathan Tudor (right) went home with a good-sized stack of board games that included the classic Stone Age which he won with a $26 bid. Two of the games from the North Sea trilogy, Explorers of the North Sea and Shipwrights of the North Sea, went for $28 to Diane St. Romain. Blake Whitaker won the bidding on several games including a copy of Dominion Intrigue for just $10.

Morgan Savick (left) took home three stacks of games. He won an incredible lot made up of Splendor, Sheri� of Nottingham, 13 Clues, Game of 49, Munchkin and de Stijl for just $37! I bid in proxy on several games for Dan Yohman, nabbing a lot of two Saboteur games and an

expansion for $10 and San Juan and Patronize together for $12.

for a more challenging experience or if someone wants to play the new character Luna Lovegood. In order to win with the Monster Box, you have to defeat all the new Creatures as well as the Villains, and deal with all the Encounters, too.

Grab a broomstick and swing by. We’ll teach you how to play!

Saturday, October 19 Fortune Telling: Above and Below, Exit: The Game - The Abandoned Cabin & Welcome To... Halloween

Above and Below is a light worker placement game of town-building and storytelling.

When your village was sacked by barbarians, you searched far and wide for the perfect place to build a new home. �en you found it! Not only was it perfect, but nearby you discovered a vast network of underground caverns �lled with treasure, rare resources, and untold adventure. Unwilling to limit your new life to the surface, you immediately start organizing expeditions to explore the riches below while continuing to expand your village above.

In Above and Below, you’ll send your villagers to perform jobs like exploring the caverns below, harvesting resources, building houses and training new workers. Each villager has unique skills and abilities, and you must decide how best to use them. Will you send Cyndi on the expedition below? �at’s where the storytelling is! Or will you keep her above to teach important skills to one of the young-sters, so you can send a bigger party later?

When you send a group of villagers to explore the caverns below, one of your friends reads what happens to you from a book of paragraphs. You'll be given a choice of how to react. A lot will depend on who you sent on the expedition, and how kindly or not so kindly you treat with strangers. Your fortune is yours to tell in Above and Below.

3. Choose Your Own Adventure GamesChoose Your Own Adventure games are just that: narrative adventure games in which you choose, what doors to open, which fork in the road to take, how to react to circumstances and more. Each game features cooperative play and a unique adventure with a mystery to uncover. Two titles are available so far.

In Choose Your Own Adventure: House of Danger, you and your friends are in for a perilous and laughter-�lled adventure. You’ll make risky choices, collect bizarre clues, and face mortal challenges as you explore the weird and strange house.

In Choose Your Own Adventure: War with the Evil Power Master, you and your plucky young team of heroes must endeavor to save the galaxy from the evil power master bent on global destruction.

You can break up play into multiple sessions - by chapter - or play one long

session if you so choose. When I played �e House of Danger with �ve other people, we were so caught up in the story we couldn’t stop and played the whole game through in one session.

You can play both Choose Your Own Adventure titles multiple times to uncover more secrets and di�erent endings. No two play-throughs are quite the same.

Choose Your Own Adventure Games can be played solo or with as many people as you wish. �e titles above are recommended for ages 10 and up. Playtime is about 60 minutes for one chapter; each game has multiple chapters. In stock now at Here Be Books & Games.

4. ObscurioObscurio is an image-based communication and secret-role family game. You’ve got to be careful when sharing ideas with your team, because there may a traitor in your ranks!

�ematically, you are trapped in the Sorcerer’s libraty and he’s

out to get you! Find your way among the

Kelsey Roach (right) looked pretty happy with his two acquisitions: Battlelore ($30) and �e World of Warcarft Adventure Game ($15).

Jason Bush didn’t have to �ght as hard as I expected he would for a set of Red Dragon Inn Promo cards; several other big fans of the game weren’t able to attend this time. I picked up a playmat featuring a map of Middle-Earth for my game table at the store. I �gure it will make rolling dice a lot quieter. It came with two other playmats - one was for Elysium which I passed on to Ian - and Lord of the Rings: �e Card Game - Attack on Dol Guldur which I aim to pass on to someone else, too.

Nick Kraftor (right) seemed pretty happy with the three stacks of games he bought. His bids won him the classics Puerto Rico ($19) and Dominion ($10), as well as the popular Kingsburg ($15) and Legendary: A Marvel Deckbuilding Game ($15) among others.

While everyone scored really good deals at the game auction, and many took home one or more stacks of games, Liz Yanzer certainly took home the most games. Check out her haul below. If you look closely, you can see the top of a Bohnanza game behind the bottom right corner of the Ramen Fury game she’s holding. Bohnanza is on top of a fourth pile of games!

We all took a break about two-thirds of the way through

to recharge with complimen-tary brownies and chocolate chip cookies. �e break was refreshing. When we resumed, the rest of the auction �ew by. �en I retired to my o�ce with Jennifer and Diane to do the paperwork so Tim could start checking people out.

Many thanks to everyone who participated whether as a buyer, seller or both! We really appreciate the sellers who submitted their games early, giving Tim more time to research them. We also appreciate the buyers who RSVPed so we could better gauge how many to expect.

A special thanks goes out to Ian, Diane, Jennifer and Bailey for all their hard work and assistance. Tim and I could not do the auction without them. Ian arrived hours early to help Tim organize the lots in auction order, which made the process go even smoother than before. I think we’re getting this down to a science.

Look for the next game auction sometime in January. You can sign up to receive text messages on our website or in the store, join us on Meetup, and/or follow us on Face-book to receive noti�cation of the next game auction and other events at Here Be Books & Games.

5 Games of Mystery and the Macabre for HalloweenHalloween has always been a holiday of mystery and the macabre. So to introduce a little fun and creepiness to your Halloween gaming, I’ve put together a list of �ve games of mystery with some that border on the macabre.

1. Hako OnnaI’m gonna start with the one that I think sounds the creepiest: Hako Onna.

�e scary men arrived. My father, in a panic, pushed me down into a way-too-small box. I heard my bones snap, but dared not scream. I heard angry voices...then nothing. Father never came back. I was left alone. �at was a long time ago. Im not alone anymore. Sometimes, people come play. I like to play hide and seek. When I tire of playing, I eat.

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illusions towards the exit. �e helpful Grimoire (one of the players) will guide you using images, by pointing at certain details.

Working together, the rest of the players must �nd the exit as quickly as possible, while avoiding picking the wrong cards. Watch out for the traitor who will try to lead you astray. To make things even harder - as if they weren’t di�cult enough - you’ll encounter a wide variety of traps that will impede player communication on your way to the exit!

Supported by rich content, Obscurio provides a fresh new experience by putting the emphasis on the details of the images and the constant doubt created by the presence of a traitor. Communicate e�ciently and avoid the illusions as you escape the Sorcerer's library in Obscurio!

Obscurio supports 2 to 8 players, ages 10 and up, with a playtime of about 40 minutes. In stock now at HBB&G.

5. HorrifiedImagine living in a place so wretched that it's not plagued by one, two, or even three monsters — but seven of the most horrifying �ends! In Horri�ed, you'll come face to face with them all as you work together

to rid your town of the maniacal or misunderstood creatures - before it's too late.

Horrifed is a cooperative board game in which you and your fellow heroes must work together to defend your town against the onslaught of Dracula, �e Wolfman, Frankenstein, �e Bride of Frankenstein, �e Mummy, �e Invisible Man and �e Creature from the Black Lagoon. Each monster is unique and requires di�erent strategies and tactics to be defeated.

Horri�ed includes high-quality sculpted miniatures and an innovative, easy-to-learn, cooperative gameplay with varying levels of di�culty. 1 to 5 players, ages 10 and up, can play Horri�ed in about 60 minutes. In stock now.

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FREE Open Gaming & Learn to Play Events Saturdays in October! For centuries, Halloween has been a holiday �lled with magic, fortune telling and mystery. To commemorate that, we’ve chosen games suited to those themes for our October Learn to Play events.

As fortune would have it, two super fun games of potion brewing just came back in to stock. �ese two games and another from the wizarding world of Harry Potter will provide the magical element of our October Learn to Play events.

For fortune telling, we thought you might prefer to choose your own, so we’ve selected a choose-your-own-adventure game, a harrowing escape from an abandoned cabin and a light trick-or-treat roll-and-write game.

Finally, as the veil between this world and the next thins, we’ll delve into mystery. A ghost will ask you to

investigate its murder and a strange phone call will lead you to a macabre Lovecraftian mystery of unspeakable horror. Magic, fortune telling and mystery - we’ll teach you how to play!

Of course, if you’d rather hunt zombies, play a super hero or try something more tame, you can always join us for Free Open Gaming. You’ll have access to our extensive game library of over 400 games and our three game rooms that can comfortably accommodate 30 gamers.

Dying to know more about those games of magic, fortune telling and mystery? Read on.

Saturday, October 12 Magic: Quacks of Quedlinburg, Potion Explosion & Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle

�e Quacks of Quedlinburg is a light-hearted, push-your-luck, bag-building game of potion brewing. Mix up some wacky concoctions to impress the folks at the fair. Compete

to see who can build the biggest potion using weird ingredients like rats, pumpkins,

garden spiders, crow skulls, toadstools, mandrake, ghost’s breath, moths, and cherry bombs! Be careful, though. If you add too many cherry bombs, your potion will explode in your face!

2 to 4 players, ages 10 and up, can play Quacks of Quedlinburg in about 45 minutes. Drop by and we’ll teach you how to play!

Potion Explosion is a game of potion-crafting, marble-crashing and set collection that’s incredibly fun!

It's time for the �nal exams of the Potions class! Under the helpful tutelage

of the Headmaster, you’ve learned how to handle volatile ingredients,

represented by colorful marbles, and turn them into fantastical potions! �e rules are always the

same: take an Ingredient marble from the Dispenser and watch the others fall. If you connect marbles of the same color, they explode... and you can take them too!

Complete your potions using the marbles you collect, and drink them to unleash their magical powers. Remember, though, that to win the Student of the Year Award, being quick won't be enough; you'll also need to brew the most valuable potions! You can score additional points by completing �ve di�erent types of potions and three of the same kind.

2 to 4 players, ages 14 and up can play Potion Explosion in 30 to 45 minutes. Come on by and we’ll teach you how to play.

Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle is set in the wizarding world of the famous Harry Potter books, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle is a cooperative deck-building game. Taking on the roles of Harry, Hermione, Ron and Neville, you and your chums must consolidate your defenses and work together to defeat the villains harassing your school.

Harry Potter: Hogwart's Battle is a campaign-style game featuring seven boxes that you'll open as you play through the storyline featured in the books and movies. �is allows young and/or newbie gamers to grow into the game as you reenact the seven-book story.

While the player characters don't start with any special powers per se, each one has his or her own unique starting deck. As you progress through the seven games, your characters will gain knowledge and skills, just like the young wizards in the books.

Each of the seven numbered games can be played multiple times. �is isn't a Legacy game. You can pick up the story anywhere you want, and play with di�erent people each time. �e components and artwork are top-notch, making the game highly thematic despite being essentially a card game. Love it!

2 to 4 players, ages 11 through adult, can play a session of Harry Potter: Hogwart's Battle in 30 to 60 minutes.

We recently added a copy of the expansion, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle - Monster Box of Monsters, to our game library. So we can break that out, too, for those looking

Hako Onna is a horror game of reverse hide-and-seek, a one-against-all exploration game. One player plays Hako Onna (the Woman in the Box), and the rest are Visitors, who are trying to escape from the mansion.

As Visitors, you’ll try to not make any noise as you search the shadowy rooms of the mansion for information, items to protect yourself, and a way to escape what you do not see, but know is there. Beware! If you stumble upon Hako Onna, you’re dead.

3 to 5 players, ages 10 and up, can play this creepy game in 90-120 minutes. In stock now at Here Be Books & Games.

2. Escape-Room-in-a-Box GamesWhen you’re looking for a little mys-tery to solve on Halloween, you can’t go wrong with the Exit: �e Game and Unlock! series of escape-room-in-a-box games.

Escape Rooms are puzzle adventures you have to solve in a speci�c amount of time - usually an hour or two. �ey can be quite costly: $50 per person is not unusual. How-ever, for $15, less than half the cost of one admission to a live Escape Room experience, you and your friends can solve a similar puzzling mystery at home with an escape-room-in-a-box à la Unlock! and Exit: �e Game.

�e Unlock! and Exit: �e Game series have numerous adventures you can choose from. Explore a pharoah’s tomb, thrawt the plans of an evil mastermind in a cartoon adventure, recover a mysterious serum, explore a sinister mansion, uncover the midnight mysteries in a mysterious museum, solve the murder on the Orient Express or escape from the abandoned cabin in which you sought

shelter

Player count ranges from 1 to 6 players. Play time is usually an hour. �e games also come in a variety of di�culty levels. Some are even designed so you can include kids. In stock now.

Above and Below supports 2 to 4 players, ages 13 and up and plays in about 90 mintues. Drop by and we’ll teach you how to play!

Exit: �e Game - �e Abandoned Cabin is an escape-room-in-a-box.

Your car breaks down in the middle of nowhere and you're looking for shelter to get through the night. Luckily, you �nd an abandoned cabin in the woods near the road. You enter thankfully and spend an uneventful night. �e next morning, however, when you try to leave, you discover the door is locked! Iron bars on the windows prevent you from escaping. Searching the cabin for some means of exit, you discover a book and a strange disk.... Drop by anytime and we’ll teach you how to play!

Welcome to... Halloween. Choose a trick or a treat, circling either a ghost or a candy when you build houses in Welcome To...Halloween, a thematic neighbor-hood expansion for Welcome to...

Welcome to... is a super fun roll-and-

write game! Each turn, you’ll �ip cards from three piles to display three di�erent action sets. Each set shows a house number that you must assign to one of the houses in your community and an optional corresponding action you can take. �e house numbers on each street must ascend left to right, with two exceptions: 1) the Bis Action, which lets you break that rule by duplicating a house number for a penalty or 2) a round-about on the street.

Race to be the �rst to complete the three public goals, one of which is related to the special Halloween board. Choos-ing a trick or treat when you build a house is another special feature of the Halloween expansion which also features new artwork.

Game play is simultane-

ous in Welcome to... Halloween, so lots of people, ages 10 and up, can play at the same time! Playtime is about 45 minutes. �ere are lots of ways to build your community and many paths to a happy Halloween in Welcome To...Halloween! We’ll teach you!

Saturday, October 26 Mystery: Mysterium & Mansions of Madness

Mysterium is a beautiful, pure cooperative game of communi-cation. Murder most foul has been committed at Warwick Manor and a group of eminent psychics have been called together for a seance to investi-gate. �at’s you.

In Mysterium, one player plays the ghost of the

murder victim and the others psychic investigators who must discover who committed the murder, where and with what weapon. �e ghost may only communicate with the psychics through dream-like images depicted on gorgeously illustrated cards. �e psychics have just 7 hours (rounds) to interpret the visions sent by the ghost: exposing the murderer, uncovering the location and determining the murder weapon. Intuition, cooperation and inspired guesswork will be key to your success.

Two to seven players, ages 10 and up, can play Mysterium in about 45 minutes.

Join us at Here Be Books & Games and we’ll teach you how to play.

Mansions of Madness is an app-driven, fully-cooperative board game chock-full of theme: creepy monsters, mysterious occurrences, and cultists. �e

cultists are bent on opening a mystic portal to allow the Great Old Ones entrance to our world. One look at these horri�c god-like beings is enough to drive you insane.

To save the world, however, you and your fellow Investi-gators must endure and solve the mystery. You'll explore strange places and encounter ghastly monsters in this immersive board game that feels a lot like a roleplaying game. I love it!

1 to 5 adventurous souls, ages 14 and up, can play Man-sions of Madness 2nd Edition in two to three hours, depending on the scenario. A full review is available on �eGlassMeeple.com. Let us teach you how to play!

Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club MeetingFriday, October 11, 6pm to 8pmReading: Elric of Melnibone by Michael Moorcock (Jason’s pick).

Read the current book and join us for loads of geeky talk at our next Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club meeting. Newcom-ers are always welcome!

Our meetings are full of lively discus-sions of the current book, other stu� we’ve read recently, movies and TV shows we’ve watched and assorted other geeky stu�. It’s always fun, even when some of us don’t like that month’s book.

�e Sci-Fi & Fantasy Book Club meets once a month at Here Be Books & Games. We read fantasy and science �ction, old and new, including urban fantasy and alter-nate history.

Upcoming Titles:• Wanderers by Chuck Wendig or Severance by Ling

Ma or Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente or Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik or Tiamat’s Wrath by James S. A. Corey or Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia or �e Bird King by G. Willow Wilson or Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan (Carmen)

• Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings (Jason)• Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson (Je�)• Way Station by Cli�ord D. Simak (Jonathan)• Extracted by R.R. Haywood (Tim)

Attending members each suggest a book to add to our reading list. �en we pick one book to read each month until they’re all read. Rinse and repeat. A full list of all the

books we’ve read so far in Book Club is available on our web site at: hbbng.biz/book-club/.

It’s easy to join in on the fun: just read the current book and come to the meeting.

Board Game Auction RecapWe auctioned o� over 200 games in 129 lots at our seventh Game Auction at Here Be Books & Games on Saturday, September 21. Buyers scored killer deals and several took home stacks of games!

Derrick Chariker (left) proudly took home a lot that included A Song of Ice &

Fire: Stark vs Lannister Starter Set, some special �gures and a very cool bag

($75). Alexander Hale acquired a lot that included Catan & Catan Seafarers with both 5-6 player extensions ($38) and a Cutthroat Caverns lot that included the base game

and four expansions ($35)!

Jonathan Tudor (right) went home with a good-sized stack of board games that included the classic Stone Age which he won with a $26 bid. Two of the games from the North Sea trilogy, Explorers of the North Sea and Shipwrights of the North Sea, went for $28 to Diane St. Romain. Blake Whitaker won the bidding on several games including a copy of Dominion Intrigue for just $10.

Morgan Savick (left) took home three stacks of games. He won an incredible lot made up of Splendor, Sheri� of Nottingham, 13 Clues, Game of 49, Munchkin and de Stijl for just $37! I bid in proxy on several games for Dan Yohman, nabbing a lot of two Saboteur games and an

expansion for $10 and San Juan and Patronize together for $12.

for a more challenging experience or if someone wants to play the new character Luna Lovegood. In order to win with the Monster Box, you have to defeat all the new Creatures as well as the Villains, and deal with all the Encounters, too.

Grab a broomstick and swing by. We’ll teach you how to play!

Saturday, October 19 Fortune Telling: Above and Below, Exit: The Game - The Abandoned Cabin & Welcome To... Halloween

Above and Below is a light worker placement game of town-building and storytelling.

When your village was sacked by barbarians, you searched far and wide for the perfect place to build a new home. �en you found it! Not only was it perfect, but nearby you discovered a vast network of underground caverns �lled with treasure, rare resources, and untold adventure. Unwilling to limit your new life to the surface, you immediately start organizing expeditions to explore the riches below while continuing to expand your village above.

In Above and Below, you’ll send your villagers to perform jobs like exploring the caverns below, harvesting resources, building houses and training new workers. Each villager has unique skills and abilities, and you must decide how best to use them. Will you send Cyndi on the expedition below? �at’s where the storytelling is! Or will you keep her above to teach important skills to one of the young-sters, so you can send a bigger party later?

When you send a group of villagers to explore the caverns below, one of your friends reads what happens to you from a book of paragraphs. You'll be given a choice of how to react. A lot will depend on who you sent on the expedition, and how kindly or not so kindly you treat with strangers. Your fortune is yours to tell in Above and Below.

3. Choose Your Own Adventure GamesChoose Your Own Adventure games are just that: narrative adventure games in which you choose, what doors to open, which fork in the road to take, how to react to circumstances and more. Each game features cooperative play and a unique adventure with a mystery to uncover. Two titles are available so far.

In Choose Your Own Adventure: House of Danger, you and your friends are in for a perilous and laughter-�lled adventure. You’ll make risky choices, collect bizarre clues, and face mortal challenges as you explore the weird and strange house.

In Choose Your Own Adventure: War with the Evil Power Master, you and your plucky young team of heroes must endeavor to save the galaxy from the evil power master bent on global destruction.

You can break up play into multiple sessions - by chapter - or play one long

session if you so choose. When I played �e House of Danger with �ve other people, we were so caught up in the story we couldn’t stop and played the whole game through in one session.

You can play both Choose Your Own Adventure titles multiple times to uncover more secrets and di�erent endings. No two play-throughs are quite the same.

Choose Your Own Adventure Games can be played solo or with as many people as you wish. �e titles above are recommended for ages 10 and up. Playtime is about 60 minutes for one chapter; each game has multiple chapters. In stock now at Here Be Books & Games.

4. ObscurioObscurio is an image-based communication and secret-role family game. You’ve got to be careful when sharing ideas with your team, because there may a traitor in your ranks!

�ematically, you are trapped in the Sorcerer’s libraty and he’s

out to get you! Find your way among the

Kelsey Roach (right) looked pretty happy with his two acquisitions: Battlelore ($30) and �e World of Warcarft Adventure Game ($15).

Jason Bush didn’t have to �ght as hard as I expected he would for a set of Red Dragon Inn Promo cards; several other big fans of the game weren’t able to attend this time. I picked up a playmat featuring a map of Middle-Earth for my game table at the store. I �gure it will make rolling dice a lot quieter. It came with two other playmats - one was for Elysium which I passed on to Ian - and Lord of the Rings: �e Card Game - Attack on Dol Guldur which I aim to pass on to someone else, too.

Nick Kraftor (right) seemed pretty happy with the three stacks of games he bought. His bids won him the classics Puerto Rico ($19) and Dominion ($10), as well as the popular Kingsburg ($15) and Legendary: A Marvel Deckbuilding Game ($15) among others.

While everyone scored really good deals at the game auction, and many took home one or more stacks of games, Liz Yanzer certainly took home the most games. Check out her haul below. If you look closely, you can see the top of a Bohnanza game behind the bottom right corner of the Ramen Fury game she’s holding. Bohnanza is on top of a fourth pile of games!

We all took a break about two-thirds of the way through

to recharge with complimen-tary brownies and chocolate chip cookies. �e break was refreshing. When we resumed, the rest of the auction �ew by. �en I retired to my o�ce with Jennifer and Diane to do the paperwork so Tim could start checking people out.

Many thanks to everyone who participated whether as a buyer, seller or both! We really appreciate the sellers who submitted their games early, giving Tim more time to research them. We also appreciate the buyers who RSVPed so we could better gauge how many to expect.

A special thanks goes out to Ian, Diane, Jennifer and Bailey for all their hard work and assistance. Tim and I could not do the auction without them. Ian arrived hours early to help Tim organize the lots in auction order, which made the process go even smoother than before. I think we’re getting this down to a science.

Look for the next game auction sometime in January. You can sign up to receive text messages on our website or in the store, join us on Meetup, and/or follow us on Face-book to receive noti�cation of the next game auction and other events at Here Be Books & Games.

5 Games of Mystery and the Macabre for HalloweenHalloween has always been a holiday of mystery and the macabre. So to introduce a little fun and creepiness to your Halloween gaming, I’ve put together a list of �ve games of mystery with some that border on the macabre.

1. Hako OnnaI’m gonna start with the one that I think sounds the creepiest: Hako Onna.

�e scary men arrived. My father, in a panic, pushed me down into a way-too-small box. I heard my bones snap, but dared not scream. I heard angry voices...then nothing. Father never came back. I was left alone. �at was a long time ago. Im not alone anymore. Sometimes, people come play. I like to play hide and seek. When I tire of playing, I eat.

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illusions towards the exit. �e helpful Grimoire (one of the players) will guide you using images, by pointing at certain details.

Working together, the rest of the players must �nd the exit as quickly as possible, while avoiding picking the wrong cards. Watch out for the traitor who will try to lead you astray. To make things even harder - as if they weren’t di�cult enough - you’ll encounter a wide variety of traps that will impede player communication on your way to the exit!

Supported by rich content, Obscurio provides a fresh new experience by putting the emphasis on the details of the images and the constant doubt created by the presence of a traitor. Communicate e�ciently and avoid the illusions as you escape the Sorcerer's library in Obscurio!

Obscurio supports 2 to 8 players, ages 10 and up, with a playtime of about 40 minutes. In stock now at HBB&G.

5. HorrifiedImagine living in a place so wretched that it's not plagued by one, two, or even three monsters — but seven of the most horrifying �ends! In Horri�ed, you'll come face to face with them all as you work together

to rid your town of the maniacal or misunderstood creatures - before it's too late.

Horrifed is a cooperative board game in which you and your fellow heroes must work together to defend your town against the onslaught of Dracula, �e Wolfman, Frankenstein, �e Bride of Frankenstein, �e Mummy, �e Invisible Man and �e Creature from the Black Lagoon. Each monster is unique and requires di�erent strategies and tactics to be defeated.

Horri�ed includes high-quality sculpted miniatures and an innovative, easy-to-learn, cooperative gameplay with varying levels of di�culty. 1 to 5 players, ages 10 and up, can play Horri�ed in about 60 minutes. In stock now.

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FREE Open Gaming & Learn to Play Events Saturdays in October! For centuries, Halloween has been a holiday �lled with magic, fortune telling and mystery. To commemorate that, we’ve chosen games suited to those themes for our October Learn to Play events.

As fortune would have it, two super fun games of potion brewing just came back in to stock. �ese two games and another from the wizarding world of Harry Potter will provide the magical element of our October Learn to Play events.

For fortune telling, we thought you might prefer to choose your own, so we’ve selected a choose-your-own-adventure game, a harrowing escape from an abandoned cabin and a light trick-or-treat roll-and-write game.

Finally, as the veil between this world and the next thins, we’ll delve into mystery. A ghost will ask you to

investigate its murder and a strange phone call will lead you to a macabre Lovecraftian mystery of unspeakable horror. Magic, fortune telling and mystery - we’ll teach you how to play!

Of course, if you’d rather hunt zombies, play a super hero or try something more tame, you can always join us for Free Open Gaming. You’ll have access to our extensive game library of over 400 games and our three game rooms that can comfortably accommodate 30 gamers.

Dying to know more about those games of magic, fortune telling and mystery? Read on.

Saturday, October 12 Magic: Quacks of Quedlinburg, Potion Explosion & Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle

�e Quacks of Quedlinburg is a light-hearted, push-your-luck, bag-building game of potion brewing. Mix up some wacky concoctions to impress the folks at the fair. Compete

to see who can build the biggest potion using weird ingredients like rats, pumpkins,

garden spiders, crow skulls, toadstools, mandrake, ghost’s breath, moths, and cherry bombs! Be careful, though. If you add too many cherry bombs, your potion will explode in your face!

2 to 4 players, ages 10 and up, can play Quacks of Quedlinburg in about 45 minutes. Drop by and we’ll teach you how to play!

Potion Explosion is a game of potion-crafting, marble-crashing and set collection that’s incredibly fun!

It's time for the �nal exams of the Potions class! Under the helpful tutelage

of the Headmaster, you’ve learned how to handle volatile ingredients,

represented by colorful marbles, and turn them into fantastical potions! �e rules are always the

same: take an Ingredient marble from the Dispenser and watch the others fall. If you connect marbles of the same color, they explode... and you can take them too!

Complete your potions using the marbles you collect, and drink them to unleash their magical powers. Remember, though, that to win the Student of the Year Award, being quick won't be enough; you'll also need to brew the most valuable potions! You can score additional points by completing �ve di�erent types of potions and three of the same kind.

2 to 4 players, ages 14 and up can play Potion Explosion in 30 to 45 minutes. Come on by and we’ll teach you how to play.

Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle is set in the wizarding world of the famous Harry Potter books, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle is a cooperative deck-building game. Taking on the roles of Harry, Hermione, Ron and Neville, you and your chums must consolidate your defenses and work together to defeat the villains harassing your school.

Harry Potter: Hogwart's Battle is a campaign-style game featuring seven boxes that you'll open as you play through the storyline featured in the books and movies. �is allows young and/or newbie gamers to grow into the game as you reenact the seven-book story.

While the player characters don't start with any special powers per se, each one has his or her own unique starting deck. As you progress through the seven games, your characters will gain knowledge and skills, just like the young wizards in the books.

Each of the seven numbered games can be played multiple times. �is isn't a Legacy game. You can pick up the story anywhere you want, and play with di�erent people each time. �e components and artwork are top-notch, making the game highly thematic despite being essentially a card game. Love it!

2 to 4 players, ages 11 through adult, can play a session of Harry Potter: Hogwart's Battle in 30 to 60 minutes.

We recently added a copy of the expansion, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle - Monster Box of Monsters, to our game library. So we can break that out, too, for those looking

Hako Onna is a horror game of reverse hide-and-seek, a one-against-all exploration game. One player plays Hako Onna (the Woman in the Box), and the rest are Visitors, who are trying to escape from the mansion.

As Visitors, you’ll try to not make any noise as you search the shadowy rooms of the mansion for information, items to protect yourself, and a way to escape what you do not see, but know is there. Beware! If you stumble upon Hako Onna, you’re dead.

3 to 5 players, ages 10 and up, can play this creepy game in 90-120 minutes. In stock now at Here Be Books & Games.

2. Escape-Room-in-a-Box GamesWhen you’re looking for a little mys-tery to solve on Halloween, you can’t go wrong with the Exit: �e Game and Unlock! series of escape-room-in-a-box games.

Escape Rooms are puzzle adventures you have to solve in a speci�c amount of time - usually an hour or two. �ey can be quite costly: $50 per person is not unusual. How-ever, for $15, less than half the cost of one admission to a live Escape Room experience, you and your friends can solve a similar puzzling mystery at home with an escape-room-in-a-box à la Unlock! and Exit: �e Game.

�e Unlock! and Exit: �e Game series have numerous adventures you can choose from. Explore a pharoah’s tomb, thrawt the plans of an evil mastermind in a cartoon adventure, recover a mysterious serum, explore a sinister mansion, uncover the midnight mysteries in a mysterious museum, solve the murder on the Orient Express or escape from the abandoned cabin in which you sought

shelter

Player count ranges from 1 to 6 players. Play time is usually an hour. �e games also come in a variety of di�culty levels. Some are even designed so you can include kids. In stock now.

Above and Below supports 2 to 4 players, ages 13 and up and plays in about 90 mintues. Drop by and we’ll teach you how to play!

Exit: �e Game - �e Abandoned Cabin is an escape-room-in-a-box.

Your car breaks down in the middle of nowhere and you're looking for shelter to get through the night. Luckily, you �nd an abandoned cabin in the woods near the road. You enter thankfully and spend an uneventful night. �e next morning, however, when you try to leave, you discover the door is locked! Iron bars on the windows prevent you from escaping. Searching the cabin for some means of exit, you discover a book and a strange disk.... Drop by anytime and we’ll teach you how to play!

Welcome to... Halloween. Choose a trick or a treat, circling either a ghost or a candy when you build houses in Welcome To...Halloween, a thematic neighbor-hood expansion for Welcome to...

Welcome to... is a super fun roll-and-

write game! Each turn, you’ll �ip cards from three piles to display three di�erent action sets. Each set shows a house number that you must assign to one of the houses in your community and an optional corresponding action you can take. �e house numbers on each street must ascend left to right, with two exceptions: 1) the Bis Action, which lets you break that rule by duplicating a house number for a penalty or 2) a round-about on the street.

Race to be the �rst to complete the three public goals, one of which is related to the special Halloween board. Choos-ing a trick or treat when you build a house is another special feature of the Halloween expansion which also features new artwork.

Game play is simultane-

ous in Welcome to... Halloween, so lots of people, ages 10 and up, can play at the same time! Playtime is about 45 minutes. �ere are lots of ways to build your community and many paths to a happy Halloween in Welcome To...Halloween! We’ll teach you!

Saturday, October 26 Mystery: Mysterium & Mansions of Madness

Mysterium is a beautiful, pure cooperative game of communi-cation. Murder most foul has been committed at Warwick Manor and a group of eminent psychics have been called together for a seance to investi-gate. �at’s you.

In Mysterium, one player plays the ghost of the

murder victim and the others psychic investigators who must discover who committed the murder, where and with what weapon. �e ghost may only communicate with the psychics through dream-like images depicted on gorgeously illustrated cards. �e psychics have just 7 hours (rounds) to interpret the visions sent by the ghost: exposing the murderer, uncovering the location and determining the murder weapon. Intuition, cooperation and inspired guesswork will be key to your success.

Two to seven players, ages 10 and up, can play Mysterium in about 45 minutes.

Join us at Here Be Books & Games and we’ll teach you how to play.

Mansions of Madness is an app-driven, fully-cooperative board game chock-full of theme: creepy monsters, mysterious occurrences, and cultists. �e

cultists are bent on opening a mystic portal to allow the Great Old Ones entrance to our world. One look at these horri�c god-like beings is enough to drive you insane.

To save the world, however, you and your fellow Investi-gators must endure and solve the mystery. You'll explore strange places and encounter ghastly monsters in this immersive board game that feels a lot like a roleplaying game. I love it!

1 to 5 adventurous souls, ages 14 and up, can play Man-sions of Madness 2nd Edition in two to three hours, depending on the scenario. A full review is available on �eGlassMeeple.com. Let us teach you how to play!

Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club MeetingFriday, October 11, 6pm to 8pmReading: Elric of Melnibone by Michael Moorcock (Jason’s pick).

Read the current book and join us for loads of geeky talk at our next Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club meeting. Newcom-ers are always welcome!

Our meetings are full of lively discus-sions of the current book, other stu� we’ve read recently, movies and TV shows we’ve watched and assorted other geeky stu�. It’s always fun, even when some of us don’t like that month’s book.

�e Sci-Fi & Fantasy Book Club meets once a month at Here Be Books & Games. We read fantasy and science �ction, old and new, including urban fantasy and alter-nate history.

Upcoming Titles:• Wanderers by Chuck Wendig or Severance by Ling

Ma or Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente or Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik or Tiamat’s Wrath by James S. A. Corey or Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia or �e Bird King by G. Willow Wilson or Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan (Carmen)

• Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings (Jason)• Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson (Je�)• Way Station by Cli�ord D. Simak (Jonathan)• Extracted by R.R. Haywood (Tim)

Attending members each suggest a book to add to our reading list. �en we pick one book to read each month until they’re all read. Rinse and repeat. A full list of all the

books we’ve read so far in Book Club is available on our web site at: hbbng.biz/book-club/.

It’s easy to join in on the fun: just read the current book and come to the meeting.

Board Game Auction RecapWe auctioned o� over 200 games in 129 lots at our seventh Game Auction at Here Be Books & Games on Saturday, September 21. Buyers scored killer deals and several took home stacks of games!

Derrick Chariker (left) proudly took home a lot that included A Song of Ice &

Fire: Stark vs Lannister Starter Set, some special �gures and a very cool bag

($75). Alexander Hale acquired a lot that included Catan & Catan Seafarers with both 5-6 player extensions ($38) and a Cutthroat Caverns lot that included the base game

and four expansions ($35)!

Jonathan Tudor (right) went home with a good-sized stack of board games that included the classic Stone Age which he won with a $26 bid. Two of the games from the North Sea trilogy, Explorers of the North Sea and Shipwrights of the North Sea, went for $28 to Diane St. Romain. Blake Whitaker won the bidding on several games including a copy of Dominion Intrigue for just $10.

Morgan Savick (left) took home three stacks of games. He won an incredible lot made up of Splendor, Sheri� of Nottingham, 13 Clues, Game of 49, Munchkin and de Stijl for just $37! I bid in proxy on several games for Dan Yohman, nabbing a lot of two Saboteur games and an

expansion for $10 and San Juan and Patronize together for $12.

for a more challenging experience or if someone wants to play the new character Luna Lovegood. In order to win with the Monster Box, you have to defeat all the new Creatures as well as the Villains, and deal with all the Encounters, too.

Grab a broomstick and swing by. We’ll teach you how to play!

Saturday, October 19 Fortune Telling: Above and Below, Exit: The Game - The Abandoned Cabin & Welcome To... Halloween

Above and Below is a light worker placement game of town-building and storytelling.

When your village was sacked by barbarians, you searched far and wide for the perfect place to build a new home. �en you found it! Not only was it perfect, but nearby you discovered a vast network of underground caverns �lled with treasure, rare resources, and untold adventure. Unwilling to limit your new life to the surface, you immediately start organizing expeditions to explore the riches below while continuing to expand your village above.

In Above and Below, you’ll send your villagers to perform jobs like exploring the caverns below, harvesting resources, building houses and training new workers. Each villager has unique skills and abilities, and you must decide how best to use them. Will you send Cyndi on the expedition below? �at’s where the storytelling is! Or will you keep her above to teach important skills to one of the young-sters, so you can send a bigger party later?

When you send a group of villagers to explore the caverns below, one of your friends reads what happens to you from a book of paragraphs. You'll be given a choice of how to react. A lot will depend on who you sent on the expedition, and how kindly or not so kindly you treat with strangers. Your fortune is yours to tell in Above and Below.

3. Choose Your Own Adventure GamesChoose Your Own Adventure games are just that: narrative adventure games in which you choose, what doors to open, which fork in the road to take, how to react to circumstances and more. Each game features cooperative play and a unique adventure with a mystery to uncover. Two titles are available so far.

In Choose Your Own Adventure: House of Danger, you and your friends are in for a perilous and laughter-�lled adventure. You’ll make risky choices, collect bizarre clues, and face mortal challenges as you explore the weird and strange house.

In Choose Your Own Adventure: War with the Evil Power Master, you and your plucky young team of heroes must endeavor to save the galaxy from the evil power master bent on global destruction.

You can break up play into multiple sessions - by chapter - or play one long

session if you so choose. When I played �e House of Danger with �ve other people, we were so caught up in the story we couldn’t stop and played the whole game through in one session.

You can play both Choose Your Own Adventure titles multiple times to uncover more secrets and di�erent endings. No two play-throughs are quite the same.

Choose Your Own Adventure Games can be played solo or with as many people as you wish. �e titles above are recommended for ages 10 and up. Playtime is about 60 minutes for one chapter; each game has multiple chapters. In stock now at Here Be Books & Games.

4. ObscurioObscurio is an image-based communication and secret-role family game. You’ve got to be careful when sharing ideas with your team, because there may a traitor in your ranks!

�ematically, you are trapped in the Sorcerer’s libraty and he’s

out to get you! Find your way among the

Kelsey Roach (right) looked pretty happy with his two acquisitions: Battlelore ($30) and �e World of Warcarft Adventure Game ($15).

Jason Bush didn’t have to �ght as hard as I expected he would for a set of Red Dragon Inn Promo cards; several other big fans of the game weren’t able to attend this time. I picked up a playmat featuring a map of Middle-Earth for my game table at the store. I �gure it will make rolling dice a lot quieter. It came with two other playmats - one was for Elysium which I passed on to Ian - and Lord of the Rings: �e Card Game - Attack on Dol Guldur which I aim to pass on to someone else, too.

Nick Kraftor (right) seemed pretty happy with the three stacks of games he bought. His bids won him the classics Puerto Rico ($19) and Dominion ($10), as well as the popular Kingsburg ($15) and Legendary: A Marvel Deckbuilding Game ($15) among others.

While everyone scored really good deals at the game auction, and many took home one or more stacks of games, Liz Yanzer certainly took home the most games. Check out her haul below. If you look closely, you can see the top of a Bohnanza game behind the bottom right corner of the Ramen Fury game she’s holding. Bohnanza is on top of a fourth pile of games!

We all took a break about two-thirds of the way through

to recharge with complimen-tary brownies and chocolate chip cookies. �e break was refreshing. When we resumed, the rest of the auction �ew by. �en I retired to my o�ce with Jennifer and Diane to do the paperwork so Tim could start checking people out.

Many thanks to everyone who participated whether as a buyer, seller or both! We really appreciate the sellers who submitted their games early, giving Tim more time to research them. We also appreciate the buyers who RSVPed so we could better gauge how many to expect.

A special thanks goes out to Ian, Diane, Jennifer and Bailey for all their hard work and assistance. Tim and I could not do the auction without them. Ian arrived hours early to help Tim organize the lots in auction order, which made the process go even smoother than before. I think we’re getting this down to a science.

Look for the next game auction sometime in January. You can sign up to receive text messages on our website or in the store, join us on Meetup, and/or follow us on Face-book to receive noti�cation of the next game auction and other events at Here Be Books & Games.

5 Games of Mystery and the Macabre for HalloweenHalloween has always been a holiday of mystery and the macabre. So to introduce a little fun and creepiness to your Halloween gaming, I’ve put together a list of �ve games of mystery with some that border on the macabre.

1. Hako OnnaI’m gonna start with the one that I think sounds the creepiest: Hako Onna.

�e scary men arrived. My father, in a panic, pushed me down into a way-too-small box. I heard my bones snap, but dared not scream. I heard angry voices...then nothing. Father never came back. I was left alone. �at was a long time ago. Im not alone anymore. Sometimes, people come play. I like to play hide and seek. When I tire of playing, I eat.

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illusions towards the exit. �e helpful Grimoire (one of the players) will guide you using images, by pointing at certain details.

Working together, the rest of the players must �nd the exit as quickly as possible, while avoiding picking the wrong cards. Watch out for the traitor who will try to lead you astray. To make things even harder - as if they weren’t di�cult enough - you’ll encounter a wide variety of traps that will impede player communication on your way to the exit!

Supported by rich content, Obscurio provides a fresh new experience by putting the emphasis on the details of the images and the constant doubt created by the presence of a traitor. Communicate e�ciently and avoid the illusions as you escape the Sorcerer's library in Obscurio!

Obscurio supports 2 to 8 players, ages 10 and up, with a playtime of about 40 minutes. In stock now at HBB&G.

5. HorrifiedImagine living in a place so wretched that it's not plagued by one, two, or even three monsters — but seven of the most horrifying �ends! In Horri�ed, you'll come face to face with them all as you work together

to rid your town of the maniacal or misunderstood creatures - before it's too late.

Horrifed is a cooperative board game in which you and your fellow heroes must work together to defend your town against the onslaught of Dracula, �e Wolfman, Frankenstein, �e Bride of Frankenstein, �e Mummy, �e Invisible Man and �e Creature from the Black Lagoon. Each monster is unique and requires di�erent strategies and tactics to be defeated.

Horri�ed includes high-quality sculpted miniatures and an innovative, easy-to-learn, cooperative gameplay with varying levels of di�culty. 1 to 5 players, ages 10 and up, can play Horri�ed in about 60 minutes. In stock now.

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FREE Open Gaming & Learn to Play Events Saturdays in October! For centuries, Halloween has been a holiday �lled with magic, fortune telling and mystery. To commemorate that, we’ve chosen games suited to those themes for our October Learn to Play events.

As fortune would have it, two super fun games of potion brewing just came back in to stock. �ese two games and another from the wizarding world of Harry Potter will provide the magical element of our October Learn to Play events.

For fortune telling, we thought you might prefer to choose your own, so we’ve selected a choose-your-own-adventure game, a harrowing escape from an abandoned cabin and a light trick-or-treat roll-and-write game.

Finally, as the veil between this world and the next thins, we’ll delve into mystery. A ghost will ask you to

investigate its murder and a strange phone call will lead you to a macabre Lovecraftian mystery of unspeakable horror. Magic, fortune telling and mystery - we’ll teach you how to play!

Of course, if you’d rather hunt zombies, play a super hero or try something more tame, you can always join us for Free Open Gaming. You’ll have access to our extensive game library of over 400 games and our three game rooms that can comfortably accommodate 30 gamers.

Dying to know more about those games of magic, fortune telling and mystery? Read on.

Saturday, October 12 Magic: Quacks of Quedlinburg, Potion Explosion & Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle

�e Quacks of Quedlinburg is a light-hearted, push-your-luck, bag-building game of potion brewing. Mix up some wacky concoctions to impress the folks at the fair. Compete

to see who can build the biggest potion using weird ingredients like rats, pumpkins,

garden spiders, crow skulls, toadstools, mandrake, ghost’s breath, moths, and cherry bombs! Be careful, though. If you add too many cherry bombs, your potion will explode in your face!

2 to 4 players, ages 10 and up, can play Quacks of Quedlinburg in about 45 minutes. Drop by and we’ll teach you how to play!

Potion Explosion is a game of potion-crafting, marble-crashing and set collection that’s incredibly fun!

It's time for the �nal exams of the Potions class! Under the helpful tutelage

of the Headmaster, you’ve learned how to handle volatile ingredients,

represented by colorful marbles, and turn them into fantastical potions! �e rules are always the

same: take an Ingredient marble from the Dispenser and watch the others fall. If you connect marbles of the same color, they explode... and you can take them too!

Complete your potions using the marbles you collect, and drink them to unleash their magical powers. Remember, though, that to win the Student of the Year Award, being quick won't be enough; you'll also need to brew the most valuable potions! You can score additional points by completing �ve di�erent types of potions and three of the same kind.

2 to 4 players, ages 14 and up can play Potion Explosion in 30 to 45 minutes. Come on by and we’ll teach you how to play.

Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle is set in the wizarding world of the famous Harry Potter books, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle is a cooperative deck-building game. Taking on the roles of Harry, Hermione, Ron and Neville, you and your chums must consolidate your defenses and work together to defeat the villains harassing your school.

Harry Potter: Hogwart's Battle is a campaign-style game featuring seven boxes that you'll open as you play through the storyline featured in the books and movies. �is allows young and/or newbie gamers to grow into the game as you reenact the seven-book story.

While the player characters don't start with any special powers per se, each one has his or her own unique starting deck. As you progress through the seven games, your characters will gain knowledge and skills, just like the young wizards in the books.

Each of the seven numbered games can be played multiple times. �is isn't a Legacy game. You can pick up the story anywhere you want, and play with di�erent people each time. �e components and artwork are top-notch, making the game highly thematic despite being essentially a card game. Love it!

2 to 4 players, ages 11 through adult, can play a session of Harry Potter: Hogwart's Battle in 30 to 60 minutes.

We recently added a copy of the expansion, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle - Monster Box of Monsters, to our game library. So we can break that out, too, for those looking

Hako Onna is a horror game of reverse hide-and-seek, a one-against-all exploration game. One player plays Hako Onna (the Woman in the Box), and the rest are Visitors, who are trying to escape from the mansion.

As Visitors, you’ll try to not make any noise as you search the shadowy rooms of the mansion for information, items to protect yourself, and a way to escape what you do not see, but know is there. Beware! If you stumble upon Hako Onna, you’re dead.

3 to 5 players, ages 10 and up, can play this creepy game in 90-120 minutes. In stock now at Here Be Books & Games.

2. Escape-Room-in-a-Box GamesWhen you’re looking for a little mys-tery to solve on Halloween, you can’t go wrong with the Exit: �e Game and Unlock! series of escape-room-in-a-box games.

Escape Rooms are puzzle adventures you have to solve in a speci�c amount of time - usually an hour or two. �ey can be quite costly: $50 per person is not unusual. How-ever, for $15, less than half the cost of one admission to a live Escape Room experience, you and your friends can solve a similar puzzling mystery at home with an escape-room-in-a-box à la Unlock! and Exit: �e Game.

�e Unlock! and Exit: �e Game series have numerous adventures you can choose from. Explore a pharoah’s tomb, thrawt the plans of an evil mastermind in a cartoon adventure, recover a mysterious serum, explore a sinister mansion, uncover the midnight mysteries in a mysterious museum, solve the murder on the Orient Express or escape from the abandoned cabin in which you sought

shelter

Player count ranges from 1 to 6 players. Play time is usually an hour. �e games also come in a variety of di�culty levels. Some are even designed so you can include kids. In stock now.

Above and Below supports 2 to 4 players, ages 13 and up and plays in about 90 mintues. Drop by and we’ll teach you how to play!

Exit: �e Game - �e Abandoned Cabin is an escape-room-in-a-box.

Your car breaks down in the middle of nowhere and you're looking for shelter to get through the night. Luckily, you �nd an abandoned cabin in the woods near the road. You enter thankfully and spend an uneventful night. �e next morning, however, when you try to leave, you discover the door is locked! Iron bars on the windows prevent you from escaping. Searching the cabin for some means of exit, you discover a book and a strange disk.... Drop by anytime and we’ll teach you how to play!

Welcome to... Halloween. Choose a trick or a treat, circling either a ghost or a candy when you build houses in Welcome To...Halloween, a thematic neighbor-hood expansion for Welcome to...

Welcome to... is a super fun roll-and-

write game! Each turn, you’ll �ip cards from three piles to display three di�erent action sets. Each set shows a house number that you must assign to one of the houses in your community and an optional corresponding action you can take. �e house numbers on each street must ascend left to right, with two exceptions: 1) the Bis Action, which lets you break that rule by duplicating a house number for a penalty or 2) a round-about on the street.

Race to be the �rst to complete the three public goals, one of which is related to the special Halloween board. Choos-ing a trick or treat when you build a house is another special feature of the Halloween expansion which also features new artwork.

Game play is simultane-

ous in Welcome to... Halloween, so lots of people, ages 10 and up, can play at the same time! Playtime is about 45 minutes. �ere are lots of ways to build your community and many paths to a happy Halloween in Welcome To...Halloween! We’ll teach you!

Saturday, October 26 Mystery: Mysterium & Mansions of Madness

Mysterium is a beautiful, pure cooperative game of communi-cation. Murder most foul has been committed at Warwick Manor and a group of eminent psychics have been called together for a seance to investi-gate. �at’s you.

In Mysterium, one player plays the ghost of the

murder victim and the others psychic investigators who must discover who committed the murder, where and with what weapon. �e ghost may only communicate with the psychics through dream-like images depicted on gorgeously illustrated cards. �e psychics have just 7 hours (rounds) to interpret the visions sent by the ghost: exposing the murderer, uncovering the location and determining the murder weapon. Intuition, cooperation and inspired guesswork will be key to your success.

Two to seven players, ages 10 and up, can play Mysterium in about 45 minutes.

Join us at Here Be Books & Games and we’ll teach you how to play.

Mansions of Madness is an app-driven, fully-cooperative board game chock-full of theme: creepy monsters, mysterious occurrences, and cultists. �e

cultists are bent on opening a mystic portal to allow the Great Old Ones entrance to our world. One look at these horri�c god-like beings is enough to drive you insane.

To save the world, however, you and your fellow Investi-gators must endure and solve the mystery. You'll explore strange places and encounter ghastly monsters in this immersive board game that feels a lot like a roleplaying game. I love it!

1 to 5 adventurous souls, ages 14 and up, can play Man-sions of Madness 2nd Edition in two to three hours, depending on the scenario. A full review is available on �eGlassMeeple.com. Let us teach you how to play!

Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club MeetingFriday, October 11, 6pm to 8pmReading: Elric of Melnibone by Michael Moorcock (Jason’s pick).

Read the current book and join us for loads of geeky talk at our next Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club meeting. Newcom-ers are always welcome!

Our meetings are full of lively discus-sions of the current book, other stu� we’ve read recently, movies and TV shows we’ve watched and assorted other geeky stu�. It’s always fun, even when some of us don’t like that month’s book.

�e Sci-Fi & Fantasy Book Club meets once a month at Here Be Books & Games. We read fantasy and science �ction, old and new, including urban fantasy and alter-nate history.

Upcoming Titles:• Wanderers by Chuck Wendig or Severance by Ling

Ma or Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente or Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik or Tiamat’s Wrath by James S. A. Corey or Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia or �e Bird King by G. Willow Wilson or Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan (Carmen)

• Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings (Jason)• Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson (Je�)• Way Station by Cli�ord D. Simak (Jonathan)• Extracted by R.R. Haywood (Tim)

Attending members each suggest a book to add to our reading list. �en we pick one book to read each month until they’re all read. Rinse and repeat. A full list of all the

books we’ve read so far in Book Club is available on our web site at: hbbng.biz/book-club/.

It’s easy to join in on the fun: just read the current book and come to the meeting.

Board Game Auction RecapWe auctioned o� over 200 games in 129 lots at our seventh Game Auction at Here Be Books & Games on Saturday, September 21. Buyers scored killer deals and several took home stacks of games!

Derrick Chariker (left) proudly took home a lot that included A Song of Ice &

Fire: Stark vs Lannister Starter Set, some special �gures and a very cool bag

($75). Alexander Hale acquired a lot that included Catan & Catan Seafarers with both 5-6 player extensions ($38) and a Cutthroat Caverns lot that included the base game

and four expansions ($35)!

Jonathan Tudor (right) went home with a good-sized stack of board games that included the classic Stone Age which he won with a $26 bid. Two of the games from the North Sea trilogy, Explorers of the North Sea and Shipwrights of the North Sea, went for $28 to Diane St. Romain. Blake Whitaker won the bidding on several games including a copy of Dominion Intrigue for just $10.

Morgan Savick (left) took home three stacks of games. He won an incredible lot made up of Splendor, Sheri� of Nottingham, 13 Clues, Game of 49, Munchkin and de Stijl for just $37! I bid in proxy on several games for Dan Yohman, nabbing a lot of two Saboteur games and an

expansion for $10 and San Juan and Patronize together for $12.

for a more challenging experience or if someone wants to play the new character Luna Lovegood. In order to win with the Monster Box, you have to defeat all the new Creatures as well as the Villains, and deal with all the Encounters, too.

Grab a broomstick and swing by. We’ll teach you how to play!

Saturday, October 19 Fortune Telling: Above and Below, Exit: The Game - The Abandoned Cabin & Welcome To... Halloween

Above and Below is a light worker placement game of town-building and storytelling.

When your village was sacked by barbarians, you searched far and wide for the perfect place to build a new home. �en you found it! Not only was it perfect, but nearby you discovered a vast network of underground caverns �lled with treasure, rare resources, and untold adventure. Unwilling to limit your new life to the surface, you immediately start organizing expeditions to explore the riches below while continuing to expand your village above.

In Above and Below, you’ll send your villagers to perform jobs like exploring the caverns below, harvesting resources, building houses and training new workers. Each villager has unique skills and abilities, and you must decide how best to use them. Will you send Cyndi on the expedition below? �at’s where the storytelling is! Or will you keep her above to teach important skills to one of the young-sters, so you can send a bigger party later?

When you send a group of villagers to explore the caverns below, one of your friends reads what happens to you from a book of paragraphs. You'll be given a choice of how to react. A lot will depend on who you sent on the expedition, and how kindly or not so kindly you treat with strangers. Your fortune is yours to tell in Above and Below.

3. Choose Your Own Adventure GamesChoose Your Own Adventure games are just that: narrative adventure games in which you choose, what doors to open, which fork in the road to take, how to react to circumstances and more. Each game features cooperative play and a unique adventure with a mystery to uncover. Two titles are available so far.

In Choose Your Own Adventure: House of Danger, you and your friends are in for a perilous and laughter-�lled adventure. You’ll make risky choices, collect bizarre clues, and face mortal challenges as you explore the weird and strange house.

In Choose Your Own Adventure: War with the Evil Power Master, you and your plucky young team of heroes must endeavor to save the galaxy from the evil power master bent on global destruction.

You can break up play into multiple sessions - by chapter - or play one long

session if you so choose. When I played �e House of Danger with �ve other people, we were so caught up in the story we couldn’t stop and played the whole game through in one session.

You can play both Choose Your Own Adventure titles multiple times to uncover more secrets and di�erent endings. No two play-throughs are quite the same.

Choose Your Own Adventure Games can be played solo or with as many people as you wish. �e titles above are recommended for ages 10 and up. Playtime is about 60 minutes for one chapter; each game has multiple chapters. In stock now at Here Be Books & Games.

4. ObscurioObscurio is an image-based communication and secret-role family game. You’ve got to be careful when sharing ideas with your team, because there may a traitor in your ranks!

�ematically, you are trapped in the Sorcerer’s libraty and he’s

out to get you! Find your way among the

Kelsey Roach (right) looked pretty happy with his two acquisitions: Battlelore ($30) and �e World of Warcarft Adventure Game ($15).

Jason Bush didn’t have to �ght as hard as I expected he would for a set of Red Dragon Inn Promo cards; several other big fans of the game weren’t able to attend this time. I picked up a playmat featuring a map of Middle-Earth for my game table at the store. I �gure it will make rolling dice a lot quieter. It came with two other playmats - one was for Elysium which I passed on to Ian - and Lord of the Rings: �e Card Game - Attack on Dol Guldur which I aim to pass on to someone else, too.

Nick Kraftor (right) seemed pretty happy with the three stacks of games he bought. His bids won him the classics Puerto Rico ($19) and Dominion ($10), as well as the popular Kingsburg ($15) and Legendary: A Marvel Deckbuilding Game ($15) among others.

While everyone scored really good deals at the game auction, and many took home one or more stacks of games, Liz Yanzer certainly took home the most games. Check out her haul below. If you look closely, you can see the top of a Bohnanza game behind the bottom right corner of the Ramen Fury game she’s holding. Bohnanza is on top of a fourth pile of games!

We all took a break about two-thirds of the way through

to recharge with complimen-tary brownies and chocolate chip cookies. �e break was refreshing. When we resumed, the rest of the auction �ew by. �en I retired to my o�ce with Jennifer and Diane to do the paperwork so Tim could start checking people out.

Many thanks to everyone who participated whether as a buyer, seller or both! We really appreciate the sellers who submitted their games early, giving Tim more time to research them. We also appreciate the buyers who RSVPed so we could better gauge how many to expect.

A special thanks goes out to Ian, Diane, Jennifer and Bailey for all their hard work and assistance. Tim and I could not do the auction without them. Ian arrived hours early to help Tim organize the lots in auction order, which made the process go even smoother than before. I think we’re getting this down to a science.

Look for the next game auction sometime in January. You can sign up to receive text messages on our website or in the store, join us on Meetup, and/or follow us on Face-book to receive noti�cation of the next game auction and other events at Here Be Books & Games.

5 Games of Mystery and the Macabre for HalloweenHalloween has always been a holiday of mystery and the macabre. So to introduce a little fun and creepiness to your Halloween gaming, I’ve put together a list of �ve games of mystery with some that border on the macabre.

1. Hako OnnaI’m gonna start with the one that I think sounds the creepiest: Hako Onna.

�e scary men arrived. My father, in a panic, pushed me down into a way-too-small box. I heard my bones snap, but dared not scream. I heard angry voices...then nothing. Father never came back. I was left alone. �at was a long time ago. Im not alone anymore. Sometimes, people come play. I like to play hide and seek. When I tire of playing, I eat.

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illusions towards the exit. �e helpful Grimoire (one of the players) will guide you using images, by pointing at certain details.

Working together, the rest of the players must �nd the exit as quickly as possible, while avoiding picking the wrong cards. Watch out for the traitor who will try to lead you astray. To make things even harder - as if they weren’t di�cult enough - you’ll encounter a wide variety of traps that will impede player communication on your way to the exit!

Supported by rich content, Obscurio provides a fresh new experience by putting the emphasis on the details of the images and the constant doubt created by the presence of a traitor. Communicate e�ciently and avoid the illusions as you escape the Sorcerer's library in Obscurio!

Obscurio supports 2 to 8 players, ages 10 and up, with a playtime of about 40 minutes. In stock now at HBB&G.

5. HorrifiedImagine living in a place so wretched that it's not plagued by one, two, or even three monsters — but seven of the most horrifying �ends! In Horri�ed, you'll come face to face with them all as you work together

to rid your town of the maniacal or misunderstood creatures - before it's too late.

Horrifed is a cooperative board game in which you and your fellow heroes must work together to defend your town against the onslaught of Dracula, �e Wolfman, Frankenstein, �e Bride of Frankenstein, �e Mummy, �e Invisible Man and �e Creature from the Black Lagoon. Each monster is unique and requires di�erent strategies and tactics to be defeated.

Horri�ed includes high-quality sculpted miniatures and an innovative, easy-to-learn, cooperative gameplay with varying levels of di�culty. 1 to 5 players, ages 10 and up, can play Horri�ed in about 60 minutes. In stock now.

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FREE Open Gaming & Learn to Play Events Saturdays in October! For centuries, Halloween has been a holiday �lled with magic, fortune telling and mystery. To commemorate that, we’ve chosen games suited to those themes for our October Learn to Play events.

As fortune would have it, two super fun games of potion brewing just came back in to stock. �ese two games and another from the wizarding world of Harry Potter will provide the magical element of our October Learn to Play events.

For fortune telling, we thought you might prefer to choose your own, so we’ve selected a choose-your-own-adventure game, a harrowing escape from an abandoned cabin and a light trick-or-treat roll-and-write game.

Finally, as the veil between this world and the next thins, we’ll delve into mystery. A ghost will ask you to

investigate its murder and a strange phone call will lead you to a macabre Lovecraftian mystery of unspeakable horror. Magic, fortune telling and mystery - we’ll teach you how to play!

Of course, if you’d rather hunt zombies, play a super hero or try something more tame, you can always join us for Free Open Gaming. You’ll have access to our extensive game library of over 400 games and our three game rooms that can comfortably accommodate 30 gamers.

Dying to know more about those games of magic, fortune telling and mystery? Read on.

Saturday, October 12 Magic: Quacks of Quedlinburg, Potion Explosion & Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle

�e Quacks of Quedlinburg is a light-hearted, push-your-luck, bag-building game of potion brewing. Mix up some wacky concoctions to impress the folks at the fair. Compete

to see who can build the biggest potion using weird ingredients like rats, pumpkins,

garden spiders, crow skulls, toadstools, mandrake, ghost’s breath, moths, and cherry bombs! Be careful, though. If you add too many cherry bombs, your potion will explode in your face!

2 to 4 players, ages 10 and up, can play Quacks of Quedlinburg in about 45 minutes. Drop by and we’ll teach you how to play!

Potion Explosion is a game of potion-crafting, marble-crashing and set collection that’s incredibly fun!

It's time for the �nal exams of the Potions class! Under the helpful tutelage

of the Headmaster, you’ve learned how to handle volatile ingredients,

represented by colorful marbles, and turn them into fantastical potions! �e rules are always the

same: take an Ingredient marble from the Dispenser and watch the others fall. If you connect marbles of the same color, they explode... and you can take them too!

Complete your potions using the marbles you collect, and drink them to unleash their magical powers. Remember, though, that to win the Student of the Year Award, being quick won't be enough; you'll also need to brew the most valuable potions! You can score additional points by completing �ve di�erent types of potions and three of the same kind.

2 to 4 players, ages 14 and up can play Potion Explosion in 30 to 45 minutes. Come on by and we’ll teach you how to play.

Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle is set in the wizarding world of the famous Harry Potter books, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle is a cooperative deck-building game. Taking on the roles of Harry, Hermione, Ron and Neville, you and your chums must consolidate your defenses and work together to defeat the villains harassing your school.

Harry Potter: Hogwart's Battle is a campaign-style game featuring seven boxes that you'll open as you play through the storyline featured in the books and movies. �is allows young and/or newbie gamers to grow into the game as you reenact the seven-book story.

While the player characters don't start with any special powers per se, each one has his or her own unique starting deck. As you progress through the seven games, your characters will gain knowledge and skills, just like the young wizards in the books.

Each of the seven numbered games can be played multiple times. �is isn't a Legacy game. You can pick up the story anywhere you want, and play with di�erent people each time. �e components and artwork are top-notch, making the game highly thematic despite being essentially a card game. Love it!

2 to 4 players, ages 11 through adult, can play a session of Harry Potter: Hogwart's Battle in 30 to 60 minutes.

We recently added a copy of the expansion, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle - Monster Box of Monsters, to our game library. So we can break that out, too, for those looking

Hako Onna is a horror game of reverse hide-and-seek, a one-against-all exploration game. One player plays Hako Onna (the Woman in the Box), and the rest are Visitors, who are trying to escape from the mansion.

As Visitors, you’ll try to not make any noise as you search the shadowy rooms of the mansion for information, items to protect yourself, and a way to escape what you do not see, but know is there. Beware! If you stumble upon Hako Onna, you’re dead.

3 to 5 players, ages 10 and up, can play this creepy game in 90-120 minutes. In stock now at Here Be Books & Games.

2. Escape-Room-in-a-Box GamesWhen you’re looking for a little mys-tery to solve on Halloween, you can’t go wrong with the Exit: �e Game and Unlock! series of escape-room-in-a-box games.

Escape Rooms are puzzle adventures you have to solve in a speci�c amount of time - usually an hour or two. �ey can be quite costly: $50 per person is not unusual. How-ever, for $15, less than half the cost of one admission to a live Escape Room experience, you and your friends can solve a similar puzzling mystery at home with an escape-room-in-a-box à la Unlock! and Exit: �e Game.

�e Unlock! and Exit: �e Game series have numerous adventures you can choose from. Explore a pharoah’s tomb, thrawt the plans of an evil mastermind in a cartoon adventure, recover a mysterious serum, explore a sinister mansion, uncover the midnight mysteries in a mysterious museum, solve the murder on the Orient Express or escape from the abandoned cabin in which you sought

shelter

Player count ranges from 1 to 6 players. Play time is usually an hour. �e games also come in a variety of di�culty levels. Some are even designed so you can include kids. In stock now.

Above and Below supports 2 to 4 players, ages 13 and up and plays in about 90 mintues. Drop by and we’ll teach you how to play!

Exit: �e Game - �e Abandoned Cabin is an escape-room-in-a-box.

Your car breaks down in the middle of nowhere and you're looking for shelter to get through the night. Luckily, you �nd an abandoned cabin in the woods near the road. You enter thankfully and spend an uneventful night. �e next morning, however, when you try to leave, you discover the door is locked! Iron bars on the windows prevent you from escaping. Searching the cabin for some means of exit, you discover a book and a strange disk.... Drop by anytime and we’ll teach you how to play!

Welcome to... Halloween. Choose a trick or a treat, circling either a ghost or a candy when you build houses in Welcome To...Halloween, a thematic neighbor-hood expansion for Welcome to...

Welcome to... is a super fun roll-and-

write game! Each turn, you’ll �ip cards from three piles to display three di�erent action sets. Each set shows a house number that you must assign to one of the houses in your community and an optional corresponding action you can take. �e house numbers on each street must ascend left to right, with two exceptions: 1) the Bis Action, which lets you break that rule by duplicating a house number for a penalty or 2) a round-about on the street.

Race to be the �rst to complete the three public goals, one of which is related to the special Halloween board. Choos-ing a trick or treat when you build a house is another special feature of the Halloween expansion which also features new artwork.

Game play is simultane-

ous in Welcome to... Halloween, so lots of people, ages 10 and up, can play at the same time! Playtime is about 45 minutes. �ere are lots of ways to build your community and many paths to a happy Halloween in Welcome To...Halloween! We’ll teach you!

Saturday, October 26 Mystery: Mysterium & Mansions of Madness

Mysterium is a beautiful, pure cooperative game of communi-cation. Murder most foul has been committed at Warwick Manor and a group of eminent psychics have been called together for a seance to investi-gate. �at’s you.

In Mysterium, one player plays the ghost of the

murder victim and the others psychic investigators who must discover who committed the murder, where and with what weapon. �e ghost may only communicate with the psychics through dream-like images depicted on gorgeously illustrated cards. �e psychics have just 7 hours (rounds) to interpret the visions sent by the ghost: exposing the murderer, uncovering the location and determining the murder weapon. Intuition, cooperation and inspired guesswork will be key to your success.

Two to seven players, ages 10 and up, can play Mysterium in about 45 minutes.

Join us at Here Be Books & Games and we’ll teach you how to play.

Mansions of Madness is an app-driven, fully-cooperative board game chock-full of theme: creepy monsters, mysterious occurrences, and cultists. �e

cultists are bent on opening a mystic portal to allow the Great Old Ones entrance to our world. One look at these horri�c god-like beings is enough to drive you insane.

To save the world, however, you and your fellow Investi-gators must endure and solve the mystery. You'll explore strange places and encounter ghastly monsters in this immersive board game that feels a lot like a roleplaying game. I love it!

1 to 5 adventurous souls, ages 14 and up, can play Man-sions of Madness 2nd Edition in two to three hours, depending on the scenario. A full review is available on �eGlassMeeple.com. Let us teach you how to play!

Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club MeetingFriday, October 11, 6pm to 8pmReading: Elric of Melnibone by Michael Moorcock (Jason’s pick).

Read the current book and join us for loads of geeky talk at our next Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club meeting. Newcom-ers are always welcome!

Our meetings are full of lively discus-sions of the current book, other stu� we’ve read recently, movies and TV shows we’ve watched and assorted other geeky stu�. It’s always fun, even when some of us don’t like that month’s book.

�e Sci-Fi & Fantasy Book Club meets once a month at Here Be Books & Games. We read fantasy and science �ction, old and new, including urban fantasy and alter-nate history.

Upcoming Titles:• Wanderers by Chuck Wendig or Severance by Ling

Ma or Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente or Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik or Tiamat’s Wrath by James S. A. Corey or Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia or �e Bird King by G. Willow Wilson or Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan (Carmen)

• Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings (Jason)• Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson (Je�)• Way Station by Cli�ord D. Simak (Jonathan)• Extracted by R.R. Haywood (Tim)

Attending members each suggest a book to add to our reading list. �en we pick one book to read each month until they’re all read. Rinse and repeat. A full list of all the

books we’ve read so far in Book Club is available on our web site at: hbbng.biz/book-club/.

It’s easy to join in on the fun: just read the current book and come to the meeting.

Board Game Auction RecapWe auctioned o� over 200 games in 129 lots at our seventh Game Auction at Here Be Books & Games on Saturday, September 21. Buyers scored killer deals and several took home stacks of games!

Derrick Chariker (left) proudly took home a lot that included A Song of Ice &

Fire: Stark vs Lannister Starter Set, some special �gures and a very cool bag

($75). Alexander Hale acquired a lot that included Catan & Catan Seafarers with both 5-6 player extensions ($38) and a Cutthroat Caverns lot that included the base game

and four expansions ($35)!

Jonathan Tudor (right) went home with a good-sized stack of board games that included the classic Stone Age which he won with a $26 bid. Two of the games from the North Sea trilogy, Explorers of the North Sea and Shipwrights of the North Sea, went for $28 to Diane St. Romain. Blake Whitaker won the bidding on several games including a copy of Dominion Intrigue for just $10.

Morgan Savick (left) took home three stacks of games. He won an incredible lot made up of Splendor, Sheri� of Nottingham, 13 Clues, Game of 49, Munchkin and de Stijl for just $37! I bid in proxy on several games for Dan Yohman, nabbing a lot of two Saboteur games and an

expansion for $10 and San Juan and Patronize together for $12.

for a more challenging experience or if someone wants to play the new character Luna Lovegood. In order to win with the Monster Box, you have to defeat all the new Creatures as well as the Villains, and deal with all the Encounters, too.

Grab a broomstick and swing by. We’ll teach you how to play!

Saturday, October 19 Fortune Telling: Above and Below, Exit: The Game - The Abandoned Cabin & Welcome To... Halloween

Above and Below is a light worker placement game of town-building and storytelling.

When your village was sacked by barbarians, you searched far and wide for the perfect place to build a new home. �en you found it! Not only was it perfect, but nearby you discovered a vast network of underground caverns �lled with treasure, rare resources, and untold adventure. Unwilling to limit your new life to the surface, you immediately start organizing expeditions to explore the riches below while continuing to expand your village above.

In Above and Below, you’ll send your villagers to perform jobs like exploring the caverns below, harvesting resources, building houses and training new workers. Each villager has unique skills and abilities, and you must decide how best to use them. Will you send Cyndi on the expedition below? �at’s where the storytelling is! Or will you keep her above to teach important skills to one of the young-sters, so you can send a bigger party later?

When you send a group of villagers to explore the caverns below, one of your friends reads what happens to you from a book of paragraphs. You'll be given a choice of how to react. A lot will depend on who you sent on the expedition, and how kindly or not so kindly you treat with strangers. Your fortune is yours to tell in Above and Below.

3. Choose Your Own Adventure GamesChoose Your Own Adventure games are just that: narrative adventure games in which you choose, what doors to open, which fork in the road to take, how to react to circumstances and more. Each game features cooperative play and a unique adventure with a mystery to uncover. Two titles are available so far.

In Choose Your Own Adventure: House of Danger, you and your friends are in for a perilous and laughter-�lled adventure. You’ll make risky choices, collect bizarre clues, and face mortal challenges as you explore the weird and strange house.

In Choose Your Own Adventure: War with the Evil Power Master, you and your plucky young team of heroes must endeavor to save the galaxy from the evil power master bent on global destruction.

You can break up play into multiple sessions - by chapter - or play one long

session if you so choose. When I played �e House of Danger with �ve other people, we were so caught up in the story we couldn’t stop and played the whole game through in one session.

You can play both Choose Your Own Adventure titles multiple times to uncover more secrets and di�erent endings. No two play-throughs are quite the same.

Choose Your Own Adventure Games can be played solo or with as many people as you wish. �e titles above are recommended for ages 10 and up. Playtime is about 60 minutes for one chapter; each game has multiple chapters. In stock now at Here Be Books & Games.

4. ObscurioObscurio is an image-based communication and secret-role family game. You’ve got to be careful when sharing ideas with your team, because there may a traitor in your ranks!

�ematically, you are trapped in the Sorcerer’s libraty and he’s

out to get you! Find your way among the

Kelsey Roach (right) looked pretty happy with his two acquisitions: Battlelore ($30) and �e World of Warcarft Adventure Game ($15).

Jason Bush didn’t have to �ght as hard as I expected he would for a set of Red Dragon Inn Promo cards; several other big fans of the game weren’t able to attend this time. I picked up a playmat featuring a map of Middle-Earth for my game table at the store. I �gure it will make rolling dice a lot quieter. It came with two other playmats - one was for Elysium which I passed on to Ian - and Lord of the Rings: �e Card Game - Attack on Dol Guldur which I aim to pass on to someone else, too.

Nick Kraftor (right) seemed pretty happy with the three stacks of games he bought. His bids won him the classics Puerto Rico ($19) and Dominion ($10), as well as the popular Kingsburg ($15) and Legendary: A Marvel Deckbuilding Game ($15) among others.

While everyone scored really good deals at the game auction, and many took home one or more stacks of games, Liz Yanzer certainly took home the most games. Check out her haul below. If you look closely, you can see the top of a Bohnanza game behind the bottom right corner of the Ramen Fury game she’s holding. Bohnanza is on top of a fourth pile of games!

We all took a break about two-thirds of the way through

to recharge with complimen-tary brownies and chocolate chip cookies. �e break was refreshing. When we resumed, the rest of the auction �ew by. �en I retired to my o�ce with Jennifer and Diane to do the paperwork so Tim could start checking people out.

Many thanks to everyone who participated whether as a buyer, seller or both! We really appreciate the sellers who submitted their games early, giving Tim more time to research them. We also appreciate the buyers who RSVPed so we could better gauge how many to expect.

A special thanks goes out to Ian, Diane, Jennifer and Bailey for all their hard work and assistance. Tim and I could not do the auction without them. Ian arrived hours early to help Tim organize the lots in auction order, which made the process go even smoother than before. I think we’re getting this down to a science.

Look for the next game auction sometime in January. You can sign up to receive text messages on our website or in the store, join us on Meetup, and/or follow us on Face-book to receive noti�cation of the next game auction and other events at Here Be Books & Games.

5 Games of Mystery and the Macabre for HalloweenHalloween has always been a holiday of mystery and the macabre. So to introduce a little fun and creepiness to your Halloween gaming, I’ve put together a list of �ve games of mystery with some that border on the macabre.

1. Hako OnnaI’m gonna start with the one that I think sounds the creepiest: Hako Onna.

�e scary men arrived. My father, in a panic, pushed me down into a way-too-small box. I heard my bones snap, but dared not scream. I heard angry voices...then nothing. Father never came back. I was left alone. �at was a long time ago. Im not alone anymore. Sometimes, people come play. I like to play hide and seek. When I tire of playing, I eat.

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illusions towards the exit. �e helpful Grimoire (one of the players) will guide you using images, by pointing at certain details.

Working together, the rest of the players must �nd the exit as quickly as possible, while avoiding picking the wrong cards. Watch out for the traitor who will try to lead you astray. To make things even harder - as if they weren’t di�cult enough - you’ll encounter a wide variety of traps that will impede player communication on your way to the exit!

Supported by rich content, Obscurio provides a fresh new experience by putting the emphasis on the details of the images and the constant doubt created by the presence of a traitor. Communicate e�ciently and avoid the illusions as you escape the Sorcerer's library in Obscurio!

Obscurio supports 2 to 8 players, ages 10 and up, with a playtime of about 40 minutes. In stock now at HBB&G.

5. HorrifiedImagine living in a place so wretched that it's not plagued by one, two, or even three monsters — but seven of the most horrifying �ends! In Horri�ed, you'll come face to face with them all as you work together

to rid your town of the maniacal or misunderstood creatures - before it's too late.

Horrifed is a cooperative board game in which you and your fellow heroes must work together to defend your town against the onslaught of Dracula, �e Wolfman, Frankenstein, �e Bride of Frankenstein, �e Mummy, �e Invisible Man and �e Creature from the Black Lagoon. Each monster is unique and requires di�erent strategies and tactics to be defeated.

Horri�ed includes high-quality sculpted miniatures and an innovative, easy-to-learn, cooperative gameplay with varying levels of di�culty. 1 to 5 players, ages 10 and up, can play Horri�ed in about 60 minutes. In stock now.

try before you buy!we’ll teach you how to play!

new to game libraryCentury: A New WorldCryptidGingerbread HouseTeotihuacan: Late Preclassic PeriodUnderwater CitiesWelcome To... Expansions

Above and BelowCarcassonne: Inns & CathedralsCentury: A New WorldClank! �e Mummy’s CurseCryptidDungeons & Dragons 5th Ed. Starter SetFox in the ForestFridayHarry Potter: Hogwarts BattleNo �anks!Potion ExplosionQuacks of QuedlinburgRaiders of the North SeaSheri� of NottinghamStar Realms FrontiersTeotihuacan: Late Preclassic PeriodUnderwater CitiesUnlock! Island of Doctor GoorseWelcome To...Western Legends

Back in Stock!Arboretum Deluxe EditionFoothillsGingerbread HouseHadaraHako OnnaHorri�edJawsNew Frontiers: Race for the Galaxy Board GameObscurioPotion Explosion: �e 6th Student ExpansionPuerto Rico Deluxe EditionSagrada: Passion ExpansionSierra WestSmash Up World Tour: Culture ShockSpace Base: Command StationStar Realms Command Deck: �e AlignmentStar Realms Command Deck: �e Alliance�ree Dragon Ante Legendary EdTicket to Ride: 15th Anniversary EditionWelcome To... Doomsday Exp.Welcome To... Halloween Exp.Welcome To... Outbreak Exp.�e World of SMOG: Rise of Moloch

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FREE Open Gaming & Learn to Play Events Saturdays in October! For centuries, Halloween has been a holiday �lled with magic, fortune telling and mystery. To commemorate that, we’ve chosen games suited to those themes for our October Learn to Play events.

As fortune would have it, two super fun games of potion brewing just came back in to stock. �ese two games and another from the wizarding world of Harry Potter will provide the magical element of our October Learn to Play events.

For fortune telling, we thought you might prefer to choose your own, so we’ve selected a choose-your-own-adventure game, a harrowing escape from an abandoned cabin and a light trick-or-treat roll-and-write game.

Finally, as the veil between this world and the next thins, we’ll delve into mystery. A ghost will ask you to

investigate its murder and a strange phone call will lead you to a macabre Lovecraftian mystery of unspeakable horror. Magic, fortune telling and mystery - we’ll teach you how to play!

Of course, if you’d rather hunt zombies, play a super hero or try something more tame, you can always join us for Free Open Gaming. You’ll have access to our extensive game library of over 400 games and our three game rooms that can comfortably accommodate 30 gamers.

Dying to know more about those games of magic, fortune telling and mystery? Read on.

Saturday, October 12 Magic: Quacks of Quedlinburg, Potion Explosion & Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle

�e Quacks of Quedlinburg is a light-hearted, push-your-luck, bag-building game of potion brewing. Mix up some wacky concoctions to impress the folks at the fair. Compete

to see who can build the biggest potion using weird ingredients like rats, pumpkins,

garden spiders, crow skulls, toadstools, mandrake, ghost’s breath, moths, and cherry bombs! Be careful, though. If you add too many cherry bombs, your potion will explode in your face!

2 to 4 players, ages 10 and up, can play Quacks of Quedlinburg in about 45 minutes. Drop by and we’ll teach you how to play!

Potion Explosion is a game of potion-crafting, marble-crashing and set collection that’s incredibly fun!

It's time for the �nal exams of the Potions class! Under the helpful tutelage

of the Headmaster, you’ve learned how to handle volatile ingredients,

represented by colorful marbles, and turn them into fantastical potions! �e rules are always the

same: take an Ingredient marble from the Dispenser and watch the others fall. If you connect marbles of the same color, they explode... and you can take them too!

Complete your potions using the marbles you collect, and drink them to unleash their magical powers. Remember, though, that to win the Student of the Year Award, being quick won't be enough; you'll also need to brew the most valuable potions! You can score additional points by completing �ve di�erent types of potions and three of the same kind.

2 to 4 players, ages 14 and up can play Potion Explosion in 30 to 45 minutes. Come on by and we’ll teach you how to play.

Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle is set in the wizarding world of the famous Harry Potter books, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle is a cooperative deck-building game. Taking on the roles of Harry, Hermione, Ron and Neville, you and your chums must consolidate your defenses and work together to defeat the villains harassing your school.

Harry Potter: Hogwart's Battle is a campaign-style game featuring seven boxes that you'll open as you play through the storyline featured in the books and movies. �is allows young and/or newbie gamers to grow into the game as you reenact the seven-book story.

While the player characters don't start with any special powers per se, each one has his or her own unique starting deck. As you progress through the seven games, your characters will gain knowledge and skills, just like the young wizards in the books.

Each of the seven numbered games can be played multiple times. �is isn't a Legacy game. You can pick up the story anywhere you want, and play with di�erent people each time. �e components and artwork are top-notch, making the game highly thematic despite being essentially a card game. Love it!

2 to 4 players, ages 11 through adult, can play a session of Harry Potter: Hogwart's Battle in 30 to 60 minutes.

We recently added a copy of the expansion, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle - Monster Box of Monsters, to our game library. So we can break that out, too, for those looking

Hako Onna is a horror game of reverse hide-and-seek, a one-against-all exploration game. One player plays Hako Onna (the Woman in the Box), and the rest are Visitors, who are trying to escape from the mansion.

As Visitors, you’ll try to not make any noise as you search the shadowy rooms of the mansion for information, items to protect yourself, and a way to escape what you do not see, but know is there. Beware! If you stumble upon Hako Onna, you’re dead.

3 to 5 players, ages 10 and up, can play this creepy game in 90-120 minutes. In stock now at Here Be Books & Games.

2. Escape-Room-in-a-Box GamesWhen you’re looking for a little mys-tery to solve on Halloween, you can’t go wrong with the Exit: �e Game and Unlock! series of escape-room-in-a-box games.

Escape Rooms are puzzle adventures you have to solve in a speci�c amount of time - usually an hour or two. �ey can be quite costly: $50 per person is not unusual. How-ever, for $15, less than half the cost of one admission to a live Escape Room experience, you and your friends can solve a similar puzzling mystery at home with an escape-room-in-a-box à la Unlock! and Exit: �e Game.

�e Unlock! and Exit: �e Game series have numerous adventures you can choose from. Explore a pharoah’s tomb, thrawt the plans of an evil mastermind in a cartoon adventure, recover a mysterious serum, explore a sinister mansion, uncover the midnight mysteries in a mysterious museum, solve the murder on the Orient Express or escape from the abandoned cabin in which you sought

shelter

Player count ranges from 1 to 6 players. Play time is usually an hour. �e games also come in a variety of di�culty levels. Some are even designed so you can include kids. In stock now.

Above and Below supports 2 to 4 players, ages 13 and up and plays in about 90 mintues. Drop by and we’ll teach you how to play!

Exit: �e Game - �e Abandoned Cabin is an escape-room-in-a-box.

Your car breaks down in the middle of nowhere and you're looking for shelter to get through the night. Luckily, you �nd an abandoned cabin in the woods near the road. You enter thankfully and spend an uneventful night. �e next morning, however, when you try to leave, you discover the door is locked! Iron bars on the windows prevent you from escaping. Searching the cabin for some means of exit, you discover a book and a strange disk.... Drop by anytime and we’ll teach you how to play!

Welcome to... Halloween. Choose a trick or a treat, circling either a ghost or a candy when you build houses in Welcome To...Halloween, a thematic neighbor-hood expansion for Welcome to...

Welcome to... is a super fun roll-and-

write game! Each turn, you’ll �ip cards from three piles to display three di�erent action sets. Each set shows a house number that you must assign to one of the houses in your community and an optional corresponding action you can take. �e house numbers on each street must ascend left to right, with two exceptions: 1) the Bis Action, which lets you break that rule by duplicating a house number for a penalty or 2) a round-about on the street.

Race to be the �rst to complete the three public goals, one of which is related to the special Halloween board. Choos-ing a trick or treat when you build a house is another special feature of the Halloween expansion which also features new artwork.

Game play is simultane-

ous in Welcome to... Halloween, so lots of people, ages 10 and up, can play at the same time! Playtime is about 45 minutes. �ere are lots of ways to build your community and many paths to a happy Halloween in Welcome To...Halloween! We’ll teach you!

Saturday, October 26 Mystery: Mysterium & Mansions of Madness

Mysterium is a beautiful, pure cooperative game of communi-cation. Murder most foul has been committed at Warwick Manor and a group of eminent psychics have been called together for a seance to investi-gate. �at’s you.

In Mysterium, one player plays the ghost of the

murder victim and the others psychic investigators who must discover who committed the murder, where and with what weapon. �e ghost may only communicate with the psychics through dream-like images depicted on gorgeously illustrated cards. �e psychics have just 7 hours (rounds) to interpret the visions sent by the ghost: exposing the murderer, uncovering the location and determining the murder weapon. Intuition, cooperation and inspired guesswork will be key to your success.

Two to seven players, ages 10 and up, can play Mysterium in about 45 minutes.

Join us at Here Be Books & Games and we’ll teach you how to play.

Mansions of Madness is an app-driven, fully-cooperative board game chock-full of theme: creepy monsters, mysterious occurrences, and cultists. �e

cultists are bent on opening a mystic portal to allow the Great Old Ones entrance to our world. One look at these horri�c god-like beings is enough to drive you insane.

To save the world, however, you and your fellow Investi-gators must endure and solve the mystery. You'll explore strange places and encounter ghastly monsters in this immersive board game that feels a lot like a roleplaying game. I love it!

1 to 5 adventurous souls, ages 14 and up, can play Man-sions of Madness 2nd Edition in two to three hours, depending on the scenario. A full review is available on �eGlassMeeple.com. Let us teach you how to play!

Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club MeetingFriday, October 11, 6pm to 8pmReading: Elric of Melnibone by Michael Moorcock (Jason’s pick).

Read the current book and join us for loads of geeky talk at our next Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Club meeting. Newcom-ers are always welcome!

Our meetings are full of lively discus-sions of the current book, other stu� we’ve read recently, movies and TV shows we’ve watched and assorted other geeky stu�. It’s always fun, even when some of us don’t like that month’s book.

�e Sci-Fi & Fantasy Book Club meets once a month at Here Be Books & Games. We read fantasy and science �ction, old and new, including urban fantasy and alter-nate history.

Upcoming Titles:• Wanderers by Chuck Wendig or Severance by Ling

Ma or Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente or Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik or Tiamat’s Wrath by James S. A. Corey or Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia or �e Bird King by G. Willow Wilson or Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan (Carmen)

• Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings (Jason)• Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson (Je�)• Way Station by Cli�ord D. Simak (Jonathan)• Extracted by R.R. Haywood (Tim)

Attending members each suggest a book to add to our reading list. �en we pick one book to read each month until they’re all read. Rinse and repeat. A full list of all the

books we’ve read so far in Book Club is available on our web site at: hbbng.biz/book-club/.

It’s easy to join in on the fun: just read the current book and come to the meeting.

Board Game Auction RecapWe auctioned o� over 200 games in 129 lots at our seventh Game Auction at Here Be Books & Games on Saturday, September 21. Buyers scored killer deals and several took home stacks of games!

Derrick Chariker (left) proudly took home a lot that included A Song of Ice &

Fire: Stark vs Lannister Starter Set, some special �gures and a very cool bag

($75). Alexander Hale acquired a lot that included Catan & Catan Seafarers with both 5-6 player extensions ($38) and a Cutthroat Caverns lot that included the base game

and four expansions ($35)!

Jonathan Tudor (right) went home with a good-sized stack of board games that included the classic Stone Age which he won with a $26 bid. Two of the games from the North Sea trilogy, Explorers of the North Sea and Shipwrights of the North Sea, went for $28 to Diane St. Romain. Blake Whitaker won the bidding on several games including a copy of Dominion Intrigue for just $10.

Morgan Savick (left) took home three stacks of games. He won an incredible lot made up of Splendor, Sheri� of Nottingham, 13 Clues, Game of 49, Munchkin and de Stijl for just $37! I bid in proxy on several games for Dan Yohman, nabbing a lot of two Saboteur games and an

expansion for $10 and San Juan and Patronize together for $12.

for a more challenging experience or if someone wants to play the new character Luna Lovegood. In order to win with the Monster Box, you have to defeat all the new Creatures as well as the Villains, and deal with all the Encounters, too.

Grab a broomstick and swing by. We’ll teach you how to play!

Saturday, October 19 Fortune Telling: Above and Below, Exit: The Game - The Abandoned Cabin & Welcome To... Halloween

Above and Below is a light worker placement game of town-building and storytelling.

When your village was sacked by barbarians, you searched far and wide for the perfect place to build a new home. �en you found it! Not only was it perfect, but nearby you discovered a vast network of underground caverns �lled with treasure, rare resources, and untold adventure. Unwilling to limit your new life to the surface, you immediately start organizing expeditions to explore the riches below while continuing to expand your village above.

In Above and Below, you’ll send your villagers to perform jobs like exploring the caverns below, harvesting resources, building houses and training new workers. Each villager has unique skills and abilities, and you must decide how best to use them. Will you send Cyndi on the expedition below? �at’s where the storytelling is! Or will you keep her above to teach important skills to one of the young-sters, so you can send a bigger party later?

When you send a group of villagers to explore the caverns below, one of your friends reads what happens to you from a book of paragraphs. You'll be given a choice of how to react. A lot will depend on who you sent on the expedition, and how kindly or not so kindly you treat with strangers. Your fortune is yours to tell in Above and Below.

3. Choose Your Own Adventure GamesChoose Your Own Adventure games are just that: narrative adventure games in which you choose, what doors to open, which fork in the road to take, how to react to circumstances and more. Each game features cooperative play and a unique adventure with a mystery to uncover. Two titles are available so far.

In Choose Your Own Adventure: House of Danger, you and your friends are in for a perilous and laughter-�lled adventure. You’ll make risky choices, collect bizarre clues, and face mortal challenges as you explore the weird and strange house.

In Choose Your Own Adventure: War with the Evil Power Master, you and your plucky young team of heroes must endeavor to save the galaxy from the evil power master bent on global destruction.

You can break up play into multiple sessions - by chapter - or play one long

session if you so choose. When I played �e House of Danger with �ve other people, we were so caught up in the story we couldn’t stop and played the whole game through in one session.

You can play both Choose Your Own Adventure titles multiple times to uncover more secrets and di�erent endings. No two play-throughs are quite the same.

Choose Your Own Adventure Games can be played solo or with as many people as you wish. �e titles above are recommended for ages 10 and up. Playtime is about 60 minutes for one chapter; each game has multiple chapters. In stock now at Here Be Books & Games.

4. ObscurioObscurio is an image-based communication and secret-role family game. You’ve got to be careful when sharing ideas with your team, because there may a traitor in your ranks!

�ematically, you are trapped in the Sorcerer’s libraty and he’s

out to get you! Find your way among the

Kelsey Roach (right) looked pretty happy with his two acquisitions: Battlelore ($30) and �e World of Warcarft Adventure Game ($15).

Jason Bush didn’t have to �ght as hard as I expected he would for a set of Red Dragon Inn Promo cards; several other big fans of the game weren’t able to attend this time. I picked up a playmat featuring a map of Middle-Earth for my game table at the store. I �gure it will make rolling dice a lot quieter. It came with two other playmats - one was for Elysium which I passed on to Ian - and Lord of the Rings: �e Card Game - Attack on Dol Guldur which I aim to pass on to someone else, too.

Nick Kraftor (right) seemed pretty happy with the three stacks of games he bought. His bids won him the classics Puerto Rico ($19) and Dominion ($10), as well as the popular Kingsburg ($15) and Legendary: A Marvel Deckbuilding Game ($15) among others.

While everyone scored really good deals at the game auction, and many took home one or more stacks of games, Liz Yanzer certainly took home the most games. Check out her haul below. If you look closely, you can see the top of a Bohnanza game behind the bottom right corner of the Ramen Fury game she’s holding. Bohnanza is on top of a fourth pile of games!

We all took a break about two-thirds of the way through

to recharge with complimen-tary brownies and chocolate chip cookies. �e break was refreshing. When we resumed, the rest of the auction �ew by. �en I retired to my o�ce with Jennifer and Diane to do the paperwork so Tim could start checking people out.

Many thanks to everyone who participated whether as a buyer, seller or both! We really appreciate the sellers who submitted their games early, giving Tim more time to research them. We also appreciate the buyers who RSVPed so we could better gauge how many to expect.

A special thanks goes out to Ian, Diane, Jennifer and Bailey for all their hard work and assistance. Tim and I could not do the auction without them. Ian arrived hours early to help Tim organize the lots in auction order, which made the process go even smoother than before. I think we’re getting this down to a science.

Look for the next game auction sometime in January. You can sign up to receive text messages on our website or in the store, join us on Meetup, and/or follow us on Face-book to receive noti�cation of the next game auction and other events at Here Be Books & Games.

5 Games of Mystery and the Macabre for HalloweenHalloween has always been a holiday of mystery and the macabre. So to introduce a little fun and creepiness to your Halloween gaming, I’ve put together a list of �ve games of mystery with some that border on the macabre.

1. Hako OnnaI’m gonna start with the one that I think sounds the creepiest: Hako Onna.

�e scary men arrived. My father, in a panic, pushed me down into a way-too-small box. I heard my bones snap, but dared not scream. I heard angry voices...then nothing. Father never came back. I was left alone. �at was a long time ago. Im not alone anymore. Sometimes, people come play. I like to play hide and seek. When I tire of playing, I eat.

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illusions towards the exit. �e helpful Grimoire (one of the players) will guide you using images, by pointing at certain details.

Working together, the rest of the players must �nd the exit as quickly as possible, while avoiding picking the wrong cards. Watch out for the traitor who will try to lead you astray. To make things even harder - as if they weren’t di�cult enough - you’ll encounter a wide variety of traps that will impede player communication on your way to the exit!

Supported by rich content, Obscurio provides a fresh new experience by putting the emphasis on the details of the images and the constant doubt created by the presence of a traitor. Communicate e�ciently and avoid the illusions as you escape the Sorcerer's library in Obscurio!

Obscurio supports 2 to 8 players, ages 10 and up, with a playtime of about 40 minutes. In stock now at HBB&G.

5. HorrifiedImagine living in a place so wretched that it's not plagued by one, two, or even three monsters — but seven of the most horrifying �ends! In Horri�ed, you'll come face to face with them all as you work together

to rid your town of the maniacal or misunderstood creatures - before it's too late.

Horrifed is a cooperative board game in which you and your fellow heroes must work together to defend your town against the onslaught of Dracula, �e Wolfman, Frankenstein, �e Bride of Frankenstein, �e Mummy, �e Invisible Man and �e Creature from the Black Lagoon. Each monster is unique and requires di�erent strategies and tactics to be defeated.

Horri�ed includes high-quality sculpted miniatures and an innovative, easy-to-learn, cooperative gameplay with varying levels of di�culty. 1 to 5 players, ages 10 and up, can play Horri�ed in about 60 minutes. In stock now.

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