Board Game Collection & Adult Game Night
Adult Game Night is back! Stop in the 3rd Wednesday of the month from 6-8 pm! Check our events calendar for details or the occasional time/date change.
We’ve got a variety of modern board games that you can borrow to play with family & friends! View our collection of board games below and watch videos demonstrating how to play.
In addition to the featured titles in our main collection, we also have a selection of time-tested “Family Classics” – like Jenga, Scrabble, Battleship, and Clue.
Interested in adding some games to your own collection or getting some more expert advice? Check out Alexandria Games in downtown Ripon, and watch for joint events with Alexandria Games and your library.
Sagrada
Posted August 30, 2023Draft dice and use the tools-of-the-trade in Sagrada to carefully construct your stained glass window masterpiece. In more detail, each player builds a stained glass window by building up a grid of dice on their player board. Each board has some restrictions on which color or shade (value) of die can be placed there. Dice of the same shade or color may never be placed next to each other. Dice are drafted in player order, with the start player rotating each round, snaking back around after the last player drafts two dice. Scoring is variable per game based on achieving various patterns and varieties of placement...as well as bonus points for dark shades of a particular hidden goal color. Special...
Radlands
Posted June 28, 2023Radlands is a competitive, dueling card game about identifying fiercely powerful card synergies. Act as the leader of your post apocalyptic group of survivors in a tooth-and-nail fight to protect your three camps from a vicious rival tribe. If all of them are destroyed, you lose the game. The main resource in the game is water. You will spend it to play people and events, and to use the abilities of cards you already have on the table. People protect your camps and provide useful abilities, while events are powerful effects that take time to pay off. Both players draw cards from the same deck. All cards can either be played...
Betrayal at House on the Hill
Posted June 28, 2023Betrayal at House on the Hill quickly builds suspense and excitement as players explore a haunted mansion of their own design, encountering spirits and frightening omens that foretell their fate. With an estimated one hour playing time, Betrayal at House on the Hill is ideal for parties, family gatherings or casual fun with friends. Betrayal at House on the Hill is a tile game that allows players to build their own haunted house room by room, tile by tile, creating a new thrilling game board every time. The game is designed for three to six people, each of whom plays one of six possible characters. Secretly, one of the characters betrays...
Smash Up
Posted June 27, 2023The "shufflebuilding" game Smash Up begins with a simple premise: take the 20-card decks of two factions, shuffle them into a deck of forty cards, then compete to crush more Bases than your opponents! Each faction involves a different gaming mechanism - the pirates move the cards, the zombies bring back the cards from the discard pile, the dinosaurs have enormous power - and each combination of factions brings a different gaming experience. During the game, basic cards (each with their own difficulties and abilities) are at stake. You try to have the most power on the basis of your minions when the base is broken. Sounds easy? Is it easy...
Mystery House
Posted June 27, 2023This house mysteriously moves through space and time, and no one knows its destination. Will you be brave enough to enter? Experience the thrill of an escape room in Mystery House: Adventures in a Box, which features a mix of technology and tradition. Play the game with this real 3D house where you can look in through the windows using a flashlight, giving you the experience of really exploring a dark, mysterious house. In this Escape Room type board game, you have to solve all the riddles you find inside to solve the mystery! You must search for clues in the house, looking through the windows in the rooms. With the...