Board Game-Oasis🌴 【HK International BG Club】

Hi, I am from the US and my wife (Carmen) is a local. We love making new friends, and we feel like board games are a great way for people to connect. If you want to have a chill time learning new board games or playing old favorites please join us.

We will play games from 5 to 7. From 7 to 8 we will hang out and have pizza, sides, and drinks. Feel free to bring your own food. Then from 8 to 10, we will play more games. We request a $100 HKD donation if you are ordering pizza. Please make sure you decide if you want Pizza by 6:00 p.m. because that is when we order the pizza. If you aren't ordering pizza we encourage guests to donate a small amount to cover any snacks and drinks you have. Don't let the requested donation prevent you from coming. You can pay by cash, Payme, FPS or Alipay. Anything over our costs will be devoted to buying more games for the game nights.

We would like the time to be friendly to people with any English ability. So if you bring a game make sure it doesn't involve too high an English ability or rely too much on culture. Also, many people are new to gaming so please try to be chill and welcoming.

The event is held at a facility owned by our church so please remember to be respectful and appropriate.

One way you can help is by bringing a small box game. People tend to like to play several games throughout the night so please bring games that take 15 minutes to an hour.

This event will start being held at the following location:
15/F, Success Commercial Building
245-251 Hennessy Rd, Wan Chai

If you RSVP then have to change your plans please change your RSVP because the previous events have each had a fairly long waitlist. If you are on the waitlist that means we don't think there will be room for you to come. Roughly 24 hours before the event I will lock in the final guest list. So keep an eye out if you are on the waitlist. As people's plans change last minute you might get on the guest list.

There's hustle and bustle at Istanbul's grand bazaar as merchants and their assistants rush through the narrow alleys in their attempt to be more successful than their competitors. Everything must be well organized: wheelbarrows must be filled with goods at the warehouses, then swiftly transported by the assistants to various destinations. Your goal? Be the first merchant to collect a certain number of rubies.

In Istanbul, you lead a group of one merchant and four assistants through 16 locations in the bazaar. At each such location, you can carry out a specific action. The challenge, though, is that to take an action, you must move your merchant and an assistant there, then leave the assistant behind (to handle all the details while you focus on larger matters). If you want to use that assistant again later, your merchant must return to that location to pick him up. Thus, you must plan ahead carefully to avoid being left with no assistants and thus unable to do anything...

In more detail, on a turn you move your merchant and his retinue of assistants one or two steps through the bazaar, either leave an assistant at that location or collect an assistant left earlier, then perform the action. If you meet other merchants or certain individuals at the location, you might be able to take a small extra action. Possible actions include:

• Paying to increase your wheelbarrow capacity, which starts the game with a capacity of only two for each good.
• Filling your wheelbarrow with a specified good to its limit.
• Acquiring a special ability, and the earlier you come, the easier they are to collect.
• Buying rubies or trading goods for rubies.
• Selling special combinations of goods to make the money you need to do everything else.

When a merchant has collected five rubies in his wheelbarrow, players complete that round, then the game ends. If this player is the only one who's reached this goal, he wins immediately; otherwise ties are broken by money in hand.

*** Rules will be explained on the spot.
Fees: $80. A complimentary drink is included.
** No-show will be banned from this group.

*** Following a successful debut session, Coco and Andes will be back for another session of Board Game Language Exchange!

Through gaming, through playing, the attendees will have opportunities to learn different languages in a more relaxing, casual manner!

We will introduce some fun-filling party board games to you all, and just come bringing along a smile, and an open heart to embrace different culture!

籍著玩遊戲, 和外國人更輕鬆😌自然地溝通!

Fees: $100 (Ladies $80). A complimentary drink is included.
** No-show will be banned from this group.