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10/23/2026

Friday Feature No. 68 🖊📷

Take your 21 pieces and carve out your area. In Blokus, players take turns placing pieces on a grid, starting with a corner. Slowly, you expand your claimed space until you begin to intertwine your pieces through others. In this abstract strategy game, slow and steady can truly win if you know how to play your pieces right.

Can you place them all? Score more the more you place and even bonuses if you end on the right one. Each game is a new pattern and a new strategy.

Rent it and other strategy games to add fun to your Friday nights, delivered by The Board Bartender!

Featured game:
🎲 Blokus

Our full collection and all events can be found at www.theboardbartender.ca

10/22/2026

How about an urban myth for ?

Lots of people know that Milton Bradley was the company behind the release of the famous game Connect 4. But who was the person who came up with the idea in the first place? Legend has it that the one and only David Bowie was the genius behind the popular game, but it's just that - a legend. It appears that Stuart Maconie, a British presenter, made up the fact as a joke but it somehow stuck and spread.

The truth is that Howard Wexler is credited as the creator of the fun kids game. The more interesting fact is that it seems Howard had a partner before working with Milton Bradley, Ned Strongin. Ned has regularly been forgotten as the co-creator upon his death, so we'd like to shout out both Howard and Ned for bringing us this fun game!

Our full collection, and all events can be found at www.theboardbartender.ca

10/21/2026

Trick or Treat Players! 🎃

As Kingston enjoys its Halloween festivities, we will NOT have our last-Saturday-monthly event at Studio 330 on October 31st. Looking forward to seeing you all at our next event, November 28th!

10/17/2026

Friday Feature No. 67 🖊📷

We thought the most appropriate game to feature for episode 6-7 of Friday Features is another meme game: What Do You Meme?

In this simple game of laughter, each player plays a blue card with a description for the meme in play and the best choice wins! Play to get the most points and the most laughs. From the raunchy to the ridiculous, every combination is bound to make you chuckle. So grab some friends who know their memology, play your cards and then ask, What Do You Meme?, with the weird results that follow.

Rent it and other party games to add fun to your Friday nights, delivered by The Board Bartender!

Featured game:
🎲 What Do You Meme?

Our full collection and all events can be found at www.theboardbartender.ca

10/15/2026

Here's a fun fact for about the popular spelling game Boggle.

In order to help avoid some more vulgar players from having fun writing curses, the game includes 2 F's and 1 K - but the catch is that they are all on the same die!

Another thing is that the letter Q can be especially difficult, so the game has one side of one of the dice contain the 2 letters, 'Qu', together so that you don't have to rely on chance to make the Q more useful.

Well that's it - there's some mind-boggling trivia for your Thursday evening!

Our full collection, and all events can be found at www.theboardbartender.ca

10/09/2026

Friday Feature No. 66 🖊📷

Welcome to the curious world of Quelf. In this game, you simply roll a die each turn and move forward that number of spaces. First to the finish line wins. Sound easy? There is a couple catches...

First, each space you land on means there is a different card to be read and resulting action, trivia, stunt, and more events to complete. Each card has different rules on how the results of the event will impact the pieces on the board.

Second, the wacky character you pick may change the way you are affected by a card. Sometimes it helps, sometimes it hinders.

Third, there is one last challenge. On the last space, you must successfully survive a final, harder, Scatterbrainz question to win the game.

So grab a group of friends, and game in the world of Quelf at your next board game night!

Rent it and other party games to add fun to your Friday nights, delivered by The Board Bartender!

Featured game:
🎲 Quelf

Our full collection and all events can be found at www.theboardbartender.ca

10/08/2026

It's a fun little piece of to know the origin of memorable words and phrases. One that comes to mind is the phrase "Back to square one".

What's neat about this phrase is that the origin is fairly recent for the history of words. In the late 19th century, there were multiple versions of the game we know today as Snakes & Ladders (or Chutes & Ladders). In many versions, you could make it almost all the way to the end of the game and hit a snake that would slide you all the way back to the start - or to square one. Hence, the origin of the phrase!

It's pretty cool how relevant games are in our day-to-day lives and how well-known some games, like Snakes & Ladders, can be to make us use a phrase that refers back to a childhood classic of the gaming community when we get flustered on a project at work as adults.

Our full collection, and all events can be found at www.theboardbartender.ca

10/02/2026

Friday Feature No. 65 🖊📷

Travel back to a time when settlers from Europe arrived in the Caribbean and established their industries in Puerto Rico. Build your industries, create goods, trade resources, and do even more to gain the most victory points in this resource management game.

Each round, players can take on a different role in the town. Become a Craftsman one turn to produce goods, a Mayor another turn to usher in new colonists, and a builder a later turn to construct the structures needed in this bustling new town. Manage your resources the best and you just might be the most victorious player in Puerto Rico!

Rent it and other strategy games to add fun to your Friday nights, delivered by The Board Bartender!

Featured game:
🎲 Puerto Rico

Our full collection and all events can be found at www.theboardbartender.ca

10/01/2026

For we look at the game that leads all other trivia games - Trivial Pursuit! For such a popular game for many generations, it is amazing the game isn't even 50 years old yet. It was designed right here in Canada in Montreal, Quebec in 1979 and released just 2 years later in 1981.

Since then, though, a pretty cool fact is that it has inspired, not one, not two, but three different games shows of the same name! The early nineties had a show on British television, the mid-nineties featured the American version of the show, and then the late 2000s saw the release of a brief one season run of Trivial Pursuit: America Plays. Now, the American show from the 90s was recently revived and is hosted by Levar Burton.

There's some trivia about trivial pursuit for you to bring out at your next game night. And check it out - the current show is pretty fun to watch too!

Our full collection, and all events can be found at www.theboardbartender.ca

09/25/2026

Friday Feature No. 64 🖊📷

Pair up this Friday to meld your mind with a friend. Each round, you and your partner try to quickly write down as many things in the category rolled as you can. The goal isn't to have the most matches, but just enough to at least have the amount on the rolled die, but only one of you knows that value!

Race against your opponents to score the most each round. If you and your partner score enough points to each reach the centre first, your team wins! So find that friend where you can finish each other's sentences and team up to show everyone you have the best Like Minds.

Rent it and other cooperative games to add fun to your Friday nights, delivered by The Board Bartender!

Featured game:
🎲 Like Minds

Our full collection and all events can be found at www.theboardbartender.ca

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