September Board Game Events
Board Games 101 – Learn to Play Three Board Games!
What You Get
This month we’re teaching some quick-to-learn dexterity games. If you like Jenga, give these games a try!
No experience necessary. We will set up the games, teach you how to play and answer any questions along the way.
Ticket includes your game pass for the rest of the night, one free drink and a button for completing the course!
More Info
Each person should purchase their own ticket. We will teach multiple tables at a time, so if you have a group and you want your group all at the same table, just be sure you all sign up for the same day/time and we can coordinate getting you at the right tables when you arrive.
It is always helpful to arrive 10-15 minutes early to park, get your drink/snacks and get settled at your table. Parking info can be found here.
After the event, if we have extra open copies of the game, you can purchase them at a discount! We can also pre-order a new copy for you if you prefer. We donate 20% of the profits from our food, drink and merch sales back to our partner non-profit rescues, so buying a game from us levels up your good vibes. 😎
September Game Syllabus
Tickets for each night sold separately
- Wednesday, Sept 3 – Kittin, Hamster Roll, Crokinole
- Wednesday, Sept 10 – Kittin, Klask, Nekojima
- Wednesday, Sept 17 – Kittin, Kabuto Sumo, Dodos Riding Dinos
- Wednesday, Sept 24 – Kittin, The Fuzzies, Hibachi
Board Game Concierge Night
What You Get
This month our board game concierge is teaching some great games that aren’t even available for retail purchase yet!
Endeavor: Deep Sea was the 2025 Kennerspiel des Jahres winner! This is an award given each year to the best connoisseur board game or more complex games that are suitable for experiences gamers.
Lightning Train was pre-released at Gencon this year, and we snagged a copy!
Some modern board game experience is necessary. We will have the game setup when you arrive, do a full teach of the rules and answer any questions along the way, but these are much more complex games that will likely be difficult for someone brand new to the hobby.
Ticket includes full setup/teach/questions answered for the duration of the game, your game pass for the rest of the night, one free drink and a button for completing the concierge game! You should expect any concierge game to take a minimum of 2 hours to complete.
More Info
One ticket per person.
It is always helpful to arrive 10-15 minutes early to park, get your drink/snacks and get settled at your table. Parking info can be found here.
Endeavor: Deep Sea is currently out of stock at the publisher and Lighting Train won’t be available for retail purchase until September 30, but you can play both of these games now at The Scratching Post and pre-order copies from us if you love them! We donate 20% of the profits from our food, drink and merch sales back to our partner non-profit rescues, so buying a game from us levels up your good vibes. 😎
September Concierge Game Schedule
Tickets for each night sold separately
- Sunday, Sept7 – Endeavor: Deep Sea
- Sunday, Sept 14 – Lightning Train
- Sunday, Sept 21 – Endeavor: Deep Sea
- Sunday, Sept 28 – Lightning Train
Demo Day!
Saturdays in September are Demo Days! We’ll have a game set up at the bar and we’ll take you through a quick demo to get a feel for how to play. All demo day games are available for sale and available in our library, so if you like the demo, you can buy a copy for yourself or purchase a game pass to play our library copy.
20% of the profits from the sales of our food, drinks and merch are donated back to our partner rescues, so buying a game from us levels up your good vibes.
September Demo Games Schedule
- Saturday, September 6 – Boop
- Saturday, September 13 – Mushroom Cats
- Saturday, September 20 – Harmonies
- Saturday, September 27 – Super Kawaii Pets
Game Table Reservations
Reservations coming soon!
Want to be sure there’s a table available for your group? Need someone to hide that new game you’ve been eyeing behind the counter until you arrive? Reserve a table at least 24 hours in advance and guarantee your spot. Add a note about the game you’d like to play and we’ll reserve that for you too.
Game Pass
Access our 500+ boardgame library with a Game Pass. (Scroll down to check out our current list of games!) $5 per person for 2 hours. This fee helps to cover the cost of replacing well-loved games, and helps us regularly buy new games to keep our library fresh. Game Passes are sold on a walk-in basis.
Can I bring my own game/DND/Magic/etc?
Absolutely. Once you purchase a Game Pass you are welcome to use our tables to play any of our games or one you bring with you. 5
2+ hours
$5/person
Hundreds of games
Game Picker
Need help picking a game? Try out our Game Picker here! Answer a few quick questions and we’ll give you a list of games from our library that you might like. Happy gaming!
Board Game List
Game | OG | Party | Co-op | Roll & Write | Heavy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Rivers | |||||
| 6 nimmt! (aka Take 5) | |||||
| 7 wonders (2nd edition) | |||||
| 7 Wonders Duel | |||||
| 7th Sea | heavy | ||||
| 7th Sea: Tooth and Claw | heavy | ||||
| 9 Lives | |||||
| A Gentle Rain | |||||
| A Little Wordy | |||||
| Abducktion | |||||
| Aggretsuko | |||||
| Agricola | heavy | ||||
| Agricola All Creatures Big and Small | |||||
| Alien Petshop | |||||
| Almost Innocent | co-op | ||||
| America: A Trivia Party Game Where Close Counts | party | ||||
| Applejack | |||||
| Arboretum | |||||
| Arch Ravels | |||||
| Archeos Society | |||||
| Arcs | |||||
| Atlantis Rising 2nd Edition | |||||
| Atlantis Rising: Monstrosities | |||||
| Attack of the Jelly Monster | |||||
| Azul | |||||
| Azul Crystal Mosaic Expansion | |||||
| Azul Duel | |||||
| Azul Duel - How To Play - YouTube | |||||
| Azul Glazed Pavilion Expansion | |||||
| Azul queens garden | |||||
| Azul Stained Glass of Sintra | |||||
| Azul Summer Pavillion | |||||
| Back to the Future: Back in Time | co-op | ||||
| Bananagrams | |||||
| Bananya: The Card Game | |||||
| Bang! The Dice Game | |||||
| Bargain Quest | |||||
| Bargain Quest: Black Market Expansion | |||||
| Battleship | og | ||||
| Bear Mountain Camping Adventure | |||||
| Beasts | |||||
| Beer and Bread | |||||
| Beez | |||||
| Betrayal at House on the Hill | |||||
| Big Boss | |||||
| Biomos | |||||
| Blockbuster | party | ||||
| Bloodborne: The Board Game | co-op | heavy | |||
| Bloodborne: The Board Game - Chalice Dungeon | co-op | ||||
| Bloodborne: The Board Game - Hunter's Dream | co-op | ||||
| Bloodborne: The Board Game - Mergo's Loft | co-op | ||||
| Bloodborne: The Board Game - Upper Cathedral Ward | co-op | ||||
| Bob Ross Art of Chill | |||||
| Boggle | OG | ||||
| Bohnanza Dahlias | |||||
| Bohnanza: 25th Anniversary Edition | |||||
| Bomb Busters | co-op | ||||
| Boomerang: Europe | |||||
| Boooop. | |||||
| Boop The Halls | |||||
| Boop: Kitten Kaboodles | |||||
| Boop. | |||||
| Botany | |||||
| Break the Cube | |||||
| Brew | |||||
| Bumuntu | |||||
| Bunny Kingdom | |||||
| Burgle Bros. | co-op | ||||
| Cafe Baras | |||||
| Cake Duel | |||||
| Calico | |||||
| Camel Up (second edition) | |||||
| Can't Stop! Revised Edition | |||||
| Candy Land | |||||
| Cantakerous Cats | |||||
| Canvas | |||||
| Canvas: Finishing Touches | |||||
| Canvas: Reflections | |||||
| Carcassonne | |||||
| Cascadia | |||||
| Cascadia: Landmarks Expansion | |||||
| Cascadia: Rolling Hills | roll & write | ||||
| Cascadia: Rolling Rivers | roll & write | ||||
| Cat Ass Trophy (aka Zero Down) | |||||
| Cat Blues: The Big Gig | |||||
| Cat Cafe | roll & write | ||||
| Cat Crimes | |||||
| Cat Days | |||||
| Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition | |||||
| Cat Lady | |||||
| Cat Lady Box of Treats Expansion | |||||
| Cat lady old maid | og | ||||
| Cat Packs | |||||
| Catan | |||||
| Catan: 5-6 Player Extension | |||||
| Catan: Seafarers | |||||
| CATastrophe - a game of 9 lives | |||||
| Cats & Boxes | |||||
| Catstronauts | |||||
| Century: Spice Road | |||||
| Chai | |||||
| Charcuterie: The Board Game | |||||
| Checkers | og | ||||
| Cheese Master | |||||
| Chess | og | ||||
| Chronicles of Crime | co-op | ||||
| Chucky | |||||
| Chutes and Ladders | og | ||||
| Clank!: A Deck Building Adventure | |||||
| Clank!: Catacombs | |||||
| Clue | og | ||||
| Codenames | party | ||||
| Codenames Duet | |||||
| Codenames Pictures | party | ||||
| Colassal Cat in the Box | |||||
| Coloretto | |||||
| Comic Hunters | |||||
| Concept | party | ||||
| Conflicting Legends (second edition) | |||||
| Connect 4 | OG | ||||
| Cosmic Frog | heavy | ||||
| Cosmic Frog Find Muck Expansion | heavy | ||||
| Cosmoctopus | |||||
| Creature Comforts | |||||
| Creepshow: The Suspense Building Game | |||||
| Cribbage | og | ||||
| Crokinole | |||||
| Cryptid | |||||
| Cubitos | |||||
| Cyber Pet Quest | co-op | ||||
| Daybreak | |||||
| Dead Last | party | ||||
| deck of cards | og | ||||
| Decorum | co-op | ||||
| Decrypto | party | ||||
| Decrypto Laserdrive | party | ||||
| Deep Sea Adventure | |||||
| Dice Miner | |||||
| Dice Throne Adventures | co-op | ||||
| Dice Throne Vol 1 | |||||
| Dice Throne Vol 2 | |||||
| Dice Throne: Marvel | |||||
| Dinosaur Island Rawr 'n Write | roll & write | ||||
| Disney Villainous | |||||
| Dizzle | roll & write | ||||
| Dodos Riding Dinos | party | ||||
| Dominion | |||||
| Dominoes | og | ||||
| Donut Shop | |||||
| Draftosaurus | |||||
| Dragon Castle | |||||
| Dreadful Meadows | |||||
| Dream Crush | |||||
| Dulce | |||||
| Dungeon Ball | |||||
| Dungeons Dice & Danger | |||||
| Eldritch Horror | co-op | heavy | |||
| Endeavor Deep Sea | heavy | ||||
| Ensemble | party | co-op | |||
| Escape From New York | |||||
| Escape the Dark Castle | co-op | ||||
| Everbloom | |||||
| Everdell | |||||
| Evolution | |||||
| Evolution: Climate | |||||
| Evolution: The Beginning | |||||
| Exploding Kittens | |||||
| Exploding Kittens 2 Player Edition | |||||
| Exploding Kittens: Good Vs Evil | |||||
| Fabled Fruit | |||||
| Fast & Furious: Highway Heist | co-op | ||||
| Fauna | |||||
| Featherlight | |||||
| Felinia | |||||
| Fika | |||||
| Final Girl: Bad Times at Buddyland | |||||
| Final Girl: Core Box | |||||
| Final Girl: Hell to Pay | |||||
| Final Girl: Into the Void | |||||
| Final Girl: Shriek | |||||
| Final Girl: The Happy Trails Horror | |||||
| Final Girl: The Marrek Murders | |||||
| Fire Tower | |||||
| Fish & Katz | |||||
| Flash Point: Fire Rescue | co-op | ||||
| Flourish | co-op | ||||
| For Sale | |||||
| Forbidden Desert | co-op | ||||
| Forbidden Island | co-op | ||||
| Forbidden Jungle | co-op | ||||
| Forbidden Sky | co-op | ||||
| Forsaken Forest | |||||
| Fort | |||||
| Fort: Cats and Dogs Expansion | |||||
| Four Gardens | |||||
| Four Humours | |||||
| Framework | |||||
| Fromage | |||||
| Fuse | co-op | ||||
| Galileo Galilei | heavy | ||||
| Gangs of Kyoto | |||||
| Gartenbau | heavy | ||||
| Gates of Delirium | |||||
| Gateway Island | party | ||||
| Ghost Stories | co-op | heavy | |||
| Gizmos | |||||
| Glitch Squad | party | ||||
| Gloomhaven Jaws of the Lion | co-op | heavy | |||
| Gloomies | |||||
| Go | heavy | ||||
| Gorinto | |||||
| Green Team Wins | party | ||||
| Guns or Treasure | |||||
| Habitats | |||||
| Hamster Roll | |||||
| Hanabi | |||||
| Happy Home | |||||
| Hard City | |||||
| Harmonies | |||||
| Harrow County: The Game of Gothic Conflict | heavy | ||||
| Heads Up!: Party Game | party | ||||
| Hens | |||||
| Hey! That's My Fish! | |||||
| Hibachi | |||||
| HiFi | |||||
| High Society | |||||
| Hissy Fit | co-op | ||||
| Hive | |||||
| Honey Buzz | |||||
| Honey Buzz: Fall Flavors Expansion | |||||
| Honey Buzz: Honey Pot Mini Expansion | |||||
| Hooky | |||||
| Horrified | co-op | ||||
| Horrified Greek Monsters | co-op | ||||
| Horrified: American Monsters | co-op | ||||
| Horrified: Dungeons & Dragons | |||||
| Horrified: World of Monsters | co-op | ||||
| Hot Tin Roof | |||||
| House of Cats | roll & write | ||||
| House of Pounce | |||||
| Imhotep | |||||
| Imhotep: The Duel | |||||
| Imperial Settlers: Empires of the North | heavy | ||||
| In Tents | party | ||||
| Inferno | heavy | ||||
| Intarsia | |||||
| It's Kind of a Fun Story | party | ||||
| Jaipur | |||||
| Jaws | |||||
| Jenga | og | ||||
| Jokkmokk | |||||
| Jungo | |||||
| Just One | party | co-op | |||
| Kabuto Sumo | |||||
| Kaleidos | party | ||||
| Kelp | |||||
| King of Tokyo | |||||
| Kingdomino | |||||
| Kites | party | ||||
| Kittens in a Blender: Delux Edition | |||||
| Kittin | |||||
| Klask | |||||
| Kluster | party | ||||
| Kraftwagen: Age of Engineering | |||||
| Kyoto No Neko | |||||
| Ladies & Gentlemen | party | ||||
| Landmarks | |||||
| Lanterns: The Harvest Festival | |||||
| Last Friday | |||||
| Legendary Encounters: Alien | |||||
| Lightning Train | |||||
| Lions of Lydia | |||||
| Llamaland | |||||
| Long Shot | |||||
| Long Shot: The Dice Game | |||||
| Love Letter | |||||
| Machi Koro | |||||
| Machi Koro: Bright Lights, Big City | |||||
| Magic the Gathering: Foundations Beginner Deck | |||||
| Mahjong | og | heavy | |||
| Mancala | |||||
| Mandala | |||||
| Mansions of Madness | heavy | ||||
| Marvel United | co-op | ||||
| Medical Mysteries: NYC Emergency Room | co-op | ||||
| Meow (2015) | |||||
| MEOW (2020) | |||||
| Merchants of the Dark Road | heavy | ||||
| Mice and Mystics | co-op | ||||
| MicroMacro: Crime City | co-op | ||||
| Mind MGMT | |||||
| MLEM: Space Agency | |||||
| Modern Art | |||||
| Monarch | |||||
| Monikers | party | ||||
| Monopoly (catopoly) | og | ||||
| Monopoly (classic) | og | ||||
| Monopoly Deal | |||||
| Monsdrawsity | party | ||||
| Moon Bunny Deluxe Edition | |||||
| Mouse Trap | |||||
| Mushroom Cats | |||||
| My Shelfie | |||||
| My Shelfie: The Dice Game | |||||
| Mysterium | party | ||||
| Nature: Base Game | |||||
| Nature: Module 1 - Flight | |||||
| Nature: Module 2 - Jurassic | |||||
| Nature: Module 3 - Natural Disasters | |||||
| Nebula | |||||
| Nekojima | |||||
| Ninja Cat Cucumber Attack! | party | ||||
| No Thanks! | |||||
| Nocturne | |||||
| Nova Luna | |||||
| Nyakuza | |||||
| On the Origin of Species | |||||
| On Tour | party | ||||
| One Deck Dungeon Forest of Shadows | |||||
| Onitama | |||||
| Ovation | |||||
| Pack the Essentials | |||||
| Paint the Roses | co-op | ||||
| Paleo | co-op | ||||
| Pandemic | co-op | ||||
| Pandemic Reign of Cthulhu | |||||
| Pandemic: In the Lab Expansion | |||||
| Parade | |||||
| Parks | |||||
| Pass the Pandas | |||||
| Patchwork | |||||
| Patchwork Christmas Edition | |||||
| Patchwork Halloween Edition | |||||
| Paw of Duty | |||||
| Periodic: A Game of the Elements | |||||
| Photosynthesis | |||||
| Pick Your Poison | party | ||||
| Planet Unknown | |||||
| Planted | |||||
| Plunder: A Pirate's Life | |||||
| Pocket Cats | |||||
| Portals | |||||
| Potion Explosion | |||||
| Power Plants | |||||
| Powerplay: Schemes and Skullduggery | |||||
| Printing Press | |||||
| Project L | |||||
| Psychic Pizza Deliverers go to the Ghost Town | |||||
| Pusheen Purrfect Pick | |||||
| Pusheen: The Stacking Game | |||||
| Qawale | |||||
| Quacks of Quedlinburg | |||||
| Quarto | |||||
| Queen by Midnight | |||||
| Quoridor: Pac-Man | |||||
| Race to the Raft | co-op | ||||
| Radlands | |||||
| Raising Chicago | |||||
| Rat-a-Tat Cat | |||||
| Rear Window | co-op | ||||
| Rebel Princess: Deluxe Edition | |||||
| Red7 | |||||
| Reef | |||||
| Res Arcana | |||||
| Retrograde | roll & write | ||||
| Rhino Hero | party | ||||
| River Valley Glassworks | |||||
| Rock Hard 1977 | heavy | ||||
| Rome in a Day | |||||
| Root | heavy | ||||
| Sagrada | |||||
| Santorini: Second Edition | |||||
| Schrodinger's Cats | |||||
| Score Four | |||||
| Scout | |||||
| Scrabble | og | ||||
| Sea Salt & Paper | |||||
| Self Careless | |||||
| Sheriff of Nottingham | |||||
| Shifting Stones | |||||
| Shobu | |||||
| Silver and Gold | |||||
| Silver: Bullet | |||||
| Skull | |||||
| Sky Team | co-op | ||||
| Slam Throne | |||||
| Slay the Spire | heavy | ||||
| Sleepy Cats | |||||
| Small Fjords | |||||
| Smash Up | |||||
| Snakes and Ladders | og | ||||
| Sorry! | |||||
| Space Base | |||||
| Space Battle Lunchtime Card Game | |||||
| Space Cadets Dice Duel | |||||
| Spellbook | |||||
| Spicy | |||||
| Splendor | |||||
| Splito | |||||
| Spyfall | party | ||||
| Star Realms | |||||
| Star Trek: Captain's Chair | |||||
| Star Wars: The Clone Wars | co-op | ||||
| Starship Captains | |||||
| Stuffed Fables | co-op | ||||
| Sub Terra | co-op | ||||
| Summoner Wars (second edition) | |||||
| Super Kawaii Pets | |||||
| Superfight | party | ||||
| Sushi Go Party! | party | ||||
| Sushi Go! 10th Anniversary Edition | |||||
| Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza | party | ||||
| Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza Halloween Edition | |||||
| Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza: Ridiculously LARGE | party | ||||
| Takenoko | |||||
| Tapple | party | ||||
| Telestrations | party | ||||
| TEN | |||||
| Terraforming Mars | heavy | ||||
| Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition | |||||
| Tesseract | co-op | ||||
| That Bed is Mine | |||||
| That Time You Killed Me | |||||
| That's Not a Hat | party | ||||
| That's Pretty Clever | |||||
| The Adventures of Robin Hood | co-op | ||||
| The Captain is Dead | co-op | ||||
| The Castles of Burgundy 20th Anniversary Edition | heavy | ||||
| The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine | |||||
| The Deadbolt Mystery Society: The Cabin | |||||
| The Deadbolt Mystery Society: The Ventriloquist Howl at the Moon | |||||
| The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era | heavy | ||||
| The Four Doors | |||||
| The Fox in the Forest | |||||
| The Fuzzies | party | ||||
| The Gang | |||||
| The Gardens | |||||
| The Initiative | co-op | ||||
| The Isle of Cats | |||||
| The Isle of Cats: Explore and Draw | roll & write | ||||
| The Mind | co-op | ||||
| The Night Cage | co-op | ||||
| The Night Cage: Shrieking Hollow Expansion | co-op | ||||
| The Oregon Trail Card Game | |||||
| The Search for UAPs | |||||
| The Shining | co-op | ||||
| The Shivers | |||||
| The Spill | co-op | ||||
| The Thing: The Boardgame | co-op | ||||
| Things They Don't Teach You in School | party | ||||
| This Game is Killer | party | ||||
| This Game is Killer: Frozen Horror | party | co-op | |||
| Three Sisters | roll & write | ||||
| Thunder Road Vendetta | |||||
| Ticket to Ride | |||||
| Tiger & Dragon | |||||
| Timeline Challenge | |||||
| Timeline Twist: Pop Culture Edition | co-op | ||||
| Tinderblox | |||||
| Tinderblox: Storm Edition | |||||
| Tiny Towns | |||||
| Transformers Deck Building Game | |||||
| Trio | |||||
| Trogdor! | co-op | ||||
| Turing Machine | |||||
| Twilight Inscription | |||||
| Ultimate Dibs | party | ||||
| Undaunted 2200: Callisto | |||||
| Undaunted: Battle of Britain | heavy | ||||
| Unlock! Heroic Adventures | co-op | ||||
| Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume 2 | |||||
| Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume One | |||||
| Unmatched: Cobble and Fog | |||||
| Unmatched: Slings and Arrows | |||||
| Uno | og | ||||
| Vast: The Crystal Caverns | heavy | ||||
| Vegetable Stock | |||||
| Vengeance: Roll & Fight - Episode 1 | |||||
| Verdant | |||||
| Viceroy | |||||
| Video Game Champion | |||||
| Viticulture | |||||
| War Chest | |||||
| Wavelength | party | ||||
| Way Too Many Cats | |||||
| Weirdwood Manor | co-op | heavy | |||
| Welcome To...The Moon | |||||
| Welcome To...Your Perfect Home | |||||
| Werewords | party | ||||
| Whiskers & Tails | |||||
| Wine Cellar | |||||
| Wingspan | |||||
| Wonderland's War | heavy | ||||
| World of Warcraft Wrath of the Lich King | co-op | ||||
| Wroth | |||||
| Wyrmspan | heavy | ||||
| Yinsh | |||||
| Zombie Kittens |