(CANCELLED)Weekly Board Game Night
2020-03-31 17:00 - 21:00, 2020-04-07 17:00 - 21:00, 2020-04-14 17:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Diversions Puzzles & Games, 123 Congress St, Portsmouth, NH, 03801, United States
Tuesday is weekly board game night at Diversions Puzzles & Games in downtown Portsmouth! Join us and you can find new games to learn and play! We have a constantly updated game library which you may pick games from to play or you can bring your favorites from home! There is no shortage of games and if this is a new event for you, you’re guaranteed to find a group who would be happy to teach you how to play a new game.
The most common games that are played on Tuesdays are light & heavy strategy games. Everything from Sushi Go! to Ticket to Ride to Scythe and everything in between and beyond! Everyone is welcome, new & regular players alike. Drop in and leave at any time!
Parking is available in the Worth Lot behind the store for $1.50/hour, with meters operating until 8:00pm. Candy and drinks are available in the store for purchase. You may bring your own food but please dispose of your trash properly. Thank you!

(CANCELLED)Bi-Weekly Board Game Night
2020-03-31 17:00 - 21:00, 2020-04-02 17:00 - 21:00 | Diversions South Portland, 415 Philbrook Ave, South Portland, ME, 04106, United States
Join us every Tuesday and Thursday evening for our weekly board game nights featuring light, medium, and heavy strategy games. Bring your favorites or try out some of our demos. (Games need to be family friendly). Stop in and play a game or two!
We have a lot of space and are always happy to make more! There are enough tables and chairs for around 30-40 people, and we hope you all feel welcome using our space!

(CANCELLED)LGBTQ+ Game Night
2020-04-02 18:00 - 21:00, 2020-04-16 18:00 - 21:00 | Diversions Puzzles & Games, 123 Congress St, Portsmouth, NH, 03801, United States
Join us to play fun games and make new friends! This game night is a safe space for LGBTQ+ and allies to hang out and explore new games. Come by and you can find new games to learn and play. We have a constantly updated game library which you may pick games from to play or you can bring your favorites from home! There is no shortage of games and if this is a new event for you, you’re guaranteed to find a group who would be happy to teach you how to play a new game.
Game nights will be held the 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month. Everyone is welcome, new & regular players alike. Drop in and leave at any time!
Parking is available in the Worth Lot behind the store for $1.50/hour, with meters operating until 8:00pm. Candy and drinks are available in the store for purchase. You may bring your own food but please dispose of your trash properly. Thank you!

(CANCELLED)Dungeons & Dragons: Adventurers League
2020-04-03 17:00 - 21:00, 2020-04-10 17:00 - 21:00, 2020-04-17 17:00 - 21:00 | Diversions Puzzles & Games, 123 Congress St, Portsmouth, NH, 03801, United States
Sign ups for this event are required to participate! See below for how to sign up.
D&D Adventurers League is a weekly event at Diversions, featuring an ongoing campaign or one shot adventures for Dungeons & Dragons. It uses the fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons rules/ Players use the rules to create a character and bring that character to games anywhere D&D Adventurers League play is happening.
As a player, all you need to do is make a character and show up and play (with dice)! Character creation is easy. You’ll need either a Player’s Handbook or a copy of the D&D Basic Rules, and a D&D Adventurers League character logsheet. Pre-generated character sheets can be provided if you wish to not build your own character. Basic rules and character sheets can be found here: http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/character_sheets
Sign ups for the event are facilitated through Warhorn.net. Follow this link and create an account to sign up for a seat in the event. Players will also need to register a DCI number (membership card through the publisher) which can be done in the store.
https://warhorn.net/games?q=diversions
Parking is available in the Worth Lot behind the store for $1.50/hour, with meters operating until 8:00pm. Candy and drinks are available in the store for purchase. You may bring your own food but please dispose of your trash properly. Thank you!

(CANCELLED)Board Game Expo @ Diversions
2020-04-04 | Diversions South Portland, 415 Philbrook Ave, South Portland, ME, 04106, United States
On April 4th, 100 game stores across the country will host the inaugural Board Game Expo, also known as BGX, and Diversions is excited to participate!
Brought to you by Gaming Days LLC, the same team behind Free RPG Day, BGX will be an epic in-store board game pre-release event for select retail locations. Participating stores will 11 yet-to-be-released board game titles in limited quantities available for purchase 30+ days prior to the game’s general release date (detailed descriptions of each game can be found at the BGX website, https://boardgameexpo.com/):
Cosmic Encounter Duel (Fantasy Flight Games)
Tang Garden (Lucky Duck Games)
Deep Vents (Red Raven Games)
Similo: Myths (Luma Imports)
Looney Labs’ Tiny Box of Fun (Looney Labs)
The Mind Extreme (Pandasaurus Games)
Santa Monica (AEG Games)
Sugar Blast (CMON)
Stampede (WizKids)
Space Battle Lunchtime Card Game (Renegade Games)
Succulent (Renegade Games)
Gaming is open all day, and we will have many of these games playable as demos and we will also be teaching a few of them as well! Between 2 and 4pm you will get to vote on your favorite BGX game and favorite baked good. A copy of the winning game will be given to a randomly selected voter!
1:15: We’ll kick off our event with a showcase of Space Battle Lunchtime! Get ready for a food contest, because you’ll be collecting flavors like succulent and savory, piecing together the most amazing dishes. Bring that dish to one of the judges and they may help you further yourself in the competition.
2:00: Let’s take a look at Deep Vents! Build your underwater ecosystem to withstand the dangers of the deep sea. As you build, you’ll attack the other players, so you have to decide with every tile purchase how much health that tile is worth.
2:00: Bake-Off Begins! Details on how to enter the Bake-Off are below, but everyone gets to be a judge! Starting at 2pm everyone in the store will get to sample the different Bake-Off submissions and enter their vote for the best baked good.
2:45: The last showcase will be Succulent. Plant flowers while collecting petals and water droplets in the garden. Be rewarded based on where and how you place your new plants and spend what you’ve collected to get points!
Some other games available to try out will be: Santa Monica, Sugar Blast, and Stampede. We will be adding a little something special as a thank you on purchases of any of these new titles during the day of this event. We hope to see you stop by and join in on the fun!
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Announcing the first ever Diversions Bake Off!
The winner of the bake-off gets to select a free copy of any of the 11 featured games! Participation is free, and anyone is welcome to enter. No need to sign up ahead of time, folks are welcome to bring in their entries between 1:45 and 2:00pm. Please check in with the Diversions staff with your contact information and any allergenic ingredients, and then we’ll help you set up your display.
Bake Off Rules:
1. You may enter whatever baked goods you would like, however you must be able to feed 2 bakers dozens (26 People). If you happen to make cakes or pies, please have them pre-cut to ensure that enough servings are available as well as be ready for easy serving.
2. The theme is Diversions, this can be board game, puzzle, brainteaser, dice related or whatever else you come up with!
3. Diversions isn’t the judge! Anyone who participates in the Game Day is welcome to try the desserts and vote for their favorite. Make a crowd-pleaser.
4. What’s a contest without having the food displayed nicely? Arrange your cookies creatively on a wide platter, or your cake proudly on a cake stand while being considerate of space for your competitors.
5. Don’t forget to name your piece and list any allergenic ingredients on a small sign to go with your masterpiece, folks will need to know how to vote for your dessert!

(CANCELLED)Late Night Gaming
2020-04-04 17:00 - 23:59 | Diversions Puzzles & Games, 123 Congress St, Portsmouth, NH, 03801, United States
The first Saturday of each month is late night gaming at Diversions Puzzles & Games! Bring your own games or choose games from our rotating library of strategy and family games. New players are welcome to join and learn new games to play!
Gaming will run from 5:00 PM until midnight!
Parking is available in the Worth Lot behind the store for $1.50/hour, with meters operating until 8:00pm. Candy and drinks are available in the store for purchase. You may bring your own food but please dispose of your trash properly. Thank you!

(CANCELLED)Magic: the Gathering Booster Draft
2020-04-05 11:45 - 16:00, 2020-04-12 11:45 - 16:00, 2020-04-19 11:45 - 16:00 | Diversions Puzzles & Games, 123 Congress St, Portsmouth, NH, 03801, United States
Join us for our weekly Sunday booster draft event for Magic: Gathering. This is a sanctioned event by Wizards of the Coast. All players, beginners and seasoned are welcome to come play.
REGISTRATION ENDS AT 11:45AM.
Entry for the event is $15.00, three boosters and prize support. All players must have a DCI card, which you can register for upon signing up. Please arrive 30 minutes early to register. The event lasts for four 45 minute rounds after drafting.
In a booster draft, players are seated around a table and each player is given three booster packs. Each player opens a pack, selects a card from it and passes the remaining cards face down to his or her left. Each player then selects one of the remaining cards from the pack that was just passed to him or her, and passes the remaining cards to the left again. This continues until all of the cards are selected. The process is repeated with the second and third packs, except that the cards are passed to the right in the second pack. Players then build decks out of any cards that they selected during the drafting and add as many basic lands as they choose. Each deck built this way must have a minimum of 40 cards, including basic lands. Basic lands are provided.
After deckbuilding, the players are randomly matched up against an opponent and play a best two out of three games match. Players are awarded points for winning and will be matched against equally skilled players in the subsequent rounds. At the end of the tournament, booster packs or store credit are rewarded to the top half of the players.
Parking is available in the Worth Lot behind the store for $1.50/hour, with meters operating until 8:00pm. Candy and drinks are available in the store for purchase. You may bring your own food but please dispose of your trash properly. Thank you!

(CANCELED)Space Kings Role Playing Game
2020-04-05 13:00 - 16:00 | Diversions South Portland, 415 Philbrook Ave, South Portland, ME, 04106, United States
Space Kings is a brand new, up and coming Role Playing Game from Super Try Studios in Boston! Kickstarted in less than a day back in October, this game is a story and improv game made by a group of friends enjoying their own story telling adventures.
Friend of store Gabriel is bringing in their beta copy of the game to host an adventure of their own! All you need is a full deck of classic playing cards and a creative mind to play this game. Shuffle your deck and let the cards guide your adventure!
This event is open for all ages and all levels of game players, so jump in and adventure into the great unknown.
To learn more about Space Kings or Super Try Studios, you can go here: https://supertry.itch.io/

(CANCELLED)Pathfinder Tabletop RPG (1st edition)
2020-04-06 16:00 - 21:00, 2020-04-13 16:00 - 21:00 | Diversions Puzzles & Games, 123 Congress St, Portsmouth, NH, 03801, United States
Join us every Monday for a Pathfinder tabletop RPG session. Players are continuing the campaign led by a game master who facilitates the players on their adventure with their characters. Feel free to drop in and join the adventure!
Parking is available in the Worth Lot behind the store for $1.50/hour, with meters operating until 8:00pm. Candy and drinks are available in the store for purchase. You may bring your own food but please dispose of your trash properly. Thank you!

(CANCELED)Bi-Weekly Board Game Night
2020-04-07 17:00 - 21:00, 2020-04-09 17:00 - 21:00, 2020-04-14 17:00 - 21:00, 2020-04-16 17:00 - 21:00 | Diversions South Portland, 415 Philbrook Ave, South Portland, ME, 04106, United States

(CANCELED) Bi-Weekly Board Game Night
2020-04-07 17:00 - 21:00, 2020-04-09 17:00 - 21:00, 2020-04-14 17:00 - 21:00, 2020-04-16 17:00 - 21:00 | Diversions South Portland, 415 Philbrook Ave, South Portland, ME, 04106, United States

(CANCELED)MTG Casual Commander Night
2020-04-08 17:00 - 21:00 | Diversions South Portland, 415 Philbrook Ave, South Portland, ME, 04106, United States
Bring your favorite Commander decks in and play with others at our casual Commander Night. Have fun deck building, bring in your jank: we want to see your goofy combos!
This is not a sanctioned Wizards of the Coast event. This will be a bi-weekly event, scheduled every other Wednesday.

(CANCELED)Game On! Board Games with Diversions
2020-04-09 15:00 - 17:00 | South Portland Public Library, 482 Broadway, South Portland, Maine
Novice and expert gamers alike are invited to a monthly after-school board game program in partnership with Diversions Puzzles and Games! Bring a favorite game to play with friends, or try a game from our collection. A member of Diversions’ expert staff will be on hand to provide instruction on the games. For more information, call Youth Services at (207)767-7660 ext. 3. Ages 6-18.

(CANCELED)Late Night Gaming
2020-04-11 17:00 - 23:59 | Diversions South Portland, 415 Philbrook Ave, South Portland, ME, 04106, United States
It’s our monthly 7 hour game night! Every 2nd Saturday of every month we have an extended game night. Bring your favorites or try out some of our demos. (Games need to be family friendly). Stop in and play a game or two!
We have a lot of space and are always happy to make more! There are enough tables and chairs for around 30-40 people, and we hope you all feel welcome using our space!

(CANCELED)Pokemon League Night
2020-04-14 17:00 - 20:00 | Diversions South Portland, 415 Philbrook Ave, South Portland, ME, 04106, United States
Everyone of all ages and experience is welcome to join us for this free Pokemon event! This is an open play event, you can play any deck you have, trade cards with other players and talk about your favorite Pokemon!
We will occasionally organize tournaments on this night, which will be noted in other posts. Prize cards for tournaments and other nights will be announced as we receive them.
League details can be found at the link below:
https://www.pokemon.com/us/play-pokemon/pokemon-events/leagues/6234367/
