(CANCELLED)Bi-Weekly Board Game Night
2020-03-17 17:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | 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)Weekly Board Game Night
2020-03-17 17:00 - 21:00 | 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)Pokemon League Night
2020-03-17 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/

(CANCELLED)Weekly D&D Organized Play
2020-03-16 17:00 - 21:00 | Diversions South Portland, 415 Philbrook Ave, South Portland, ME, 04106, United States
Been craving some Dungeons & Dragons? Keep an eye out and sign up to join in on the fun here: https://warhorn.net/games/location?q=diversions
It is a $4 entry fee to participate. This will go toward our Dungeon Masters so they can keep hosting games and be able to afford more content.
This event is for any and all adventurers alike. Brand new players as well as experienced players are invited to participate. This is a good way to learn the game, as well as a place to enjoy the game for anyone who hasn’t been in a group for a while.
We’ll be posting events every week, and each group will be continuing on in their quest. You can join in with whichever group you sign up with, and carry on with the same character. Please sign up ahead of the event so the Dungeon Master of each group can be prepared. Each group is limited to it’s player count, if you don’t sign up, you might not be able to play with that group.
We follow some of the rules of Adventurer’s League, including character building rules. This is not an Adventurer’s League event although we have found some of the same limitations beneficial. Deviation may be allowed, as with all things adventuring related your Dungeon Master has the final say. You can read more about Adventurer’s League at the link below:
http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/events/adventurers-league-resources
Want to be a Dungeon Master for our events? Chat with an employee of the store and give us your information. We can help set you up! Some days we will have more DMs available than on others, so we might need to contact you on the day of to see if you’re available to host a table. If you are unable to host on a day we were expecting you, please contact us so that we can ensure enough games will be hosted.
If you have any questions or concerns feel free to contact us.

(CANCELLED)Pathfinder Tabletop RPG (1st edition)
2020-03-16 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!

(CANCELLED)Magic: the Gathering Booster Draft
2020-03-15 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!

(POSTPONED)Game Day with Chits & Bits
2020-03-14 17:00 - 23:59 | Diversions South Portland, 415 Philbrook Ave, South Portland, ME, 04106, United States
We’re teaming up with Chits an Bits for a day of board games #forthekids! A Used Game Sale starts the day right at 9am, followed by tabletop gaming all day and into the night. Chits & Bits will be there raffling off great prizes including games, puzzles, and gift cards, and you can even spin our Prize Wheel with a donation of $10 or more! Stay and play all day until midnight!
All donations go directly to the The Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital at Maine Medical Center.

(CANCELLED)Party Game Night at Diversions!
2020-03-14 17:00 - 21:00 | Diversions South Portland, 415 Philbrook Ave, South Portland, ME, 04106, United States
It’s party game night at Diversions! Come join a few game creators to demo some games, and if you like what you play, take a copy home with you!
Current list of creators:
Cheer Up! by Cheer Up Games
More announced soon!

(POSTPONED) Used Game Sale
2020-03-14 09:00 - 2020-03-15 18:00 | Diversions South Portland, 415 Philbrook Ave, South Portland, ME, 04106, United States
It’s that time of the year again, our next used game sale is on its way! The Used Board Game Sale will take place all weekend long, from 9:00 AM to midnight on Saturday, and 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM on Sunday.
We will start taking used games on February 24th and we will not take any others after March 10th. Please fill out a form with your games, the price you are asking for, and its condition. Games and components must be in a decent and playable condition and the games must have all of their components. Please check the components before you bring them in, because Diversions will not be responsible for looking through them.
http://bit.ly/UGSSpring2020
Any game that you bring in that is sold will earn you store credit equal to the price you set for it. Want to sell a copy of Catan for $10.00? If someone buys it, you’ll get $10.00 in Diversions store credit. Store credit will be issued by Friday the 20th, after the event in a lump sum. If you sell $50.00 worth of games over the course of the weekend, you’ll get a single gift card worth $50.00.
Also join us all day for gaming, hosted by Chits & Bits. They’ll be taking donations in the form of raffle tickets where they’ll be giving away some really cool items. There will be some other events going on throughout the day too!
Find out more from Chits & Bits here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/224859462026557/

(CANCELED) Bi-Weekly Board Game Night
2020-03-12 17:00 - 21:00, 2020-03-10 17:00 - 21:00, 2020-03-05 17:00 - 21:00, 2020-03-03 17:00 - 21:00, 2020-02-27 17:00 - 21:00 | Diversions South Portland, 415 Philbrook Ave, South Portland, ME, 04106, United States

Game On! Board Games with Diversions
2020-03-12 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.

MTG Casual Commander Night
2020-03-11 17:00 - 21:00, 2020-02-26 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.

Weekly LCG Night
2020-03-11 17:00 - 21:00, 2020-03-04 17:00 - 21:00 | Diversions South Portland, 415 Philbrook Ave, South Portland, ME, 04106, United States
Living Card Games are a form of Collectible Card Game where the card pool is easy to get, and each game brings its own unique experience. You can go on a cooperative adventure in the Lord of the Rings Card Game and Investigate a mind bending story in Arkham Horror. Or you can fight other players for honor and the rights to rule in Legend of the Five Rings and Game of Thrones respectively!
Other card games are welcome too! Play some Star Wars Destiny, Key Forge, or any other CCG or TCG!
Play at Diversions and meet and play with other players who share the same passion for the game as you might! Or come in and try a new game, who knows, you might even get hooked!

Weekly D&D Organized Play
2020-03-09 17:00 - 21:00, 2020-03-02 17:00 - 21:00 | Diversions South Portland, 415 Philbrook Ave, South Portland, ME, 04106, United States

Space Kings Role Playing Game
2020-03-08 12:00 - 15:00 | 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/

Marvel Champions Night
2020-03-07 17:00 - 21:00 | Diversions South Portland, 415 Philbrook Ave, South Portland, ME, 04106, United States
Join our organized play for Marvel Champions! Bring your favorite deck, or mix it up and try something new. We’ll spend evenings trying out different challenges, or just enjoying the game! We’ll also be able to earn exclusive promos for the game!

Board Game Cafe
2020-03-07 11:00 - 14:00 | Freeport Community Library, 10 Library Dr, Freeport, Maine
The perfect way to try out new and upcoming games – for free! The Board Game Café at Freeport Community Library happens the first Saturday of the month, 11am-2pm. Diversions brings a different selection of games each month for you to choose from. This is a super fun time for the whole family, so bring the whole gang! Free and open to the public.

(CANCELED) Dungeons & Dragons: Adventurers League
2020-03-06 17:00 - 21:00, 2020-02-28 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!

News & Brews Trivia with Maine Public
2020-03-04 19:00 - 22:00 | Foulmouthed Brewing, 15 Ocean St, Portland, ME, United States
Are you paying attention? Are your friends? Think you’ve got all the answers? That’s what we’ll find out this Winter!
Over consecutive weeks starting from January 29 to March 30, Maine Public will take to some of Maine’s best brew pubs and test you on current events, news items, and all around things you probably should know!
Teams of no more than six persons each assemble, but you can play with fewer, or come alone and find a team to join. Maine Public staff will host each game, reading out questions around public broadcasting-centric categories (All Things Considered, Find Your Hidden Brain, Marketplace Musings, I See Your Ten and Raise You!, and more!).
Winning teams get bragging rights, gift certificates, custom Maine Public mason jars, and sometimes additional prizes, depending on the venue. Come to just one or show up to all of our News & Brews Trivia Nights.
Show us what you know!

Pokemon League Night
2020-03-03 17:00 - 20:00 | Diversions South Portland, 415 Philbrook Ave, South Portland, ME, 04106, United States

Res Arcana Tournament
2020-02-29 14:00 - 17:00 | Diversions South Portland, 415 Philbrook Ave, South Portland, ME, 04106, United States
Magic takes shape through many different ways, and it takes the most skilled mages to control it. Prove to us that you are the best mage in the world of Res Arcana!
This tournament will be a round robin of 3 rounds. Players will earn points based on where they place in their games. Whoever has the best outcome after the 3 rounds will be crowned victorious. A unique prize will await them.
We humbly ask and appreciate any participants who are willing to bring their own copies of the game with them. The more copies brought, the more games we can host at a time!

News & Brews Trivia with Maine Public
2020-02-27 18:00 - 20:00 | Bissell Brothers, 4 Thompson's Point, Portland, ME, United States
