Diversions Puzzles & Games

Saturday Game Day
2021-08-07 12:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Join us for a Saturday Game Day! Come in between 12:00pm and 9:00pm for a day of board games! Choose from our demo library, or bring your own family-friendly games.
While we work through re-establishing events, this will take the place of our normal Late Night Gaming event temporarily.

Game Night
2021-08-06 17:00 - 21:00, 2021-07-30 17:00 - 21:00, 2021-07-23 17:00 - 21:00, 2021-07-16 17:00 - 21:00, 2021-07-09 17:00 - 21:00
Join us every Friday evening for our weekly board game night 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!

Marvel Champions Game Night
2021-08-04 17:00 - 21:00
Join us for a Marvel Champions Game Night! Marvel Champions: The Card Game invites players to embody iconic heroes from the Marvel Universe as they battle to stop infamous villains from enacting their devious schemes.

As a Living Card Game, Marvel Champions is supported with regular releases of new product, including new heroes and scenarios.
This event is free to join. Please bring your own decks, as there will be no product provided by Diversions for this event.

Game Night
2021-08-03 17:00 - 21:00
Join us every Tuesday evening for our weekly board game night featuring light, medium, and heavy strategy board games! Bring your favorites or try out some of our demos in-store. Stop in and play a game or two! Parking is available behind the store. Drinks and snacks are available for purchase inside the store.

Game Night
2021-08-03 17:00 - 21:00, 2021-07-27 17:00 - 21:00, 2021-07-20 17:00 - 21:00, 2021-07-13 17:00 - 21:00, 2021-07-06 17:00 - 21:00
Join us every Tuesday evening for our weekly board game night 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!

Magic: the Gathering Booster Draft
2021-08-01 12:00 - 17:00, 2021-07-25 12:00 - 17:00, 2021-07-11 12:00 - 17:00
Join us for our weekly booster draft for Magic: Gathering. This is a sanctioned event through Wizards of the Coast. All players, beginners and seasoned are welcome to come play! Players must pay and register in the store by 11:45AM.

Entry for the event is $20, three booster packss and one entry fee. All players must have a Wizards Account with a valid email address. You can create an account here: https://myaccounts.wizards.com/register

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 three players.

We highly recommend downloading the Magic Companion App from the App or Play Store to follow along with the progress of the event from your phone!

https://locator.wizards.com/store/10812

Game Night
2021-07-30 17:00 - 21:00, 2021-07-23 17:00 - 21:00, 2021-07-16 17:00 - 21:00, 2021-07-09 17:00 - 21:00
Join us Friday evenings in July 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!

*** COVID safety requirements and capacity limits TBD. Please check back before attending to ensure you are able/willing to comply with any requirements we may implement.***

Magic: The Gathering: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Pre-Release
2021-07-18 12:00 - 17:00
Join us for the Magic the Gathering: Adventures in the Forgotten Realm Prerelease at Diversions Puzzles & Games – Portsmouth!
Registration for this event is open from 10:00-11:45AM on the day of the event. No registrations after 11:45AM. The cost for entry is $27.99
Players must have an active Wizards Account with a valid email to participate. You can register for an account here:
https://myaccounts.wizards.com/register

Prereleases are Sealed Deck format events, where you build a minimum 40-card deck using the contents of a Prerelease Pack (6 booster packs) and a Premium date-stamped promo card) plus basic lands that are provided to you by the store. After your deck is built, you’ll be randomly paired with another player for a best two-of-three match. Each round you’ll report who won and be paired up with a new player. If you do well, you might win additional booster packs as prizes!

Each person may only purchase one pre-release pack for use during the event only. All event participants will receive at least one free booster during prizing.

Pokémon Game Day
2021-07-18 11:00 - 14:00
Everyone of all ages and experience is welcome to join us for this free Pokémon event! This is an open play event, you can play any deck you have, trade cards with other players and talk about your favorite Pokémon!

Late Night Gaming
2021-07-10 17:00 - 23:59
It’s our monthly 7 hour game night! The 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 (or twenty…there’s plenty of time!)

Virtual Game Night: Intro to Dungeons and Dragons
2021-05-05 18:30 - 21:30, 2021-04-07 18:30 - 21:30
This is the perfect way to try out Dungeons and Dragons for the first time! Drew will be running one-shot, intro adventures for the Diversions community. All characters will start at level 1 and we will have pre-generated characters available for folks who aren’t able to create one ahead of time.

The sessions will take place on Roll20, a website designed for virtually playing role-playing games. You will need to create a free count on this website to participate in the event. The voice chat will be run over Zoom, which can run through your internet browser or on a free app downloaded to your computer. A microphone will be necessary as well, a camera is optional. Please have these set-up ahead of time, we will be able to provide limited support to help with this.

There is a limit of 6 participants per session and advance sign-up is required, please email Stefan at sdutka@diversionsgames.com with the date of the session you are interested in, your name, and your Roll20 account username. Priority will be given to those who haven’t participated before. These sessions are free to participate in and are expected to last about 3 hours.

Virtual Game Night - Codenames
2021-05-03 19:00 - 20:30
Join us for a virtual game night! We will teach and play the 2016 Game of the Year – Codenames!

Registration is required for this event – please sign up on Eventbrite if you would like to play: https://www.eventbrite.com/…/virtual-game-night…

Each interested player must sign up individually and have their own screen to participate! The minimum recommended age for this game is 10 years old. Attendance for this event will max at 11 players. A Zoom link will be emailed approximately 15 minutes before the start time of the event to registered participants.

Codenames is a team-based word game for 4-12 players. We will teach the game at the start of the game night but you may also watch this 3-minute video to learn how to play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQVHkl8oQEU

Virtual Used Game Auction
2021-04-23 12:00 - 2021-04-25 19:00
Please read thoroughly:

Diversions Puzzles & Games – Portsmouth presents a Virtual Used Game Auction! This auction is completely online so you can participate from the comfort of your own home!
The auction will be live from Friday, April 23 at 12:00pm EDT through Sunday, April 25 at 7:00pm EDT. The auction will be held on a third-party auction website and will be posted on Friday, April 23. Interested bidders do not need to pre-register for the auction.

All sellers must complete this submission form to sell games in the auction: https://forms.gle/2HnGF1d4wjB1Wf5j7 Once the form is complete, sellers may drop off their games at Diversions in Portsmouth between Monday, March 29 and Sunday, April 11. Sellers will receive a Diversions gift card for each game of theirs which sold with the highest bid amount collected for each game. Credit earned from the auction sales cannot be used on other games within the auction as we will not issue sellers’ credit until all payments have been collected.

Games in the auction will have a minimum starting bid determined by the seller. New bids must be submitted in whole dollar amounts with a minimum increase of $1.00. Each game will have one photo with corresponding details about the game including the condition of the game and any extras/add-ons. Sellers may not bid on their own games. All bids are final, be prepared to pay for any bid you submit.

Please bid at your own risk. While we have required all games to be complete without missing or damaged pieces, we cannot verify any details about the contents of the game. We cannot field questions about the contents or conditions of individual games. There are too many games and too few staff members to honor these requests, unfortunately.

Winning bidders will be contacted within one week after the auction ends with an itemized list of your wins and the total amount due. Once contacted, please call or come in to pay and pick up your new games! Games must be paid for in full by cash, credit card, or gift card by April 30. Discounts, coupons, and rewards are ineligible for use to purchase the used games. All purchased games must be picked up at Diversions in Portsmouth, NH by Sunday, May 9. We cannot ship or transfer any games bought in the Used Game Auction.

All sales are final – no returns or exchanges will be accepted. Once contacted, sellers will be responsible for picking up their unsold games by Sunday, May 9. Games not claimed by this date will be considered abandoned and disposed/donated by Diversions.

If you want to sell games in the auction, please complete this form: https://forms.gle/2HnGF1d4wjB1Wf5j7

If you have any questions, please e-mail us at portsmouth@diversionsgames.com
Happy selling & bidding!

***Important Notes***

Sellers may drop off their games at Diversions in Portsmouth between Monday, March 29 and Sunday, April 11.
The auction will be live from Friday, April 23 at 12:00pm EDT through Sunday, April 25 at 7:00pm EDT
Games must be paid for in full by cash, credit card, or gift card by April 30.
Discounts, coupons, and rewards are ineligible for use to purchase the used games.
All purchased games must be picked up at Diversions in Portsmouth, NH by Sunday, May 9.
We cannot ship or transfer any games bought in the Used Game Auction.
All sales are final – no returns or exchanges will be accepted.
Once contacted, sellers will be responsible for picking up their unsold games by Sunday, May 9. Games not claimed by this date will be considered abandoned and disposed/donated by Diversions.

Virtual Game Night - Just One
2021-04-05 19:00 - 20:30
Join us for a virtual game night! We will teach and play the 2019 Game of the Year – Just One!

Registration is required for this event – please sign up on Eventbrite if you would like to play: https://www.eventbrite.com/…/virtual-game-night-just…

Each interested player must sign up individually and have their own screen to participate! Each player will need a pile of small scrap paper and a marker to play. The minimum recommended age for this game is 12 years old. Attendance for this event is limited to six players.
Just One is a cooperative word game for 3 to 7 players. We will teach the game at the start of the game night but you may also watch this one-minute video to learn how to play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ulLmUQ7omU

A Zoom link will be emailed approximately 15 minutes before the start time of the event to registered participants.

Virtual Codenames Tournament (Jan 28-Mar 18)
2021-03-18 17:00 - 22:00, 2021-03-11 17:00 - 22:00
Join us from home for a virtual Codenames tournament hosted by Diversions Puzzles & Games! Sign-ups and a registration fee are required to participate. (Registration info below)

Up to sixteen teams will compete to prove themselves the Codenames champions! Each team must have exactly two players and be available to play every Thursday night for up to eight weeks. Tournament matches will be conducted once a week on Thursday evenings for the duration of the tournament. Teams must register and pay before Sunday, January 24. Round 1 matches begin Thursday, January 28. The full duration of the tournament will go into March for teams who progress towards the finals.
The registration fee is $10.00 per team and must be paid prior to Week 1 of the tournament. 100% of the registration fees will be converted into Diversions gift cards for prizes for the top two teams (redeemable at either store). The amount will vary based on the number of participating teams. The maximum prize with full participation is $50 per player on the winning team and $30 per player for the second-place team.

**HOW IT WORKS**

This tournament will be run as a double-elimination bracket tournament. It will take two losses to be eliminated from the tournament. Tournament rounds will be held every Thursday evening and you will be paired against a new team each week. Matches must be played and reported back to Diversions by the following Sunday night. Every Monday we will email the updated results of the tournament and send the new matches for the week. Each pairing will receive a unique link to your game for that week. Please confirm and coordinate with your opponent for each round of play and check your email regularly with updates for the tournament.
Each weekly match will be played as a best two out of three games. The first team to win two games on the night of your match is the winner for the match that week. Teams must switch spymasters for game #2 of your match. If your match goes to game #3 you may choose who will play as spymaster. After your match is complete, the winning team must report themselves as the winner of the match using a provided link.
Games will be played on https://codenames.game, a free website to play Codenames. Each individual will need to access their game from a separate device, even if you live together, since the spymaster for each team will have a different screen than their teammate. We highly recommend using a video chat service to connect with your opposing team and teammates, if you do not live together.
We will host a one-time virtual game night open to all participants on Tuesday, January 26 at 7:00pm to kick off the tournament and so all players can learn the interface of the website. More info TBA.

**HOW TO PARTICIPATE**

Register your team at this link: https://forms.gle/tyL4dALHbjwLXt6XA. By registering for the tournament, you agree to your email address being shared with your weekly opponent (and vice versa) for coordination of your match time that week.
After your registration has been accepted you will be contacted to pay your registration fee of $10.00. Payment is required to finalize your registration. If you must forfeit from the tournament, please notify Diversions via email so we may update the matches accordingly. Teams who forfeit during the course of tournament will not receive a refund for their entry.

If you have any additional questions, please email us at portsmouth@diversionsgames.com and we will be happy to help you

Tournament registration: https://forms.gle/tyL4dALHbjwLXt6XA
