Hi everyone,
We are in Seattle for the 2014 Thanksgiving Holiday - and after looking for a fun game store to visit, we stumbled upon Meeples - a game store where you can eat food and play games!
Here is the store link: http://meeplesgames.com/
One cool thing is that Meeples Games is up on the 2nd floor - so the store is quite large. Lots of space for selling games, playing games and playing while eating. (For us 40K fans, there is a whole back room with tables ready for terrain!)
Meeples Games has the whole 2nd floor of this building. Ton of space!
We took the plunge and bought the D&D Attack Wing. We'll have to wait for a battle of X-wings or TIE fighters against dragons until we get home - but while in Seattle we can practice with the dragons.
Meeples turned out to be great. We love our game stores at home - but it was really cool to find a game store where we could order up lunch while we played a game of X-wing (using one of the store's many in-store boxes).
Here we are getting ready to play X-wing - the counter and kitchen are in the background!
We played a quick game with Luke's X-wing against a Black Squadron Pilot and an Academy Pilot. The deck was stacked pretty heavily in Luke's favor - but we were OK with that, since we were mainly trying to explain the basics of the game to our honored family member(s) who had joined :)
Sure enough it was fun to play while eating lunch. Everybody was happy - veggie things for the older ones of us; sandwiches (even gluten free options) for the younger ones of us.
Luke made short order of the two underpowered TIE fighters. (To be expected, but was still fun.)
"Help - this is Imperial Cadet YK-431. Need back-up!! X-wing has me in its sights! Aaaagh!!!"
After playing X-wing over lunch we chatted with the store owner about several other games which sound interesting....
- King of Tokyo. The Meeples team suggested that this would be a really fun and quick game to play over lunch. We went with X-wing - but very glad to know about a game which is quick and fun. Sounds like in this one you get to play monsters attacking buildings ??
Meeples Games store copy of King of Tokyo
- Golem Arcana. We got to see what was inside the demo box. Very cool figures, maps and cards. Sounds like you play with a "reader pen" which you use to determine how the game goes -- and you use an iPhone or iPad App to keep the game flowing. (Almost as if the iPad takes the place of a Game Master, maybe?)
The starter box for Golem Arcana
- Marvel Dice Masters. We chatted about this as well. It looks very fun - lots of fun colored dice. From Meeples' website can see that they have tournaments of this quite often....
Update:
Our top-secret Seattle informant just sent us this photo from the Seattle Times about Meeples Games (we're not the only ones who liked it)....
