Gaming at Boskone includes a variety of tabletop games, video games, game demos, and tournaments.

Boskone Gaming Schedule

  • Location: 2nd Floor, Harbor I
  • Game Room Hours:
    • Friday 3:00 pm – 12:00 midnight
    • Saturday 10:00 am – 12:00 midnight
    • Sunday 10:00 am – 3:00 pm

FRIDAY

2:00 pm – 12:00 midnight
Samsung Gear VR
Try out the virtual reality system from Samsung. Experience a spacewalk you’ll never forget. Talk to Bill. Please read the rules for using this system before putting the goggles on.

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Smash Up!
Pirates, dinosaurs, robots, geeks, and monsters. What more could you ask for? Pick 2 decks, mix them together, and do your best to take over territories to win the game.

4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Robo Rally
The classic version of robots running amuck around the factory floor, trying to win the race without getting hurt from other robots or even the factory.

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
City of Iron
A strategy game of epic proportions. Choose your deck. Use your cash to buy cards that will boost your status on the goods tracks or in your ability to draw cards. Use your deck to attack towns or go after new lands. Manage your resources and lands to push over the competition and win the game.

8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Munchkin
The classic game of cards where it’s perfectly ok to stab your friends in the back and take their loot.

SATURDAY

10:00 am – 12:00 noon
Samsung Gear VR
Try out the virtual reality system from Samsung. Experience a spacewalk you’ll never forget. Talk to Bill. Please read the rules for using this system before putting the goggles on.

10:00 am – 12:00 noon
Paperback
What happens when you mix Dominion with Scrabble? Paperback. The only limit is your vocabulary.

11:00 am – 6:00 pm
Tattoo: The Game of Ink
Choose from the available tattoos. Place them carefully on your arm, though. Each tattoo will earn you victory points, but certain tattoos will earn bonuses based on the tattoos around them. Take advantage of this to maximize the point values and win the game.

11:00 am – 6:00 pm
Pigment
Who knew creating a masterpiece was so difficult. Use the available pigments to finish the paintings so you can bring them to the market. The first person to complete six paintings wins.

7:00 pm – 12:00 midnight
Samsung Gear VR
Try out the virtual reality system from Samsung. Experience a spacewalk you’ll never forget. Talk to Bill. Please read the rules for using this system before putting the goggles on.

12:00 noon – 6:00 pm
Vampires & Villagers: The Curse of Christoph
Come on down and learn how to play a game of card management, bluffing, and “take that”

12:00 noon – 10:00 pm
Brace for Impact!
An epic game of battle between good and evil. Command your warriors, manage your cards, cast your spells and destroy your enemy.

1:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Guru of the Game Room Tournament
Games: Ticket To Ride, DC Card Game, Saint Petersburg, Puerto Rico

6:30 pm – 11:30p pm
Munchkin Quest
If you thought the Munchkin card game was big wait until you see this. SJ pulled out all the stops to make the ultimate version of Munchkin.

7:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Merchants of Venus
Race around the galaxy buying and selling goods for fun & profit. Watch out for those gates, though.

SUNDAY

10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Samsung Gear VR
Try out the virtual reality system from Samsung. Experience a spacewalk you’ll never forget. Talk to Bill. Please read the rules for using this system before putting the goggles on.

10:00 am – 12:00 noon
Trains
It’s Dominion with a board. Build train lines and depots across Japan, earning victory points all the while.

11:00 am – 3;00 pm
Tattoo: The Game of Ink
Choose from the available tattoos. Place them carefully on your arm, though. Each tattoo will earn you victory points, but certain tattoos will earn bonuses based on the tattoos around them. Take advantage of this to maximize the point values and win the game.

11:00 am – 3:00 pm
Pigment
Who knew creating a masterpiece was so difficult. Use the available pigments to finish the paintings so you can bring them to the market. The first person to complete six paintings wins.

12:00 noon – 2:00 pm
Munchkin
The classic game of cards where it’s perfectly ok to stab your friends in the back and take their loot.

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Lords of Waterdeep
Use your men and resources to complete quests to earn victory points.

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Game Room Information

Guru of the Game Tournament Rules

It’s 4 games in 5 hours. Points are awarded based on your position at the end of the game. Top 4 winners pick prizes off the prize table. You must be in Marina 1 by 12:30pm on Saturday to participate in the tournament. The first game will start at 1:00 pm.

Times, Timing, and Breaks
Each game is given 60 minutes. If the game doesn’t end in 60 minutes then at the end of 60 minutes each game will stop and points will be awarded based on players position at that time.

There is a 15 minute break between each game. You can leave gaming during this time but you must be back before the start time of the next game.

Scoring and Prizes
First place gets 10 points, second gets 9, third gets 8, and so on. Max points one can earn is 40. The top four players at the end of the fourth game get to pick prizes off the prize table until all prizes are gone.

Once you pick a game it belongs to you. You are free to keep it, trade it, or give it away. Due to legal reasons, however, you cannot sell the game whilst on hotel property.

Questions and Help
Although you can ask other players for help to clarify rules, keep in mind that the players do not have to tell the truth. Judges are impartial. You can ask the judge for help with a rules issue, but the judge will not play your game for you. The judge has final say on any issues that arise.

Game Room Rules

  • No swearing, fighting, or cheating is allowed. You will be asked to leave if caught.
  • Games marked as prizes or placed on a shelf marked ‘prizes’ are not to be opened.
  • You are free to pick any game not designated as a prize and play it in gaming. You may not take the game into another room or outside the game room.
  • Remember, these games belong to other people and they are being loaned. Please respect the games and return them in the condition they were in when you took them off the shelf.
  • If you damage a game, you bought it.
  • Please clean up after yourself. You can eat and drink but don’t spill anything.

Video Game Area Rules

  • No cheating. You will be asked to leave if caught.
  • You are not allowed to change the volume on the televisions.
  • If you need to change a battery, tell a GM.
  • No food or drink is allowed beyond the Red Line of Death.
  • All systems are off-line. You cannot download content.
  • There are no save cards.
  • Please use a guest account (not Nagasn on the Xbox, for example) on the 360.