Tabletop Tuesdays

Tabletop Tuesdays is an event series held on the third Tuesday of each month. At these events, we feature a selection of board games and collection items from across SUL's holdings around a specific theme. Drop in to learn about the month's featured game(s) and/or try some of the board games we have for open play at the Silicon Valley Archives.

Next Event in the Series

In this month's Tabletop Tuesday, we look at the prolific German game designer Friedemann Friese, who has designed over sixty games. In 1992, Friese started his own game publishing company to produce his first game, Wucherer (literally "usurer" or "profiteer," although it was published as "Landlord" by Rio Grande Games in 1998). The majority of his game titles begin with the letter "F" and are colored green, but another hallmark of his game design is thematic focus and unusual mechanisms. We will be looking at four Friese games--Friday, 504, Fortress, and Fremde Federn--to explore his use of engaging mechanisms and quirky themes.

Blog Posts

Wrestling with Watergate in April 2024
May 20, 2024

This Tabletop Tuesday featured Jean McElwee Cannon and Kiera Peacock discussing their exhibit Un-Presidented: Watergate and Power in America, as well as the board game Watergate.
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Exploring the Playful Side of Mundanity at March’s Tabletop Tuesday Session
April 18, 2024

At March’s Tabletop Tuesday, we explored the genre-stretching power of journaling and lyric games, before jumping into Tim Hutchings' "Apollo 47".
Tabletop Tuesdays
An Interview with Weyodi OldBear
December 18, 2023

This interview was conducted in November 2023 over email by Kathleen Smith, Curator for Germanic Collections at Stanford Library.
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