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The Uncommons is a board game café in New York City established in 2013, located at 230 Thompson Street in Greenwich Village. It has claimed to be the first board game café in Manhattan, [1] and the largest board game library on the East Coast. [2]
Ben Castanie and Aurelia Peynet opened Snakes & Lattes on August 30, 2010 [6] [8] at what later became known as Snakes & Lattes' Annex location. The couple had moved to Toronto from France four years earlier, and came up with the idea for Snakes & Lattes, which they named after the Snakes and Ladders board game, from a visit to a Chicago area game store in 2008. [5]
Board game cafés seem to have begun in South Korea; in 2004, Seoul had 130 board game cafés. [3] This was followed by many other large cities in East Asia, and by 2012 there were estimated to be more than 200 cafés in Beijing. [4]
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BoardGameGeek was founded in January 2000 by Scott Alden and Derk Solko, [6] and marked its 20th anniversary on 20 January 2020. [7]Since 2005, BoardGameGeek hosts an annual board game convention, BGG.CON, that has a focus on playing games, and where winners of the Golden Geek Awards are announced.
The Harlem Alhambra was a theater in Harlem, New York, built in 1905, that began as a vaudeville venue. The building still stands at 2108-2118 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard (7th Avenue) at the South-West corner of 126th Street. [ 1 ]
The Gardens of the Alhambra (Die Gärten der Alhambra, 2004) is an updated version of the tile-laying board game Carat, originally released in a more abstract form by db Spiele in 1993. Troisdorf (2005) is a limited, re-themed edition of Alhambra , with identical rules, set in and only sold in Troisdorf , the town in which Queen Games is based.
Geek Squad, Inc. is a subsidiary of American and Canadian multinational consumer electronics corporation Best Buy, headquartered in Richfield, Minnesota.The subsidiary was originally an independent company founded by "Chief Inspector" Robert Stephens on June 16, 1994, and offers various computer-related services and accessories for residential and commercial clients.