Board games

Board Games

Get together with friends and family and have some fun! There are board games you can borrow, and ones you can play in the library.

Borrow Games

You can borrow a game and take it home for a fortnight of fun for $5. Available at New Brighton Library, Papanui Library, and Tūranga. Pick up the game box on the shelf, and take it to a staff member. Games need to be picked up and returned at the same library.

Resources

Scrabble

There are scrabble clubs at Linwood, New Brighton, Ōrauwhata: Bishopdale Library and Community Centre, Parklands, Shirley, South, and Te Hāpua: Halswell Centre.

Dungeons and Dragons

Be the hero in a tabletop roleplaying campaign where everything rests on your roll of the dice!

Create a character and join in a shared story, where you will find yourself adventuring across unexplored lands, slinging sorcerous spells, and fighting against the dangerous denizens of dank dungeons!

Board games in the library

Play a game at the library:

  • Fendalton Library: Monopoly, Game of Life, Uno, Jenga, and chess.
  • Te Hāpua: Halswell Centre: Cards: Phase 10, Monopoly deal, Infernal Contraption. 2nd edition, Spot it, Playing cards, Uno, Classic Jumbo Playing cards, Cards against humanity. Family edition. Te reo Māori cards: Bilingual Story starter cards. Games: Bananagrams, Deluxe Tri-ominos, Battleship, Codenames, Agricola - Game for 1 to 5 players, Agricola - All creatures big and small. Game for 2 players, The settlers of Catan, Scrabble for juniors. Game for children ages 6 to 10, Traditional chess, Monopoly, Connect4, Backgammon, Scrabble. Te reo Māori games: He kupu I kore.
  • Linwood Library: Chess, draughts, Rummikub, mah-jong, scrabble, Operation, Jenga, Bop it, cards, Reversii, Exploding Kittens, Bananagrams, Headbanz for kids, Risk, 5 Second Rule mini, Skip Bo, Dutch Blitz, Mini and Giant Connect 4, Uno, Triominoes.
  • Lyttelton Library: Cards, Yahtzee, Scrabble, Ludo
  • Matuku Takotako: Sumner Centre: Chess, Checkers, Scrabble, Guess Who, Trivial Pursuit, Cluedo, Playing cards, Dragon Games, Scrabble.
  • New Brighton Library: Chess, Jenga, Catan, Exploding Kittens, Carcassonne, Ticket to ride, Code names, Connect 4, Fabula, Othello, Risk, Tākaro, Takenoko, Tabula, Kei a Wai? Positions & Situation, Kei a Wai? Actions & Activities, Scrabble.
  • Papanui Library: The Dragon Game, Hedbanz, Guess who, 5s Rule, Uno, Barrel of Monkeys, Magnetic Four in a Row, Whatever Next, Alien Hotshots, spot it, Rummikub, Leapin Lizards Nature Puzzle, Jumbo + normal playing cards, Invisible Go Fish, Trivial Pursuit master game, Cranium, Madeline’s House Game, Chess, Checkers, Puzzle Art, Dora the Explorer memory Game, Bingo, Cluedo, Connect 4, Scrabble, Trapped Penguin, Shopping List Game, Chinese Checkers, Boggle, Jenga, Give up a Secret or Take a Challenge, Frog Hoppers, Pickup Sticks & Metal Jacks ‘n’ Ball, Junior Pictionary, Pictureka, Popmatic Trouble Game, Twister, Go getter Maze Game.
  • Parklands Library: Battleships, Guess Who, Yahtzee, MahJong, Cluedo, Skip-Bo, Scrabble, and Trivial Pursuit.
  • Redwood Library: Scrabble, Uno, 5 Second Rule, Connect Four, Poo, Headbandz, Rubiks Cube, Checkers, Headbanz, Scrabble, Jumbling Tower, 5 second rule, Mah Jong, Carcassonne. Snakes and ladders, He kupe I kore, Po, Monopoly, Tiddly Winks. They also have a big snakes and ladders mat.
  • Shirley Library: MahJong, Scrabble, Chess.
  • Spreydon Library: Mah-jong, Upwords, Scrabble, Scrabble Junior, Uno, Chess, Draughts, cards.
  • South Library: Monopoly Standard, Monopoly Empire, Upwords, Scrabble (3), Rummikub, Checkers, MiQube, Stuff happens, Backgammon Standard, Backgammon Boardgame, Snakes and ladders (Miniature), Trivial pursuit.
  • Tūranga: 5 Second Rule, Backgammon, Bananagrams, Bohnanza, Cadoo, Candyland, Carcassonne, Cards, Cars Snap, Castle Ravenloft (DnD), Charades, Chess, Citadels, Codenames, Concept, Connect 4, Dungeons and Dragons Starter Set, Dixit, Dominion, Dominoes, Exploding Kittens, Fairy Tale Fluxx, Forbidden Island, Hanabi, He Kupu I Kore, Hey That’s my Fish!, Jenga, Logo Game, Marvel Trivia, One Night Ultimate Werewolf, Pandemic, Pass the Pigs, Paths & Pipes, Rat-a-tat Cat, Saboteur, Scrabble, Set, Settlers of Catan, Sequence, Snakes & Ladders, Story Cubes, Sushi Go!, Taboo, Ticket to Ride: Europe, Roald Dahl’s Top Trumps, Tsuro, Uno, Unstable Unicorns, Upwords, Word Grab, Tākaro and bilingual Story Starter Cards.
  • Upper Riccarton Library: Chess, UNO.

CINCH Community Information Christchurch

CINCH (Community Information Christchurch) lists indoor games clubs if you'd like to join. Try looking for:

CINCH (Community Information Christchurch)

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