BOARD GAMES

• 16 Players

• PFC 02/014

• 10:00-13:00

Have you ever wanted to team up with your best bud and have some casual boardgaming fun. Have a friend that helps push you to your very best.
Grab a partner, kick back and bond as you enjoy our team Boardgaming event.

Over the course of a few hours, hang out with some friends and play some of our most exciting team based games around in this drop in and drop out event.
Come along and meet new people, as you team up to play games like Codenames, Captain Sonar, Decrypto, Wavelength, and many more as you work together to bond, grow ideas and forge new long lasting friendships over a few games as a team.

Don't have a friend - don't worry. Ask our helpful generalists and they will get your name out down and assigned with another player who is in the same boat in this drop in/drop out event.
Come along and feel free to have some casual fun throughout the morning in board games.

So come on down a d have some team fun in the Peter Froggatt Centre at Q-Con 2026!

• 16 Players

• PFC 02/014

• 14:00-17:00

Hive is a bug-themed tabletop abstract strategy game, designed by John Yianni.

The object of Hive is to capture the opponent's queen bee by having it completely surrounded by other pieces.

Thanks to the popularity of this easy to learn and play 1v1 board games, it is a returning, in our 16-person swiss style tournament format from last year.

• 1st place: £25 Amazon Voucher and tickets to our showcase event

• 2nd place: £15 Amazon Voucher

• 3rd place: £10 Amazon Voucher

• A free meeple and die will be available to all participants in our tournament

• PFC02/015

• 10:00-13:00

You've got 20 minutes, make them count...

Speed Boardgaming is our tabletop based speed friending event designed to take a group of random attendees, give you all a board game and allow you to have fun over the next 20 minutes, playing and learning.

After 20 minutes, we rotate the games and the players to allow you to interact with a whole host of new faces and make new lasting friendships over some dice and a few victory points.

Don't have a lot of time? Well don't worry as our event is drop in and drop out so take as long as you want each round and feel free to go and/or come back at any time throughout.

It's fast and furious across this group of mini games designed in a casual gaming format to help you get to know people better.

Make new friends and have some fun at this exciting showcase of QUB Dragonslayers' miniature board game collection.

• 16 Players

• PFC 02/015

• 14:00-17:00

Welcome to the greatest heist of the century. Ca$h 'N' Guns is a board game created by Ludovic Maublanc.

This heist based money gathering game sees players undertake the roles of bank robbers attempting to steal the world's greatest treasures.

Prevent others from gaining loot by shooting them using special bullet cards, during the draw phase, and gain loot yourself (providing you survive wound free of course).

A 8 person free for all events ran across two tables, welcome to this fast and furious slinging event.

This 16 person tournament will be ran swiss style across 4 rounds with the Grand Prix points system.

• 1st place: £25 Amazon Voucher

• 2nd place: £15 Amazon Voucher

• 3rd place: £10 Amazon Voucher

• A free meeple and die will be available to all participants in our tournament

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What if you didn't know what game you would play. Would this put everyone on an even or odd playing field.

Let the best strategist win in this event where you will not know what or who you are playing until the event starts. This swiss style event will run across 4 rounds in groups of 4 until a true winner of all things unknown is determined.

Good luck in his tricky challenge of sheer randomness and enjoy your prizes below:

• 1st place: £25 Amazon Voucher

• 2nd place: £15 Amazon Voucher

• 3rd place: £10 Amazon Voucher

• A free meeple and die will be available to all participants in our tournament

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There's bombs around every corner and it's up to you to defuse and avoid them at all costs.

Exploding Kittens is a turn based card game designed by Matthew Inman, Elan Lee and Shane Small, and first published in 2015.

Each turn players will attempt to play cards before drawing at the end of their turn. But watch out for drawing the destructive exploding kitten card. Doing so will eliminate you from the game until the last cat is standing.

Come join us in this swiss style 16 player tournament.

• 1st place: £25 Amazon Voucher

• 2nd place: £15 Amazon Voucher

• 3rd place: £10 Amazon Voucher

• A free meeple and die will be available to all participants in our tournament

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CATAN is a multiplayer board game designed by Klaus Teuber.

This 4 player game focused on the settlement creation of the island of CATAN, by gathering resources, building roads and cities, and gaining victory points.

Back by popular demand, we will be running a speed CATAN tournament with 16 players across 4 tables at Q-Con 2026!

In this version, players race to 7 points instead of the usual 10 in four scoring games.

For our four winners, they will each play one more game against each other to determine our grand prize winner, with 2nd and 3rd then being decided by who has the most points at the end of the game.

Good luck to all and we hope you have fun settling in for some Catan tournament action at Q-Con 26!

• 1st place: £25 Amazon Voucher

• 2nd place: £15 Amazon Voucher

• 3rd place: £10 Amazon Voucher

• A free meeple and die will be available to all participants in our tournament

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Wrap your Onigiri and build your points off of our favourite sushi menu.

Sushi Go! is a board game designed by Phil Walker-Harding and published by Gamewright Games in 2013.

In this unique game, players play concurrently a card before passing their hand to the left. Turns continue until all cards are played and points are totalled based on what sushi you have built.

Come join us in this swiss style 16 player tournament where we are playing with Grand Prix points gaining per round.

• 1st place: £25 Amazon Voucher

• 2nd place: £15 Amazon Voucher

• 3rd place: £10 Amazon Voucher

• A free meeple and die will be available to all participants in our tournament