Pre COVID-19, board games were a way to bring families and friends closer. Post-pandemic, they became a way to pass the time while cooped up together – and there was plenty of time.
“I hear that in times of recessions, stores like this that provide cheap, good entertainment tend to do really well,” says Fantasy Mountain Board Gaming owner Ben Callaway, though adding, “I don’t know many recessions that also involve a pandemic that I can go back to for data.”
He’s the new kid on the block, having been open for less than a year as compared to nearly six years for Infinity Flux and 15 years for Dicehead Games and Comics, but Callaway says he had customers call him and request to pick something up from the shuttered store, which temporarily closed amid coronavirus precautions. Infinity owner Meagan Frey and Dicehead owner Shane Grubbe also operated curbside retail that saw patrons looking for fun ways to shelter-in-place.
Here are some of the titles they recommend.
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