›› Useful websites, local game stores, and area conventions:.

• Collins Gamers Club Facebook group. Open forum.
• Board Game Geek Premiere website for tabletop (board/card/miniature/role playing gaming).
• Board Game Prices Website which compares prices of games at stores (except coolstuffinc.)



• Local Game Stores:
  • Tempest Games 212 Edgewood Rd NW ste k, Cedar Rapids, IA
  • First Turn Games 3645 1st Ave SE, Cedar Rapids, IA
  • The Hobby Corner 1606 Sycamore St, Iowa City, IA
  • Geek City Games 365 Beaver Kreek Center Suite B, North Liberty, IA
  • Critical Hit Games 115 S Linn St, Iowa City, IA
  • Linden Cards 617 S Dubuque St, Iowa City, IA
  
  
  
• Area Conventions with Board Gaming:
  • Gamicon Board/card game convention in Cedar Rapids in late February/early March.
  • ICON Fantasy and Science Fiction Convention in November
  • Cedar Rapids Comic Con Comic convention with some gaming in February
  • Quadcon Quad Cities, held many times through the year in Quad Cities, Dubuque, and other close locations
  • Demicon Des Moines Fantasy, Science Fiction, Comics, and Gaming in May
  
  
  
• Online Game Sites:
  • Board Game Arena - Club default online site. Over 400 games. Fairly easy to use site where rules are enforced by the game in real-time play.
  • 18xx Games - 18xx railroad games played in real-time or turn-based play.
  • Acquire - Play Acquire online.
  • Anywherewords - Play Werewords online. Need phone or video to play.
  • Backstabbr - Play Diplomacy in sandbox, real-time, or turn-based play.
  • Battleship - Play Battleship online.
  • BoardGameCore - 3 games: Antiquity, Food Chain Magnate, and The Great Zimbabwe.
  • BoardGamePlay - 6 Euros for online play.
  • BoardGamers Space - Turn-based online play for 6 nmmit, Container, The Gaia Project, and Power Grid.
  • BoardSpace - Over 90 games, mostly 2 player abstracts, but a good selection of Euros, word games, and multiplayer abstracts, all turn-based play.
  • Boite a Jeux - Over 60 games, mostly Euros, played in a older turn-based site.
  • Brettspielwelt - Over 60 games, mostly Euros, in a real-time web/app interface.
  • C4 Arena - Play Connect4 online.
  • Carcassonne - Play Carcassonne online.
  • CardzMania - Over 50 games to be played with a standard deck of cards.
  • Chantry-Games - Play 13 Days: The Cuban Missile Crisis in real-time or turn-based online play.
  • Chess - Play Chess online.
  • Chess Variants - Play Chess and its many variants online.
  • Chickenkoup - Play Coup online.
  • Citadels - Play Citadels online.
  • Civ-Rol-Play - Play Advanced Civilization online.
  • Codenames - Play Codenames online.
  • Colonist - Play Settlers of Catan online.
  • Cosel - Play Telestrations adaptation online.
  • Days of Wonder - Purchased games of Ticket to Ride, Memoir 44, Gang of Four, Small World, Queen's Necklace, and Fist of Dragonstones.
  • Dominion Online - Play Dominion online.
  • Dominoes - Play Dominoes online.
  • Drawception - Play Telestrations adaptation online.
  • Drawphone - Play Telestrations adaptation online.
  • Everdell - Play Everdell online.
  • Fumbbl - Play Blood Bowl online.
  • Funnode - About 18 common board and standard deck of card games.
  • Game Parlor - Turn-based versions of Brass, Tichu, Codenames, and Codenames Duet.
  • Game-Park - 8 modern games, including A Fistful of Meeples, It's a Wonderful World, and Lucky Numbers, for online play.
  • GamesByEmail - Around 45 common board games, war game clones, Acquire clone, etc., in turn-based/e-mail play.
  • Go Online - Play Go online.
  • Good Cop Bad Cop - Play Good Cop Bad Cop online.
  • Hanab Live - Play Hanabi online.
  • Happy Meeple - Easy to use site for quick 2 player games.
  • Jinteki - Play Android: Netrunner online.
  • Longwave - Play Wavelength adaptation online.
  • Mafia - Play Mafia online.
  • Mattle Online - Knock-off versions of Go, Azul, 7 Wonders Duel, Splendor, Century Spice Road, and Blokus.
  • Netgames - Social games of Werewolf, Codewords, Resistance Avalon, Secret Sith, Spyfall, Love Letter, and Enigma.
  • Newgrounds - Play Aliens board game adaptation online.
  • One Word - 6 word games, including Just One and Decrypto adaptations, online.
  • Play Taboo - Play Taboo online.
  • Play-Agricola - Play Agricola online.
  • Friedrich - Play Friedrich online.
  • PlayOK - Mostly standard deck of card games and traditional board games.
  • Playrento - Play Monopoly online.
  • Railroad Ink - Play Railroad Ink online.
  • Scattergories - Play Scattergories online.
  • Scrabble - Play Scrabble online.
  • Set with Friends - Play Set online.
  • Shadow Hunters Live - Play Shadow Hunters online.
  • Skribbl - Play Pictionary online.
  • Skull - Play Skull online.
  • SlothNinja - Play After the Flood, Confucius, Gang of Thieves, Indonesia, and Tammany Hall in turn-based play.
  • SpielByWeb - 7 older Euro games in turn-based/by e-mail play.
  • Tabletop Playground - A sandbox experience featuring deep customization and choice
  • Tabletop Simulator - Over 1,000 games using a physics engine that simulates tables and game components so they can be manipulated in real time.
  • Stratego - Play Stratego online.
  • Tabletopia - Over 1500 games available in a simulated 3D sandbox environment.
  • The Resistance Plus - Play The Resistance and The Resistance:Avalon in real-time online play.
  • Thronemaster - Play A Game of Thrones (2nd Edition) online.
  • Treachery Online - Play Dune online.
  • Trickster Cards - 9 traditional standard deck of card games.
  • TripleA - Online play of Axis & Allies and its various versions/maps.
  • Triqqy - Over 20 older Euros played in real-time.
  • Turnbasedspellen - 12 older Euros played in turn-based play. Site is in Dutch language.
  • Uno Freak - Play Uno online..
  • VASSAL - Over 1,700 games, mostly wargames and Euros, to download to play in a sandbox engine.
  • Wargameroom - Over 25 war board games in real-time play.
  • Warzone - Play Risk online.
  • Weboggle - Play Boggle online.
  • Webopoly - Play Monopoly online.
  • Werewolf Online - Play Werewolf online.
  • Western Card Game - Play Bang online.
  • Your Turn My Turn - Over 50 Euro and abstract games played in a turn-based environment.
  • Yucata - Over 150 games in a turn-based older interface.
  • Even more online game sites not listed!