Halloween Game Festival ,October 25–31

Sunday through Saturday • 4–8pm nightly

Free admission at Purple Dragon Games!

A whole week of games, giggles, and sweet Halloween victories awaits! Bring the family to Purple Dragon Games for our Halloween Game Festival, featuring a new theme every night and three different board games each day. Play alongside our friendly game leaders, take on tabletop challenges, and discover your next family favorite—all for free!

Our game leaders will help explain the rules and get the fun rolling, making it easy to join whether you’re a seasoned board gamer or trying something new. Each evening brings fresh opportunities to test your luck, put your clever ideas into action, and share a memorable night of fun and laughter. You might work together, face off in friendly competition, or find yourself laughing at a plan that went hilariously wrong!

And what’s Halloween without candy? We’ll have free candy prizes to add a little sweetness to the tabletop challenges throughout the evening.

Come for one night or make us part of your Halloween plans all week. With a new nightly theme and three fresh games every day, there’s always another adventure waiting at the table. All ages and experience levels are welcome—bring your family, invite your friends, and join the fun!

RSVP TO THIS EVENT AND GET A FREE COMPLIMENTARY SIZED POPCORN! Just present your online RSVP to the matching event at the register and you will be given your popcorn!

TONIGHT'S GAME CHALLENGES

Monster Mash-Up

The laboratory doors are open, and someone has been combining things that absolutely should not go together. Zombie wizards. Dinosaur pirates. A treasure thief with more ambition than survival instinct. Tonight’s Monster Mash-Up is a celebration of outrageous combinations, monstrous trouble, and plans that become considerably less sensible once the cards hit the table. Build something spectacular, unleash something ridiculous, and try to look innocent when the dragon wakes up. Around here, “What could possibly go wrong?” is practically an invitation.

Smash Up — It’s Alive! And Apparently a Pirate.

Why choose one outrageous army when you can stitch two together? In Smash Up, you shuffle two factions into a single deck, creating combinations such as robot pirates, zombie wizards, or dinosaur ninjas. Then you deploy minions and play actions to compete for bases and claim victory points. Each faction supplies a different set of tricks, so your peculiar creation needs more than a frightening entrance—it needs a plan. Zombies return from the discard pile, pirates move their minions around, and dinosaurs contribute the reassuring presence of enormous teeth. What makes this game unforgettable is discovering how your two halves work together, then springing a combination that sends everyone else back to the drawing board. The laboratory has produced a masterpiece. Whether it follows instructions is another matter entirely.

Players: 2–4.

Game length: About 45 minutes or more, plus teaching time.

Difficulty: Moderate; straightforward turns with card combinations that reward careful timing.

Award recognition: 2013 Origins Awards nominee for Best Traditional Card Game.

HOW TO PLAY THIS GAME: Assemble your magnificent monstrosity with The Rules Girl’s Smash Up tutorial on YouTube.

Clank! — A Monstrously Bad Idea

Somewhere beneath the mountain lies a fortune. Unfortunately, its owner is enormous, irritable, and equipped with a built-in furnace. In Clank!: A Deck-Building Adventure, players sneak through a dragon’s dungeon, collecting treasure and acquiring cards that improve their movement and abilities. Your growing deck shapes your expedition, but noisy actions create Clank—and noise makes the dragon’s attacks increasingly dangerous for you. The temptation is wonderfully terrible: go deeper for richer rewards, or head for daylight while you still have eyebrows? What makes this game unforgettable is the collision between the clever deck you are building and the increasingly desperate escape you are attempting. Your rivals might be gathering more treasure, but they might also be leaving you behind. One more shiny object seems harmless until the dungeon starts feeling like an oven.

Players: 2–4.

Game length: Approximately 30–60 minutes; allow extra time for a first game.

Difficulty: Moderate; combines deck-building, dungeon movement, and pushing your luck.

Award recognition: 2017 Mensa Select winner.

HOW TO PLAY THIS GAME: Learn the fine art of noisy burglary with Watch It Played’s Clank! tutorial on YouTube.

DC Deck-Building Game — A Cape, a Cowl, and a Questionable Combination

The city needs a hero. You would also appreciate a very impressive collection of cards. In DC Deck-Building Game, you take on the identity of Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, or another Justice League champion, then build your deck during play. Acquire powers, equipment, and allies to strengthen your turns, defeat Super-Villains, and collect victory points. Your chosen hero has a special ability that encourages particular strategies, while the available cards invite unexpected combinations from across the DC Universe. What makes this game unforgettable is watching a modest starting deck become a spectacular engine of comic-book action. A carefully chosen sequence can turn an ordinary hand into your grand entrance, complete with defeated villains and deeply impressed—or mildly irritated—rivals. Tonight, the strongest creation in the laboratory might be wearing a cape.

Players: 2–5.

Game length: Approximately 30–45 minutes, plus teaching time.

Difficulty: Approachable strategy; a welcoming introduction to deck-building with plenty of room for clever combinations.

Award recognition: 2014 Origins Awards nominee for Best Traditional Card Game.

HOW TO PLAY THIS GAME: Prepare your heroic transformation with Roll For Crit’s DC Comics Deck-Building Game tutorial on YouTube.