Board Game Night at Odyssey Games — Pasadena

Going? You can check in after it ends.

Somewhere in your closet sits a game you bought six months ago and have never once put on a table. This is where that ends.

The back tables open up on Wednesday nights, and the store library is the real draw — hundreds of titles, gateway stuff through heavy euros through the social deduction games that ruin friendships, all free to play off the shelf. Come alone and slide into something already running. Bring three people and teach them the thing you have been evangelizing. Or finally cut the shrink wrap.

The regulars here have been showing up long enough to know which games are worth the rules explanation and which new release is overhyped, and that informal knowledge is the whole difference between a game night that works and one that is merely organized.

Doors stay open late and it costs nothing.

Text the friend who keeps saying you should hang out more. This is the hang.