Come and join us for some games on 14th April, from 3-6pm, in what may actually be springtime. Of course, we’ll be playing safely indoors anyway, in The Blacksmith and The Toffeemaker pub near Angel. We’ll have a few new games to try out, and a couple of old favourites to let everyone relax. We’ve got Mask-A-Pony, a nearly topical game about the perils of a long supply chain where meat products are involved. We’ve got A Herald Approaches, where you play a noble lineage and develop your own coats of arms, all in the name of claiming to be the most closely related to old people with lots of land to inherit. And we’ve got Stratego-go-go, the game that balances tactics, strategy, and trying not to shout your secret plans to the rest of your team…

And of course, we’ll also have a panoply of smaller games, such as Ninja, Standoff, Danish Clapping and more.

The larger games will start at 3pm, but we will be at the venue from 2pm, so feel free to come down and either play some small games, grab some lunch (the food is rather good), or just hang out.

Please pick up a free ticket here, and you can find the Facebook event here.

Hope to see you there,

Toodle pip,

The Haberdashery Collective

P.S. If anyone has favourite games they’d like to request we run, do let us know, we’re happy to oblige.

Our new year’s resolution was to organise our games days a little more in advance. Have you broken yours too? You probably have. So you should just give up your plan to spend Sunday in the gym, detoxing or organising all your paper clips. Admit it! You’d rather come and play games in the pub with us. You’ll have plenty of time to get fitter, healthier and more organised next year. Until then come and have fun with us.
(Anyway, Danish Clapping is probably an excellent upper body workout)

2pm Sunday 17th February
The Blacksmith and The Toffeemaker
Islington
EC1V 4PA

Featuring:
BRAND NEW SUPER SECRET MYSTERY GAME
It is definitely at least half designed already. It will almost certainly be ready on time. It will definitely be new! And exciting! And a game! Just trust us. We know what we’re doing. We’re sure we do.

VIKING MONOPOLY
Should you build or hoard? Defend or attack? Pillage or negotiate? Try to be the very best viking you can in our fast-paced game of pillaging and destruction. Horned helmets not provided. Please bring your own if you require one.

Plus a selection of old favorites including some, all or none of the following:
Fairness Inc., Ninja, Gargoyles, Lemon Jousting, Blind Duelling, Blink and You’re It, Danish Clapping, Adventure Capital, Sangre Y Patatas

We’ll be at the pub from 2pm and games will start at 3pm.
We are experimenting with not using an advance ticketing system for this event. This makes it even more important that you arrive on time since we’ll need to adapt the games for the number we have. If you need a reminder email make sure that you are signed up to our mailing list (there’s a sign up box on the right)

While we will accept latecomers we can’t guarantee that you’ll get to play the best games. Also you’ll give us kittens thinking that noone is coming (you killed us last time guys, really). There is food and coffee at the pub and we promise not to judge you if you arrive with a hangover.

Join us for an afternoon of games on 14th October at The Wilmington Arms from 1pm. We’ll play a little Ninja and Gargoyles to warm up, then get everyone’s blood moving with Angrygrams, before getting stuck in to the warring factions in Local Politics. With a few other games to fill the moments between the main games, we hope you’ll enjoy our entertainments.

This is a free but ticketed event, please acquire your ticket here. There will be an entirely voluntary donations jar on the day to help with the venue hire cost.

Also, we’ll be posting profiles of some of our games, including these ones, so stay tuned if you want some insight.

Follow us on Facebook as The Haberdashery Collective, and join the event here.

Hope to see you there.

Greetings once again,

We’re back with another chance for us to entertain you with our diversions. Join us on 8th July from 1pm in Willesden Green for Garden Games, which will indeed be in a garden if the weather is good to us, or inside if not. We shall be playing small games such as Fairness Inc., with its feigned innocence and backstabbing, and Adventure Capital, with its startup speculation and press manipulation, to start the afternoon. Once sated on those, we shall move on to something a bit more hearty, such as East India Company, where you can hone your skills at trading and smuggling, or maybe Stratego-go-go with its bluff and tactics. We’ve also got a couple of in development games that may see an outing, but we’ll see what the day brings.

If you’d care to join us, please grab a ticket here so we know you’re coming, and perhaps join the Facebook event here.

Toodle pip,

The Haberdashery Collective

P.S. There’s another of Hide&Seek‘s Sandpit events tomorrow at the Southbank Centre, and while we’re not running anything, there will be Haberdashers there to enjoy it

Ladies and Gentleman, boys and girls, automata and time travellers,

The Haberdashery Collective is proud to present another in our series of spectacles, bringing you the best in modern play. Join us on 21st April from 2pm for Spring Spectacular, an afternoon of delightful fripperies. Begin with some amuse esprit to tempt your palate as our group of debonair thrill seekers gather, then pit your cunning scheme against your opponents in Stratego-go-go, dazzle your rivals with your lexicographical skill in Angrygrams, and enjoy an early preview of the recently discovered parts for persons of the mechanical persuasion in Automata Assembly.

If this intrigues you, you may acquire a note of introduction from here.

Should these activities fail to sate your appetites, we may well have something more for you on 6th May, we shall report back.

Toodle pip,

The Haberdashery Collective

You can find the Facebook event here.