Board game nights in your Melbourne office.
We bring the games, the teach-cards and the person who knows how it all works. You supply tables, chairs and power. Nobody attending needs to know anything about board games.
$850 for 90 minutes·$1,100 for 2.5 hours
One flat fee for up to 12 people — $71 and $92 a head at capacity. Travel inside the metro, the kit, the host and GST are all in it.
What actually happens on the night
Six steps, and one of them happens a week before anyone turns up. There's no part of this you have to organise.
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A week or so before
A ten-minute call
You tell us the headcount, the room, and what kind of team it is. We pick the games to suit — a team that talks over each other gets different games from a team that has never played anything.
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30 minutes early
The host arrives and sets up
Tables laid out, games out of their boxes, teach-cards down. Your team walks into a room that's already ready.
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First 10 minutes
Each game is taught from the front
About three minutes a game, off the teach-card, in plain English. Then we get out of the way and let people play.
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Every 25–30 minutes
Tables rotate
New game, new group. It's the difference between an evening with your five closest colleagues and an evening with your team.
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On the hour we agreed
It finishes
Not "winds down". Finishes. People have trains to catch and kids to collect, and an event that runs over is the one people remember for the wrong reason.
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Within 30 minutes
Room back as we found it
We pack down, invoice you for the amount quoted, and delete the attendee names. No follow-up sequence and no mailing list.
What we bring, what you supply
We bring
- The games — six to eight titles, picked for your group
- A teach-card for every title
- Scorepads, timers, pens, the lot
- The host, for the whole session
You supply
- Tables
- Chairs
- Power
That's the whole list. If you want food and drinks, do your own thing — games and grazing food get along fine. We'll ask you to keep red wine one table away from the cards.
Will your room work?
A boardroom
Seats two tables of six comfortably, which covers most bookings. Less space than you would think.
Four tables or more
Wants an open area, a breakout space or a second room. We've run good nights in worse.
A venue
Function rooms and private bars work, provided there's light to read a card by and the music can come down. We'll say so if a venue won't work.
Six to a table. Twelve to a host.
The fee is flat, and it moves on facilitators rather than on heads. One host covers twelve people whether six turn up or twelve. The thirteenth is where a second host comes, and that's a real cost rather than a rounding of the fee.
Six players to a table, so nobody
waits fifteen minutes for a turn.
Tables are the room layout.
Hosts are the bill.
12 on the night
= 2 tables of 6
Shaded zone = covered by the flat fee. The 13th person needs a second host.
Estimate
In your office or a venue · 2.5 hrs
- Session, up to 12
- $1,100
- Travel, kit, host
- Included
- GST
- Included
Your night, all up
$1,100
= $92 a head · one flat fee
Move it once, free, up to seven days out. Nobody gets charged for a flu that went through the floor.
Online sessions and the games drop-off are priced on the home page, alongside these.
When teams actually book these
Four windows, and two of them are the same seven Fridays.
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June
End of financial year
Budget that has to be spent, and a team that has just been through the worst month of its year.
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Books from September
The Christmas party
November and December hold about seven bookable Fridays. We're one facilitator, so those seven are the whole peak. September isn't early.
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Whenever they land
Onboarding weeks
Six new starters who have met each other over video. An hour and a half of this does more than a fortnight of introductions.
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Every quarter
The standing social
The one in the calendar that keeps defaulting to a bar. Same budget, and everybody gets a turn.
Who is coming into your building
Leigh Hathaway. One person, not a roster of casuals — the same host who took the ten-minute call is the one who turns up. Six years of running a Melbourne CBD game night for a group of friends who kept inviting more people, which is where this whole thing came from.
- National Police Check — current, available to sight
- Working with Children Check — current
- Public liability to $20m — certificate of currency on request
- Attendee names deleted after the session. No list, no follow-up sequence
Questions about the in-office night
Do we need a big room?
Less than you'd think. A boardroom seats two tables of six comfortably, which covers most bookings. Four tables wants an open area or a second space — but we've run good nights in worse.
What do we need to supply?
Tables, chairs and power. That's the whole list. We bring the games, the teach-cards, the scoring kit and the host.
How long do you need for set-up and pack-down?
Thirty minutes either side. We arrive before your team does, and the room is back the way we found it within half an hour of the last game.
Can you run it at a venue instead of our office?
Yes. Function rooms and private bars work well, provided there's light to read a card by and the music can come down. We'll say so if a venue won't work.
Do you travel outside Melbourne metro?
Inside the metro, travel is in the price. Beyond it we'll quote travel separately rather than bury it in the per-head rate.
Invoicing, group sizes, rescheduling and the rest are answered on the home page.
Enquire about a night in your office
Your name, your company, a work email and a rough headcount. Add a date if you have one. You'll hear back today, or first thing tomorrow.
[email protected] 0416 426 579Weekdays, 9am to 5pm.
Not ready to book?
Take the one-pager — formats, prices, insurance and police check details — and forward it to whoever signs off.
Download the one-pager (PDF)