TtT: Happy Home – 25th February 2025

This Week’s Feature Game: Happy Home

The fine felines over at Alley Cat Games have once again kindly supplied a great prize for this week’s Tabletop Tuesday event. Happy Home is another game from the prolific partnership of Matthew Dunstan & Brett J. Gilbert – who I am happy to report are not only great game designers but also great people – who, prior to sending up their own real life happy homes further afield, were long time supports and visitors of Tabletop Tuesday.

Happy Home tasks players with with drafting and placing polyomino pieces of furniture in a desirable formation to maximise your happiness, reflected in points awarded for features such as matching decor, core furniture and potted plant placement. Maximise the happiness in your home by joining us this week and you could be taking home your own copy of the game just by trying it out on the night!

Last Week’s Feature Game: Flip 7

Flipping heck! This game may be flipping simple but it is also flipping good! Flip cards to gain points but don’t flip the same flipping number or you’ll be flipping annoyed as you’ll lose all your flipping points. A push your luck game for the whole family, flipping great for anyone and plays any number of people from 3 to 99 players.

Join us and you could win your own flipping copy just by trying it out on the evening.

Regular Features:

Note that every Tuesday we will now be featuring casual play for Star Wars Unlimited. Training also available for any Padawans looking to learn the game.

(If you want to play other CCG games such as MTG, you are also welcome to do so. More organised play is available on other evenings, but welcome to play at TtT.)

• Introducing our brand new regular SWU feature Galaxy of GOSH: SWU Charity Challenge – fundraising for Great Ormond Street Hospital. (More Details will be coming soon and a link will be provided here – TLDR pay £5, successfully complete the SWU challenge, win awesome Gamegenic and Star Wars boardgame prizes. 100% of the money raised will be going to GOSH.)

Also, note that every 1st Tuesday of the month is our Social Night Special: featuring:
• Blood on the Clocktower (And other Social Deduction Games including Secret H*tler, Two Rooms & a Boom and more): Free to play and beginners welcome.
• Star Wars Unlimited Sealed Draft Event: £15 Entry (but you get more than £15 worth of cards.) Places are (somewhat) limited so please let us know in advance if you would like to join. Beginners welcome but please try and be prompt for a 7.30 pm start.

What: A celebration of the best board, card and tabletop games with themed nights and prizes – all washed down with awesome gaming cocktails! We usually feature a new game every week. Each week you can play this new game for free and usually have the chance to win a copy just by playing the game throughout the evening.

When: From 8pm until 12pm! But feel free to turn up early and play more games! (Feel welcome to turn up earlier, there are usually people playing from 7pm.)

Where: 129 Stoke Newington High Street, London, N16 0PH

Please note that the bar has moved location (from Dalston) and is now nearer Stoke Newington station.

Cost: Free entry and games are free to play, just make sure you buy your drinks!

Feature Game: Most weeks we feature a different game. There is usually the opportunity to win a copy of this game just by playing it on the night. Everyone that plays the feature game is entered into a free prize draw near the end of the evening.

Join us every Tuesday and (most weeks) you could win a copy of the feature game just by trying it on the night!

New for 2025: Traitors Aboard!, Station to Station

New for 2024: Herd Mentality, Flesh & Blood, Block Party, Klask, Klask 4, Honeycombs, Jaws, Mycelia , Ancient Knowledge, The Lord of the Rings Adventure Book Game, Downforce , Minecraft: Builders & Biomes, Kluster, KUGO, ArcheOlogic, The Princess Bride: The Adventure Book Game, Cards Vs Gravity, Jurassic Park: Danger!, Magnate: The First City, Ransom Notes, Star Wars: The Deckbuilding Game, Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition, Planted, Dobble: Star Wars: Mandalorian, Disney Villainous: The Worst Takes It All, Puns of Anarchy, Anarchy Pancakes, Marvel Villainous: Infinite Power, Hook & Ring Battle, Alien: Fate of the Nostromo, Aliens: Another Glorious Day in the Corps, The Chameleon, Woof Days & Sounds Fishy: Travel Edition

New for 2023: Living Forest, Next Station London, Keyforge: Worlds Collide, Meeple Land, Love Letter, Unmatched: Hell’s Kitchen, OK Play, Museum Suspects, Chicken Vs Hotdog, Oceans, Coatl, Forbidden Island, Kingdomino Origins, Sushi Go Party!, Betta, Match 5, A game about Cute Comical Creatures and trying to identify them after someone makes noises, A game about auctioning cubes after winning an auction to become the auctioneer, Happy City, Connecting London, Herd Mentality: Moosic & Moovies, Cóatl The Card Game, True Crime Stories, Obey the Clay, Allegra, Magic The Gathering: Starter Kit, P for Pizza, Phantom Ink, Kittin, Catstronauts, Tinderblox, Hitster, Flesh & Blood, You Can’t Say Umm, 20 Second Showdown

To Play: We have an extensive, ever growing library of over 100 titles! (N.B: A large portion of the games previously listed are now available to play at the Peckham location.)

You may have seen Tabletop Tuesday and Loading Bar featured on Episode 6 of 2014’s BBC’s The Apprentice. You can read more about that here!

See BigRedBarrel.com‘s Twitter and Facebook page for further details on a week by week basis. You can also sign up to receive further details from our Tabletop Tuesday MeetUp Group.