Welcome to the Milbridge Tabletop Gamers

Collection of typical American games

When people think of games in the United States, a few thoughts come to mind. Memories of playing games like Monopoly, Skip-Bo, Cribbage and many others are often shared. These American standard games have not changed much in decades and many love the time they have spent playing these games with friends or family.

McDonalds Monopoly game

People also tend to think of games as activities that mostly belong in childhood. Adults do not tend to make time for games in their every day life. Interestingly, big business is aware of this deficit of game play and even has started making games out of their sales and marketing. For example, companies run seasonal games in which you get game pieces every time you buy a product and if you use those game pieces to fill in some board (like BINGO or Monopoly for example), you could win prizes or free merchandizing. The introduction of gaming into marketing has been such a huge success in part because adults in our culture are deprived of face to face game play time.


In the rest of the world, game development has not stagnated. In fact, every year brings completely new innovations and games to a world wide audience. There are Tabletop Gaming bars and cafes all over the world. In Germany, they hold the Spiel des Jahres (Game of the year) with the winner of this international award almost guaranteed to sell over half a million copies of their game. As a result of decades of game development, the games available today are incredibly varied and have many levels of complexity. 

Milbridge Tabletop Gamers bring in the New Year gaming 2018

I started the Milbridge Tabletop Gamers group in January of 2017 in the hopes of sharing my large collection of these international best selling games with the warm community in and around Milbridge Maine. The town office and the library were both excited to have our community have another social gathering event possible and the library space was made available. We have met most Saturdays since we started and well over 100 different community members have stopped in to try a game. As of the start of this blog, we still only get about 4-8 players on any given Saturday and very often it is the same people. This blog is an effort to help everyone learn more about what kinds of games and what kinds of fun our players are experiencing in our weekly gaming sessions. This is all free fun and is open to all people in and around the Milbridge area. Check in on the Milbridge Public Library Facebook page every week to read announcements about when we will be gaming next. 

Every week I will try to share a little about a game we played that week and the funny or exciting things that happened during the game. Hopefully this will inspire you to take some time on a Saturday afternoon and come by to learn a game or maybe share a game you love.