SpielMas Starter Kit

January 7, 2026

Behold! A SpielMas Starter Kit for your local gaming group.

Nine titles from Rio Grande Games

Coloretto, Zooloretto, Tobago, Dice Realms, Woodcraft, Shipyard, Concordia, Pictures, and Beyond the Sun.

During the sixth-annual SpielMas festival, the good folks at Rio Grande Games reached out on Instagram to see if they could supply me with a few games for a local boardgames meetup in my area. The result was overwhelming! They sent enough duplicate titles for five more groups to also build up their game library from scratch.

14 boxes arrived on a rainy evening with 68 games inside!

I already have three groups in the San Francisco Bay Area to whom I will hand deliver a set. One of those is the game library at Peoples Coffee near Santa Cruz CA, where the Game Designers of Santa Cruz meet on a regular basis.

I can’t afford to mail you a box, but contact me if I can make your SpielMas dreams come true with a personal visit near me to your favorite coffeehouse, pizza parlor, brewery, or creperie where you and your friends are starting to gather and play games.

The only catch? Each box in the set will contain a note about SpielMas, a global, holiday festival celebrated by playing a tabletop game each night between December 26-31.