Fancy a great game weekend?

Play a long weekend until the doctor comes? With Schloss Buchenau, a place in the middle of Germany was specially chosen so that neither Flensburger nor Garmisch-Partenkirchner could overcome the distance. Every year at Pentecost, 70 to 120 people move into this beautiful area with its various main and side houses, which is a huge area and they would like to spend a relaxed weekend without any obligations. You can play on the lawns around the main building, in the halls in the main building and in the outbuilding. Everybody can, nobody has to. Walking in nice weather? A campfire in the evening?

The organization has taken on volunteers who simply enjoy bringing people together to play in the real world. Thus there is no intention to make a profit, but the total costs for renting the castle and catering must only be covered at the end. Reduced prices are also offered for people who are not financially well off, which are covered by the other participants as a whole. A very fair procedure - and it's great that the organisers take the trouble.

Schloss Buchenau offers a large number of rooms, most of which have been redesigned in recent years, so that there are now more smaller rooms with 2, 3 or 4 beds. The service is à la youth hostel, bed linen and towels can be rented or brought along by yourself.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner are prepared by our own kitchen - the quality and choice is very high. And by the fact that it is refilled again and again, everyone gets really full :-)

When night falls in the castle, every evening werewolves, villagers, witches, Amor and other characters come together to form the popular "Werewolves in Bleak Forest". The larger the group, the more exciting and interesting it is to find out who is which character in the various day and night scenes. Will the villagers survive and exterminate the werewolves? Or do the werewolves end up killing all the villagers? A lot of fun is guaranteed.

But of course all kinds of other games will also be tried out in the other halls. There are always other players together, not all of whom are familiar with the game, but are curious to try them out.

Anyone who goes to sleep when is free to do so. It can become quite short nights - because while playing one or the other has already forgotten the time. If it's fun, time just flies...

Originally, this event was created from Catan players. Meanwhile all games are represented equally. After all, the 2018 event was in its 14th year. A complete success, because the participants seem to like it so much that they would like to come back the following year.

If you like, you can also take part in a small game tournament. Here, various games are played one after the other under the supervision of tournament leaders - and here, too, the fun factor takes precedence over winning. If you are one of the final winners in terms of points, you will even receive valuable games, donated by publishers and others.

The choice of the different games that participants bring along and make available to everyone else during the time in the castle is gigantic. The picture shows the game selection from previous years. But in 2018 this was already more than double what can be seen in the picture.

So you can always find great new games, which you might want to buy yourself later. Especially game enhancements or games, where by nature the real fun with many players increases, are ideal to play with so many game friends right here.

And a lot of friendship has developed here, which has resulted in a lot of nice gambling in the time between the event.

Click here to go to the website of the offline meeting. Have fun and maybe until the next Whitsun event?