Learned Spirit Island at Wellycon this year too. Glad we had someone who had played before as it was a complex first play. Not sure it is for me. A heavier cooperative game. Theme was interesting and the tension you feel as you play was engaging. #wellycon #boardgame #boardgamegeek
December 6, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Learned Spirit Island at Wellycon this year too. Glad we had someone who had played before as it was a complex first play. Not sure it is for me. A heavier cooperative game. Theme was interesting and the tension you feel as you play was engaging. #wellycon #boardgame #boardgamegeek
Horrendously late Day 2 Wellycon: We won Clash of Magic Schools. Should’ve been easier to learn than it was. Enjoyed replaying Aboretum. Finally learned Teen Titans Go Mayhem and it was amusing. Glad day 2 was good quiet fun. #wellycon #boardgames #boardgamegeek #brightmoments
December 6, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Horrendously late Day 2 Wellycon: We won Clash of Magic Schools. Should’ve been easier to learn than it was. Enjoyed replaying Aboretum. Finally learned Teen Titans Go Mayhem and it was amusing. Glad day 2 was good quiet fun. #wellycon #boardgames #boardgamegeek #brightmoments
Day 2 Wellycon (1 of 2): Stamp Swap, easy and attractive. A game that actually keeps to the box time! Nice and short.
August 26, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Day 2 Wellycon (1 of 2): Stamp Swap, easy and attractive. A game that actually keeps to the box time! Nice and short.
Day 1 Wellycon 2025 plays: Tiletum, Castle Combo, Barcelona and Dive. Tiletum - Took us about an hour setting up and going through rules for first play. Played the King’s corruption track wrong, missed flipping tokens each round. Crests and food are more important than you think. Castl... (Part 3/3)
August 25, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Day 1 Wellycon 2025 plays: Tiletum, Castle Combo, Barcelona and Dive. Tiletum - Took us about an hour setting up and going through rules for first play. Played the King’s corruption track wrong, missed flipping tokens each round. Crests and food are more important than you think. Castl... (Part 3/3)
Day 1 Wellycon 2025 plays: Tiletum, Castle Combo, Barcelona and Dive. Tiletum - Took us about an hour setting up and going through rules for first play. Played the King’s corruption track wrong, missed flipping tokens each round. Crests and food are more important than you think. Castl... (Part 2/3)
August 25, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Day 1 Wellycon 2025 plays: Tiletum, Castle Combo, Barcelona and Dive. Tiletum - Took us about an hour setting up and going through rules for first play. Played the King’s corruption track wrong, missed flipping tokens each round. Crests and food are more important than you think. Castl... (Part 2/3)
Day 1 Wellycon 2025 plays: Tiletum, Castle Combo, Barcelona and Dive. Tiletum - Took us about an hour setting up and going through rules for first play. Played the King’s corruption track wrong, missed flipping tokens each round. Crests and food are more important than you think. Castl... (Part 1/3)
August 25, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Day 1 Wellycon 2025 plays: Tiletum, Castle Combo, Barcelona and Dive. Tiletum - Took us about an hour setting up and going through rules for first play. Played the King’s corruption track wrong, missed flipping tokens each round. Crests and food are more important than you think. Castl... (Part 1/3)
Day 2 #wellycon end of day, no brain left. Learned Dreadful Meadows. The pieces looked like candy and I wanted to eat them. The harvesters were confusing initially. But I really enjoyed it. We both stuffed up, but came very similar in points. #boardgames #boardgamegeek #boardgamesofinstagram
August 25, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Day 2 #wellycon end of day, no brain left. Learned Dreadful Meadows. The pieces looked like candy and I wanted to eat them. The harvesters were confusing initially. But I really enjoyed it. We both stuffed up, but came very similar in points. #boardgames #boardgamegeek #boardgamesofinstagram
Day 2 #wellycon we spent learning Great Western Trail NZ. My partner had played the other 2 versions and also liked this. I enjoyed the many different things that you could do. No idea on winning but it was nice to have no pressure time to learn together. #boardgames #boardgamesofinstagram #board...
August 25, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Day 2 #wellycon we spent learning Great Western Trail NZ. My partner had played the other 2 versions and also liked this. I enjoyed the many different things that you could do. No idea on winning but it was nice to have no pressure time to learn together. #boardgames #boardgamesofinstagram #board...
#wellycon Day 1 - Taught Heat: Pedal to the Metal. We own this game. It replaced Formula D in our collection. Very happy. Mostly easy to teach although the order of actions and what counts towards corner speed limits can be confusing. Had to leave before finishing but our friends were enjoying it...
August 25, 2025 at 8:39 AM
#wellycon Day 1 - Taught Heat: Pedal to the Metal. We own this game. It replaced Formula D in our collection. Very happy. Mostly easy to teach although the order of actions and what counts towards corner speed limits can be confusing. Had to leave before finishing but our friends were enjoying it...
#wellycon Day 1 - Disney Dixit play to win. Wanted to see how this would work compared to regular Dixit. It was actually more different, because the cards are so well known, your clues had to be much more general to avoid being identified immediately. I won. The art was also beautiful. #boardgame...
August 25, 2025 at 8:39 AM
#wellycon Day 1 - Disney Dixit play to win. Wanted to see how this would work compared to regular Dixit. It was actually more different, because the cards are so well known, your clues had to be much more general to avoid being identified immediately. I won. The art was also beautiful. #boardgame...
#wellycon Day 1 - Learned to play The Lost Ruins of Arnak. Enjoyed a lot. I won. Mish mash to me of Century Golem, Raiders, Dominion, and my partner mentioned Everdell for the chaining of actions. Worker placement plus deck building and research track points. Would recommend. Looks complicated bu...
August 25, 2025 at 8:39 AM
#wellycon Day 1 - Learned to play The Lost Ruins of Arnak. Enjoyed a lot. I won. Mish mash to me of Century Golem, Raiders, Dominion, and my partner mentioned Everdell for the chaining of actions. Worker placement plus deck building and research track points. Would recommend. Looks complicated bu...
#Wellycon Day 1 - Sprawlopolis. Apparently hard to find card game. Very thinky. I wasn’t very good at it but I can see it being good as a zen solo game. Was a nice filler. #boardgames #boardgamegeek #boardgamesofinstagram
August 25, 2025 at 8:39 AM
#Wellycon Day 1 - Sprawlopolis. Apparently hard to find card game. Very thinky. I wasn’t very good at it but I can see it being good as a zen solo game. Was a nice filler. #boardgames #boardgamegeek #boardgamesofinstagram
#wellycon Day 1 - Started with Cottage Garden, this is a nice chill piece game like Patchwork. We’d played before. Cats! Though in my experience, cats do not help gardens, they sh*t in them. My partner won. Hard to find game.
August 25, 2025 at 8:39 AM
#wellycon Day 1 - Started with Cottage Garden, this is a nice chill piece game like Patchwork. We’d played before. Cats! Though in my experience, cats do not help gardens, they sh*t in them. My partner won. Hard to find game.
Ended our day at #wellycon with shorter games. Draftosaurus was super fast, had fun dino meeples you arranged in your park for points and was really quick to learn. Definitely one as an opener, filler or end of night no-brainer. Would be nice with kids and adults. #boardgame #boardgamegeek #boar...
August 25, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Ended our day at #wellycon with shorter games. Draftosaurus was super fast, had fun dino meeples you arranged in your park for points and was really quick to learn. Definitely one as an opener, filler or end of night no-brainer. Would be nice with kids and adults. #boardgame #boardgamegeek #boar...
Tried a new longer/more involved game in #wellycon Learn to play, Wonderland’s War. Took us ages to get through learning from the rule book, although it was helpful and detailed. Art is engaging although sometimes overwhelming and we kept ‘losing’ the die in the middle of the board. Fighting mech...
August 25, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Tried a new longer/more involved game in #wellycon Learn to play, Wonderland’s War. Took us ages to get through learning from the rule book, although it was helpful and detailed. Art is engaging although sometimes overwhelming and we kept ‘losing’ the die in the middle of the board. Fighting mech...
Played Isle of cats at #wellycon over the weekend. Learning base game. Enjoyed it a lot so went on the to buy list. Colourful, cats and treasure, puzzle pieces, card drafting.
August 25, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Played Isle of cats at #wellycon over the weekend. Learning base game. Enjoyed it a lot so went on the to buy list. Colourful, cats and treasure, puzzle pieces, card drafting.
Creepy tentacles are stirring in Wellington!
(This year there's a few TTRPGs on offer at amazing board game WellyCon, get amongst!)
(This year there's a few TTRPGs on offer at amazing board game WellyCon, get amongst!)
Call of Cthulhu is coming to WellyCon 2025!
Sign up today to step into the night and fight back the darkness: buff.ly/0MeYQDh
Sign up today to step into the night and fight back the darkness: buff.ly/0MeYQDh
May 20, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Creepy tentacles are stirring in Wellington!
(This year there's a few TTRPGs on offer at amazing board game WellyCon, get amongst!)
(This year there's a few TTRPGs on offer at amazing board game WellyCon, get amongst!)
I’m off to Wellycon for the first time today to play some board games. Very exciting! I know some mutuals are going as well so if you spot me in my Speight’s cheese cutter hat, feel free to come over and say hello!
June 19, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I’m off to Wellycon for the first time today to play some board games. Very exciting! I know some mutuals are going as well so if you spot me in my Speight’s cheese cutter hat, feel free to come over and say hello!
Ohh I’ve been meaning to ask if Cut the Deck will be at Wellycon! I’m keen to give it a go!
June 17, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Ohh I’ve been meaning to ask if Cut the Deck will be at Wellycon! I’m keen to give it a go!
At Wellycon a bit early, so coffee at Zephyr , though I might pop over to Sixes and Sevens at lunch as I’ve not been there since they moved.
May 29, 2026 at 8:43 PM
At Wellycon a bit early, so coffee at Zephyr , though I might pop over to Sixes and Sevens at lunch as I’ve not been there since they moved.
Caffeinated Dragon had it hard with the construction around the library and had an excellent fundraiser to relocate at the 2024 WellyCon to get them into their new site.
It’s really like not enough people have enough money or something.
It’s really like not enough people have enough money or something.
September 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Caffeinated Dragon had it hard with the construction around the library and had an excellent fundraiser to relocate at the 2024 WellyCon to get them into their new site.
It’s really like not enough people have enough money or something.
It’s really like not enough people have enough money or something.
Cerbus Games on Dixon St, and there’s an annual Kapcon convention for TTRPG and Wellycon for TTBG
August 9, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Cerbus Games on Dixon St, and there’s an annual Kapcon convention for TTRPG and Wellycon for TTBG
There’s also Wellycon for (mostly) board games and include prizes in the play-to-win
www.wellycon.org.nz
www.wellycon.org.nz
Wellycon - Boardgame convention
New Zealand's largest board game convention, held in Wellington. We host two conventions, one on King's birthday and another on Labour weekend.
www.wellycon.org.nz
July 30, 2025 at 5:47 AM
There’s also Wellycon for (mostly) board games and include prizes in the play-to-win
www.wellycon.org.nz
www.wellycon.org.nz