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Level One is proud to host our first miniature painting contest! Anyone is welcome to enter and compete. Check out the rules for the contest here.

Painting miniatures is not nearly as intimidating at it seems. It’s actually very easy to get attractive results with the right advice. In the first half our painting guide, we’ll talk about how to prepare yourself with the tools and the mindset to paint well. Check out our advice to improve your tabletop experience!

Wanna try a story game? A game that’s immersive, but lets you express your creativity with your friends? And also something that’s easy to play and doesn’t require a huge time investment? Alice Is Missing is a great game for you. Get your group chat started up, collect your friends, and buckle up - there’s nothing like Alice Is Missing.

The final chapter of the Century games is due! This winter, the sixth and final game in the Century series, called An Endless World, will arrive. Fans of these light strategy games can finally complete their collection. But why are there so many of them? Find out about this popular series now!

Wanna try a legacy game, but don't want to destroy your game while playing it? Check out My City, a game that's easy, affordable, and has an "eternal" mode that plays like a regular board game.

Board game luminary Wingspan gets its first mechanical expansion! In addition to beautiful new bird cards, the Oceania Expansion also introduces a new resource: Nectar. This potent asset works with the other types of food in the game, and opens up new strategic possibilities for an already excellent game. Check out what else is new in Wingspan’s Oceania Expansion!

Can you master all three to obtain victory? Air, Land & Sea is a two-player head-to-head card-driven short war game that’ll test your strategic wits. Play powerful cards to control one of the three combat theaters, but only just enough. Make sure you save some to contest your opponent at the other two, as well. Sun Tzu never had it so good!

How big is your brain? Maybe you did well at university, but can you run a university? Alma Mater is a worker placement strategy game where players are headmasters in a Renaissance school of higher learning. Manage your income, hire professors and attract students for big points!

Are you ready to get spooky? Spoopy skeletons, ghastly ghosts, and memorable monsters let us confront our innate thanatophobia in a fun way! And Level One has all these monsters and more. Let’s talk about some of the best Halloween board games Level One Game Shop has to offer.

Look out behind you! What kind of monster is that!? Role-playing games are a fantastic medium for horror stories. The scares and dread are particularly potent when they’re happening to your character. Check out our favorite Halloween RPGs to play this season!

Tiny Towns is the definition of a family game. Easy to teach? Check. Easy to play? Check. Plays quickly? Check. Plays the whole family? Check! And with gorgeous family-friend art and lots of awesome little building pieces to collect, Tiny Towns is a great way for a family to have fun together.

Who would want these gross games? Only low-down, dirty liars and filthy cheaters, that’s who. Cockroach Poker and Cheating Moths are two new, disgusting card games at Level One. The only way to win these games is to lie to your friends’ faces and cheat before their eyes. What a disgusting pair!