Boardgame Events

In association with Dublin Gaymers and Chimeracon, Gaelcon is running a full schedule of boardgames with facilitated games, demos and teams teaching boardgames. The Google sheet below shows games with a pre-booked table that the Gaelcon boardgame team manages for player bookings. To indicate an interest in any of these games please comment on the Board Game Geek List fof Gaelcon Boardgames Meetups and we will soft-reserve you a place. You must be a Gaelcon ticketholder to attend and we will keep the place for you up to 15 minutes before the game. However, full bookings of places are made by contacting the physical boardgames table at Gaelcon to reserve your place (this can be done any time during the Con up to 15 minutes before the game is due to start, but it is best to come to us as early as possible). All other places will be reserved at the Con on a first-come, first-served basis. 15 minutes before the game, if players have not registered it will be opened to the waiting list and then to anyone else in the boardgames room.

The boardgames rooms (room 15/16 and room 18, 1st floor) are open 6pm -1am Friday, 9.30am to 1am Saturday and Sunday and 9.30am to 5pm Monday.

Free play tables (for people to play their own or library games), a board games library (free to use but with deposit required) linked here and board games teachers are also available at the event. Come to the board games room on the first floor (room 15/16) to visit the boardgames desk. If you want to advertise possible games for free-play tables just add the game to the Gaelcon Boardgames Meetups BGG list or talk to our boardgames team to find additional players for you.

Boardgames at Gaelcon 2024 are sponsored by GMT Games

Boardgames kiosks: On each table playing boardgames at Gaelcon you will see a small folded stand in Red, Orange or Green. This allows players to advertise if they want extra players and are willing to teach (Green), or if they want extra players who are experienced (Orange), or if they need someone to teach them the rules (Red):

If you want to volunteer for Gaelcon and help run the event, use this form.

Rob, Ciara and Denis, your Gaelcon boardgames team.

You can see the boardgames schedule here or below. If insufficient players sign up for a game then it will be cancelled so please register early to avoid this. Note that most of our games are run by volunteer facilitators who are giving up their time to run and teach the game. Unfortunately sometimes life intervenes and the game cannot go ahead.