GUIDED GAME NIGHTS IN HOUSTON.

game nights

as good as the games themselves


the easiest way to meet people in houston is to sit down and play something.

put strangers at a table with nothing to do and you get weather, jobs, and someone checking their phone. give them something to build together and they forget to keep score of the conversation.

an hour in, people are talking about their weirdest obsession, or the thing they nearly did instead of their current career.

real people, great venues, curated nights.

what's coming up

two ways to get to a table this month.

wed 19 aug · 7pm

magical thinking · unstable unicorns

spaghetti western, houston · tables of four

$15 early bird, $25 standard

only 10 early bird seats each week

book a seat

the season

twelve wednesdays. twelve games.

spaghetti western, houston · august through november

every gathering, one payment $149

under $13 a night, less than an early bird ticket

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see every upcoming gathering

if you just read “game night” and reached for the back button, stay with me.

the game is merely how you get in the door.

there's real research under this. arthur aron sat strangers down in pairs, gave half of them a structured task to work through and left the other half to make small talk. forty five minutes later, the structured pairs reported feeling significantly closer.

sabine sonnentag found that mastery, getting stuck into something difficult onn your own time and getting better at it, is one of the four things that genuinely restores you after work.

you already knew both of those. it's why you'd rather be handed a task at a party than told to mingle.

80%

return for connection over games

9.4/10

average guest score

96%

felt comfortable opening up

nothing about it is left to you.

HOW THE NIGHT RUNS

FIRST 10 MINUTES

a host meets you at the door with a name tag. the tags do most of the heavy lifting, because they show you who you can talk to and what you can talk about. the first half hour keeps social games running, so nobody stands at the edge of a room working out who looks approachable.

you're greeted by name

MINUTE 15

your seat comes from the connection quiz, so nothing about your table is random. you light a candle, and a spark card opens the table with a question actually worth answering.

we set the tables

MINUTE 30

about five minutes, and then you start meeting people sideways, through how they play, think and strategize. it gets you somewhere real faster than another round of icebreakers.

the game gets taught

AROUND 2 HOURS

the candles come down and most people are still talking. you leave knowing actual things about actual people.

leave knowing people

HOW WE’RE DIFFERENT

what you're really choosing between.

a room with a game in it. everyone self-sorts by which game they already know, the regulars already know each other, and nobody hosts the conversation.

free game nights

top golf, bowling, pickleball

they want your thursday and they hand you back a score card. community might turn up on its own, eventually, if you go enough times.

everyone on the same game, chosen by us. seated on purpose. a real person hosting from the moment you walk in. you leave knowing people.

"the intimacy, intentionality and care that went into the experience made it more than just a game night"

@MYTRIBEACADEMY

TAKE THE CONNECTION QUIZ

takes about ten minutes, once. it determines who you sit with, and after that your seat is worked out for every gathering you come to. there's a three minute version at the door if you turn up without one.

how we plan who you sit with.

you don't have to book anything to take it. plenty of people do it first, to see who they'd be sat with, learn their connection type, and pick a night from there.

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