Greetings Quirk Nation and Happy Holidays! We hope you are enjoying the holiday season, and ready to welcome in the New Year! We are ready to hit the ground running in 2026 with more events than ever before, including new ones in Ohio and Arizona. We are bringing you an Indie Board Game Showcase, a whole new pack of Board Game Speed Dating events in your area, and new dates for our Pub Trivia Murder Mystery and Traitors competitions. Plus. our FREE Feud Night continues on in Denver.

And, of course, a bonus round of trivia at the end about food during the holiday.

Come To Our Indie Board Game Showcase in one of Six Cities

Come play a slew of board games so new, so underground that some of them haven’t even been invented yet! That’s right, our Indie Board Game Showcase event is back, and this year it’s going nationwide!

We will be hosting this event in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, D.C., Chicago, and Denver. In each city, we’ll have a fleet of local game designers, giving you a chance to hop from table to table, play new games, and meet the brilliant minds behind them. We’ll be showcasing everything from early-stage prototypes to finished products available for purchase, with something any game lover can enjoy, with party games, strategy games, and everything in between.

And for those of you who have attended before, the majority of the games will be either ones we haven't shown at previous events or significantly edited versions of things you played last time.

GET TICKETS HERE!

Have you designed a game you'd like to show off at this event? Fill outthis form by end of day January 6.

Try Our Most Popular Event: Board Game Speed Dating

We have new Board Game Speed Dating events ALL over the place, including our very first all-men and all-women events in Milwaukee! Plus, we are launching in Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, and Phoenix!

• Jan 13th | Men & Women | Ages 25-39 | San Diego CA | Protector Brewery | Tickets!
• Jan 14th | Men & Women | Ages 25-39 | Milwaukee WI | Indeed Brewing | Tickets!
• Jan 15th | Men & Women | Ages 25-39 | Denver CO | Novel Strand | Tickets!
• Jan 21st | Gay Men | All Ages | Milwaukee WI | POP | Tickets!
• Jan 21st | Men & Women | Ages 25-39 | Cincinnati OH | West Side Brewing | Tickets!
• Jan 22nd | Men & Women | Ages 25-39 | Los Angeles CA | Relentless Brewing | Tickets!
• Jan 22nd | Men & Women | Ages 25-39 | Phoenix AZ | The Attic Ale House | Tickets!
• Jan 28th | Men & Women | Ages 25-39 | Indianapolis IN | Ralston's Drafthouse| Tickets!
• Jan 28th | Men & Women | Ages 25-39 | Columbus OH | Ohio Brewing Company | Tickets!
• Jan 29th | Men & Women | Ages 20s & 30s | Chicago IL | Big Star Wrigleyville | Tickets!
• Jan 29th | Men & Women | Ages 25-39 | Cleveland OH | Nano Brew | Tickets!
• Feb 18th | Queer Women | All Ages | Milwaukee WI | POP | Tickets!

Another Night of Our Pub Trivia Murder Mystery in Milwaukee

Come solve a murder...by playing Pub Trivia! Gather your friends for "The Case of the Poisoned Patron." Each round, your group will answer trivia questions, which will, in turn, unlock details of the murder, uncover backstories and ultimately answer the greatest question of them all: Whodunnit?

• Jan 31st | St. Francis WI | Faklandia Brewpub | Tickets!

(If you've played this murder mystery in Milwaukee at Indeed Brewing, we do ask you not to play again as it will be the same questions. But we are planning to build a new murder mystery later in 2026.)

Feud Nights

Have you played our Feud game yet? We've polled 100 people and asked them some pretty life-altering questions, like "What’s one job you shouldn’t work if you are afraid of heights?" And now it's up to you to guess what they said. This is happening the 2nd Wednesday of every month at The Empourium in Denver (except for December), so gather your friends, and come play!

• 2nd Wed every month | 7-9pm | Denver, CO | The Empourium | Free Tickets!

Feud Night is one of our staples here at Quirk Events. But to pull off our games, we need your opinions in our latest survey! Thank you for your critical input. (This is a brand-new survey, so if you have taken a previous one, we would love some fresh insight on our new earth-shattering queries.)

TAKE THE SURVEY

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Book Us for Your Next Event

We would LOVE to host your next birthday party, office party or other gathering. Play one of our exotic games, like our Trivia Murder Mystery or our Traitors competition. Or book us for a classic like Trivia or Feud Night. Email [email protected], and we'll tell you more.

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Food at the Holidays

Can you answer these holiday questions about food?

1. What obsolete holiday treat, known as a luxury confection for hundreds of years, can be found, in some form or another, dancing in both The Nutcracker and A Visit from St. Nicholas?
2. A few years ago, a Christmas tree farm run by several members of the Religious Society of Friends was surprised to get a letter threatening a trademark infringement lawsuit from a lawyer at a major company that was famous not for Christmas Trees, but rather for making what breakfast food?
3. According to research by the Miriam-Webster dictionary, the term "Friendsgiving" rose to prominence after a 2011 ad for what brand, which also started offering a seasonal "Apple Pie Liqueur" in 2020?
4. What chain, with nearly 5,000 locations (mostly in Canada), has a holiday menu that includes a Polar Bear Dream Donut and Gingerbread-Filled Muffins?
5. Thanks to a massive marketing campaign in Japan, it is now customary on Christmas Eve, to eat fried chicken from what American chain?

Check your answers here!

Okay, that's all for now. Thank you for being a part of the Quirk Events Universe. And, as always, game on!