Christmas Hours

The Castle elves want to remind you we are open regular hours Christmas even and will open from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. December 25th.

 

Christmas Party

Join us for our annual Christmas Party and drawing. Snacks and cider in the back room and the drawing at 4:30.  How do you get tickets:

1 ticket for coming in

1 ticket with your preferred customer card

1 ticket for wearing a Castle Perilous shirt

1 ticket for wearing Christmas attire

1 ticket for each $10  you spend with the wrestlers from Ignite Pro Wrestling

1 ticket for each stamp you earn on a Castle Card

 

Christmas Hours

 We will open regular hours on Dec. 23 and will host our regularly scheduled events. The store will open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m on Christmas Eve and 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Christmas Day. We will not have any events scheduled for those two days but will have new comics available on Christmas Day.

Christmas Eve

 We are open regular hours Christmas Eve, noon to 6 p.m. with D&D at 12:30 and Magic Commander at 3 p.m. On sale are Magic Pre-release Kits and LOTR Scene boxes, both at 50% off.

Magic Scene Boxes

 Looking for a gift for the Magic player that they haven't already puchased for themselves. Pick up a Lord of the Rings Magic Scene Box for them. It is a cool item but not one a Magic player would generally purchase. 25% off only on December 14.

Advent Dice Sets

 On Dec. 13 both of our Advent dice calendars will be on sale for 25% off. Castle cards do apply.

Oddly, we could not keep these in stock last year but have moved much more slowly for 2023.

Yu Gi Oh Holiday Tournament

 The store will host its annual Yu Gi Oh Holiday Can tournament on Dec. 3 at 12: 30. Bring in 5 cans of food or $5 and we will give you 5 cans of food. Do not be lame and bring in cans of tomato sauce or tomato paste.  Beans, dried pasta canned vegetables, etc are what food pantries are looking for. We will host a 3 round tournament. You must play at least 1 round before dropping. Each round you win, collect one can from your opponent. AT the end of the tournament, turn in your cans and you will receive 1 Yu Gi Oh booster pack for each can you give us. 

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Christmas Drawing 2

 Had the drawing on FB at 4:30 there abouts this afternoon and have called or sent a message to all of the winners. If we have items not picked up by noon CT this Thursday, will contact the new people on the list for each item. Thanks to all that partiocpated.

Christmas Drawing

 We will have our annual Christmas drawing on Sunday Dec. 19 at 4;30. You may check the items on our Facebook or Instagram page. Currently items 1, 3, 8, 11, 18,19 ,22, 23, 24, 25 do not have any tickets on them.

Yu Gi Oh Holdiay Tournament

 The store will particpate in the annual Yu Gi Oh Holiday tournament  on Dec. 5. Entry fee is 5 cans of food. Each round a lplayer antes one can of food with the winner collecting both cans. At the end of the tournament, players may redeem their remaining cans for a pack of Yu Gi Oh for each can of food.

Christmas Hours

 We will open at 5 p.m. Christmas Day and remain open until 9 p.m. Merry Christmas . Meanwhile, for the 65th year, you can track Santa on the NORAD Santa Tracker . 

Free Gift Wrapping

 We are open regular hours today and Christmas Eve and will offer free gift wrapping both days. We still have a pretty good stock of games and graphic novels with copies of Wingspan, Root and Everdell in stock as of last night.

Hours

 We will be open regular hours tomorrow and Christmas Eve and open at 5 p.m to 9 p.m. on Christmas Day. We did get a big restock in of D&D books as well as 100 sided dice for the first time in a long while

Christmas Traditions

 Here is a list of 25 Christmas traditions, most less than a century old. How many are still celebrated in your home?

Last Minute Arrivals

 We have one of the Advent Dice Calendars left, which is th eonly plac eyou can find the set of Q-Workshop Santa Dice. We have the D&D Adventure Begins Boardgame, which teaches people the fundamentals of D&D as well as the Heroes Feast D&D Cookbook

Free Gift Wrapping

 Starting tomorrow, we will offer free gift wrapping on purchases made here. We will wrap items purchased elsewhere but the price will depend on the size and complexity of the item.

Feel free to leave a tip for the staff member doing the wrapping. They get to keep any and all tips.

Downtown Cookie Walk

Apparently Carbondale Main Street will host a downtown cookie walk tomorrow. Cannot find any information about it on their website or Facebook page but we will participate. The plan is to have a map posted somewhere and tables with cookies set up in front of participating businesses. No idea what time though. However, while they last, we will have cookies inside the store.

Game on Every Table Update

 Since we had a customer ask, yes, you can just send us money and we will select games for you to donate to the Toys for Tots program. We will take 40% off the list price of the game or toy so we had one $50 donation purchase about $90 worth of games for the program. However, if you opt for this method, you leave it up to us to select the game. If you want to make the choice you need to purchase them under the original buy one at full price, buy one at 40% off program.

A Game on Every Table

For the Game on Every Table promotion, when you buy one game, you may buy a second game at 40% off and we will donate it to Toys for Tots. This promotion will continue through December 13 and is good on every game or toy in the store.

Stocking Stuffers

 

Not only is this the time of year for big holiday game purchases, like Star Wars Armada from Fantasy Flight, Fortune and Glory from Flying Frog or Horus Heresy:  Betrayal at Calith from Games Workshop, any of which will set you back $100 or more, but the season also calls for smaller presents as well, for stocking stuffers, secret Santas or gift exchange. For these, you want a game that provides a lot of fun without melting down your pocketbook. Here are some suggestions:

1.       Love Letter from AEG. This is Castle Perilous Games & Books Selected Stocking Stuffer of the Season for several reasons.  First, Love Letter is a lot of fun, plays quickly and offers quite a bit of replay value, especially with the number of variants that AEG has released.  In addition, it boasts a great price point at $9.99 for the basic game and only $10.99 for the Batman, Hobbit and Adventure Time variants. There’s even a Letters to Santa version if you want to get really thematic. Add in that the game is attractively packaged in both boxed and clamshell versions and you have a great stocking stuffer.

2.       Timeline from Asmodee. Gnome Games picked this one as its Stocking Stuffer of 2015 for the same reasons Castle Perilous Games & Books chose Love Letter (In fact, Gnome Games selected Love Letter as its Stocking Stuffer for 2013).  Timeline comes packaged in an attractive tin that fits neatly into a stocking, has an equally attractive $14.99 price point and offers plenty of replayability. Add in the fact that it actually teaches a bit of history and you have an all-around great choice.

3.       Fluxx from Looney Labs.  At $16 to $20, Fluxx is a bit more expensive than the first two options but still comparatively cheap and comes in a wide variety of variations. You can buy Nature Fluxx, Stoner Fluxx, Star Fluxx, Cthulhu Fluxx, Pirate Fluxx, Batman Fluxx or even, should your tastes run that way, just plain Fluxx. The number of Fluxx games make it relatively easy to find a version that would appeal to anyone on your Secret Santa or gift exchange list. In addition, since the rules change with every game, even with every hand, Fluxx, whatever version you buy, offers immense replayability.