A wider world, one game at a time
Good games travel.
Great stories gather.
GamePerch gathers games from around the world and the stories they carry, so your table can travel further than your passport.
Every table opens a window into another world.Mahjong · Lotería · Truco
The Game Perch Market
Top sellers.
The games tables keep coming back to, from every corner of the world.
From the Perch
Stories carried from table to table.
Notes from the road: the people, places, and play behind the games.
hosting
How to Host a Mahjong Party (Daytime Approved)
Mahjong parties are afternoon affairs. The full playbook: guest list, table setup, invitations, decorations, daytime drinks, clean-hands food, a two-hour playlist, and...
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learn-to-play
How to Play American Mahjong: A Beginner's Guide
New to the tiles? The beginner-friendly 101 on American mahjong: the tiles, the Charleston, how a turn works, and what changes when...
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gift-guides
Your Game Night Needs a Word Game. Start Here.
Codenames, Blank Slate, and our own party picks: the word games worth your game night, curated by Game Perch.
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Giving Program
A Snowman Revolution
Two Colorado kids turned snowmen into emoji canvases, and a family venture into a real-life entrepreneurship education.
Giving Program
The Centuries-Old Game Behind Denver's Kendama Scene
A centuries-old Japanese toy is building community in Denver, one trick at a time.
Game Perch’s giving program
When play gives back.
Some games are played for the love of it, and some are meant to give back. This is where Game Perch spotlights the players and communities behind the games we love.
Only products with a confirmed beneficiary carry The Perch Pledge badge.
Why “The Perch”
We're named after birds on a wire.
A powerline full of birds is just neighbors with nowhere to be, hanging out and swapping stories. That's the whole idea. Game Perch is a place to gather, and the game is just the excuse to pull up a chair.
We hunt down games from all over the map, because every table does game night a little differently, and most of them are worth stealing.
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