02/11/2026
🎲 Board Game Event - Oban
💸 FREE ENTRY
📅/⏰ SAT 7/11/26 | 11am - 10pm
📍 Hostelling Scotland Oban, Corran Esplanade
(Directions to the hostel can be found on our FB Page in the pinned post)
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A Farewell to 2026 from RookHart 👋
And here we finally arrive at our last main monthly event of the year 🌅
Looking back we stand proud by the achievements we’ve reached this year like:
- Making great new connections with so many great
- Local communities and groups and with all new guests at our events
- Hosting fully free board game events throughout the year
- Creating a whole new set of themed promotional posters for each event and finding tie in games to match
- Supporting The Scottish Association for Marine Science (/SAMS) with the development, outreach and now full retail release of the game ‘Drones and Droids’ (currently available at the beach cafe in Dunbeg)
And most importantly, getting friends, families and newly met guests around the tables to enjoy the good times of games with one another.
So as the sunset on another year of our events, we really cannot begin to express our gratitude to so many kind and supportive people, community groups and everyone who helped us keep RookHart rolling throughout the year.
We’ve managed to host and get involved with so many exciting events - both local and further afield. Working with so many of the most amazing local community groups, charities and organisations like Oban Youth Cafe Project, Atlantis Sport and Leisure Oban, Hope2Oban, Oban Re:Store, Rockfield Primary School, (tagged above), Oban Pride, Lorn and Oban Reuse Initiative (for our main supply of games and everything 💚) and everyone who has helped us grow and expand the RookHart Realm to the exciting future we have ahead of us in 2027.
This year it’s important that we give many many thanks to the very generous support of Oban Distribution Services - for without them we could not have held half the events of this year, thank you all greatly.
And of course, none of our events would ever be possible without our kind hospitality and sanctuary that is Hostelling Scotland and their Oban venue and team - there truly would not be any RookHart without your kindness, support and belief in our project and; and we will never stop being grateful for everything you have helped us achieve and become 💜
So to finalise, no matter how the tides may change in the next page of history that is to be 2027, we hope to continue our work and purpose - to create a safe sanctuary of play-based pure bliss, where everyone is welcome and anyone can join in.
And this light of ours has shone so bright by the support of so many all throughout our journey, and so, in turn we will continue to give all we can to build community and support communities the very best we can - thank you for everything and more,
Dee Rudiger 💜
&
James S Baker 💚
The RookHart Team
🐦⬛ 🩵 🎲 🖤 🦌
And yet there remains one final mystery to solve in the Realm of RookHart…
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RookHart Games Presents:
🕵 👁️ 🔦
The Enigmatic End to Madame Ennui
🗂️ 🔎 👣
It’s just not adding up… all the evidence points back to the hostel, but what's the motive? Well our suspect sure does have their choice of secret spaces and escape routes, but why here? And of all victims, why the French minister for admin related to the pedestrianisation of reclaimed industrial estates - Madame Ennui??
I must’ve missed something, so let’s go back to the facts:
🕰️ Time of Incident - Around 11am-10pm (no way to narrow that down, that’s almost the full day!)
📍 Location - At the Hostelling Scotland site in Oban on the Corran Esplanade (a see front view for our unsuspecting victim)
📦 Items Found at the Scene - 100+ games of various genres, difficulty and play styles
👥 Suspects - A complete mix of people who all joined together on the same day, for the same reason. Some returning familiars, as well as a host of new faces, truly it could be anyone of any kind, it seems everyone was welcomed in
💰 ”The Big Score” - Well money couldn’t have been a motive, there weren’t any charges or fees to get involved at all, just a totally free experience of gaming
🧨 The Motive - Why would anyone try to put an end to Ennui? Wait a minute, it seems that’s it! All the guests at the event seemed to have had, at some point, a prolonged encounter with Ennui…
And what’s this? An insignia of some kind?? Was this an organised group of some kind? ‘RookHart Games’ huh… oh no, these markings show that this isn’t the first time they’ve done this, I count 30!
And it looks like Madame Ennui was far from their first victim. It reads - “Those fallen by the might of the RookHart Realm - ‘Cpt. Verveling’, ‘Lord. Avorriment’, ‘Dr. Leamhachd’ ‘they even did away with the infamous grey scale artist ‘Die Langeweile’.
There’s only one way to finally solve this case, their next gathering seems to be THIS SATURDAY on NOVEMBER 7TH - same time, same place. Looks like I’ll have to blend into the group to find out what’s really at the hart of this, and they’re clearly professionals so I best bring [my] A-game to beat them at their own. I can’t go alone on this one, I’ll need back up - so looks like you’re gonna be joining me on this one Rookie…
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⚠️ Reminder - the RookHart main monthly events will return in 2027! ⚠️
Check out the QR code in the poster below for this month's highlighted games, as well as our current core menu and event details
Or head to www.rookhartgames.com for all things RookHart related
🔮For all upcoming Event dates, please check out our
Google Calendar on our website home page
And a reminder - all of our RookHart hosted events will now be 100%
🎊 F R E E - E N T R Y 🎊
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It’s been an incredible year for us 😌
Thank you all for making all our moments truly magic ✨
We greatly look forward to the amazing adventures and experiences that await us in 2027!
All the best,
The RookHart Team
🐦⬛ 🩵 💜 🃏 🖤 🤍 🦌
