Cards or Die turns 10 in 2027! Ten years of bringing people together with board games.

To start our year of celebrations Cards or Die and Archive are hosting TenCon: a birthday bash/ board games convention with 18 hours of gaming. Cards or Die are providing the board games library. 

Friday 22nd January from 6pm till Midnight

Saturday 23rd January from 10am till 10pm

Booking Details

Book Here. 

You can book for all sessions by clicking on the second Friday option. This will give you a ticket to both days. Or, you can book each session separately: Friday evening, Saturday day and Saturday night.

Request Board Games

While we won’t be able to reserve games for people, you can get access to the spreadsheet here and request games you definitely want to see in the library. There are over 700 to choose from.

Food and Drinks

Archive will sustain your gaming energy with their delicious brunch menu until 3pm. 

You can pre-order pizza for after 3pm by adding to your order after you’ve selected your tickets:

Our hand stretched pizzas are made from scratch in-house with our own recipe tomato sauce. 
Margherita – Archive Tomato sauce, Mozzarella and fresh basil 

Pepperoni & Nduja – Archive Tomato sauce, mozzarella, spicy nduja sausage and pepperoni 

Hot Honey Chicken – Archive Tomato Sauce, mozzarella, crispy chicken pieces, mixed peppers and jalapeños.

You can also order from the normal evening menu on the night. 

Board Games Adjacent activities: 

Role Playing Games with Myles from Rune Fable. If you have ever fancied giving role playing games a go, Myles will help you create a character and guide you through a game. 

Meet local games creators Ocean City Games and Sneaky Rascal Games who will be there showing off their creations. 

Treat yourself to a new game from Hachette Board Games.

Stalls confirmed so far:

Art Soup – a Leeds based art collective that funnels their ADHD chaos into selling at art markets! They sell jewellery, crochet, digital art prints and more.

ANTI – a socially engaged run of zines, aiming to promote analogue art, community building and sustainability. Using whimsy, rage and printmaking, we aim to spread a bit of joy with the weird zines of your dreams.

Wotan Games – discover a range of games suitable for beginners and experienced gamers. Easy to learn, set up, and high replayability. Camelot, War of the 9 Realms & more from our London studio.

Venue Details

You can see pictures of the venue and the layout below. There are more pictures and videos on Instagram if you would like to see more. We will be using proper seats – not the benches that we use for our shorter, evening bookings. 

Archive, 94 Kirkstall Rd, Leeds LS3 1HD

Their website 

Solo Gamers

As with the vast majority of my events, solo players are encouraged. Rather than teaching games, I will be focusing on making sure solo players have people to play with. 

Quiet Space

The cafe space in Archive will be kept as a quiet space. There is some noise in there from the coffee machine but there will be less people in there and quiet, calm games will be played in there.  

More details to follow…

All my events are inclusive so everyone is welcome. I aim to create a safe space where all feel welcome and included. I do not tolerate any form of discrimination, or any behaviour which makes other people feel vulnerable or threatened. This includes, but is not limited to, discrimination against race, age, gender, sexuality, faith and disability. If you experience any issues at my events, please let me know. If you don’t feel able to speak to me at the time you can always email me or message me later