Welcome to Cakes n Ladders

Cakes n Ladders is Auckland’s premier board gaming café. We welcome all persuasions, from hard-core gamers and families to couples on a date or groups of friends looking for a space to spend time together. Our gaming library features a growing collection of card and board games including traditional family games, Euro games, games featured on TableTop (a popular gaming web series), and more. The concept is modeled after popular overseas board game cafés such as Castle in Toronto, and Draughts in London. Customers who wish to play games pay just $4.00 an hour per person to access our wonderful library of games in our funky, comfortable café.

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Cakes n Ladders2 days ago
Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau
New game day @cakesnladders

Today we bring you #parkade by @facadegames

In this quick witted scramble to get a parking space for all your vehicles you have to convince the parking attendant that your vehicle's word matches a word on the parking space.

Easy to learn, fun to play.
Cakes n Ladders
Cakes n Ladders1 week ago
Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau
New year, new game day @cakesnladders

We start 2025 with #anomia from @planetfunnz
Anomia is game number 935 (probably, I sometimes lose count) and we're trying for 1000 games in the game library in #2025

Do you think we can do it?

Anomia is a quick and chaotic game with common knowledge becomes a race. Everything is harder when you're on the clock!

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360 degree camera view of the cafe, circa 2017

A Massive Thank You to all our Kickstarter Backers:

Matt Mole, Alex Turner, Hannah Mason, Chantelle Gerrard, Rebecca Leys, Alex Herbert, Ezra Fifield, Amanda Milne (SchilMil Games) Glenn Ferguson, Ash Mathur, Jasmine, Chris Upton, Sam Sarjant, Bradley Harris, Jennifer Hellum,

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