Toy Stores
Sanctuary Games
About Sanctuary Games
A good game shop does two jobs at once. It sells things you can wrap, and it gives people somewhere to sit down and actually play them, which is why shops in this trade so often keep tables at the back and a calendar on the wall. Sanctuary Games trades from 290 Alexander Street Northeast, in the older downtown grid that runs a few blocks back from the water, close enough to the wharf that a browse can be tacked onto a walk along the bay.
What varies most from one shop to the next is the mix. Some lean toward board games for families and puzzles for the cabin, others toward trading cards, miniatures and paints, or role playing books and the dice that go with them. Stock in a smaller city also moves in waves, since a single distributor shipment can change what is on the shelf from one week to the next. If you are hunting a specific title, a sleeve size or a particular expansion, phoning first is a great deal less frustrating than driving in and hoping.
The Shuswap gives this kind of store a rhythm. Summer brings visitors off the boats and out of the campgrounds looking for something to do on a rained out afternoon, while the long stretch from November to March is when regular play nights matter most to the people who live here year round. Sanctuary Games can be reached at 250-833-5223, with more at sanctuarygames.ca. Downtown parking is easiest outside the festival weekends that pull the whole region into the centre of town each summer.
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In the Downtown Salmon Arm neighbourhood of Salmon Arm.
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