Thank you so much!

Hello everyone !

Faced with so much enthusiasm and playfulness within the store, we simply wanted to say thank you! :)

Thank you to our regular local customers who continue to trust us on a daily basis. :)

Thank you to our vacationing customers who come back to see us every year to chat and discover new games. :)

 Thank you to our young and old players who play the game by coming back to share a good time during the animations. :)

 Thank you to the customers of the services for your sympathy. :)

 Thank you to our partners who help make things go as smoothly as possible. :)

 Thank you to the Mayor for his support and involvement for the municipality. :)

 I would end with two nice mid-summer quotes from clients and a quote:

"No you are not in a cave, but in the cave of Alibaba" Thank you Madam :)

 "But you actually opened this store to keep your baby soul." Thank you little 8 year old loulou. :)

 “We are worthy of our happiness when we like to share it”. Jean Baptiste Blanchard (The maxims of the honest man)

Thank you all for these moments and see you soon at the store;)

Good day to you all. Have a good week and have a good game;)

Thank you.

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Magic packets

During the Christmas period, we prepare different types of gift packages.

Our favorites remain those for children where we take particular pleasure in making original packages and hiding lots of little surprises in them. :)

I remember a merchant in the town where I was born who put out surprises in addition to Christmas presents. As a child, these little gifts made me happy.

From the first Christmas of the store, I took pleasure in creating or offering little surprises to hide in the gift or its package so that the children could feel the joy of an unexpected surprise in addition to the original gift.

I smile thinking of all these children who perhaps have the same pleasure as me, I had little to open gifts and discover more surprises... :)

Adding surprises that correspond to our customers and their children and seeing that they have had the desired effect (surprising and pleasing) is an incomparable pleasure, especially at Christmas.

It reminds me of this little 4-year-old man who came to get a surprise with a personalized package just for him and who asked me:

“And the gift packages, did the elves make them? ".

To which I nodded and he added,

"It's magic!" ".

Good day and good game ;)

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Unique

During a time of volunteering, I found myself during an intergenerational play time to animate a role play.

As a game master, I have made it my mission to succeed in bringing parents and children together around secret objectives related to games...

The goal was to solve puzzles using the clues that each parent and each child had in their hands.

During this play time, an autistic child was afraid of the hubbub caused by the other apprentice investigators and their parents.

His mom was about to quit the game so she could reassure her autistic son when her other son started sulking, saying, "Mom, I don't want to quit the game."

The mother was going to try to calm her son down like she had done before, singing him a certain song that would calm him down.

Seeing this mother saddened that her other child can no longer play and having previously observed it, I approached the young autistic child and sat down in front of him, starting to sing the famous song.

He then took my hand to show me that he was reassured by the song and his mother smiled at me knowing that she could continue the game with her other son.

When her first son had calmed down, we joined them to finish the game and the evening ended very well.

When I left, this mother said to me:

"Never change, you are extra, that's what makes you unique".

We always end up reaping what we sow :)

Good day and good game ;)

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At valiant heart nothing impossible !

Whenever I encountered a difficulty that I thought was insurmountable, my grandfather always used this expression that his grandfather before him had also said to him:

" At valiant heart nothing impossible ".

I grew up with this idea that difficulty could slow us down, but not stop us.

Now, I see difficulty as a challenge that pushes us to surpass ourselves.

Creating the store was a challenge for me and it continues to be so on a daily basis with the difficulties that any trader can encounter: unfair competition, jealousy and various gossip, economic and health crisis, etc...

But beyond all that, there is the reason why it all started that keeps us going.

When you no longer know why you want to continue, you have to ask yourself why you started.

Often the answer to this question allows us to know why we do things and allows us to make choices in life.

When you have the heart to undertake and want to succeed in something, you have to give yourself the means to achieve them, whether it is easy or more complicated.

We will often fail, we will succeed sometimes, but we will always move forward more experienced than before and even more determined.

Because : " At valiant heart nothing impossible " ;)

Good day and good game ;)

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A fun good time.

During events within private or associative organizations, I often find myself facing beginner players or connoisseurs of classic games.

Most of the time, they don't know all the current playful nuggets...

That's good, it's my role to make them discover them ;)

To get players to succeed in assimilating a game and its rules, it is often useful to offer games that are based on an already known mechanic.

As Pablo Picasso said so well:

“To teach people something, you have to mix what they know with what they don't know. »

It's a very wise phrase that I apply on a daily basis to get my players to become comfortable with unknown games and make them want to play again.

I must not be doing too badly, because, one example among many others, a little lady who did not want to play because she was not used to playing board games told me:

“I had a great time around the games with you. Looking forward to next week that you make us discover other games."

Good day and good game ;)