SUISUN CITY — Kittens in a Blender isn’t as bad as it sounds – it’s a card game that involves saving little kitties before they end up . . . well, in the blender.

That’s just one of the many off-the-grid board games that Fairfield’s Bad Zero Games, a family “pop up” game store, has had at its game days at the Hampton Inn and Suites in Suisun City since its inception six months ago.

A group of game enthusiasts gathered Sunday in one of the hotel’s conference rooms to play games such as Abyss, Hanabi, Pandemic or The Castles of Burgundy.

For Ryan Faircloth, a technical sergeant in the Air Force, stationed at Travis Air Force Base, the game days are a way to get back to the “roots of personal interaction.”

“You make new friends. You meet new people,” he said, after being introduced to “pop up” game days by a friend.

Not only do the monthly game days have dozens of games to demo, but if one piques an interest, they’re also available to buy.

Justin Wood, the brains behind the business, although it also involves his wife, mother and two children, said that he and his wife “love to host.” At home they’d play more “commercial” games such as Apples to Apples but one night a friend introduced him to a different type of game, Lords of Waterdeep.

With no game store in Fairfield, he decided to start one and the “pop up” game store concept came to the area.

“Part of this was building a community of gamers in Fairfield,” he said.

His next move is to bring his game day to the Heather House – a permanent homeless shelter in Fairfield. A tentative date of Nov. 21 has been set. He plans to bring and play some family friendly games with the families present at the time.

“My hope is we’ll be able to do more,” he said. “We’ll start at Heather House and go from there.”

For more information on Bad Zero Games, go to www.badzerogames.com.

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