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Tiburon gamer builds a winning community one board at a time

Sep 3, 2025
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Tiburon resident Nicholas Schoichet is one of the leading figures in Marin Board Games group, a hobby-interest group that holds its flagship events on fourth and fifth Fridays at Christ Presbyterian Church in Terra Linda. (Francisco Martinez / The Ark)
Tiburon resident Nicholas Schoichet is one of the leading figures in Marin Board Games group, a hobby-interest group that holds its flagship events on fourth and fifth Fridays at Christ Presbyterian Church in Terra Linda. (Francisco Martinez / The Ark)

Nicholas Schoichet has turned his passion for board games into a community-building mission across Marin County.

 

“Get in here, lose a game, look like a fool, have fun,” says the 35-year-old Tiburon resident, one of the leading figures of Marin Board Games, a community group that meets for gaming nights at least twice a month in Terra Linda.

 

Schoichet, who also runs a monthly board-game design group at the Starbucks in the Strawberry Village shopping center, says he loves a high-quality board game — whether it can be taught in five minutes or is more nuanced and “gives you a perspective on something that you were not thinking about.”


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