Cat & Mouse Game Store

Highly recommended for any type of board game and puzzle! You won’t be disappointed! I stopped in for a puzzle and found dozens to choose from.

Every parent should buy one thing from this store every year for the family. The best selection of games for developmental levels I’ve ever seen. Bring back game night!

This store is a great throwback to the days when big box retailers didn’t exist. They carry a huge variety of games and puzzles. I went here to find a board game from my youth that I couldn’t find after looking at all the big box stores. Lo and behold this was the only shop in town that carried it! Helpful staff and great selection. Support local businesses !

I started shopping here over the holidays after a friend told me how close they were. The family who runs the shop and the employees couldn’t be nicer and more knowledgeable. I initially went to get a gift for my 2 year old niece and the selection of products was educational, fun, and well thought out. It was a much different experience than shopping at a big box store. The girl working also recommended a game for my work party which turned out to be phenomenal. Great people and great service. They have my gaming business!

Cat & Mouse is a one stop shop for all your gaming needs! A great little shop with an knowledgeable staff and excellent selection. Tuesday night game night is a wonderful time to learn some new games or try out that game you have been eyeing. My son also takes part in their weekly yo-​yo university.
Walked in here 5 years ago for the first time and have never regretted it.

Great little game store. The guy working today was very helpful and their selection was quite good.

Super selection and friendly vibe. They have every game I have wanted and the staff all serisouly know their games.
Keep an eye out for their Board game Yard Sale in the summer, you can find some awesome deals on gently used games!

I found my new favorite hole in the wall! I’ve been looking for puzzles of Tuscany or Venice for weeks and after checking out the website decided to pop in. I immediately had a vision-​gasm. So many toys and games and puzzles and brain teasers… oh my!

I think it is great that this store (1) offers free demonstrations, and (2) sends out emails/​mobile media updates; however, when that information is wrong, even when you confirm with an employee by calling – well that can lead to some disappointment.
Not the end of the world, but I’m probably not going to invest any time reading about upcoming events at the store.

I found Cat and Mouse last year while looking for a store to purchase a gift for a friend’s son. Upon entering the owner was incredibly helpful, and gave me four options, all of which were great. On subsequent visits the staff proved to be equally helpful to find board games for my wife and I. The store is clean and well organized, with a great selection.

This place is fantastic! They have a huge selection of games that range from kiddie puzzle solving to serious tabletop games.

This is a really fun store. I went in looking for a puzzle. They had such a great selection of puzzles and all kinds of games, I left with two puzzles, plus a game, plus a couple art projects for kids. I could have gotten so much more. I’m sure I’ll be back soon.

So I love the selection and the idea behind Cat and Mouse, so I am sad to give this review, but I just had an awful customer service experience. The website said the store was open until 8pm (apparently holiday hours, which was not clear), so we arrived at 6:55pm to shop for a last minute gift for a friend. I walk in the door and before I can even get in — I’m standing there holding the door open with one foot in — and the guy working there says, hey, sorry, I’m closing, you can only come in if you know exactly what you want. I said, well, maybe, and he said «I am just walking over to lock the door. I have to leave.» I said, what if I take just two minutes? He said «no, not good enough.» And was not nice about it — like I was inconveniencing him by shopping at his store. I thought fine, I’ll take my business elsewhere. I got in my car and noted that IT WAS 6:56 PM. Moral of this story: their customer service skills end before their hours do.

I came in looking for gifts for my brother who is 27. I found some cool magnetic toys and high end yoyos. They had a lot of things for war-​gaming. The guy working was helpful and very polite. We talked about what was selling good for them and the gaming industry in general. He was very insightful and helpful. Some stores like this can get elitist but not here. Very nice place, I will visit again.

I stopped in to get a gift for a friend and it took me ages to choose from the MASSIVE selection of games. That is not to say that I was not offered and given excellent advice and service from the clerk. I have never entered the shop without receiving a friendly greeting and the staff is always very helpful.
The games all have demo versions that have been opened and you can sit down at a table while you read through the rules and even play through the game to get a feel for it.
I did pay a dollar or two more than I would have if I had purchased from the likes of Amazon, but I would gladly pay even more for a Cat and Mouse game — getting to actually play the game before buying makes choosing a new game makes up for the difference. If you add in the staff, their knowledge, and the vast collection of games, Cat and Mouse is a real steal.
Buying online is nice, but it would takes days of searching to find a small fraction of the games stacked on one shelf, organized neatly and categorically by game type.
Don’t hesitate, just go. You will love it.

How have I not known about this place?
I come from a «big board game playing» family. When we get together, 90% of the time, a board game is pulled out. Cat & Mouse Game Store is now a must when buying gifts for the fam.
The selection is much, much better than at Target. You can read game reviews on Cat & Mouse’s website and compare those to reviews on Amazon. Also, the worker when I went in was knowledgeable on the games. For Christmas gifts I picked up Wits & Wagers, Dixit and Spot It! You could probably find the games cheaper on Amazon but why not support a neighborhood store?
Every Tuesday is game night here which might be fun to meet some new people.

I speak many languages. Some recent ones I’ve picked up are Farsi and kitty kat speak.
Let me demonstrate:
MEOWWWWWWWWW. (i like this place)
Meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meh. (This store is a hidden gem. everyone should check it out)
Meow meow… hmm. meow meow meow (They have a copious amount of European role-​playing games from around the world. I have never seen anything like it. I’m totally geeeked out to the fullest extent)
Meow meow meow meow meow MEOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW (Certain nights are designated as open game nights, and they have tournaments… geeks unite)
Meow meow meow meow meow meow (They have a great collection of travel games, popular board games, and puzzles)
Meow meow meow. (i hate cats)
Love
Simdog. woof woof.

People — come patronize this store! This place has been around for over a year and has a very extensive collection of games for kids & adults! Make those damn kids put down their iPod Touches and DSs — this is where it’s at! Make them play a damn board game/​logic puzzle/​card game and really get their brains crankin’!
The layout of the store is fantastic. The front of the store is for the wee ones and as you progress towards the back, you get into adult nerd zone. Dudes, c’mon — Agricola, Dominion, Catan, Wings of War (and ex’s favorite)…shit dawg, I could easily spend $ 200+ here.
They have Mad Libs, yo! Who doesn’t love Mad Libs?!? Perfect party game! Perfect game for the car! They have those NPR flash cards at the register too — the ones that intimidate the hell out of me and I wonder if I’d actually have balls enough to figure out a few on the train. I’ll buy a few of those soon…
Apparently on Sundays you can choose a game to play all day long from their open selection on top of the Catan shelf. Tuesday night is game night also! Yeah-​yuh!
Please patronize this store!!! Everything is pretty much MSRP which is reasonable. Most of these games you’d have to buy on the ‘net or call a bunch of places to find what you are looking for. Why do that when you can get what you’re looking for under one roof?

Chicago has needed a store like this for decades. It is gorgeous, well-​lit, has amazing stock, and just generally feels very warm and inviting.
Best of all, unlike all the other game stores across the nation, this place is clean. Every other game store I’ve been to (and I’ve been to MANY, not just here, but also in other countries) looks like the dude next door’s basement when compared to this place.
I was very impressed with the selection of games. In addition to a nice range of American games, there is an exceptionally well-​stocked collection of German board games. The owner even had a copy of a game that was printed by an independent publisher in Germany and which at the time was not even available on boardgamegeek.
My friends had recommended this place highly. Many of them said you could tell immediately it was owned by a woman. I didn’t believe them, but thankfully I had a chance to realize what a great place this is. It is head and shoulders above all the other board game retailers out there. I just wish every city were lucky enough to have a game store like this.

I came here looking for jigsaw puzzles and was not disappointed. They carry a few dozen Ravensburger products and a handful of some other brands (European ones, not crappy American ones). I coveted the 5000-​piece Tower of Babel (a painting by my favorite artist Pieter Bruegel) but I don’t own a table large enough. In fact, I can’t even accommodate a 2000-​piece puzzle, so I had to settle for the 1000s and 1500s. Instead of going nuts and buying two or three, I limited myself to a gorgeous puzzle of Santorini (the island not the restaurant).
I wish that they had more, but that’s just being greedy. This was my fourth store of the day looking for puzzles, and nobody else had anything worth glancing at, let alone buying. I don’t know what «list» prices are for these items, but $ 17.99 for a 1000-​piece top-​quality puzzle seems like a good deal to me.
They have tons of games here too. I tend to like classic board games, but if you are ever in the mood to try something new, stop by Cat and Mouse because I saw dozens and dozens of titles that I’ve never heard of. Some of them looked pretty cool.
They have a rewards card with which you can get ten percent back as a coupon after 5 purchases or $ 200, and they host events a couple times per week. Fun!