2025 Strange Games Volunteers
2025-07-11 09:00 - 2025-08-26 12:00 (Europe/London) | Bushy Wood Activity Centre, Main Road, Hailsham, BN27 3LZ, United Kingdom
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The Strange Games Campout 2025
2025-07-11 16:00 - 2025-07-14 10:00 | Bushy Wood Activity Centre, Main Road, Hailsham, BN27 3LZ, United Kingdom
The Strange Games Campout 2025 – a July weekend of games and camping. Board games, role-playing games, social deduction games, marquees, food stalls, and much more.
A smaller, cosier alternative to the August Strange Games Festival.
Please check your spam folder for email from strangegamesfestival.co.uk if you do not receive your ticket after buying.
Please note: refunds are only considered on event cancellation, substantial alteration or by special exception determined by the organisers at their sole discretion.

2025 Strange Games Private Tickets
2025-08-22 09:00 - 2025-08-26 12:00 | Bushy Wood Activity Centre, Main Road, Hailsham, BN27 3LZ, United Kingdom

Strange Games Festival Opens!
2025-08-22 14:00
Reception will be open from 2pm on Friday 22nd August 2025.

Please do not arrive before this time unless you have a volunteer role that requires it.

Site Shop Open
2025-08-22 14:00 - 20:00, 2025-08-23 09:00 - 20:00 | Site Shop
The site shop will be open and sells cold drinks, sweets, chocolate, biscuits, marshmallows (and wooden sticks!), popcorn, milk and logs (as well as various camping essentials)
Phone charging and tickets for Buzz Active activities can also be bought here
Card accepted

Checkout Library and Info Point open
2025-08-22 14:00 - 23:00, 2025-08-23 09:00 - 23:00 | Kipling Lodge (Small Lodge)
Speak to our friendly info point volunteers and borrow from our large library of boardgames (play for free, return same day)
These are games we think are particularly fancy or heavy; there is also a Games Stash of lots of other games in the Activity Centre

The Strange Games Festival 2025
2025-08-22 14:00 - 2025-08-25 16:00 | Bushy Wood Activity Centre, Main Road, Hailsham, BN27 3LZ, United Kingdom
The Strange Games Festival 2025 – a long August bank holiday weekend of games and camping. Board games, Role-playing games, Blood on the Clocktower, Werewolf, marquees, food stalls, and much more.
Please check your spam folder if you do not receive your ticket after buying.
Tickets are sold per person. A ticket includes entry to the event for the whole duration and space to pitch a tent. Bringing a small or large tent doesn’t change the price. We do not sell day tickets.
Please note: refunds are only considered on event cancellation, substantial alteration or by special exception determined by the organisers at their sole discretion.

Welcome Meet
2025-08-22 19:00 - 19:30 | Arena
The official opening meet of the Festival! Come gather on the arena to be officially welcomed and find out more about things you can expect over the weekend.
Attendance isn’t mandatory but is heartily recommended!

Board Game Meetup Point
2025-08-22 19:30 - 20:00 | Activity Centre
Looking for new friends to play a game with?
Want to arrange a particularly meaty board game this weekend?
Just want to chat board games with like-minded folk?

Then come along to the meeting point by the Activity Centre whiteboard and get talking!

Note: this event is a sandbox, self-directed meeting time for you to find each other and as such may not be hosted

Strange Traitors - The First Night
2025-08-22 19:30 - 20:30 | Arena
The Traitors was once again the unmissable TV event of the year, with a celebrity version due to air in September. But the real high profile spin-off is Strange Traitors, back again for it’s third year and promising to be bigger and better than ever! More players, more murders and more challenges than ever before!
Last year a solo Traitor took the win, can the Faithful fight back? This year we’re going to be hosting the evening Round Table sessions on the main stage for even more drama.
18+
If you sign up for this you must be contactable via discord due to how some aspects of the game work. If you do not post in the Traitors channel on the discord before the Festival you may be removed from the game
Please do not apply if you have played this version of Traitors before

[24 spaces available for players]
(Audience don’t need to sign up)

Note: signing up for one Strange Traitors event signs you up for the whole series:
Schedule
Friday evening: Meet at the Arena after the Welcome Meet (approximately 7.30pm)
Saturday morning: 9am at the Main Campfire
Saturday evening: 6pm at the Stage
Sunday morning: 9am at the Main Campfire
Sunday evening: 6pm at the Stage

Scythe - 7 player game
2025-08-22 19:30 - 23:00 | Activity Centre
Scythe, the board game, at max player count with expansions!
Experienced players ideal.

[7 spaces available]

RPG: The Count, the Castle, the Curse
2025-08-22 19:30 - 23:30 | Willows3/RPG Glade
You accepted an invitation to dine at the Count’s many-spired castle. You arrived in a plush velvet-lined carriage. Now you have woken up in a cage, suspended over a dank, flooded cell. Can you escape before the bells chime midnight and the Count returns to exact his price?
An old school roleplaying game in (semi) real-time in which one must escape a vampire’s castle by their wits and whatever they can pick up along the way. Campy Gothic Horror vibe.

Adults only – themes of imprisonment, death, general Gothic Horror
[5 spaces available]

RPG Glade Table Number: 5

Beginner Werewolf
2025-08-22 20:00 - 22:00, 2025-08-23 10:00 - 12:00 | Cub Glade/SD Glade
Werewolf is a very popular social deduction game played through rounds of conversations. Through these rounds you will interact with other players to determine their secrets, while keeping your own secret information protected, to work out who is on your team and/or work towards your team’s goal. This could involving lying on your part.
These beginner Werewolf sessions are run by our friendly Festival volunteers and are intended to introduce new players to the wonderful world of social deduction gaming.
If you are a regular player, please sign up instead to one of the other games that will be running throughout the Festival or visit the Social Deduction Glade and chat to our friendly glade host there.
[12 available spaces]
Social Deduction Area: 1

Beginner Blood on the Clocktower
2025-08-22 20:00 - 22:00, 2025-08-23 10:00 - 12:00 | Cub Glade/SD Glade
Blood on the Clocktower is a very popular social deduction game played through rounds of conversations. Through these rounds you will interact with other players to determine their secrets, while keeping your own secret information protected, to work out who is on your team and/or work towards your team’s goal. This could involving lying on your part.
These beginner Blood on the Clocktower sessions are run by our friendly Festival volunteers and are intended to introduce new players to the wonderful world of social deduction gaming.
If you are a regular player, please sign up instead to one of the other games that will be running throughout the Festival or visit the Social Deduction Glade and chat to our friendly glade host there.
[12 available spaces]
Social Deduction Area: 2

Beginner RPG Session - Treasure of the Broken Hoard
2025-08-22 20:00 - 22:00 | Willows3/RPG Glade
A famous relic hunter seeks adventurers to help her find caches of treasure hidden by the now-defeated followers of the Cult of the Dragon. Her maps and notes may lead the way to great wealth—or a terrible death. And do other parties have designs on the treasure as well?
These beginner RPG sessions are run by our friendly Festival volunteers and are intended to introduce new players to the wonderful world of Role-Playing Games.
If you are a regular player, please sign up instead to one of the other games that will be running throughout the Festival, attend the morning RPG meetups (held at 10am in the RPG Glade) and talk to the GMs advertising their games there, peruse our discord server for games organised there, or visit the RPG Glade and chat to one of our friendly glade hosts.

[5 spaces available]
RPG Glade Table Number: 1

Beginner RPG Session - Treasure of the Broken Hoard
2025-08-22 20:00 - 22:00 | Willows3/RPG Glade
A famous relic hunter seeks adventurers to help her find caches of treasure hidden by the now-defeated followers of the Cult of the Dragon. Her maps and notes may lead the way to great wealth—or a terrible death. And do other parties have designs on the treasure as well?
These beginner RPG sessions are run by our friendly Festival volunteers and are intended to introduce new players to the wonderful world of Role-Playing Games.
If you are a regular player, please sign up instead to one of the other games that will be running throughout the Festival, attend the morning RPG meetups (held at 10am in the RPG Glade) and talk to the GMs advertising their games there, peruse our discord server for games organised there, or visit the RPG Glade and chat to one of our friendly glade hosts.

[5 spaces available]
RPG Glade Table Number: 2

Campfire Storytelling with Jon
2025-08-22 21:00 - 22:00 | Main Campfire
Huddle close in the firelight for more tales of wonder! Age-old myths and brand-new yarns, from far afield and right on the doorstep: Jon is a Brighton-based storyteller with a captivating delivery and love of stories that connect past, present and future, our surroundings and ourselves. He performs regularly around the country in clubs, schools, online, and at festivals including the Brighton Festival Our Place programme and Fringe.
Praise for past gigs:
“This is wildly ambitious exuberant storytelling” – Brighton Source
“our boys became totally engrossed… fantastic” – Into the Trees Festival
“great tales told with obvious love. It was an enthralling evening.” – Audience member, The Mabinogion

RPG: Slugblaster - Turbo X
2025-08-22 22:00 - 23:59 | Willows3/RPG Glade
System: Slugblaster from Myth Works
In the small town of Hillview, teenage hoverboarders sneak into other dimensions to explore, film tricks, go viral, and get away from the problems at home. It’s dangerous. It’s stupid. It’s got parent groups in a panic. And it’s the coolest thing ever.
This is Slugblaster. A table-top rpg about teenagehood, giant bugs, circuit-bent rayguns, and trying to be cool.
I’ll be running the Turbo X Quickstart scenario: you and your buddies are off to The Golden Jungle, where dense, glittery rainforest grows over the ruins of an advanced civilization and decommissioned gundam sleep under blankets of moss. Filming a trick or two on a bust-up gundam would be cool as hell. Sure beats dinner with the family in front of the TV.
Character sheets, dice, pencils etc. will be provided – but should you want to use your own, this is a D6 system, I would recommend bringing at least 6 six-sided dice.

[4 spaces available]
Adults only

RPG Glade Table Number: 9

Strange Traitors - Mourning Briefing
2025-08-23 09:00 - 10:00 | Main Campfire

Daily Update with Simon
2025-08-23 09:50 - 10:00 | Village Square
Come to the Village Square and find out the latest news, including updates about what’s on today!

The Genius Game
2025-08-23 10:00 | Helvellyn Marquee
Inspired by Korean gameshows “The Genius” and “The Devil’s Plan”, this will be a series of games/challenges, testing your intelligence, negotiation, strategy, tactics, and social skills. The two losers of each game will face off in a short two-player death-match, and one will be eliminated. At the end of the final day, one player will be crowned the 2025 Strange Games Genius winner.
To play this game, you must commit to playing to the end, and therefore be available each day from 10am to 1pm, Saturday to Monday. Having said that, this game features player elimination, so you may be knocked out much sooner. There may also be some challenges between days, however, how much time you spend on these will be up to you, we only require your full attention during actual game time.
To play, you will need Discord on your phone, as you may need to communicate with each other between sessions.
If you would like to spectate, you are welcome to, whether you’ve been knocked out, or are simply interested in watching.
This game is recommended for smart people who are good at comprehending new rules, and also comfortable interacting with, and possibly lying to or betraying, other people.
We are strictly limited to 12 places, so please ensure to sign-up, and cancel your spot if you can’t make it.

[12 spaces available]
Over 16s only

Note: signing up for one Genius Game event signs you up for the whole series:
Schedule
Saturday: 10am-1pm in the Helvellyn marquee
Sunday: 10am-1pm in Shackleton Lodge
Monday: 10am-1pm in the Helvellyn marquee

Low Ropes Playtime for Kids
2025-08-23 10:00 - 10:45 | Low Ropes Course
Supervised playtime on the low ropes course for ages 5-13

Starship Bridge Simulator (1 hour game slot)
2025-08-23 10:00 - 11:00 | The Lodge (AV Lodge)
A fully functional Starship Bridge Simulator LARP/Computer game

[6 available spaces]
Children must be accompanied. Note: under 11s will need their accompanying adult to assist them at their station rather than signing up separately

RPG Meetup - Come along to find an RPG to play or pitch a game to find players!
2025-08-23 10:00 - 11:00 | Willows3/RPG Glade
On Saturday and Sunday morning we will be having a gathering of RPG lovers to help players and GMs find each other for any games to be played that day.
From 10am, GMs will have the chance to pitch a game they would like to run that day and afterwards, players will have the opportunity to ask questions and sign up to the games, organising a time to play later on. This is also a great chance for people who don’t know many people to come and make some friends who are into Role-Playing Games.

RPG Glade Table Numbers: 1 & 2

S.P.I.E.S.
2025-08-23 10:00 - 12:00 | Rifle Range
Wanna make some new friends? This is the perfect Ice-Breaker to talk about random stuff with random people!
You find yourself at the International Espionage Society’s yearly convention for the world’s greatest Spies. Time is short, so you need to mingle and get as much Intel from them as possible. Don’t worry, you’re not alone on this mission, you just don’t know who else the agency sent in…Thankfully, due to budget cuts, you’ll likely have the same Pseudonym.
The Secret Pseudonyms of the International Espionage Society (SPIES for short) is a Mega Social Wordplay game for 20+ Players.
The main theme surrounding this game is to strike up conversations with fellow Spies, dropping hints to your Pseudonym to work out if you’re in the same Agency.
Be the Agency with the most Intel from collecting Data and completing Missions
You will need a phone to play SPIES.
You must arrive on time, anyone arriving more than 10 mins after start time will not be allowed in.
Come join the discord to learn more and find out about when/where games are being run:
https://discord.com/invite/zwDJxGWYe5

Archery Sessions Available
2025-08-23 10:00 - 18:00 | Site Shop
Archery sessions will be run by the site during this time window
You can get tickets and arrange your time at the site shop (which is open 9am-8pm daily)

This activity is run by the site as fundraising for the Scouts.
Suggested donations for the tickets are £8 for an adult and £6 for a child (under 18)
