Hosted in your office
Start hereWe come to you and run everything — the games, the teach-cards, and the person who knows how it all works.
Book a date — hosted in your officeAn organised board game night for your team. We bring the games, the teach-cards and the host — or we set you up to run your own.
Coming to your offices in Melbourne, or across Australia online.
From
$70/head in your office
$35/head online
$700 minimum spend. Travel, kit, the host and GST included. Work out your night →
Because a noisy bar rewards the loudest person in your team, and bowling rewards the one who bowls. A game table is the rare activity where the rules are new to everyone, the turns come around evenly, and everyone leaves having had a great time, even the quietest person.
Also board gaming is very social. It improves communication, trust and creative problem-solving, and your team members leave with new in-jokes and camaraderie.
No one gets left behind because of over-enthusiastic teammates.
People negotiate, bluff and back down over something that doesn't go into a performance review.
A finite game has an ending. Drinks don't. People with kids and trains can plan around it.
Actually, two choices really: do you want us in the room, and do you want us to run the session? Most teams start with a hosted night and self-host from there.
In your office
Online
We host it
We come to you and run everything — the games, the teach-cards, and the person who knows how it all works.
Book a date — hosted in your officeThe same night, run over the call your team already uses. Nothing to install, no accounts, no new vendor for IT to approve.
Book a date — hosted onlineYou host it
We drop a curated shelf at your office with teach-cards for every title, then collect it. You pick the night and run it yourselves.
Book a drop offOur own games, in a browser, run by whoever's free that afternoon. Not open yet — the waitlist gets first access and launch pricing.
Sign upEveryone else makes you fill in a form to find out. Pick a format, drag the slider, see the number. A minimum spend applies, because a host costs the same whether eight people show up or thirty.
Included: travel inside Melbourne metro,
all kit, the host, and GST.
Outside metro or after 8pm: we'll quote it.
24 on the night
Shaded zone = below the $700 minimum spend. You still pay $700.
Estimate
Core Session · 2.5 hrs · 10–40 people · office or venue
Your night, all up
$1,680
= $70 a head · above the minimum
Lock this in →Icebreaker
$45 /head
Core Session
$70 /head
Event Night
$90 /head
Online
$35 /head
Games drop-off
On enquiry
Platform access
Free at launch
No, not Monopoly. Never Monopoly. Fast rules, short games, high engagement — tailored to your group size, with a spread of styles so every personality in the room gets a moment.
Someone at the table is lying. Finding out who teaches you more about your colleagues than a year of stand-ups.
No artistic skill required — the terrible drawings are the point. The reveal at the end is the event.
The whole table wins or loses as one. Watch who steps up, who listens, and who quietly saves the day.
Push your luck, read the room, overcommit spectacularly. Poker nerves, no poker rules.
Stacking, flicking, balancing, collapsing. The loudest thirty seconds of any session, guaranteed.
Office Rules was built by people with careers spent in the corporate world and two decades in board gaming. The first part matters more than you'd think. It means hosts who know how offices actually work — how to read a room with a director in it, how to get the graduate and the GM at the same table, and when a game should end before the energy does.
Every box your people-and-culture team needs ticked is already ticked, for every facilitator we send.
Current for every facilitator, available to sight on request.
Held and current, for family days and events where under-18s are present.
$20m cover. Certificate of currency available for your venue or procurement team.
No attendee data collected or kept. No sign-up sheets, no mailing lists, no photos without your express permission. Your enquiry email is used to reply to you, and that's the end of it.
What happens in your boardroom stays there. No client names or session stories in our marketing without written permission.
Between ten and thirty. Under ten still works and often plays better, it just costs more a head against the minimum. Over forty we split the room into tables running in parallel, which is a different night — good, but louder.
Two to three weeks is comfortable. November and December are the exception: there are seven bookable Friday evenings before Christmas and one of me. When they're gone, an online session runs any evening and a drop-off runs whenever suits you.
Move it once, free, up to seven days out. Inside seven days we'll still try — it depends what else is in the calendar that week. Nobody gets charged for a flu that went through the floor.
Yes, and for a hybrid team it's usually the right call. The room plays at tables, the remote people play in a browser, and the scores land in the same place. Tell us the split when you enquire and we'll pick games that work both ways.
Tell us what you need and we'll bring games that fit. Colour-blind-safe components, large-print teach-cards, seated-only formats and no-timer variants are all normal requests, not special ones.
Event Night comes with a catering partner if you want one. For the shorter formats most teams do their own thing — games and grazing food get along fine. We'll ask you to keep red wine one table away from the cards.
Less than you'd think. A boardroom with two tables pushed together handles twenty people. For forty or more we'll want a second space or an open area — but we've run good nights in worse.
The games, the teach-cards, scoring kit, and the host. You supply tables, chairs and power. That's the whole list.
Thirty minutes either side. We arrive before your team does, and the room is back the way we found it within half an hour of the last game.
Yes. Function rooms and private bars work well, provided there's light to read a card by and the music can come down. We'll say so if a venue won't work.
Inside the metro, travel is in the price. Beyond it we'll quote travel separately rather than bury it in the per-head rate.
Yes. You run the call on whatever your company already uses — Teams, Zoom, Meet, it genuinely doesn't matter. We provide the game layer in a browser alongside it.
Nothing. Your team gets a code by email and opens a browser tab. No accounts, no passwords, no app store, no "please create a profile".
It's purged after every event. Names exist for the length of the session and are deleted when it ends. Nothing retained, nothing sold, no marketing to your team afterwards.
Eight to forty. Past forty the call itself becomes the problem, not the game, so we split it into two sessions on the same evening.
They can, and some games play better that way — phone in hand, laptop for faces. Nothing needs a second screen.
Date, headcount, and whether you want us in the room or on the call. You'll get availability and a price back the same day, or the next morning at the outside.
hello@officerules.com.auTake the one-pager — formats, prices, insurance and police check details — and forward it to whoever signs off.
Download the one-pager (PDF)