Borrow. Play. Return. Repeat.
Edinburgh Board Game Library has hundreds of board games to be borrowed! Take them home and play with friends and family.
Edinburgh Board Game Library has hundreds of board games to be borrowed! Take them home and play with friends and family.
Borrow games over the summer
Our home at Southside Community Centre is transforming into a Edinburgh Fringe venue. You can borrow games over the summer on Thursday 10th July or Thursday 17th July only.
Summer closure
Our last opening day for the summer is Thursday 17th July. All other loans must be returned by then. We will be closed from then throughout August.
Return summer loans
There are three consecutive days at the start of September you must return your summer loans on. We will be enforcing £5 per-game fines for missing this window.
Return your games at 6-8pm in Room 2 at Southside Community Centre on:
Monday 1st September
Tuesday 2nd September
or Wednesday 3rd September.
Note: not Thursday – we’re not open then!
EBGL goes to Tabletop Scotland
We’ll then be packing up all our games and running the board game library at Tabletop Scotland from Friday 5th to Sunday 7th September.
Reopening
The library will reopen for borrowing once again on Thursday 11th September. We may not enable reservations straight away while we’re getting our inventory back in order.
Love board games? Become a member now to borrow a game this Thursday.
We are open every Thursday 6-8pm at our hub in Tollcross.
Purchase a gift membership:
Join Edinburgh Board Game Library today. Sign up, get a membership and verify. It’s easy
Browse our inventory of 500+ board games (and growing!) and make a reservation to borrow a game
Collect the board games from our central Edinburgh hub and play them at home. Borrow for 7 or 14 days at a time.
Bring them back on time, ready for the next borrower.
We offer two different membership options with both having full access to the entire board game library inventory.
Full access to the entire library collection. Borrow up to 4 games at time.
We offer a concession price if you are in full-time education, receiving benefits or over the age of 65 and can’t afford £25.
Our address is
Room 2 – 117 Nicolson Street, EH8 9ER, Edinburgh
We are inside Southside Community Centre
We are open every Thursday from 6pm-8pm.
Please only come during these hours!