Game Bundles
The world of games has changed tremendously in the last 25 years.
Many of us have endured seemingly endless games of Monopoly or boring hours with Checkers. The goal of our bundle program is to open a door to the wider world of games to players of all ages and experience levels.
Here at The Spiel Foundation, we use our years of expertise as game reviewers, developers, and designers to find a great combination of games for each bundle we deliver. Click here to see our Current Game List.
Based on our inventory at the time, we tailor the selection of games in each bundle to fit the needs of a wide variety of organizations.
We deliver game bundles to
hospitals
senior / community centers
boys and girls clubs
shelters (domestic violence, homeless)
halfway houses
libraries
schools
prisons
– CLICK HERE TO REQUEST A GAME BUNDLE –
We deliver bundles in waves as often as our inventory and budget allow. Requests are honored whenever possible, if the organization fits our mandate.
– CLICK HERE TO SEE GAME BUNDLE RECIPIENTS –
Over 2,500 bundles delivered to millions of players young and old.
– GAME SELECTION –
We work with an amazing array of generous game publishers from around the world to find the best mix of games we can for our bundles. Games are either donated or purchased at a discount. The quantity and mix of games available for a given wave of bundles is based on our budget and available space for inventory. To see our Current Game List, click here.
– PREPPING & PUNCHING EVERY GAME –
Every game included in a bundle arrives prepped and ready to play.
This means the components are punched out and bagged so nothing will get lost, and parts that need assembly are put together. This might seem like overkill. It is not! Prepping each game insures that each bundle has the best possible chance to be enjoyed by hundreds of players for years to come.
Now, I love punching out and assembling new games for my personal game collection. It’s a hidden pleasure to sort and punch and bag all the parts. Getting everything ready for fun is a kind of fun all on its own.
However… when faced with thousands and thousands of games… this fun wears thin!
It is arduous, tedious and thankless work but also very rewarding and meditative. And this work is absolutely essential to our goal. We know that each bundle can open a door to the wider world of play and games to so many people, so we do our best to make sure there are as few barriers to entry as possible.
– WAREHOUSE WITH THOUSANDS OF GAME BUNDLES –
In 2020 and 2021, we rented a warehouse in Anderson, Indiana. Soon we’ll have our own warehouse at the DeKoven Center for Play.
The scale of our operation is hard to convey in words. Seeing the space it takes to store and prep and pack thousands of games brings the scope of our work into clear focus…
– PACKING A GAME BUNDLE –
Once each game is ready, we sort and pack the bundles and ready them for shipping. Here’s a video walking you through a day in the life of a game bundle here at The Spiel Foundation.
Here’s what an assembly line looks like when we have game bundle Packing Parties!
– LABELING & SHIPPING –
After packing, we find a great home for each bundle and get each box ready to ship. Printing and sorting labels and then matching each label to the right bundle is no small task.
We delivered over 2,000 game bundles (that’s 10,000 games!) in Feb. 2022!
– SPONSOR A GAME BUNDLE –
The current cost for a single bundle is $125. This includes money to pay for the games, the packing material, and the box, and doesn’t even begin to account for the time it takes to put it all together.
This price does NOT include shipping! Each bundle can cost between $12 and $50 or more to ship, depending on its final destination.
This means the final cost for a bundle can range from $140-$175!
We need your support to make the bundle program work! Sponsor a bundle today by donating $125 or more.
Your donations, plus fund raisers like our Spiel-a-thons help The Spiel Foundation generate the resources needed to send each one.
