The SMS Library hosts after school Board Game Socials a couple times a month. All SMS students and staff are welcome to come and play board and card games in the library. Participants can bring their own games or use ones from the library's collection (we accept new and gently used games for our collection). 

There are many benefits to playing games, including: 

• learning patience
• developing problem-solving skills
• developing predicting skills
• developing organizational skills
• developing planning skills
• developing teamwork and cooperation skills
• soothing anxiety
• learning how to lose or deal with circumstances that don't go your way
• providing an opportunity to unplug, socialize, and have fun

Here is a partial list of the board and card games in the SMS Library's collection:

• Apples to Apples Junior
• Battleship
• Blokus
• Board & Dice (a.k.a. Shut the Box)
• Bugs in the Kitchen
• Cabo
• Cadoo
• Checkers
• Chess
• Chinese Checkers
• Clue
• Clue Sabotage
• Connect Four
• Connect Four Spin
• Dominoes
• Dutch Blitz
• Farkle
• Five Crowns
• Funglish
• Gargoyles
• Heist
• In a Pickle
• IQ Arrows
• IQ Circuits
• IQ Digits
• IQ Twist
• Kloak
• Knexi
• Know!
• Labyrinth
• Mancala
• Mastermind
• Minotaurus
• Monopoly
• Mouse Trap
• One Night Ultimate Superheroes
• Operation
• Othello
• Otrio
• Outburst Junior
• Pacheesi
• Phase 10
• Pictionary
• Quiddler
• Racko
• Risk
• Rubik's Race
• Rummikub
• Rush Hour
• Scattergories Junior
• Scrabble Junior
• Scrabble Slam
• SET
• SET Dice
• Skip-Bo
• Sorry
• Spy Alley
• Storm Chasers
• Stratego
• Suspicion
• Ticket to Ride
• Tri-Ominos
• Trouble
• Uno
• Unstable Unicorns
• Waterworks
• Word Pirates
• Wordle Board Game
• Yahtzee