Travelling solo, or just tired of nightlife that is only about drinking? This is Tirana's social night for everyone else. Every evening we take over a cosy board game cafe in the city centre and mix travellers with young locals over the best icebreakers ever invented: games.

Your hosts - the SunEasy team, who between them speak English, Italian, and Albanian - keep the evening moving. Start with fast, no-rules-to-learn party games that get strangers laughing within minutes. Then pick your table: modern classics like Codenames and Dixit, strategy games for the serious, or the corner we are proudest of - the Albanian table, where we teach you domino and the card games played in every cafe from Shkodra to Saranda, the way locals actually play them.

Your first drink is included - raki for the brave, local beer, wine, or coffee - and the cafe serves snacks and more rounds throughout the evening. No gaming experience is needed; the hosts match tables so nobody is stuck watching.

Grab a travel buddy and leave with plans for tomorrow: most nights end with half the table planning a day trip together. It is also the perfect rainy-day evening and the best pre-game before the city's pub crawls - which start conveniently later.