We turned a shelf of games into a crate at your door
Meeple Crate started in a Kadıköy flat with 40 boxes and one cargo bike. Eight years on, we pack crates by hand and drop them across Istanbul the same day — so a good game night never depends on who remembered to bring the box.
Why a crate, not a shop
Board-game cafés are great until you want your own sofa, your own snacks and your own volume. Buying is worse — a shelf of half-played boxes and a birthday spend you regret. We wanted the middle: the right games for tonight, delivered, and gone by Monday.
So we built the crate. You pick titles online, we sanitise and pack them, a courier drops the sealed crate in your delivery window, and we collect it after the weekend. You keep the fun, we keep the clutter.
Packed by hand, checked twice
Every crate is emptied, component-checked, wiped down and re-sealed between rentals. Heavy boxes sit at the bottom, cheat-sheets on top, dice and a timer in the side pocket. It’s the same care whether you booked a Mini for two or an Office Swap for forty.
Who packs your crate
A small team — which is why weekends book up. We currently take 7–9 crates a day and keep a short wait-list when it’s full.
Deniz Aksoy
Founder & chief packerStarted Meeple Crate in 2018 after years running game nights that always ended in “who’s bringing what.” Studied logistics, hoards heavy euro-games, tests every new title before it hits the picker.
Ece Yıldırım
Crate curatorEleven years behind board-game café tables. Ece matches titles to your group so a shy team and a rowdy birthday never get the same crate. Party Mimics is her go-to icebreaker.
Kaan Demir
Routes & couriersRuns the delivery map. Kaan is why a crate can reach Maltepe in two hours and why the Monday pickup just works. Knows every shortcut on both sides of the Bosphorus.
Eight years, a lot of dice
Established 2018 · Caferağa Mah., Moda Cad. No:114/2, Kadıköy / İstanbul · rated 4.8 from 261 reviews.