The 'games room' is a spacious room occupying the western half of the tower's sixth storey. In the afternoons it is pleasant and sunny, and the wide window-seats see plenty of use; however in the mornings it tends to be rather dark.

This room contains a number of assorted amusements, of both an adult and childish nature, that for one reason or another have no other home elsewhere. For example, it features a model railway in one corner that runs along a section of the wall and down over a long table, and a number of guests have been observed to take an altogether undignified pleasure in it — particularly in the bell-code system that can be used to simulate signal-box communication between the various parts of the layout. Unfortunately the bell is of a singularly piercing nature, and tends to thoroughly annoy any fellow-guests occupying the two spare rooms also located on this level of the tower!

A series of shelves and cupboards hold other hidden treasures. A series of elderly board games, from Sorry to Backgammon, are always popular, and there are a few newer novelty games which also see use occasionally. Unfortunately a lot of the treasure pieces from Buccaneer seem to have gone missing....

There is a chess set, and the remnants of two sets of draughts combined at some point to form a single set of black/red pieces versus white, though neither of these games has been touched in a long while. Surprisingly enough there is a slim computer on a table near the stairs; it seems to be running off a solar panel somewhere outside the window. It's evidently not an Intel-powered machine and it's definitely not running Windows™ :-)

Actually, what it mostly seems to be running is Angband, in 57 different varieties... well, at least a dozen, anyhow!

There are several packs of cards in varying stages of greasiness, including one ancient linen-backed set in coral and pearl grey whose design betrays the fact that they had, at some point, originally been filched from a P&O liner. There are also rather a lot of jigsaw puzzles, and a home-made Bagatelle board accompanied by a box of ball-bearings.

Furniture in here is plentiful but mostly rather shabby. In addition to the tables carrying the railways and the computer respectively, there is a small card-table near one window, currently occupied by a half-finished jigsaw showing an express engine racing along the sea-front, and a large dining-table with one leaf extended, surrounded by six chairs. There are a set of coloured pens on the table together with a stack of paper, the top leaf of which is covered in scribbled scores in felt-tip.

As well as the window-seats and their scatter of cushions, there is a large, comfortable leather chair in the corner by the card-table, and a wing-backed chair pushed back against the wall, under a framed copy of Monet's Waterlilies. On the other side of the stairs hangs a reproduction print of the Great Britain leaving Bristol.