The hobby solved the drink problem. The solution is a table.

—Read this before anything else

There is a cup holder made for board games. It comes attached to $2,799 of hardwood.

The question worth asking is not “how do I stop being the one who knocks things over.” It is: this hobby has known about the drink for decades, there are companies whose entire business is furniture for it — so why is there nothing for the table you actually own?

There is an answer, and it is not that nobody tried. Here is what the hobby’s own makers sell, at each seller’s own published price.

Read the middle column again. Not one of those is a cup holder for a table — every one is a fitting for a specific table you have to buy first. That is the shape of the category this hobby built for itself. There is one mass-market alternative, a clamp, and it has a row of its own further down along with the two conditions it needs. The next section is why the shape had to be this way.

Sources: wyrmwoodgaming.com · rathskellers.com · allplay.com, each seller’s own published listings. Fetched 4 September 2026. Steadi Labs is not affiliated with any of them.

—The number that explains everything else

Your dining table’s entire width is what they call the play area.

—What can change, and what cannot

You cannot add a perimeter. You can change what the glass stands on.

A rail works because the manufacturer built inches of table the game is never allowed to use, and then put the drink there. Nothing you buy for $15 can retrofit that onto a table whose full width is already the play area. So the rail is off the board, permanently, unless you buy the table.

What can change is the size of the thing under the glass. A 16 oz Libbey 1639HT pint glass stands on 2⅜″ of its own bottom and opens out to 3½″ at the rim — WebstaurantStore’s spec sheet for that glass, 4 September 2026. Set it in a Steadi and it is standing on 5.2 inches instead.

That is the whole mechanism. Widen the base of support and the drink’s centre of mass has to travel much further sideways before it clears the edge of what is holding it up, so tipping takes a far bigger tilt than it does on the glass’s own foot. The moulded TPU plants the base where it is set, then lifts clean.

It is 2.8 inches tall, which is low enough to reach a card over.

—The object

One moulded piece. Six fins. Nothing that can rattle loose.

• 5.2″ base — fixed. It does not vary by size, because there is one size.
• 2.8″ tall, and 1.64″ across the opening at rest.
• Six fins that flex from 0.92″ to 3.15″. That range is the entire fit story.
• About 3.6 oz. Shore 85A thermoplastic polyurethane, injection moulded in one piece.
• No springs, no hinges, no clamp, no adhesive, no hardware. There is nothing inside it to work loose, because there is no inside.

If you have a shelf of Kickstarter accessories that arrived late and rattled apart, that is the honest answer to it: this is a single piece of moulded material. At about 3.6 ounces it goes in the dice bag between sessions rather than needing a spot of its own.

Dishwasher safe, top rack. It marks nothing and lifts clean.

—What seats and what does not

Measure the bottom inch, not the rim. That is what decides it.

A standard 12 oz can is 2.6 inches across the barrel — Ball Corporation’s product standard gives a body outside diameter of 2.600 ± .008 in — and slides on from the top. The Libbey pint glass drops in on its 2⅜″ base. A Stanley Quencher H2.0 40 oz has a published base diameter of 3.1″, which is near the top of the fin range rather than the comfortable middle — check that one before you order it in four colours.

Handled mugs and stemmed glasses do not seat. The handle lands exactly where the fins close; a stem has no base for them to close on. Both are a straight no, and on a table where somebody is drinking red out of a proper glass that matters — see the limits below.

Or the width across the bottom

Width in inches Check it

A width across the bottom of the glass, in inches.

—Where it goes

The sliver at your own edge — or the floor, or the arm of the couch.

Pull it back to your side of the table, behind your own player board rather than out among the shared components. That is the spot: the strip of table your forearms already own, where a knock costs you your own drink instead of the tableau.

It is not only a dining-table object. The nights that end up on the floor around a coffee table, or two people on a sectional with a card game between them, are the same problem with less furniture — and a base that stands on whatever is under it does not care which one tonight turned out to be.

Being honest about the footprint: 5.2 inches is bigger than the glass. Against a pint glass’s 2⅜″ bottom it asks for roughly an inch and a half of extra table all the way around, wherever that glass was already going. On a full table that is not nothing, and if the answer is that there genuinely is no such sliver, the drink belongs off the table — which the limits section says outright.

Twelve colours, one per person. At hour three that is the fastest way to end the argument about whose pint is whose.

—What each answer actually asks of you

Everything else needs a table it can bite, bolt or bore into.

Prices and requirements were looked up on 4 September 2026, not estimated. Every figure in the last column is the seller’s own published requirement.

Three concessions, and all three cost us the sale.

A gaming table is the correct answer and I am not going to pretend otherwise. A recessed play area with a dedicated rail solves this permanently, and solves storage and the teardown at the same time. It costs $499 to $8,000 and it is a furniture decision, not an accessory decision. If you are saving for one, save for one.

A clamp-on holder genuinely works on a table with a free edge. IKEA’s LÅNESPELARE is $16.99 and it does exactly what it says — it even has a front opening so a mug handle clears, which is a thing this cannot do. Two conditions, both IKEA’s own: the edge has to be no thicker than its stated maximum of 1-5/8 inches, with no tablecloth in the jaw — and it has to be a free edge, meaning nobody is sitting at it. This page is for the table where both of those fail, or for the floor, or for the couch.

And getting the drink off the table beats all of it. Black Dice Cafe’s etiquette guide is blunt about it — “drinks go on a side ledge or a clear corner of the table, never next to the board” — and they are right. Nothing on the board can be hit by a glass that is not on the board. If there is a stool or a ledge within reach, use it and keep your money.

What survives all three is a specific night: a table with no free edge because there are people at every side of it, no rail because it is a dining table, and a drink that has to go somewhere anyway.

Sources: wyrmwoodgaming.com · rathskellers.com · allplay.com · ikea.com (LÅNESPELARE listing, IKEA US) · blackdicecafe.com. Prices and specifications fetched 4 September 2026 and current as of that date. Steadi Labs is not affiliated with any of them.

—From people who bought one

Nobody has reviewed this from a game table.

Verbatim, unedited, not filtered by rating. This is a slice of one product-wide corpus — reviews of the Steadi, not of this page. Exactly one of them mentions a game night, and it happened on the floor, not on a table. It is first below, and the other three are here because they describe the thing this page is actually claiming: a hard, slick surface, a deliberate bump, and a cloth.

★★★★☆

I really like this product, but the only thing is that when you use it with a larger container and then you use it with a smaller one it doesn’t grasp it.

Ann Marie Murray · 2026-08-08Photo from the buyerPhoto from the buyerPhoto from the buyerPhoto from the buyerPhoto from the buyerPhoto from the buyerPhoto from the buyer

★★★★★

Every Friday is game night on the floor at our house and almost every Friday something spills. Not anymore. Thank you Steadi!

Felisha Gomez · May 2026

★★★★★

OMG!!!!! YOU HAVE TO BUY THESE!!!!!! i tested it out today on an old tv tray (wood and very slippery) and put a soda in it and played like “oops i bumped my tray” (and really hard) and NADA, NOPE, NOT AN INCH OF MOVEMENT from the STEADI. everything else went flying!!! cuz dummy me didn’t remove those other items first 🙃 duh!!! and no it was not suctioned to my tray cuz it doesn’t do that. but WOW!!!!! what a great invention. wish i was thinking up this GREAT IDEA, instead of binge watching TRAITORS tv shows and SPILLING my soda as i jump with excitement/anger over the show. the plus side, while flipping thru FB (while the commercial is on) or i’m cleaning up my spilt soda 🤪….. i saw this ad and it was like angels were singing “BUY ME AND UR PRAYERS ARE ANSWERED”. so glad i did. they work great!!! i bought the 4ct from actual website and it shipped quick and packaging was perfect. all 4 colors are great!! black, white, deep terracotta (plant holder) color. very very nice color. especially during the fall. and a muted warm sage color. very nice also. FYI:: i forgot to mention, i even tested this out with a 8oz dinner cup and it worked perfectly. but put the cup in FIRST then add beverage…..LOL learn from my dumb remark of “i can get it around the cup filled to the brim and not drop a lick of this drink. well WRONG!!!! 😑 LOL!!! user error not the STEADI. buy this and trust me u won’t want to return it. oh and it is comfortable to hold. and actually, now i can set my can of soda down with a mighty slap on the table and a huff and puff in disgust, if my tv show is calling for my dark side to come out in anger, of their decision of who to banish on TRAITORS (US/UK/NZ/ and now CANDA)!! ENJOY!!!! and THANK YOU TO THE INVENTOR!!!!! i hear it’s a father of 3. 🤷‍♀️

rebekah quinteros · June 2026

★★★★★

Great item; has saved many a tablecloth and placemat.

Julie Nilsen · July 2026

★★★★★

They are great! They work very well in keeping the soda cans from falling over and spilling on the bed & couch when the three Beagles and one Border Collie jump on or off. They also stay steady on the little wobbly patio table outside.

Susan Ilkenhans · May 2026

The second one is the closest thing in the corpus to an elbow at hour three: a deliberate hard bump on a slippery wood surface, described by somebody who also states plainly that it does not suction to anything. The third is a tablecloth, which is the exact surface a clamp cannot bite. None of it is a board game, and stretching any of it into one would be the move that makes an accessory ad worth scrolling past.

—Read this before you buy, including the parts that cost us the sale

What it will not do.

• It is not spill-proof — nothing is. It resists tipping by widening the footprint under the glass. It does not prevent spills. A forearm that catches it hard enough still wins, and so does a player who stands up into the table edge.
• Stemmed wine glasses do not seat, and if that is your table’s real hazard this does not solve your problem. The stem has nothing for the fins to close on. Hour three, second glass of red, campaign cards on the table — that is a genuine risk and the honest answer is a side table or a stool, not this. Handled mugs are the same no: the handle lands where the fins grip.
• It is not a mount. No clamp, no strap, no suction, no adhesive, no hardware. It stands on the table and lifts off, which is the whole idea — and it also means it cannot hang off an edge, span a gap, or perch on a rail.
• It takes 5.2 inches of a table that does not have 5.2 inches. It is larger than the glass it holds. That is a real cost on a full four-player night and you should weigh it before you buy, not after.
• It does not insulate and it will not stop condensation. A sweating glass still sweats; the base under it marks nothing and lifts clean, but the glass is still a glass.
• It sinks, so keep it out of the washing-up bowl and away from open water.
• The demonstration video was filmed on a couch cushion, not at a game table. We have not published footage of a real session because we have not shot one.

—Ninety days

Take it through a dozen game nights before you decide.

Ninety days from delivery, used is fine, free returns. That is roughly twelve Fridays — long enough for a campaign arc, a couple of teaches and at least one near-miss, which is the only test that settles it. If it turns out your table has a free edge after all, or the drinks were fine on the stool the whole time, send it back and say so.

It is the same bet you already make backing an add-on sight unseen, minus the eight-month wait.

—Who makes it

Moulded in Orange, California.

Scott made the first one after a full drink went over on a soft cushion with three kids under three in the house. It was not designed for board games, and nobody at a game table asked for this page. It exists because a wide base does the same job on a dining table as it does on a couch, and because everything it does not do is written above rather than left out.

• Veteran founded and veteran owned.
• Injection moulded from Shore 85A thermoplastic polyurethane. One piece, no assembly, nothing to lose.
• BPA free.
• Designed, moulded, picked, packed and shipped in Orange, California.

—Asked and answered

The questions that decide it.

—Still deciding

The reason the stakes are lopsided is that the remedy is mostly gone.

In 2020 Asmodee USA stopped shipping replacement parts to customers. Its own Parts Replacement FAQ gives the reason: “With the number of quality titles in Asmodee USA’s growing library, maintaining an independent stock of elements of each game and expansion became unsustainable.” The current instruction is to “return to where you originally bought the game for assistance.”

Read what that leaves. From a shop, you go back “with proof of purchase” and they request “a replacement copy of the game” — a whole new copy, “subject to availability.” Direct from the webstore, “requests must be submitted within 6 months of the shipment or purchase date.” Bought second hand, the FAQ is explicit that replacements are not offered. And nothing covers damage “through normal use, accident, loss or rough handling” in any case. Stonemaier Games has published what the generous version costs: over $43,000 in 2019 on shipping and staffing replacement parts, for a catalogue of nine games.

Now apply that to a game two reprints out of print, or to a campaign box carrying three months of your group’s stickers and pencil marks. The state you need cannot be shipped, because nobody manufactures a partially-played copy of anything. Cephalofair’s own store lists Gloomhaven at $199.99 and Frosthaven at $250.00; the Gloomhaven removable sticker set is $15.00, and a sticker set replaces stickers, not a soaked scenario book.

Against that, one of these is $14.95 — five cents under what the publisher charges for a sheet of replacement stickers. That is the comparison, and it is not a claim about anybody else’s price being wrong.

Sources: Asmodee USA “Parts Replacement FAQ” (PDF) and asmodeena.com · stonemaiergames.com · catanstudio.com · cephalofair.com. Fetched 4 September 2026. Steadi Labs is not affiliated with any of them.

Your table was engineered to seat people for a meal.

It will keep being that. Thirty-six to forty inches wide, which is the same number the gaming-table industry calls a playing surface — and that coincidence is the entire problem. The board fills it. The players fill the edges. Nothing is left over for a rail, which is why nobody sells a rail for it. None of that changes tonight. What changes tonight is whether the glass stands on two and a bit inches of its own bottom, or on something wider — or, cheaper and better, whether it is on the table at all.

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