A field guide · verified July 2026
This is a list of places and groups in Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda and the rest of the near East Bay where you can meet people while doing things worth doing — active things, creative things, intellectual things, quiet things. The common thread: you show up somewhere in person, do something real, and the socializing takes care of itself.
Every link was checked against the organization's own live pages in July 2026. Where something looked shaky there's a △ caveat; things that turned out to be defunct are listed at the bottom so you don't waste an evening on them.
One more thing, because it's the second question after "is this worth going to": how annoying is it to get there? Tell the page where you're starting from and how you travel, and every entry gets an honest door-to-door estimate — time, round-trip cost, and whether the trip is proportionate to what you get. The best event in the world doesn't help you if the getting-there is the reason you stay home.
Estimates, not gospel — a straight-line model with real-world fudge factors (BART speeds, AC Transit waits, parking circling, bridge tolls). Good to ±10 minutes.
Bodies first. Everything here is beginner-legible, and most of it is group-shaped by design — you can't do it alone even if you try.
Touchstone's flagship 55,500 sq ft gym in a converted West Oakland warehouse with a huge bouldering area plus roped climbing, yoga and fitness.
Bouldering is the most social climbing format: everyone works the same problems at ground level, so strangers naturally trade beta and cheer each other on with no rope partner required.
Long-running East Bay Touchstone gym with bouldering, roped terrain, a stacked yoga/fitness calendar and a big regular community.
A well-trafficked bouldering floor means you're constantly sharing problems with the same regulars; the after-work crowd is the most reliable way to turn into on-sight climbing acquaintances.
Independent, community-run climbing gym in El Cerrito with bouldering and top-rope walls, right by El Cerrito Plaza BART and the Pacific East Mall.
Small enough that staff and regulars know each other; the intimate bouldering area makes it easy to strike up beta conversations as a newcomer.
Drop-in price not published on the site; call ahead to confirm the current day-pass rate.
Member-run nonprofit rowing club (since 1962) at the Lake Merritt boathouse offering Taste-of-Rowing intros and beginner sculling and team-rowing courses for adults 18+.
Team rowing is inherently collective: you learn in a shared boat where the whole crew has to sync, which forges fast camaraderie, and the cohort courses put you with the same beginners repeatedly.
Registration-based, not weekly drop-in; the popular Taste-of-Rowing intro sessions sell out, so register early via the site.
Community dragon boat club practicing out of the Jack London Aquatic Center; provides paddles and life jackets and welcomes all ages and fitness levels with no experience needed.
A dragon boat is 20 people paddling in unison to one drum, so you're instantly part of a synchronized crew, and the free first practice lets a solo newcomer just show up and be absorbed into the team.
Confirm the current practice day/time via their Meetup or Facebook before your first visit, as schedules shift seasonally.
One of Oakland's largest Masters swim teams (~200 members) offering coached lane workouts 365 days a year at the Temescal pool.
Lane-mates on a coached workout become a de facto social pod; sharing a lane and a pace group several mornings a week is how solo swimmers build a regular crew, capped by the coffee-and-chat after.
Requires an active U.S. Masters Swimming membership to drop in, and you should email the team before your first swim.
Substance-free barefoot freeform dance in a grand upstairs ballroom, with a contact-improv jam and yoga preceding the Sunday wave.
No talking and no partner needed lowers the social bar to zero, while the contact-improv segment is explicitly about safe non-verbal connection with strangers through movement.
Live-music contra dance with a beginner lesson at 7:30pm; no partner or experience required and the caller walks everyone through each dance.
Contra is the ultimate icebreaker dance: you rotate partners every single dance so a solo newcomer physically meets the entire room in one night, with fellow dancers guiding your moves.
Runs only on the 1st, 3rd and 5th Wednesdays of the month, not weekly, so check the schedule before going.
Warehouse circus school in West Oakland with adult drop-in classes in aerial silks, trapeze, hoop, hammock, handstands and acrobatics for all levels.
Circus is necessarily collaborative and a bit vulnerable: acro and spotting require touching and trusting a partner, and the beginner aerial cohorts bond fast over shared fear-and-triumph.
Adult class schedule rotates by session and is booked through Mindbody; confirm current drop-in offerings and price before showing up.
Small aikido dojo in West Berkeley where you can start anytime with a free first class; wear comfortable pants and arrive 30 min early.
Aikido is trained entirely in rotating pairs practicing throws and rolls on each other, so every class is an hour of cooperative physical contact with a steady group of the same partners.
Drop-in is cash only; arrive 30 minutes before class start for your first visit.
Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA) and martial arts academy on San Pablo Ave teaching longsword through a beginner Foundations class with provided steel training swords and protective gear.
HEMA is a niche, tight-knit scene where beginners start together in a Foundations cohort and immediately pair up for slow sword drills, so you bond over the shared oddity of learning to fence with steel.
Verify current Foundations start dates and trial/drop-in pricing directly; the intro runs as a scheduled 4-week course rather than open drop-in.
Weekly Thursday Lindy Hop night near Grand Lake with a drop-in beginner class followed by social dancing, and a live band on the last Thursday of each month.
Swing socials run on partner rotation and a welcoming beginner class, so a solo dancer gets paired with a stream of people within minutes and there's a built-in reason to ask someone to dance.
New month-long class series begin the first Thursday of the month, so timing your start there is easiest.
Free, all-ages outdoor Lindy Hop social on the cemented lakeside area by Lake Merritt, with DJ sets and a 30-minute intro class, no partner or experience needed.
Free, outdoors and explicitly all-skill-level with an intro lesson, it's the lowest-stakes way to try partner dancing; strangers rotate in and the picnic-by-the-lake vibe invites lingering and chatting.
Runs on scattered monthly/seasonal Sundays (Season 8 dates listed Apr-Jun 2026), so confirm the next date on the site before heading over.
Long-running free Meetup club (4,000+ members) with a Tuesday-morning flat Marina run and Tuesday-evening Tilden trail runs, welcoming all speeds including walkers.
Running clubs self-sort into conversational pace packs, so a solo runner falls into step with someone at their speed; the post-run coffee (morning) and the beginner-paced option make it easy to actually talk.
RSVP counts on Meetup look low, but organizers note many regulars attend without RSVPing; the Marina and Tilden starts are car-oriented (no nearby BART).
Casual free pickup ultimate frisbee at Montclair Park with a very wide age range (7-70+), no sign-up, just show up and get sorted onto teams.
Pickup ultimate is self-officiated and team-based, so you're immediately thrown onto a squad calling each other's names; the low-competitive, all-ages ethos makes it welcoming to a solo drop-in.
Informal and organizer-run; confirm the game is on via the East Bay Ultimate Facebook group or the listed organizer email, especially in bad weather. A separate Berkeley game runs Thursdays 3pm at Grove Park.
Free, slow-paced monthly social loop around Lake Merritt led by Bike East Bay, starting right at Lake Merritt BART and welcoming all rider levels.
A deliberately slow, no-drop social pace means the group stays together and chats the whole ride, and starting at BART makes it trivially easy for a solo rider to just roll up.
Only monthly (last Tuesday); Bike East Bay also runs other recurring social rides (Bikes Burgers Brews Tuesdays from El Cerrito del Norte BART) if the date doesn't fit.
Hands busy, conversation optional. Makerspaces filter for a certain kind of creative person; classes give you a cohort; drop-in formats give you a reason to leave the house tonight.
Nonprofit industrial-arts school offering hands-on fire and metal arts classes in a large West Oakland warehouse.
A multi-week class puts you shoulder-to-shoulder at a forge or bench with the same small cohort every session.
Classes are a real financial and time commitment and popular ones fill early; not a drop-in.
Volunteer-run nonprofit makerspace with laser cutters, 3D printers, a woodshop, textiles, electronics, and metalworking areas.
The recurring free tours and members' work nights are explicitly built to fold newcomers into an ongoing maker community.
Regular making requires a paid membership after the free tour.
Long-running downtown Oakland improv theater running classes, weekend shows, and a weekly drop-in practice jam.
The Sunday Dojo throws beginners and veterans into scenes together, so you're playing with strangers within minutes.
Confirm the Sunday Dojo is running (it's coordinated via their Meetup) before showing up.
The merged Berkeley Improv and Provocation Theatre, offering improv classes and near-nightly weekend shows two blocks from campus.
Level-based class series keep the same group improvising together for weeks, the classic improv-friendship pipeline.
Homepage lists shows but not class times; call or email to confirm current beginner offerings.
Legendary nonprofit folk and roots music venue whose education arm runs open jams, group singing, and instrument classes.
The free lobby jam is bring-your-instrument-and-join, an unusually low bar to actually playing music with strangers.
Confirm jam dates on the Freight calendar, as they pause for some holidays and events.
Historic Berkeley pub hosting a long-standing weekly traditional Irish tune session.
An open trad session is a built-in circle of regulars who welcome any player who knows a few tunes; listeners can sit in too.
First Sunday each month is invite/advanced only, not for beginners.
Employee-saved Jack London Square Irish pub that hosts traditional music sessions open to visiting players.
A pub trad session is instant company for anyone who plays, or who just wants to sit in the warm circle.
Session night and frequency vary (reported biweekly); check their events page or socials before going.
A 25-year-old no-audition mixed a cappella community chorus.
No auditions plus an explicit open invitation to sit in makes a first visit genuinely walk-up-and-sing.
El Cerrito art studio running uninstructed drop-in life-drawing sessions for all skill levels.
Regulars return weekly to the same easels, and the shared quiet-then-chat rhythm makes for easy familiarity over time.
West Berkeley yarn shop hosting a free weekly evening knitting and crochet social.
A no-cost, no-signup craft night with a stable regular crowd is about the lowest-friction recurring social there is.
Local chapter of the global Shut Up & Write movement meeting to write together at a Berkeley community infoshop.
The format bakes in low-pressure introductions and a shared check-in, so you meet people without small-talk stakes.
Sessions run on specific evenings, not literally every week; check the Meetup for the next date.
Neighborhood Oakland ceramics studio offering wheel and handbuilding classes plus shared open-studio time.
A beginner class cohort plus recurring open-studio hours means seeing the same faces at the wheel week after week.
Open studio requires prior experience and advance booking, so it's not a walk-in for total newcomers.
Long-running North Berkeley cooking school with hands-on public classes where you cook in small teams and then eat together.
Cooking in pairs and sharing the meal you made is a naturally social, low-awkwardness format.
Single classes are pricey and are one-offs rather than a recurring cohort you return to.
Berkeley's community and college volunteer radio station, open to non-students as DJs and department volunteers.
A shift-based volunteer org builds real ongoing relationships around a shared creative mission, not just a one-time hang.
You must catch one of the three yearly recruitment windows and commit to a monthly hours minimum.
Long-established El Cerrito community theater producing a full season with non-professional casts and crews.
Getting cast or joining a crew means weeks of rehearsals with the same ensemble, a classic fast-friendship setting.
Auditions are tied to specific productions; check the season and auditions pages for current calls.
Games are conversation with rules. Everything here seats you across from another person and gives you something concrete to do together — including the densest rationalist scene on earth, which happens to meet within walking distance of Ashby BART.
Board game cafe with 800+ games, coffee, craft beer, and pizza where an $8 fee buys all-day access to the library.
The flat table fee and communal shelves make it normal to sit down next to strangers and get taught a game.
Fills up on weekend evenings; occasional holiday-week hour changes.
LGBTQ-friendly Temescal game store hosting a weekly Thursday open board-game night with a lending library and teachers on hand.
A reliable weekly slot plus staff who teach games lowers the barrier for solo drop-ins to join a table.
Confirm the night is running via the store (510-547-4386) before a first visit.
46-year-old full-line game store with open gaming tables and a busy events calendar spanning board games, RPGs, and miniatures.
A permanent hobby hub where recurring event crowds create familiar faces to game with.
Specific recurring open-play days vary by season; confirm on their calendar or email events@gamesofberkeley.com.
Dedicated downtown clubroom where Go players of all strengths gather to play the ancient board game.
A standing physical clubroom with open hours means you can show up and get paired for a game.
Entrance is locked during club hours—call the club phone to be buzzed in; confirm current hours first.
Casual Go meetup that gathers in Oakland and Berkeley cafes, welcoming beginners through dan-level players.
The cafe setting and a mix of strengths make it easy for a newcomer to get a friendly teaching game.
Cafe meetups depend on members turning up; check the Meetup group for the current week.
Long-running Berkeley chess school running a Friday-night rated tournament and class open to novices through advanced players.
A structured weekly rated event gives improvers a dependable place to play real games and meet other players.
Primarily a youth-focused school; confirm the adult/all-levels Friday session and current session dates before attending.
Monthly casual pub puzzle-solving night where teams work through a themed set of puzzles at a rotating East Bay bar.
Teams of a few people solve together, an easy low-stakes way to fold into a group over drinks.
Venue changes monthly and is only revealed via the location puzzle; confirm the East Bay chapter is running that month on their site/Facebook.
Weekly free bar trivia run by Trivia CA at Raleigh's pub near the UC Berkeley campus.
Drop-in teams and a regular weeknight slot make it a low-commitment way to be social midweek.
21+ venue; confirm the current night on Trivia CA's schedule as venues occasionally change.
Weekly free Monday-night bar trivia run by Trivia CA at Dragon Gate in Jack London Square.
No registration and open teams make it easy to start the week around other people.
Confirm the current venue/night on Trivia CA's weekly schedule.
Weekly Spanish–English language exchange that meets upstairs at the Jupiter beer garden downtown.
Structured pairing to practice a language is a built-in, low-awkwardness reason to talk to strangers.
Primarily Spanish/English; confirm the weekly Monday session is still running on Meetup.
Weekly reading-and-discussion group working through the rationalist Sequences, hosted at Berkeley's Lighthaven campus.
A recurring public rationalist event with a drop-in-any-time norm is the easiest on-ramp to the Berkeley LessWrong scene.
Listed schedule may have shifted since 2024/25; confirm the current day/time on LessWrong before going.
The community's own index of Bay Area rationalist/ACX/LessWrong meetups, listing recurring Berkeley and Oakland gatherings and how to join them.
It's the directory the scene uses on itself; each listed meetup is effectively a standing invitation to a like-minded crowd.
The index itself warns many listed groups go dormant; verify a specific meetup is active via the Discord/Google group before showing up.
Free monthly book clubs hosted across Oakland Public Library branches, each reading a shared title.
A pre-chosen book gives everyone the same thing to talk about, which carries a room of strangers past the small-talk hump.
Clubs and meeting times vary by branch; check the library's book-club page for the current schedule.
Berkeley Public Library runs free book discussions and monthly board-game nights across its central and branch libraries.
Free, library-hosted regulars are a comfortable, no-pressure setting to meet neighbors over books or games.
Board-game nights are seasonal (the West-branch 'Your Turn!' ran Feb–Apr 2026); verify current dates on the library calendar.
Long-running East Bay D&D Adventurers League group running organized-play sessions for players of all experience levels.
The organized-play format seats newcomers at a table with a DM and regulars, so you don't need an existing group.
Games are at private homes and by invitation; contact the coordinator and check the Bay Area Adventure League Facebook group for openings and the current schedule.
The East Bay's unfair advantage: redwoods, a tidal lagoon full of birds, forty regional parks, and half a dozen meditation lineages, all on the sunny side of the fog line.
Volunteer astronomers open the observatory domes on clear Friday and Saturday nights so anyone can look through century-old refracting telescopes for free.
A shared eyepiece and a line of strangers waiting for Saturn creates easy, low-pressure conversation while you all stare upward together.
Weather-dependent (fog or clouds can cancel); it's high in the hills with no transit, so you need a car or rideshare.
An all-volunteer group leads free themed walks up and down Berkeley's network of public hillside path-stairs, mixing exercise with local history.
The slow uphill pace and a leader narrating each staircase forces the group to bunch up and chat, and regulars reliably reappear walk after walk.
Some walks are strenuous (hundreds of stairs); check the listing for difficulty and whether a signup is required.
Small volunteer crews meet on a rotating path to clear overgrowth and debris from Berkeley's public stairways.
Shared physical labor on a small crew is a fast-track to first-name familiarity, and the same handful of stewards keep coming back.
You must email to RSVP to get the meeting location; not a walk-up drop-in.
Members set navigation courses in regional parks where you use a map and compass to find control points on foot, at your own pace.
Beginner instruction pairs you with an experienced orienteer, and comparing routes at the finish is a natural conversation-starter among strangers.
East Bay events are intermittent (roughly monthly and seasonal), not weekly; check the current schedule as some 2026 dates were canceled or need directors.
Volunteer leaders guide small groups to East Bay birding hotspots, naming and spotting species for birders of every level.
Beginners get folded into a group of regulars who eagerly share scopes and point out birds, and the same faces recur trip after trip.
Free but registration is required and popular trips close quickly, so it's not a walk-up drop-in.
District naturalists run free interpretive walks and programs out of the Tilden Environmental Education Center for all ages.
A knowledgeable guide and a small casual group make it easy for solo attendees and families to strike up conversation over a shared discovery.
Up in the hills with no transit access; check the monthly flyer since some programs need advance registration and school groups book weekdays.
A diversity-centered Insight meditation center offering many free weekly sitting groups in downtown Oakland, funded entirely by donation.
Explicitly affinity-based sanghas give newcomers a built-in shared identity to connect over, and the post-sit community time is designed for it.
Many groups are affinity-specific (for a given community); check that a given sit is open to you before attending.
A long-established Soto Zen practice center in a residential Berkeley compound offering free daily zazen and a welcoming Saturday-morning program for newcomers.
The Saturday orientation deliberately walks first-timers through zendo etiquette, lowering the barrier, and the settled regular sangha makes returning feel like belonging.
The form is traditional and quiet (silent sitting, bowing, chanting); the Saturday newcomer orientation is the recommended first visit.
A large, welcoming Insight (vipassana) sangha that meets Thursday evenings for group meditation and a dharma talk.
A stable weekly rhythm and well-known teachers draw a consistent crowd, so showing up a few Thursdays running turns strangers into familiar faces.
A newer (started 2026) offshoot of Gil Fronsdal's Insight Meditation Center running a free Monday-evening sit-plus-discussion in North Berkeley.
The built-in small-group discussion segment forces actual conversation with other attendees rather than a silent-then-leave dynamic.
Relatively new group (launched spring 2026); confirm it's still meeting on the Berkeley calendar before going.
An all-volunteer creek-restoration group that runs frequent hands-on work parties along East Bay watersheds.
The small congenial Weed Warriors crew is described as regulars, and elbow-to-elbow weeding is a reliably social, low-stakes way in.
Get on the email list to learn each session's location; sites change every time.
Volunteer leaders run regular free day hikes through East Bay regional parks for hikers of varied paces and levels.
Hours of walking side-by-side on a trail is one of the most natural settings for open-ended conversation, and led hikes attract solo joiners.
Distances and difficulty vary widely; read the hike description and confirm the meeting spot on the chapter calendar (listings can shift).
Volunteers restore habitat and maintain trails on protected lands around Mount Diablo under staff guidance.
A day of shared outdoor labor toward a visible result builds camaraderie fast, and the monthly trail crew has a steady returning core.
Farther out (Contra Costa, requires a car) and workdays require an RSVP/signup rather than walking up.
A community farm and nursery on a South Berkeley lot where anyone can drop in to grow food collectively.
Working one shared plot (rather than private allotments) means you're literally gardening alongside other volunteers, not next to them.
Open days and workshop dates vary seasonally; confirm current hours via their Facebook or by emailing before showing up.
An art-filled community garden on the Ohlone Greenway that opens to the public on Saturday afternoons.
Open Saturday hours plus resident gardeners tending nearby plots make it easy to wander in, admire the art, and fall into conversation.
Public access is limited to Saturday hours (and weather-dependent); individual plots are assigned, so ask before pitching in.
Structured contexts that do the initiating for you — a role, a shift, a shared task. Service formats are the most reliable of all: nobody is evaluating you while you sort cans.
Volunteers sort and repack donated food in a warehouse setting for one of the East Bay's largest hunger-relief networks.
Side-by-side manual work with a shared, visible output gives shy people an easy reason to chat without pressure to perform.
Must read the volunteer handbook, sign a liability release, and wear closed-toe shoes before the first shift; no BART nearby (Alameda has no station), so plan on driving or the bus.
Neighbors stock shelves and help clients shop the pantry that supplies free groceries across Berkeley.
Regular weekly shifts build a familiar crew fast — you see the same faces every Tuesday, which is how acquaintances turn into friends.
They prefer volunteers who commit to a recurring shift rather than one-offs; email ahead rather than just dropping in.
No-experience-needed crews build affordable homes together, with on-site orientation and tools provided.
A full day of shared physical effort toward a concrete goal is one of the fastest known ways to bond a group of strangers.
You must commit to the full time span of the event; build-site locations rotate around the East Bay, so confirm the address for your date.
Volunteers care for shelter animals and staff adoption events and thrift stores for this independent Berkeley shelter.
Animals are a natural social lubricant — bonding over a nervous dog gives strangers something outside themselves to talk about.
Must be 12+ (12–15 with a parent) and complete orientation plus role training before starting; no drop-in animal work.
Oakland's open-admission municipal shelter relies on volunteers to walk dogs, socialize cats, and support adoptions.
A large, active volunteer corps means regular shifts put you shoulder-to-shoulder with a rotating cast of animal people.
Orientation and training are required before independent shifts; the neighborhood is industrial, so plan the walk from BART in daylight.
A city-run library that lends power and hand tools free to Berkeley residents, staffed by knowledgeable clerks.
Asking the counter staff or a fellow borrower how to use an unfamiliar tool sparks the small, competence-sharing exchanges that build neighborly ties.
Borrowing is limited to Berkeley residents and property owners; it's a lending desk, not a hangout or workshop space.
Oakland's free tool-lending branch in the Temescal library basement, with a devoted Friends volunteer group.
Shared infrastructure like a tool library quietly rebuilds the assumption that neighbors help each other do things.
Requires an Oakland Public Library card; also hosts periodic Fixit Clinics (see repair listing) but is otherwise a lending desk.
The East Bay-born Fixit Clinic pairs you with a volunteer coach to troubleshoot and repair household items together.
Sitting knee-to-knee taking apart a toaster with a stranger-coach is disarmingly intimate collaborative problem-solving.
Not on a fixed weekly schedule — events are sporadic, so you must check the StopWaste/Culture of Repair calendars for the next East Bay date.
A weekly early-morning public-speaking club where members practice giving and evaluating short speeches.
The structured feedback format forces genuine attention on each speaker, creating unusually fast mutual regard among members.
7am start; visiting is free but ongoing participation requires paid membership. (Toast of Berkeley meets Tue evenings on the UC campus as an alternative.)
A drop-in club where English learners of all levels practice conversation in a low-pressure, all-levels group.
A structured conversation table gives newcomers and isolated residents a recurring, low-stakes reason to talk with the same people weekly.
Most sessions are on Zoom; verify the current in-person dates with kbreien@cityofberkeley.info, as they run on a rotating monthly schedule.
Guy Sengstock's long-running Circling community practices putting full attention on one person at a time in a small circle.
Circling is engineered intimacy — the format manufactures the kind of deep being-seen most people rarely get, and hooks many into a tight community.
Not free and registration is required; the reliably weekly session is online, while in-person Berkeley dates are less frequent — confirm the next one before showing up.
A national sober-active nonprofit offering free fitness and social events for anyone with 48 hours of sobriety.
Sweating together removes alcohol as the default social glue and replaces it with shared exertion and a recovery-friendly crowd.
The only membership requirement is 48 hours of sobriety; East Bay event frequency fluctuates, so filter the calendar by location and check the app for current Oakland listings.
The region's oldest one-to-one youth mentoring program matches adult volunteers with kids aged 8–17.
A structured one-to-one match creates a durable relationship of genuine consequence — the opposite of shallow networking, and men are specifically needed.
Requires a screening process and a serious year-long commitment; there is a pressing need for male mentors in the East Bay, so wait times for men are short.
Volunteers pull trash from the shoreline of Lake Merritt using supplied gear and short safety training.
A recurring, no-signup outdoor work party is the lowest-friction way to become a regular somewhere and be recognized by a crew.
Outdoor work in all weather; supplies and training are provided on-site so just show up at 568 Bellevue by 10am.
A West Oakland urban farm where volunteers grow organic produce that supplies the surrounding community.
Hands-in-the-dirt collective food growing is unhurried and repetitive, which leaves lots of room for the slow conversation that builds real connection.
You must attend the monthly first-Saturday orientation (a requirement) before regular volunteering; drop-ins can't just start working.
A collectively-run community farm on former UC research land in Albany, open to all during posted hours.
Its explicitly egalitarian, shared-governance ethos means showing up as a volunteer quickly makes you a co-steward rather than just help.
Sunday tends to be the busiest, most social open day; there's no single fixed 'volunteer day,' so arrive during open hours and ask to join a working group.
Schedules drift. If an entry above matters to you, the △ notes say what to double-check.