More than 4,000 years later, researchers may have finally figured out how to play an ancient board game. It is considered to ...

Board games have been popular gifts for centuries. They date back at least 5,000 years and were played throughout the ancient ...

For Northwood remixes the old formula for solo play and a ... defending the cities of Earth from aliens. Each game takes place on a vertical board divided into columns and rows that represent ...

Around 4500 years old, it consists of a board with 20 circular spaces created from the coils of a carved snake, four dice and 27 geometric pieces. The Shahr-i Sokhta game is one of many ancient ...

In their study, Sam Gervais, a computer scientist at the University of Essex in the UK, and Hossein Moradi, an independent archaeologist, studied a board game known as the 'SiS game,' discovered ...

Board games for adults prove that we've moved way beyond dusty old classics like Risk and Monopoly. No matter whether you're hunting down party games or an epic team experience that'll test your ...

With the Christmas season upon us, it's time for the best board games to shine. And I don't mean dusty old classics like Monopoly that get broken out when you've got nothing else to do ...

Young people are only several thousand years late to the board game boom. Tabletop games are about as old as civilization itself, said Zachary Horton, an associate professor at the University of ...

Thankfully, board game and card game makers have not left these ... In Monikers – a brand-new take on the old Charades-like game Celebrity – you’ll act out a variety of goofy characters ...

A richly tactical strategy board game that plays in 10 minutes and is easy enough for an 8 year old to pick up sounds like a dream, but Mindbug: First Contact has made it a reality. It comes with ...