'The Travellers’ Tour Through the United States' is the earliest known board game to depict a map of North America. Library of Congress In 2023 alone, the board game industry topped US$16.8 billion ...

“The Royal Game of the Goose,” printed by W. Lake in c. 1840 (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) (click to enlarge) Long before the era of Candy Crush and Neko Atsume, the games that captured ...

Some things are as old as civilization as we know it: agriculture, government, written language, a reverence for cats, and gaming. As further proof of that last one, Turkish archeologists have ...

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Long before the age of video games, any kind of game-based enjoyment that didn’t involve a ball or a stick typically took place on the kitchen table. Board games have been around for thousands of ...

In this age of technology, you wouldn't think traditional tabletop and board games would stand much of a chance. But they ...

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