The hidden worlds of Monopoly – From Atlantic City to high fashion to Karl Marx, the most recognizable board game has had serious cultural impact
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The rock that smashed a Scrabble world record
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History of Kriegsspiel: How did war become a game?
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Why did the world’s best chess player go insane?
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Capablanca: How I learned to play chess (1916)
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The increasingly absurd story of a never-solved 1980s puzzle with a $1,000,000 prize
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What is chess hustling and how much do chess hustlers make?
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Tom Scott vs Irving Finkel: The Royal Game of Ur
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How do you feel board games have changed in the last twenty-five years?
Everyone always refers to the coming of Eurogames a long time back, but I'm wondering about modern games. Where have they come? Where will they go? I'd say the art has gotten better, more...
Everyone always refers to the coming of Eurogames a long time back, but I'm wondering about modern games. Where have they come? Where will they go? I'd say the art has gotten better, more eye-catching, but I'm more ambivalent about very recent (last five years) game mechanics.
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The ancient history of board games
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Humans have been telling stories and using dice for thousands of years, so why did it take us so long to combine them into role-playing games?
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The original Game of Life was quite different from the one we have now
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The board game of the alpha nerds. Before Risk, before Dungeons & Dragons, before Magic: The Gathering, there was Diplomacy.
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