Board games have been around for a long time, longer than many might expect. For example, the ancient Egyptian game Senet; archaeologists have found evidence of this game dating back as far as ...

Board games are a great way to break the ice ... joke possibilities and they let you make new memories by reliving old ones,” explains Meeple Mountain founder Andy Matthews.

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 ...

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 ...

With sweater 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; tabletop gaming ...

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 ...