Remember making up games as a kid? The rules started simple, but then everyone kept adding new rules until the game made no ...

Board games might involve a race to a finish line, as in Sorry! or that ubiquitous first board game for kids, Candyland. Or they might entail a strategic battle for dominance, as in chess or checkers.

It’s the latest find in a project examining Northern Oman’s Qumayrah Valley and the development of settlements during the Bronze Age and Iron Age. Prof. Piotr Bieliński from the Polish Centre of ...

During an excavation in northwestern Spain, archaeologists unearthed a “very unusual” collection of ceramic objects. After careful analysis, they determined the pieces once composed an Iron Age board ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Ancient Board Game Collection Have you ever heard of Hnefatafl, a game played during the Viking Age? Or Latrunculi, popular over 2000 years ago in ancient ...

A board game dubbed “Hounds and Jackals” or “58 Holes” is believed to be the oldest in the world, with ancient versions found ...

Ryan Woodrow is a writer based in London, England. A graduate in Game Studies at Staffordshire University, he's currently a list writer for Game Rant. In his spare time he plays video games & board ...

Associate Professor in Project Management for Development, University of Bradford Recently, a stone scoreboard was found by archaeologists in Chichén Itzá, Mexico’s Yucatán peninsula. The Mayan people ...

Tuesday nights are bustling at the Seattle Go Center with more than three dozen people hunched over wooden Go boards on the organization’s second floor. Players speak quietly as they sit in pairs and ...

There’s nothing like a good game night. A time to gather around and hash it out over a game of Clue or Settlers of Catan. But the joy board games bring, to pass the time during a long winter or ...