In most board games ... same number of coins. Even games where players can acquire vastly different powers, they often start off the same. Blood Rage is a good example. But there are some designs ...

The team of researchers developed powerful new protein design software adapted from a strategy proven adept at board games like Chess ... learn to play chess, for example, by testing millions ...

TIME spoke with Leacock to learn more about the board game explosion and what it’s like to design them for a living ... This is a rare example of something that you can sit down and play ...

For an example of the former, take Ticket to Ride. It borrows liberally from older designs, and it’s not a name that’s on the lips of any average person if they’re talking about board games.

Canvas Infernum is a tile placement puzzle game with ... ve got a huge board and you're stuck deciding where to place a single tile, which can be overwhelming. So we aimed to design tighter ...

“Designers are becoming more focussed on the experience the players are having, and are using a stronger tool kit to build better games,” Geoff Engelstein, who teaches board-game design at New ...

Dealing five cards to each player at the start of the game, for example, brings a bit more ... goal of player elimination ruled American board game design for so long. Sometimes past is bad ...

While his main areas of expertise are maker tools -- 3D printers, vinyl cutters, paper printers, and laser cutters -- he also loves to play board games and tabletop RPGs. Expertise 3D printers ...

This latest find is a game board of Hounds and Jackals, aka Fifty-Eight Holes, commonly played in ancient Egypt. Known to modern scholars since 1890, some 60 examples of the game have been ...