9 Best Articles in 2022
The Atlantic
The Board Games That Ask You to Reenact Colonialism
The Atlantic
8 min read · 2021-07-22 · A newish wave of sophisticated, adult board games have made exploitation part of their game mechanics. A reckoning is coming.
Reader View · Shared by 59, including Jason Hirschhorn, christina r wodtke: the R is for radical focus, Paolo Pedercini
The Verge
Sex, Lies, and Video Games
The Verge
20+ min read · 2020-11-23 · Strip clubs, board games, sugar babies, an office coup — and a whole lot of money
Reader View · Shared by 120, including Peter Steinberger, Eric Seufert, RodGeoghegan·com
Ars Technica
Game on! The best board games of 2016
Ars Technica
~20 min read · From 2017 · Here's what hit our tabletops most in 2016.
Reader View · Shared by 53, including Florian Hanke 🍎, Paddy Zab, Leslie D, Brian, Stephen C Sanders, Luzius Meisser, ̗̀ ̗̀Manuel Marquina, Veronika Lampion, Tac Anderson, Alberto, Dominik Grolimund
The Atlantic
The Invasion of the German Board Games
The Atlantic
20+ min read · From 2018 · Their peaceful premises and intricate rule systems are changing the way Americans play—and helping shape an industry in the process.
Reader View · Shared by 132, including Dayyan Smith, Florian Hanke 🍎, MariadPDC, Thomas Power, Christian P. Stobbe, Dominic Grzbielok, Joe Germuska, Daniel Hüfner, Moritz Orendt, 𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧 , Esther Schindler, Christian Fauteux, Mara Averick, Dominik Grolimund, AlgoCompSynth by znmeb, DON’T PANIC, Nils Hitze
The Economist’s 1843 magazine
Table-top generals
The Economist’s 1843 magazine
9 min read · From 2017 · Board games are back, thanks to the lessons their designers have learned from computer games. Tim Cross rolls the dice
Reader View · Shared by 35, including Rezha Julio, Esther Schindler, Azeem Azhar, Ernie Smith, Cindy Krum 📱
Ars Technica
The best board games to play with your quarantined housemates
Ars Technica
20+ min read · From 2020 · It's the perfect time to sucker those you live with into playing games with you.
Reader View · Shared by 72, including Jennifer Ouellette
Quartz
Playing board games can make you a nicer person with better relationships
Quartz
5 min read · From 2017 · Board games are all about competition—but they force us to question the idea that the world is divided into winners and losers.
Reader View · Shared by 33, including Hampus Jakobsson, Thomas Power, mdy
BBC Future
How to win Monopoly in the shortest possible time
BBC Future
7 min read · From 2020 · One of the best-selling board games of all time makes several cardinal sins of good design, which means it has attracted a great deal of ire over the years.
Reader View · Shared by 32, including Howard Getson
WIRED
This AI Resurrects Ancient Board Games—and Lets You Play Them
WIRED
2 min read · 2021-10-26 · What tabletop games did our ancestors play in 1000 BCE? A new research project wants to find out, and make them playable online too.
Shared by 57, including Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Jennifer Ouellette, Nicolas Babin #AmazonPartner, AI
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The Guardian
The Ukrainians teaching in a war zone: bombed-out schools, evacuations and board games
The Guardian
7 min read · Apr 17th · Educators have assisted in rescue efforts and sought to ease children’s fears by creating spaces ‘where kids can feel like kids’
Reader View · Shared by 13, including Larry Ferlazzo
embracer.com
Reports & Presentations
embracer.com
1 min read · Mar 24th · Embracer Group is a parent company of businesses led by entrepreneurs in PC, console, mobile and board games and other related media. The Group has an extensive catalogue of over 850 owned or…
Seth Godin
Resilient markets
Seth Godin
May 8th · The “free market” is a bit of a myth. Other than some board games, it doesn’t exist in real life. We eagerly regulate things like dangerous goods, fraud, insider trading, the warr…
Shared by 8, including Patrick Sanwikarja
iFixit
Cables: A Pandemic Love Story
iFixit
8 min read · Apr 14th · These last two years made me appreciate some nearly forgotten things. Long dog walks, board games, reading an actual book, and interestingly enough, cables.
Reader View · Shared by 6, including Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer
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dicebreaker.com
If Quacks of Quedlinburg had a better name, it could be the next blockbuster board game
dicebreaker.com
4 min read · Jan 9th · I would likely have never known that Quacks of Quedlinburg, a board game about brewing potions, even existed if not for…
Reader View · Shared by 5, including Rand Fishkin
FiveThirtyEight
The Worst Board Games Ever Invented
FiveThirtyEight
7 min read · From 2016 · Last week, I dove into the data and design of Twilight Struggle — the best board game on the planet, according to the popular gaming site BoardGameGeek. I spoke with game’s designer, and tapp…
Reader View · Shared by 17, including David Bauer, Martina Grolimund, Dominik Grolimund, Leslie D
Smithsonian Magazine
The Best Board Games of the Ancient World
Smithsonian Magazine
~14 min read · From 2020 · Thousands of years before Monopoly, people were playing games like Senet, Patolli and Chaturanga
Reader View · Shared by 52
Slate
The Surprise Hit Board Game That’s Transforming an $11 Billion Industry
Slate
~15 min read · 2021-08-16 · Elizabeth Hargrave’s Wingspan might also transform the way you think about games—and art.
Reader View · Shared by 105, including Matthew Turland, Lynn Cherny, Jeremy Caplan
Lifehacker
How to Play Your Favorite Board Games Online
Lifehacker
2 min read · From 2020 · Don’t let the pandemic ruin your weekly board game nights. In the video above, I share some ways I’ve been playing some of my favorite board games—including RISK, Monopoly and Settlers of…
Reader View · Shared by 31, including Chris Brogan/Chief of Staff
TNW
I’m so excited about this board games console I just peed a little
TNW
2 min read · 2020-12-14 · The SquareOne is a brand new board games console that's set to hit the market — and I, for one, cannot wait to play with this thing.
Reader View · Shared by 10, including Eric Vitiello, 👨✈️ AA-Admiral ⚓🚀🌌
Singularity Hub
What Games Are Humans Still Better at Than AI?
Singularity Hub
5 min read · From 2019 · AI has bested us at board games like chess and Go, and set astronomically high scores in classic computer games like Ms. Pacman.
Reader View · Shared by 26, including Azeem Azhar, Remy Bataille, Merkstatt
Wirecutter
Our Favorite Board Games for Adults
Wirecutter
20+ min read · From 2018 · We spent 54 hours researching 115 board games. Here are our picks for new gamers, more-advanced players, and party, cooperative, and two-player games.
Reader View · Shared by 18, including Charlie O'Keefe
Ars Technica
The CIA uses board games to train officers—and I got to play them
Ars Technica
8 min read · From 2017 · Also: why the CIA embraces training game cheaters, whether El Chapo hit a fire alarm.
Reader View · Shared by 42, including Mo Schuster, Thomas Power, Shanna Peeples she/her 🏳️🌈, hiten.eth, Mark Kaigwa
