First-of-its-kind ancient mosaic board game found at Mayan city

First-of-its-kind ancient mosaic board game found at Mayan city in Guatemala - Patolli is one of oldest ludo-like strategy board games played in Americas ...
Yahoo

What America’s first board game can teach us about the aspirations of a young nation

'The Travellers’ Tour Through the United States' is the earliest known board game to depict a map of North America. Library of Congress In 2023 alone, the board game industry topped US$16.8 billion ...
Hyperallergic

How the World’s Oldest Printed Board Game Rolled Propaganda into Play

“The Royal Game of the Goose,” printed by W. Lake in c. 1840 (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) (click to enlarge) Long before the era of Candy Crush and Neko Atsume, the games that captured ...
Hyperallergic

Archeologists Uncover 5,000-Year-Old Board Game Pieces

Some things are as old as civilization as we know it: agriculture, government, written language, a reverence for cats, and gaming. As further proof of that last one, Turkish archeologists have ...
Greek Reporter

Zatrikion: The Ancient Greek Board Game of Strategy and Leisure

The unique ancient Greek board game Zatrikion discovered at the Knossos Palace shows that the ancients had a penchant for ...