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Chess pieces – left to right: king, rook, queen, pawn, knight and bishop.

Chess: History and Key Facts

Chess is a board game for two players, played on a square board consisting of 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid.

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Catan: History and Key Facts

Catan (), previously known as The Settlers of Catan or simply Settlers, is a multiplayer board game designed by Klaus Teuber.

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Avalon no Kagi: History and Key Facts

Avalon no Kagi, alternatively known as The Key of Avalon is an arcade game developed by Hitmaker and published by Sega on the Triforce arcade board.

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Barca (board game): History and Key Facts

Barca is a two-player strategy board game invented by Andrew Caldwell.

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List of cross and circle games: History and Key Facts

Cross and circle is a board game design used for race games played throughout the world.

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Tessera lusoria: History and Key Facts

The term tessera lusoria (plural: tesserae lusoriae), is a modern archaeological name coined by Christian Hülsen in 1896, to denote a collection of tokens made of flattened bone or ivory and char

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Pandemic (board game): History and Key Facts

Pandemic is a cooperative board game designed by Matt Leacock and first published by Z-Man Games in the United States in 2008.

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Camelot (board game): History and Key Facts

Camelot is a strategy board game for two players.

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Everdell: History and Key Facts

Everdell is a board game for 1 to 4 players (or 1 to 6 players with expansions) designed by James Wilson and published by Starling Games in 2018.

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Game For Fame: History and Key Facts

Game for Fame is a party board game in which 4-16 players cooperate with and compete against their teammates in a number of physical challenges to earn money.

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Magic: The Gathering: History and Key Facts

Magic: The Gathering (colloquially known as Magic or MTG) is a collectible, tabletop, and digital collectible card game created by Richard Garfield.

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Warhammer 40,000: History and Key Facts

Warhammer 40,000 (also known as WH40K or 40K), is a British miniature wargame produced by Games Workshop.

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Wasteland Express Delivery Service: History and Key Facts

Wasteland Express Delivery Service is a board game for 2 to 5 players published by Pandasaurus Games in 2017.

Plastic game kit for playing traditional Kazakh strategy board game Togyzkumalak (mancala game family).

Togyzkumalak: History and Key Facts

Togyzkumalak (Kazakh: тоғызқұмалақ, romanized: toğızqumalaq, lit.

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Bergnein: History and Key Facts

Bergnein is a card game for 2–6 players in English, based on the door system and entry requirements for the Berghain nightclub in Berlin, and released in late 2017.

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Kingdom Builder: History and Key Facts

Kingdom Builder is a strategy board game designed by Donald X.

My floor goban with a game in progress.

Go (game): History and Key Facts

Go, weiqi, or baduk is an abstract strategy board game for two players in which the aim is to fence off more territory than the opponent.

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Blood Rage (board game): History and Key Facts

Blood Rage is a Viking themed board game designed by Eric Lang and published by CMON Limited in 2015.

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Planetarium (board game): History and Key Facts

Planetarium is a strategy board game designed by Stéphane Vachon.

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Deception (board game): History and Key Facts

Deception: Murder in Hong Kong is a board game for 4 to 12 players designed by Tobey Ho and published by Grey Fox games in 2015.

Dungeons & Dragons game in progress. Miniatures from Dungeons & Dragons Miniatures Game and others on Master Maze scenery by Dwarven Forge. Around the dungeon can be seen many multi-sided dice, a character sheet (bottom left) and a D&D manual (top right). Note that the circular template at the bottom is not from Dungeo

Dungeons & Dragons: History and Key Facts

Dungeons & Dragons (commonly abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) originally created and designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson.

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Arimaa: History and Key Facts

Arimaa (ə-REE-mə) is a two-player strategy board game that was designed to be playable with a standard chess set and difficult for computers while still being easy to learn and fun to play for hu

Pallanghuzi, or Pallankuli, is a variant of Mancala played in southern India, especially Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh

Pallanguzhi: History and Key Facts

Pallanguli, or Pallankuli (Tamil: பல்லாங்குழி, romanized: Pallāṅkuḻi, Malayalam: പല്ലാങ്കുഴി, romanized: Pallāṅkuḻi, Kannada: ಅಳಗುಳಿ ಮನೆ, romanized: Alaguli Mane, Telugu: వామన గుంటలు, romanized:

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Sygo: History and Key Facts

Sygo is a two player abstract strategy game created in 2010 by Christian Freeling.