A COVID-cautious artist friend launched a Kickstarter for a card game he designed: Billionaire Bounties! Premise: What if people decided they weren’t going to take being oppressed by billionaires anymore and started a revolution to fight back?!
The first board game printed in America was called "The Travellers' Tour." It described itself as a "pleasing and instructive pastime," and consists of a hand-colored map of the then-24 states, with numbered circles, and a numbered list of 139 towns and cities. The game used a teetotum — an alternative to dice but without the gambling connotations — and was based on players' memories and geographical knowledge. Here's @TheConversationUS's Matthew Wynn Sivils on what the game can teach us about the U.S. in the 19th century. Tell us in the comments what board games you recommend!
The original Monopoly was created in 1935 by Charles B. Darrow, and based on real locations in Atlantic City, with prices mirroring the one-time values of real estate. Atlas Obscura's Adrienne Raphel looks at its cultural impact, whether it's a bad game, and the nadir of the Monopoly Cinematic Universe — 2019's Ms. Monopoly, which remarkably failed to upend the patriarchy.
It’s a solo worker placement game where you play as the French resistance (the Maquis) and complete thematic sabotage missions vs Nazis. It’s a puzzle of collecting resources/intel, performing sabotage, and getting fighters home safely.
Reskin the map with the demilitarised zone, and fight against the Cardassians and Starfleet. Replace the workers with small wooden ships.
> A project mapping medieval England's known murder cases has now added Oxford and York to its street plan of London's 14th century slayings, and found that Oxford's student population was by far the most lethally violent of all social or professional groups in any of the three cities.
Board game fans - what are you playing?
Done a murder mystery game with the weans the other week and then another shot of Alien - fate of the nostromo, which was decent....