An excavation in modern-day Turkey near what was once a Roman fortress revealed a pair of carved bone disk-shaped pieces ...

Like many entries on this list, the exact origins of backgammon, a two-player game in which rivals race to “bear off,” or remove, all 15 of their pieces from the board, remain unclear.

To pass the time the ancient Greeks played various board and dice games which have been attested to in various sources.

Connect 4, or Four in a Row, is another classic game that's pretty easy to 3D print. Because the game is so ubiquitous, there are different versions that you can print at home. One of my favorites is ...

“We don’t have the slightest trace of a board game using more than two different kinds of pieces before chess.” Early forms of chess were not played until about 1500 years ago.

Found in a burial at Başur Höyük, a 820- by 492-foot mound near Siirt in southeast Turkey, the elaborate pieces consist of 49 small stones sculpted in different shapes and painted in green, red ...

A deck of seed cards is also included, and there’s a big fold-out board with various tracks and action spaces on it. It’s all serviceable enough stuff, although the art is a little drab.

We spent 20 hours researching nearly 50 board games for kids. ... each player has an island-shaped game board on which they place, at various points along the edges, ... and game pieces, ...

The game has online and local multiplayer as well as pass and play. You can play on the classic Monopoly board or purchase different themes. The game unfolds with 3D representations of classic ...