The player may play against the computer or another human on a strategic game board.
Board games can have all of the above aspects, and also promote communication about mathematics in small groups.
The miniature was completed in 1504 or 1505 on the back of a draughtboard, possibly commissioned to express appreciation to Louis XII of France for conferring the Order of Saint Michael on Francesco Maria I della Rovere, Urbino's nephew and heir.
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As with each year's Computer Olympiad, computer programs competed against each other at a variety of games, including Amazons, Chinese Chess, Clobber, Dots and Boxes, Computational Pool (billiards), Go, and Shogi.
As with each year's Computer Olympiad, computer programs competed against each other at a variety of games, including Awari, backgammon, bridge, chess, Chinese Chess, draughts, Gin rummy, Go, Go-Moku, Othello, Renju and Scrabble.
In 2007 a group of three University of York students attempted to get the fictitious town of 'BaronVille' onto the new UK version of the board game Monopoly.
While not a direct video game adaption, Chaos League bears resemblance to Games Workshop's Blood Bowl tabletop board game, which is also about fantasy sports.
Chen Zude (Traditional: 陳祖德; Simplified: 陈祖德; Pinyin: Chén Zǔdé; February 19, 1944 – November 1, 2012) was a Chinese professional Go player.
Zhongguo Qiyuan (Simplified Chinese: 中国棋院) is an official agency responsible for board games and card games such as go, bridge, chess and Chinese chess affairs under the All-China Sports Federation of the People's Republic of China.
Early developers of popular cooperative board games include Jim Deacove of Family Pastimes (inventor of Max the Cat) and Ken Kolsbun of Child and Nature (inventor of Save the Whales.) In 2000, Reiner Knizia published Lord of the Rings which influenced a number of subsequent titles, including Shadows Over Camelot, and Battlestar Galactica.
Courier Chess (or the Courier Game) is a strategy board game in the chess family.
:"Craigdarroch, An Accessory to Murder" is an expansion set for the board game Kill Doctor Lucky
The material in the book series has been adapted into a DVD, a board game, and a computer game.
Djambi (also described as "Machiavelli's chessboard") is a board game and a chess variant for four players, invented by Jean Anesto in 1975.
Inspired by the scenarios in the classic board game Terrible Swift Sword, Volume 1 of Enduring Valor was first published in 2002 by Marek/Janci Design of Wheaton, Illinois, and debuted at the Historicon gaming convention.
English-language Scrabble is the original version of the popular word-based board game invented in 1938 by US architect Alfred Mosher Butts who based the game on the letter distribution in The New York Times in English.
It was created by Uwe Rosenberg, a popular game designer known for his other farming-themed games Agricola and Bohnanza.
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Ravensburger has published a tabletop (non-electronic) board game adaptation of Farmerama, playable by one to four players.
The Gang des Tractions Avant gave rise to the writings of Alphonse Boudard, Roger Borniche, the films of Jean-Luc Godard (in which the character was played by Jean-Paul Belmondo), of Jacques Deray (Le Gang with Alain Delon) and Claude Lelouch (Le Bon et les méchants with Jacques Dutronc), a TV series by Josée Dayan and a board game by Serge Laget and Alain Munoz.
Halma (from the Greek word ἅλμα meaning "jump") is a strategy board game invented in 1883 or 1884 by George Howard Monks, an American thoracic surgeon at Harvard Medical School.
He is also a board game designer who has released three wargames, Hammer of the Scots, Crusader Rex, and Richard III.
Kari Mannerla (January 9, 1930, Helsinki, Finland – July 12, 2006, Helsinki, Finland) was a Finnish board and card game designer and advertising agency executive.
He is best known for co-authoring the board game trilogy Tikal, Java and Mexica with Wolfgang Kramer.
Among the games that Cartwright eventually programmed the Playmate to learn were chess, checkers, Connect Four, Stratego, Candyland, and Mouse Trap.
Additionally, there are a number of student sport groups ranging from Combat Hopak to Go.
Nexus produced board games, role-playing games, card games, miniature games, published magazines devoted to games, and licensed to the Italian market games from many major international games publishers, such as Fantasy Flight Games, Games Workshop, Fasa and Kosmos.
Perhaps best known as a puzzle inventor, he commercially licensed his designs, such as the Rush Hour puzzle game, to companies including Binary Arts (now known as ThinkFun), Ishi Press, and Hanayama Toys.
Pak Chi-eun (born on November 4, 1983) is a South Korean professional Go player of 9-dan rank.
Panzer General: Russian Assault is the name of a board game developed by Petroglyph Games, sequel to Panzer General: Allied Assault that debuted in January 2010.
Created in India perhaps as early as 500 AD, the board game is subtitled Royal Game of India because royalty played by using servants of the royal household adorned in colored-costumes as pieces on large outdoor boards.
Parqués stems directly from Pachisi in the same way as Parcheesi, Parchís or Ludo.
Examples of games that are PSPACE-complete (when generalized so that they can be played on an n × n board) are the games hex and Reversi and the solitaire games Rush Hour, Mahjong, Atomix, and Sokoban.
He moved to Japan and in 1968 in partnership with Stuart Dowsey founded The Ishi Press, a book and magazine publishing company that primarily published books about the game of go.
A Race game requires the pieces to move from a start point to a finish point usually based on the throw of dice (e.g. Ludo).
So Long Sucker is a board game invented in 1950 by John Forbes Nash, Mel Hausner, Lloyd S. Shapley and Martin Shubik.
Based on the board game of the same name, Frye shared hosting duties with Sarah Michelle Gellar and Rod Brogan.
The title Stonewall Jackson's Way was used for Stonewall Jackson's Way, a board wargame published by Avalon Hill in 1992.
Terhuchu is a two-player abstract strategy board game from India, and specifically from Assam and Angami.
It is a semi-fictional chronicle of the lengthy 1938 "retirement game" of Go by the respected master Honinbo Shūsai, against the up-and-coming player Minoru Kitani (although the latter's name is changed to Otaké in the book).
Settlers of Canaan is a licensed adaptation of Settlers of Catan that incorporates Hebrew Bible themes into its multiplayer board game play.
Since May 2005, Vasel has co-hosted The Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and wargames.
"These" (Theseus) and the Etruscan equivalent of Pirithous are seated at a table on the right wall, playing a board game, where they are threatened by the Etruscan demon "Tuchulcha", who is pictured with pointed ears, a hairy face, and a hooked beak, wielding snakes in his hands.
The game is based on the popular board game Pictionary, in which players draw pictures based on clues from a subject and have their teammates guess what specific words the picture is supposed to represent.
Yilun Yang, also spelled Yi-lun Yang, is a 7 dan professional Go player, teacher, and author, with special expertise in the formulation of "tsume-go" (life-and-death) problems.
Ask Pickles was a board game made in the United Kingdom from 1948 by Tower Press, and popular in the 1950s.
In the board-game-like Culdcept, Baldanders is a creature that temporarily changes into different, random creature every time it fights.
In the DVD board game, Atmosfear, Gévaudan is the name of the blue werewolf "Harbinger" character that can be used as a player token.
All of the puzzles were designed by the award-winning board game designer Reiner Knizia.
The principle is similar to Call My Bluff or the board game Balderdash; the words are generally less obscure than those featured in these games, but still unusual enough to challenge most players.
In the Norwegian version of the board game Monopoly, Bryn is the fourth railway station on the board, in the spot corresponding to Short Line (Atlantic City version) or Liverpool Street station (London version).
Later, he began to air his views in the weekly Robbar Pratidin, in a feature entitled "Du Chhokka Pnach" ("two sixes and a five" - the highest number of moves you can make in the popular board game Ludo).
This game Chess Crusade is based on a chess board game, which is a reenactment of the Crusades.
Cluedo, a board game with a closed circle of suspects as its premise
Megarry designed a one-off board game called Dungeon! where players trooped through a dungeons on a singular basis, a game that had ultimately derived from the Braunstein playing sessions with Arneson.
In the 1950s, Arthur Samuel created one of the first board game-playing programs of any kind.
The Dreyse M1907 appeared in the earlier versions of the board game Cluedo, mislabeled as a revolver.
The league also secured an agreement from Al Ruddy, the producer of The Godfather, to omit the terms "Mafia" and "Cosa Nostra" from the film's dialogue, and succeeded in having Macy's stop selling a board game called The Godfather Game.
He has also represented Great Britain at the board game Stratego, helping the British team to the bronze medal at the 2012 World Championships.
An avid crossword puzzle expert, Hambrick also authored a series of books based on the board game Scrabble, titled Scrabble Brand Grams.
Jurong Central Park is a 8-ha regional park and the first in Singapore to have life-sized board-game features including life-sized Snakes and Ladders playground and Ludo Garden.
Keele is featured on the UK 'Here and Now' edition of the board game Monopoly, released in September 2007, It takes the place of Fleet Street in the traditional version.
for the ancient Chinese board game, see Liubo
As a Model he has appeared in ads for the NFL, Abercrombie and Fitch, Panasonic "Pretty Tough", Mountain Dew, Absolut Vodka, Captain Morgan Rum, Nintendo Gamecube, Verizon Wireless, Remote Possibilities, the board game Princes and Frogs, and on a billboard in New York City's Times Square for Conde Nast Publications.
Mark Rein·Hagen, role-playing, card, video and board game designer
She is the author of "The Monopolists," a book forthcoming from Bloomsbury that tells the true story of the board game Monopoly.
He is an avid board game player, and regular contributor to The Dice Tower podcast, a podcast about all aspects of boardgaming, and also the podcast "Point 2 Point,"
On August 15, 2011, Sleuth rebranded as Cloo, in order to be able to trademark and own the name, as NBCUniversal cannot so with the name Clue (as Hasbro owns the rights to it with their board game Clue).
He previously worked for Metro New York as an op-ed columnist for two years and spent six years as a question writer for the popular board game Trivial Pursuit.
Other products will include a new MMORPG PC game taking place 100 years after the events of Neverwinter Nights 2, a roleplay adventure game and a board game.
He fulfilled his lifelong goal of starting a board game company in 2003 while attending Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, College Park.
There are two versions of the album: a plain one with an acrylic case and a lyrics booklet and a deluxe version with a board game that is a cross between Trivial Pursuit and snakes and ladders.
In addition to cartoons, Official also offered a number of sports films, newsreels, and specialties including a souvenir film of the 1939 New York World's Fair (which remained available until around 1980) and "The Broadway Handicap," a home-movie-board-game combination with a horse-racing theme.
The title of this episode references the board game Clue, in which players state who they think the murderer is by saying, for example, "Colonel Mustard. In the Billiard Room. With the screwdriver".
Three editions of the Password Plus board game were made by Milton Bradley in the early 1980s.
This phenomenon is exemplified by the 2006 U.S. feature film Let's Go to Prison or the board game Don't Drop the Soap being marketed by John Sebelius, the son of Kathleen Sebelius.
Klamer did not approach Milton Bradley with intent of selling them his idea of a board game.
Reuben Klamer (born in Canton, Ohio) is an inventor of the classic Milton Bradley (currently owned by Hasbro) board game The Game Of Life.
Klaus Teuber (born 1952), inventor of The Settlers of Catan; probably the best known German board game designer
In the Action-adventure game Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, one of the hidden treasures is the board game.
Chess, a board game, Sakk in alternative language.
SAT Game for Dummies is the first board game ever invented to help students prepare for the SAT Reasoning Test.
Chess, a board game, alternative language spelling of "Schach"
The program is based on the well-known board game Scrabble and is hosted by entertainer Justin Willman.
Civilization: The Board Game, a 2010 board game by Kevin Wilson, an adaptation of the computer game Civilization IV
Civilization: The Boardgame, a 2002 board game by Glenn Drover, an adaptation of the computer game Civilization III
In addition, the manual, along with semi-official blueprints available at the time of the Klingon and Romulan ships, was a major source for the initial designs used for Federation ships for the board game, Star Fleet Battles.
Its name stems from the Danish term svikmølle, a highly advantageous position in the board game Mill, where an opponent's piece can be eliminated every turn (forming an unpleasant vicious circle for the opponent), or metaphorically any unpleasant situation one cannot get out of.
Rush Hour, invented by Nob Yoshigahara, was a traffic-jam themed board game with 40 puzzles ranging in difficulty from beginner to expert.
The abbreviations even count as valid words in Scarabeo, the Italian version of the board game Scrabble.
He became a recognizable name in the board game community following the publication of Through the Ages: A Story of Civilization in 2006 and thereafter his designs frequently made the top 100 list on BoardGameGeek.
Yut, a traditional board game played in Korea, sometimes romanized as 'yoot'
(These are similar to those used in the Egyptian board game Senet.)
The chorus also makes use of the German translation of the Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno, "Einer für alle, alle für einen", as well as alluding to the board game Mensch ärgere dich nicht.