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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. […]

Tigris and Euphrates (German: Euphrat und Tigris) is a German-style strategy board game designed by Reiner Knizia and first published in 1997 by Hans im Glück. Before its publication it […]

Hazard is an early English game played with two dice; it was mentioned in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales in the 14th century.Despite its complicated rules hazard was very popular in […]

Senet (or Senat) is a board game from Predynastic and ancient Egypt. The oldest hieroglyph representing a Senet game dates to around 3100 BC. The full name of the game […]

Warhammer 40000 (informally known as Warhammer 40K WH40K or simply 40K) is a tabletop miniature wargame produced by Games Workshop set in a dystopian science-fantasy grimdark universe. Warhammer 40000 was […]

Mille Bornes (/ˌmɪl ˈbɔrn/; French for a thousand milestones referring to the stone distance markers on many French roads) is a French card game. In the United States Mille Bornes […]

Jorune or Skyrealms of Jorune is a science-fantasy role-playing game. It is set among the Skyrealms – floating islands of earth levitated by mysterious crystals in the crust of an […]

Softball is a variant of baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. It was invented in 1887 in Chicago as an indoor game. It was at various […]

Tables is a general name given to a class of board games similar to backgammon played on a board with two rows of 12 vertical markings called points. Players roll […]

Rodeo (/ˈroʊdiːoʊ/ or /roʊˈdeɪ.oʊ/) is a competitive sport which arose out of the working practices of cattle herding in Spain Mexico and later the United States Canada South America Australia […]