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Wishlist: 'Diplomacy' the Board Game

It's like "Risk" but with more talking (and less board-flipping).

Alex Mayyasi January 24, 2018

The Plaza de Toros de Acho

Plaza de Toros de Acho

This bullring in Lima is the oldest in the Americas and the second-oldest in the world.

La Tour-de-Peilz castle.

Lac Léman, Switzerland

Swiss Museum of Games

A Swiss board game museum housed inside a picture-perfect castle.

A fresco from Pompeii shows people playing something resembling a board game on a small table.

The Impossible Task of Reconstructing the Rules to an Ancient Board Game

How would you figure out Monopoly with no instructions and half the pieces missing?

Natasha Frost January 11, 2018

<em>Colossal Cave Adventure</em>, a classic.

Welcome to Interactive Fiction: You're a Wizard-Sniffing Pig

How text-based games are changing way we tell stories.

Sarah Laskow December 1, 2017

Ready to play goon of fortune.

Goon Sack

The least interesting thing Australians do with these giant, inflatable wine bags is drink from them.

Permanently Closed

Freddi Arcade & Toys.

Reykjavik, Iceland

Freddi Arcade & Toys Museum

A vintage video game wonderland in downtown Reykjavik.

Which famous toy should be enshrined this year?

Meet the 2017 Nominees for the National Toy Hall of Fame

Transformers, Risk, and sand are among the potential honorees.

Eric Grundhauser September 13, 2017

The playing field for the 2016 Nascondino World Championships, held in Consonno, Italy.

The International Hide and Seek Championship Starts Today

Start counting backward from 100.

Cara Giaimo September 8, 2017

Piazza dell'Anfiteatro in Lucca.

Piazza dell'Anfiteatro

This bustling Italian plaza is built on the ruins of an ancient Roman amphitheater.

Welcome to the Under the Pier Show.

Southwold, England

Under the Pier Show

A chaotic collection of coin-operated slot machines designed to delight and disturb in equal measure.

Smoking the Fool, the prelude to the contest.

The Haxey Hood

One of England's oldest ongoing games is basically a town-wide scrummage that aims to push a leather tube into a local pub.

The mural on Hasenhaus.

Vienna, Austria

Wolf and Cow Playing Backgammon Mural

A silly medieval mural preserved on the side of a Viennese house.

A board game produced around 1939 allowed German children to imagine themselves strangling the British coastline with aircraft and U-boats.

The Nazi Board Games of World War II

These relics of wartime propaganda and anti-Semitism were designed for playtime.

Eve Kahn April 27, 2017

The life of a poker-playing expat can be sweet—but how sustainable is it?

Online Poker Players Are Exiled in Paradise

When will the party end for online poker's refugees?

Sarah Laskow April 25, 2017

Add-A-Ball Arcade's basement location.

Seattle, Washington

Add-a-Ball Bar and Arcade

A (slightly) grownup take on the classic retro arcade.

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

International Intellectual and Puzzle Museum

An institution dedicated to curiosity, logic, riddles, and Mongolia's long history of puzzles.

Simi Valley, California

Ronald Reagan’s Situation Room

The White House Situation Room was taken apart in 2006 and shipped to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.