NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Abram Towle, creative director of the website Nerds on Earth, about the renaissance in board games and what people may want to play over the holidays. While you were ...

Getting a group of friends together to learn and play a board game can be a daunting task. Not only does it require everyone in-person, but between setting up, learning the rules, and actually playing ...

Escape the Dark Castle Second Edition and its standalone expansion, Escape the Dark Forest, will replace the board game's ...

Classic board games are being reimagined digitally, not just ported, with new mechanics that generate billions in revenue. Hybrid systems like the Infinity Game Table ...

The worst part of playing a modern board game is “the teach” — that interminable period of time when you first sit down to share something unusual with a new group of people. Very rarely comes a game ...

Folsom Library transforms into a gaming hub with events like life-sized Candyland and a Puzzle Palooza competition.

In the original version of the popular board game Settlers of Catan, players start on an undeveloped island and are encouraged to "fulfill your manifest destiny." To win you have to collect resources ...

Several years ago, I moved to a small town in eastern Pennsylvania, and a co-worker invited me over for a classic social tradition: a game night. I don’t like board games. When I’m hanging out with ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. The one rule of Werewolf is: Don’t let them know you’re a werewolf. Okay, there are a few more rules to the card game than that. You and your friends sit in a ...