Board & Card Games

Board and card games are the oldest things here by several thousand years, and they have lasted because the good ones are built on rules simple enough to explain in a minute and deep enough to argue about afterwards. This section covers the classics — games of position where you are trying to build a threat your opponent cannot answer, card games where the tactics come from what you choose to hold back, and dice games that balance luck against judgement. Most can be played against the computer or against someone sitting next to you on the same keyboard, which makes them the most sociable category on the site. None of them need explaining if you already know the physical version, and none of them take long to learn if you do not.

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