The Royal Game of Ur is one of the oldest known board games, but newly discovered pieces may be even older. The British Museum If you think that board games with fancy pieces and weird dice and ...

The 5,000-year-old pieces mark the oldest known instance of a “board game”. Archaeologists have unearthed a series of small, carved stones, assumed to be some kind of ancient board game’s ...

Hasbro announced Friday that the popular board game’s playing pieces are getting a revamp, with the thimble, the wheelbarrow and the boot getting the boot in favor of some more fan-friendly options.