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board games

  • plural
    of board game.
    board game
    noun
    a game, as checkers or chess, requiring the moving of pieces from one section of a board to another.

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Held on the shores of Lake Issyk-Kul –- a vast mountain lake in northern Kyrgyzstan -- athletes have been competing in dozens of disciplines: from intellectual board games to arm-wrestling.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

They would play board games, the conversation deliberately avoiding politics.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

His images conjure illuminated manuscripts, textiles, hieroglyphics, board games, musical scores, and tribal and children’s art, while echoing the structures of animals, crystals, plants and cells.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

From board games to first-person shooters, games have historically provided a structured, rules-based playground for digital algorithms to learn.

From MarketWatch ● May 23, 2026

When not sleeping or studying, Thetans were fond of video games, constructing and solving elaborate puzzles, playing, inventing, and reimagining board games, and pretending to kill one another as part of live-action Mafia games.

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