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What to do when the psychologist recognizes serious elements of the serial player syndrome in his variant "at least one new game per week" that leads some to compulsive purchase with meters of bookcases occupied by boxes, in the best case, used for a evening only others to the obsessive attendance of fairs and demo evenings? My "shrink" advised me to return to the classics and the new Italian edition came about, the result of the partnership signed just over a year ago between Devir Italia and Queen Games, of  Alhambra  , a game by  Dirk Henn  that back in 2003 won the coveted Spiel des Jahres award. It is an excellent opportunity to evaluate whether 16 years after Alhambra is still in step with the times as are other games that support him in the palmares of the German recognition from Carcassonne, winner in 2001, to Ticket to Ride, game of the year 2004, passing through the 2002 nomination of Puerto Rico which in my very personal Olympus of board game...

This illustration shows how Nefertari, consort of Pharaoh Ramses II, plays Senet.  Photo: imago / United Archives International  imago stock & people   The video is not or not available anymore Are we experiencing a golden age of board game?  Authors and publishers are more productive and innovative than ever, more and more people meet to play together.  We illuminate the background with a short history of board game. Tutankhamun died very young.  The ancient Egyptian pharaoh from the 14th century BC probably did not turn 20 years old.  Not enough time for an influential reign.  And yet it electrified the world when the British Egyptologist Howard Carter discovered his almost undamaged tomb in the Valley of the Kings in 1922.  In addition to many treasures such as a gold death mask, the researchers also found one of the oldest board games in the world:  Senet  .  A running game over 30 fields that symbo...

Motivational Post-it Notes on Trains by  October Jones  

Funny photos by Mike Stimpson