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The sidewalk on the Champs-Élysées has never seemed so wide.  In front of the iron curtains of its luxury stores, some tourists descend the most famous avenue of Paris in a dizzying void.  They are as at ease as at Tianducheng, this almost deserted Chinese city which reproduces some famous monuments of the French capital.  With the containment measures announced against the coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19), there are more Parisians to pass on the Champs-Élysées playing Monopoly than taking their car.  It is all the more certain that many must find to occupy themselves between four walls.  They are therefore walking on the set of one of the most legendary games in the world. Monopoly celebrates its 85th anniversary.  According to its publisher, Hasbro, it has more than a billion players in 114 countries and more than 200 different versions.  In a press release published on the occasion, the brand recalls that the game was created in 1933 by Charles ...

Written by  Chrys  . Today we deviate from the news to speak instead of much older and more distant games.  ^ __ ^ I had wanted to write an article about board games from ancient Japan for a while ... partly because I am passionate about the Japanese world, partly because I find it interesting to see how the playful history of a people so distant from us, both culturally and geographically. I therefore gladly took the offer made to participate in the  Blogzuola blog  by writing an article on the theme "Rising Sun" ... taking two birds with one stone.  ;) Hoping not to get bored, today we will talk about  Shogi  ,  Go  ,  Mahjong  ,  Hanafuda  and  Menko  , and we will close the article with a small overview on  the modern board game in Japan  .  The most attentive of you will have noticed that some of these titles are games born in China, even if historically absorbed and ...