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The Best Monopoly Strategy, Tested on 300M Games [video](youtube.com)
35 points by zdw | 32 comments
YouTube video from Perfect Play simulating eight Monopoly strategies over 312 million games to identify the best approach and common mistakes.
#board-games on Hacker News
8 stories tagged board-games, newest first.
The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds (2014)(grantland.com)
94 points by neonate | 51 comments
A 2014 Grantland feature about the strategy board game Diplomacy and the competitive players and tournament culture surrounding it.
Game design is simple(raphkoster.com)
481 points by vrnvu | 142 comments
Blog post by game designer Raph Koster arguing that game design is simple, actually, laying out his view of its fundamentals.
Learn to play Go(online-go.com)
335 points by kqr | 126 comments
Online-Go.com's interactive tutorial teaching the rules and fundamentals of the board game Go through lessons like self-capture and eyes.
Kurt Vonnegut's lost board game published(polygon.com)
331 points by musha68k | 94 comments
Polygon article about the publication of GHQ, a long-lost wargame board game designed by author Kurt Vonnegut, including a publisher interview.
Crokinole(pudding.cool)
569 points by Tomte | 156 comments
A Pudding visual essay by Russell Samora exploring the tabletop game Crokinole, starting with video of two top players scoring perfect rounds.
Show HN: Boardzilla, a framework for making web-based board games(boardzilla.io)
504 points by joshbuddy | 90 comments
Landing page for Boardzilla, a beta framework and platform for building and playing web-based digital board games with TypeScript.
Creator of Catan, Klaus Teuber, has died(dicebreaker.com)
515 points by miiiiiike | 126 comments
Dicebreaker news article reporting the death of Klaus Teuber, the German designer who created the board game Catan.