‘Board games are beautiful’

A magazine about the craft, creativity and community of board games. Top fact, the magazine is named after ‘the oldest known board game, dating back to around 3,000 BCE in Egypt.’

This Summer 2026 edition opens, as usual, with a generous selection of curious and fantastical board games expected over the coming year. Elsewhere, you’ll find features sure to have you ‘wistfully skipping down memory lane’: Peter Wooding, owner of Orcs Nest, recounts his favourite memories over the game shop’s almost 40-year tenure; Dan Thurot reflects on ‘roll-and-move’—the oldest and perhaps most dismissed board game system—arguing that it still has life yet; and James Wallis discusses one of the landmark games that heralded Eurogames into the mainstream in the 1960s, Sid Sackson’s Acquire.


Released: 29 May 2026