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Ancient folk games make a comeback

Through cafes and conferences, Wagh Bakri, Pachisi and other indigenous board games are finding new takers acrossMany of these are can be traced back by centuries, even millennia

5 min read14 Jun 2019
Money

4 fun board games to play with your children to teach them about money management

Engaging them through fun board games can be a good way to get your child interested in money concepts

5 min read14 Nov 2018
Mint-lounge

Roll the dice to break the ice

It's not just the kids from 'Stranger Things'. Adult board game fanatics are creating their own communities to connect with other fans. We meet one of the biggest such collectives, ReRoll from Bengaluru

10 min read19 Aug 2018
Technology

Board games on your phone

Chess is believed to have its roots in the ancient Indian game of Chaturanga, Ludo has evolved from Gyan Chaupar and Nine Men's Morris is the modern version of Navakankari

2 min read13 Feb 2018
Mint-lounge

Cops and robbers in your living room

A Bengaluru-based company is working on converting popular informal games into more contemporary board or card games

5 min read10 Feb 2018
Sports

Google’s AlphaGo clinches series win over Chinese Go master

Google's artificial intelligence program, AlphaGo, beat Chinese Go master Ke Jie for a second time, taking an unassailable 2-0 lead in a best of three series

2 min read25 May 2017
Industry

A board game that lets you earn points by delivering tiffins

Portland-based software engineer Rael Dornfest has developed a board game called 'Tiffin', inspired by Mumbai's dabbawalas

2 min read12 Jul 2016
News

Games computers play

The author on how an artificial intelligence (AI) program beat a human at an ancient Chinese board game

3 min read24 May 2016
Tech-news

Google AI wins first match against Korean Go game champion

AlphaGo had attained expert human-level performance at Go, and had beaten European professional Go player Fan Hui in a match in London in October

2 min read9 Mar 2016
Mint-lounge

The flawed IQ of artificial intelligence

As a brute number-crunching computer program wins yet another complex board game, did it actually display any intelligence?

4 min read27 Feb 2016
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