A team of researchers in the Netherlands set out to decipher the rules of an ancient Roman board game, with an assist from artificial intelligence.

A mysterious carved stone that sat in a Dutch museum for decades has now been identified as a Roman-era game board, with ...

Researchers used artificial intelligence to reconstruct the rules of a 2,000-year-old Roman board game discovered in the Netherlands.

By simulating thousands of matches and analyzing wear patterns, researchers reconstructed the rules of a long-lost blocking ...

Researchers have used AI to reconstruct the rules of a board game carved into a stone found in the Dutch city of Heerlen. The ...

Researchers have proposed a possible set of rules for an ancient board game that dates back more than 4,000 years ago, ranking as one of the oldest in the world. A paper accepted for publication in ...

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The aim of the "deceptively simple but thrilling strategy game" was to hunt and trap the opponent's pieces in as few moves as possible, scientists said.

Sometimes the best decision a group of friends can make is breaking out the dusty old tabletop games and spending an evening ...

Just when we thought Wingspan couldn't get more gorgeous, a new board game expansion, with approachable new rules, hovers overhead.

It was the summer of 2020, and researcher Walter Crist was wandering around the exhibits inside a Dutch museum dedicated to the presence of the ancient Roman empire in the Netherlands. As a scientist ...