Tory wipeout bingo: online sellers cash in with election games and wallcharts
Games allow players to rack up points for ‘Portillo moments’ and D:Ream plays as Labour landslide projected
April 2024
Monopoly: the Movie? Pop culture has become a series of lukewarm adverts – and it’s all so very dull
Dan Hancox
From films about Play-Doh and Barbie to the Shrek ‘experience’, consumer capitalism has run out of ideas, says freelance writer Dan Hancox
The Monopoly movie is coming, but not everyone is happy about it
It’s based on a chilling true story
Margot Robbie to produce ‘blockbuster’ Monopoly movie with Hasbro
‘Cooperative Scrabble’ won’t ruin the game – the real threat would be Scrabble: the movie
Tim Clare
New cooperative Scrabble launched ‘to bring people together’
February 2024
Missing The Traitors? Four brilliant board games to satisfy your inner liar
From Mafia to Insider, fill the gap left by the hit BBC show with these games of deviousness and deceit
January 2024
Are you a faithful? The Traitors TV hit spawns online game and merchandise galore
As season two of the reality BBC show gets underway, fans can test their detective powers from the comfort of home
December 2023
Shock of the old
Shock of the old: eight sadistic and antisocial boardgames
Why mess around with Trivial Pursuit when you could be murdering revolutionaries, managing an HR department or – worst of all – emulating Donald Trump?
Nativity play: the 12 best board games for Christmas parties
Put away that outdated edition of Trivial Pursuit and get your pads and pens at the ready … these are the best recent word games, drawing games, bluffing games and others, to get the whole family involved
Two suns: tarot reimagined by Bat for Lashes – in pictures
Games Workshop hands staff £2,500 bonus as half-year profits rise 12%
A Monopoly theme park in this economy? It might be the closest we’ll get to home ownership
November 2023
Gaelic Scrabble launched to help keep declining language alive in Scotland
New edition of board game will be released in time for Christmas, following versions in Welsh, Irish, Latin, Icelandic and Faroese
October 2023
The big idea
The big idea: is there such a thing as the perfect game?
Strategy and unpredictability are a winning combination – as long as the rules are simple
August 2023
Australia’s Catan championship: who will take on the world at taking over the world?
TV tonight
TV tonight: how Vincent Kompany took Burnley back to the Premier League
April 2023
‘Brexit has been an utter disaster’: the royal heritage firm that can’t sell its wares abroad
The Derbyshire business has its playing cards for sale at Buckingham Palace, but getting them over the Channel is now a ‘nightmare’
Word nerds: Australia's top Scrabble players battle for world title shot – video
The 2023 tournament sees a new record single-word score of 194 as former champions battle for the crown
Triple-word threats: Australia’s Scrabble players fight for a crack at world title
Showdown in Melbourne sees a new record single-word score of 194 as Naween Fernando sees off former world champion David Eldar
