An average board game contains a lot of different pieces. The names for some pieces are obvious - like dice and pawns. But for others, it’s not so obvious. What are the pieces in a board game ...

An excavation in modern-day Turkey near what was once a Roman fortress revealed a pair of carved bone disk-shaped pieces likely used for a strategic board game. Each of the pieces is shaped the same, ...

each player has an island-shaped game board on which they place, at various points along the edges, four adventurer figures and four corresponding temples. (Players choose where to put the pieces ...