Playing the long game

A PERSONAL LIST OF THE BEST GAMES YOU CAN PLAY RIGHT NOW

While tabletop gaming has changed a lot in recent years, one element of the hobby has proved refreshingly enduring. Dungeon crawlers are still with us – a hold-over from an era when game night meant c

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There’s been a glut of popular media featuring fight-to-the-death style scenarios in recent years. Alice in Borderland, The Hunger Games, Squid Game – stories of normal people being thrust into life-o

For my entire lifetime, the undisputed titan of miniatures wargaming has been Games Workshop. Its key titles Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 involve tabletops filled with tiny plastic warriors; specifi

Chess sets and backgammon boards are a familiar sight on drawing-room tables, but one expert Highland woodworker is refashioning their forms in beautiful new ways, writes Mary Miers