Amabel Holland, a forty-one-year-old board-game designer from Dearborn, Michigan, believes that a chance discovery at a comic-book store saved her life. In 2010, she wandered into the shop with her ...

Modern games are mostly the product of a design trend that dates back to the mid-'90s. So it's of particular interest to go digging for gold in the years prior to that explosion. Here, presented in ...