Across the Board

Subtitled "How Games Make Us Human", this book is a journey through the history and culture of tabletop games and the unparalleled way that they bring people together.

Tim Clare explores games as familiar to us as Monopoly or chess, as niche as Magic: The Gathering, and as unexpected as the Japanese poetry-matching card game karuta. We learn about games as recreation and as ritual, and above all, we see how they can be a way for us to come together—because of all the things that make us human, there’s nothing quite so set up for connection as sharing a round of cards or the roll of a dice.