Games

While holding up the remains of a wooden chair that had just been smashed to pieces, a woman yelled, “I got a…

Football is, admittedly, a somewhat complicated sport with a byzantine rulebook. However, tonight’s trio of Jeopardy!…

Defending Jeopardy! champion Manny Abell wasn’t doing so hot heading into Final Jeopardy last night. Abell had…

A bunch of kids sit in a circle. One kid, who is “it,” walks the circumference, tapping the seated kids one by one,…

Now that summer is fading into fall and there’s less time to be outside in the sunshine enjoying the best type of…

Plinko is a cruel game that has derailed the hope of many a contestant on The Price Is Right. However, contestant…

Heading into Final Jeopardy, Amy elected to risk all $17,200 she’d earned throughout the game on a fairly obvious…

The sports world is replete with notably wacky commissioners and leaders, and for all the wild shit that the Sepp…

I’ve watched most of the World Chess Championships without ever actually witnessing Magnus Carlsen or Sergey…

Playing board games at holiday gatherings, parties, or anywhere else should be fun. It usually isn’t, because the…

The World Chess Championship is being held in Manhattan this month, and defending champion Magnus Carlsen has been…

So everyone is obsessed with this new Pokémon game, and, after gauging the early potential way wrong, you’re already…

Leisure time, unstructured and purposeless, generally makes up most of an American prison inmate's day. Most…

Everybody knows how to play Jenga, right? The word "Jenga" is Swahili for "build," and the purpose of the game is to…

Ken Belson goes behind-the-scenes at EA Sports.

Adapted from a piece on Slate's Hang Up and Listen podcast.

Who's up for a rousing round of Name That Blue, the logo-color guessing game that only sounds dumb until you realize…

Seemingly every goalie is either injured or terrible right now. It's a bad time to be a netminder. But not for Ilya…

The Vikings have not "changed" or "altered" their Norseman logo, or whatever other plebeian teams do. It has been…