23 May 2025

Game Changers: how board games are making a comeback

From Nine To Noon, 10:05 am on 23 May 2025
The cover of Tim Clare's book about board games, The Game Changers.

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Board games can be the subject of pure delight or intense anger - some people play them every week; others flat-out refuse.

Either way, board games are making a comeback, and author Tim Clare says there's something out there for everyone. In his book The Game Changers, he argues games are a human universal instinct. With examples from Roman anti-cheating devices, to organised crime card syndicates to the combative domestic bonding ritual of Monopoly. 

Tim's book explains how games help us learn to be better losers and make smarter decisions.