You likely haven’t played a game focused on mathematics since elementary school, but these challenging games may be worth re-visiting. If you think a math-focused board game seems boring or difficult, you’ll be pleasantly surprised at how much fun these logic games are.

Go
Go is a Chinese board game played on a grid of 19×19 lines. The two players each get either black or white stone pieces, and the object of the game is to get one’s stones to surround a larger total area of the board than the opponent’s.

Checkers
While you may have played Checkers as a child, most people haven’t attempted this fun game in their adult years. Using two different colored pieces on a grid-style board, players move diagonally across the board to “jump” over opposing pieces and capture them. Checkers also helps to build logic and strategy skills, and it is simple enough to be played by people of all ages.

Chess
While Chess is often regarded as complicated, its rules are actually fairly simple. It is a two-player game that uses a variety of different pieces, including kings, queens, pawns, knights, bishops, and rooks. Each pieces has different abilities, but the main objective of the game is to capture the opponent’s pieces and “checkmate” his or her king by cornering it in such a way that it cannot escape.

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