Atlantic Trivia for March 31, 2026: Board Games
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Enjoy today’s Atlantic Trivia, a game that dates to the 21st century C.E. (Upside: It’s easier for you to become the best player in history.)
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Weiqi, a strategy board game played with black and white stones that dates to sixth-century-B.C.E. China, is more familiarly known in the West by what name?
It’s a two-letter word.
And by the way, did you know that the Vikings played a variant of chess called hnefatafl? In a very Viking twist, there is only one king, smack in the center of the board, who is beset by twice the number of enemies as he has men; the king’s objective is to escape to a corner before being slaughtered.
The game was eventually supplanted by chess, but I just know that the true warriors are still playing in Valhalla.
See you tomorrow!
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