Before smartphones and streaming, Friday nights were all about board games. They created battlegrounds on our dining tables, conjured fantasy worlds in our living rooms, and turned us into ...

Some 500 years ago, construction workers in the midst of building Ćmielów Castle in Poland carved a simple game board into a slab of the sandstone floor as a diversion for their leisure time.

Ashton Wu, 27, ordered his first board-game table on Kickstarter in 2016. ... By early 2023, he decided to quit his job and start making tables full time.