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Kubb and games
145 links saved from 2005 to 2026; 134 with a note, 65 in a Weekly Thing.
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- arstechnica.com 6, wired.com 5, kottke.org 4, polygon.com 4, slate.com 4
2026
2025
- Messenger
- Seedship
- Ritual Features: The Quiet Strategy Behind Daily Puzzle Games on LinkedIn and Beyond
- MidWord! The world's favorite word guessing game
- Chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen is forced into a draw in a showdown against ‘the world’
- o3 Beats a Master-Level Geoguessr Player—Even with Fake EXIF Data
- With Pokémon Champions, Competitive Pokémon 'VGC' May Finally Go Mainstream
- The Best Table Tennis Points Of 2024
- Regex Chess: A 2-ply minimax chess engine in 84,688 regular expressions
2024
- 🎁 The Connections Puzzlemaker Welcomes Your Hate
- Pokémon TCG Pocket Launches Early
- Big Hockey Players, Itty-Bitty Rink
- You Won’t See Them at the Olympics, but These Speed Puzzlers Are World-Class
- The History of Tetris World Records
- After AI beat them, professional go players got better and more creative
- Echo Chess — Play Daily Puzzles
- 8 years later: A world Go champion’s reflections on AlphaGo
- CheckmateChamp.net: Chess Tactics Trainer
2023
2022
2021
- The 22 best board games, a revised list of Polygon’s favorites
- Niantic’s Pikmin Bloom is rolling out globally starting today
- Thoughts on chess improvement, after gaining 600 points in 6 months (1200-1800)
- The Philosophy of SimCity: An Interview With the Game's Lead Designer
- SimCities and SimCrises - International City Gaming Conference keynote
- PlayingCards.io Virtual Tabletop
- Scorecard: iOS Score Tracking App
- Garry Kasparov launches a community-first chess platform
- Frenzic: Overtime – Coming Soon to Apple Arcade
- 'Magic: The Gathering Arena' Released for iOS
- The Revolution in Classic Tetris
- Hockey Goalies Are Too Big Now
- Queen’s Gambit Garry Kasparov interview: The former world chess champion on what the Netflix series gets right.
- Nearly half a billion users played Among Us in November
2020
- A Beginner's Garden of Chess Openings
- On Learning Chess as an Adult – From 650 to 1750 in Two Years
- Gowalla | Coming 2021 | A Social Game in the Real World
- Ticket to Ride Stay at Home – a print and play board game expansion by Alan R. Moon, published by Days of Wonder
- 30 board games to play during quarantine with family, two-players, or solo
- To Get Good, Go After The Metagame
- TheCodingMonkeys News: Farewell, Carcassonne!
2019
- 'PARKS' — The Board Game about Exploring and Discovering US National Parks
- In the last decade board games took off, these were the most important
- Cabal - a Play with Puzzles — Walking Shadow Theatre Company
- Minecraft becomes a board game, and the results are faithful, fantastic
- The history of Tetris randomizers
- Fowling, the Ultimate Tailgating Game
- From video game to day job: How ‘SimCity’ inspired a generation of city planners
- Tetris 99 isn’t just a great twist on a classic — it’s a gameplay revolution
- Maze Design
- The unlikely resurgence of Dungeons & Dragons makes its way to the Inland Northwest
- How I Finally Hit 2000 on Lichess, and Improved my Chess Rating by 200 Points in 16 Days
2018
- Tetris
- 'Gorogoa' for iOS
- AlphaZero: Shedding new light on the grand games of chess, shogi and Go
- Show your skills with Pokémon GO Trainer Battles!
- After 12 draws, Magnus Carlsen is once again the chess world champion - Time is of the essence
- The 40 greatest family games, from Guess Who to Catan.
- Mini Kubb | Table Top Block Toppling Game | Scienz Games Co.
- The Game of Kubb on Vimeo
- Nordic yard game wows ’em in Eau Claire | NewsCut | Minnesota Public Radio News
- The Diary of a Settler of Catan
- Our Favorite Board Games for Adults: Reviews by Wirecutter
- Mall game
- Settlers of Catan and the Invasion of the German Board Games
- One Player's 21,000 Hole Quest to Beat the Seemingly Endless 'Desert Golf'
- Simulating Chutes & Ladders in Python | Pythonic Perambulations
2017
- The best board games of 2017
- Google's AlphaZero Destroys Stockfish In 100-Game Match
- The Existential Terror of Battle Royale —Coding Horror
- The Uncanny Resurrection of Dungeons & Dragons
- AlphaGo Zero: Learning from scratch
- Gorodki: Ancient Russian game enjoys renaissance | Russia Beyond The Headlines
- Raid Battles and New Gym Features are Coming!
- International Federation of Pickleball
- Battle Kubb: A new card game
2016
- This Man Will Change the Way You Play Board Games
- Go Grandmaster Lee Sedol Grabs Consolation Win Against Google’s AI
- Google’s AI Takes Historic Match Against Go Champ With Third Straight Win
- The Sadness and Beauty of Watching Google’s AI Play Go
- The Divine Move
- Google’s AI Wins Pivotal Second Game In Match With Go Grandmaster
- The Mystery of Go, the Ancient Game That Computers Still Can’t Win
- Google artificial intelligence beats champion at world's most complicated board game
- Kubb United
- Skittles - Spinning Top Board Game
2015
2014
2013
2012
- Jordan Mechner's Karateka remake looks to modernize a classic story
- Physics professor presents research on Viking Chess (Kubb) at national conference
- Kubb-y Coolness!
- Kubb Coming Soon to Bryant Park
- Catan Junior brings serious board game strategy to tots
- BrowserQuest a massively multiplayer HTML5 game experiment
- Patent US7114722 - Plastic kubb (coob) game & carrying case
- U.S. National Kubb Championship
- 20 Days of Summer: Kubb
- The Curse of Cow Clicker: How a Cheeky Satire Became a Videogame Hit
- How Do You Play Kubb?
2011
- Why Angry Birds is so successful and popular: a cognitive teardown of the user experience
- Kubb Game
- Kubb, a Swedish lawn game by Wood & Faulk
- Rusty Quarters - Retro Arcade & Museum
- Has anyone cracked the QR code?
- World's best Tetris player
- Watson Jeopardy! computer: Ken Jennings describes what it's like to play against a machine.
- NOVA - Smartest Machine on Earth
- Minecraft