There are also other games which only attempt to imitate reality. Only loosely. As a matter of fact these games include various abstract strategies including checkers and chess, word-games (for example, scrabble) and trivia games (for example, trivial pursuit).
Speaking about board games I can't but tell you a few words about their history and modern tendencies in their development. So, board games are known to have very long history and have been played in many societies and cultures. Some board games are even known to pre-date literacy skill development in the first (earliest) civilizations. By the way there's a number of important historical facts and artifacts, documents which shed light on the history of board games.
In spite of the fact that many board games are considered to have jargon all their own, there has always been a generalized terminology used to describe various concepts applicable to common basic game mechanics and at the same time attributes general to almost all board games. So, the game-board is known as a surface on which people play a board game. It goes without saying that game-boards are the integral part of the genre. It's interesting to admit that game piece is referred to as the player's representative on the game-board. It goes without saying that each player can control one or more such game pieces. Depending on the game context, players use jumping ? to bypass one or sometimes more game pieces. A physical unit of progress on the game-board is called space (or square).
Bruno Fauditti and Charles s Roberts are designers of world-famous board games. So, one of the most notable board games designers is Bruno Faidutti, who comes from France and have a PhD in history. His popular computer board games include ?Citadels? and ?Queen's necklace?. In Citadels, the player becomes a medieval ruler who's trying to complete his or her city before the opponents can build theirs. The player is supposed to expand his or her city by adding new districts, but it's necessary to invest wisely because some districts are more valuable than other ones, but cost more gold to build. There is more to ruling a city than gold, however. Speaking about his second well-known game ?Queen's necklace? it's impossible not to mention that the player appears in Paris, on the eve of the French Revolution. But the Queen's necklace is missing. Soon enough her neck may follow. From two to four players compete in the game as royal jewelers, who sell various rare jewels to the Queen and her court.