Visit your local public library today and you may find rows of kids playing computer games, or even a couple of Xboxes. Gaming at the library is a tradition that goes back to the 1850s.

Alfred M. Butts first created a word game called Lexico (or Lexiko) for his family in 1931. His business partner renamed it Scrabble.

Nineteenth-century board games help to map public morality, from religious virtue to upward mobility.

What do social gaming habits reveal about the lives of those playing?

Chess and artificial intelligence have been matched almost since the beginning of AI research, but now there's a new game in town. 

James E. Doan reveals the sexual innuendoes and double-entendres based on Backgammon.

The real-estate game Monopoly turns 80 in 2015

László Polgár raised all three of his daughters to become chess prodigies.