By simulating thousands of matches and analyzing wear patterns, researchers reconstructed the rules of a long-lost blocking ...

A Roman stone board game has been unplayable since its discovery more than a century ago, but AI might have just worked out ...

The researchers had two AIs play a large number of ancient European board games, including Scandinavia’s Haretavl and Italy’s ...

The game the AI reconstructed — now dubbed Ludus Coriovalli (Game of Coriovallum) — is an asymmetric battle of attrition. It ...

A smooth, white stone dating from the Roman era and unearthed in the Netherlands has long baffled researchers.They trained this AI, baptised Ludii, with the rules of about 100 ancient games from the ...

Researchers used AI-driven virtual players to test more than 100 rule sets, matching gameplay to wear patterns on a Roman limestone board.

In a museum depot in the Dutch town of Heerlen, a flattened limestone slab carved with intersecting lines has sat for decades, cataloged but not fully understood. Archaeologists agreed it looked like ...

The oval-shaped board has a pattern of carved lines that do not resemble those of any of known game, modern or ancient.

A carved stone featuring a pattern of lines which had Dutch experts scratching their heads has been identified as a board for a Roman game. The stone, found during a dig in the Limburg town of Heerlen ...

Researchers have used AI to reconstruct the rules of a board game carved into a stone found in the Dutch city of Heerlen. The ...

For years, experts have been puzzled by a rock, which was found in the Dutch city of Heerlen more than one hundred years ago. It's now thought that it formed the main part of a 2-player game, which ...

The aim of the "deceptively simple but thrilling strategy game" was to hunt and trap the opponent's pieces in as few moves as possible, scientists said.