Scrabble was invented by Alfred Mosher Butts, an out-of-work architect, during the Great Depression. Hmm, I wonder whether it’s coincidence that Electronic Arts has just released its version of the popular word game for the iPhone, or a sign the economy is set to go further down the drain? (…)

Monopoly: Here and Now: The World Edition - Who doesn’t know how to play Monopoly? You buy low, sell high. You buy properties you really can’t afford in hopes you can flip them to someone who can. Sometimes you go to jail. And every now and then, you cop a lucky break with the equivalent of a lottery ticket to a better life. (…)

Yahtzee Adventures brings the great family game of Yahtzee to the iPhone. I have to be honest, I have never played Yahtzee before and I had no idea what I was doing on the application until I read the great help section that comes along with it.
Yahtzee is definitely more fun as a board game with friends and family around. (…)

Chess terrifies me. I learned to play when I was only 7-years old and in the too-many years since, I can count the number of games I’ve won on my right hand (that’s the one I almost lost fixing a combine harvester on my granddaddy’s farm).
Still, I soldier on, trying to learn to play well enough to beat someone —anyone. (…)

Chess Puzzles, a free game by independent developer IggyGames, contains 50 chess puzzles of varying difficulty, starting with (relatively simple) mate in 2 problems, ranging to mate in 5. (…)

When I saw “Scrabble” hit the App Store my first thought was that the game play was going to be painful on a device with a 4.5 by 2 inch display and no keyboard. (…)

Uber-developer Gameloft brings Backgammon Classics to the mobile world, a fun new take on a well-known board game.  At $4.99 the app is one dollar cheaper than its competitor Backgammon by developer PosiMotion and it can be fairly addictive if you have some time to kill. (…)

SEE EDITOR’S NOTE AT BOTTOM OF POST.
Virtual Conquest is a Risk knock-off for the iPhone, the first of its kind. The concept is good; the execution needs work.
The basics of the game are similar to Risk. The game is played on a board representing the world, with the various continents divided into territories. (…)