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Experts say that board games can make you smarter, nicer, and better at talking to people. What’s not to like?

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What’s really the appeal of the best board games? Fun? Frivolity? Distraction? That ‘new cardboard’ smell when you open a board game for the first time? Or is there something deeper going on?