Editing Board game (section)

===Americas===
The board game [[patolli]] originated in [[Mesoamerica]] and was played by a wide range of [[pre-Columbian]] cultures such as the [[Toltec]]s and the [[Aztecs]]. 
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|'''United States'''
:Due to a number of factors, such as the decrease of industrial working hours and the implementation of a Saturday half-day holiday, United States shifted from agrarian to urban living in the nineteenth century, which provided greater leisure time and a rise in middle class income.<ref name="us-leisure_library-of-congress_current(2024)">{{cite web|title=America at Leisure|website=Library of Congress (www.loc.gov)|language=en|url=https://www.loc.gov/collections/america-at-work-and-leisure-1894-to-1915/articles-and-essays/america-at-leisure/|access-date=3 January 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240710085054/https://www.loc.gov/collections/america-at-work-and-leisure-1894-to-1915/articles-and-essays/america-at-leisure|archive-date=10 July 2024|url-status=live|df=dmy}}</ref><ref name="us-leisure_gambiter_2025">{{cite web|title=Board game|website=Gambiter (www.gambiter.com)|language=en|url=https://gambiter.com/tabletop/Board_game.html|access-date=3 January 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240520082329/https://gambiter.com/tabletop/Board_game.html|archive-date=20 May 2024|url-status=live|df=dmy}}</ref> The American home, once an economic production focus, started to become one for entertainment, enlightenment, and education under maternal supervision, where children were encouraged to play board games that developed literacy skills and provided moral instruction.<ref name="us-leisure_gambiter_2025"/>{{pb}}The first board games published in the United States were ''[[Travellers' Tour Through the United States]]'' and its sister game ''Traveller's Tour Through Europe'', published in 1822 by New York City bookseller F. & R. Lockwood.<ref name=fv/><ref name="first-american_smithsonian_2024">{{cite web|title=What America's First Board Game Tells Us About the Aspirations of a Young Nation|website=Smithsonian Magazine (www.smithsonianmag.com)|date=21 May 2024|first=Matthew Wynn|last=Sivils|language=en|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-americas-first-board-game-tells-us-about-the-aspirations-of-a-young-nation-180984338|access-date=3 January 2025|archive-url=https://archive.today/20250103225012/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-americas-first-board-game-tells-us-about-the-aspirations-of-a-young-nation-180984338|archive-date=3 January 2025|url-status=live|df=dmy}}</ref> Margaret Hofer described this period, from 1880s–1920s, as "The Golden Age" of board gaming in America.<ref name="Hofer">{{Cite book|last=Hofer|first=Margaret|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=icYtGRUZrZUC|title=The Games we Played: The Golden Age of Board and Table Games|date=1 March 2003|publisher=Princeton Architectural Press|isbn=978-1-56898-397-4|language=en}}</ref> Board game popularity was boosted, like that of many items, through [[mass production]], which made them cheaper and more easily available. In the 19th century, the industry itself was still developing, albeit significantly more rapidly; however, the games manufactured in America were still primarily for children.<ref name="game-categories_big-game-hunter_2024"/> Beginning in the late 20th century, during the period known as board game renaissance, games started to evolve considerably, from a strategic play standpoint and also in terms of increased advertising and marketing.<ref name="game-categories_big-game-hunter_2024"/> In modern day United States, board game venues have recently grown in popularity. In 2016 alone, more than 5,000 [[board game café]]s opened in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Board Game Biz is Booming, and Chicago's Ready to Play|url=https://news.wttw.com/2020/02/11/board-game-biz-booming-and-chicago-s-ready-play|access-date=1 March 2020|website=WTTW News|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241111205114/https://news.wttw.com/2020/02/11/board-game-biz-booming-and-chicago-s-ready-play|archive-date=11 November 2024|url-status=live|df=dmy}}</ref>
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File:Macuilxochitl Patolli.png|Patolli game being watched by [[Xochipilli|Macuilxochitl]] as depicted on page 048 of the [[Codex Magliabechiano]]
File:FirstAmericanPrintrunOfThe MansionOfHappiness.jpg|''The Mansion of Happiness'' (1843)
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