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The Best Strategy Board Games for Adults: Chess, Dominoes & More

The most charming chess, dominoes, and backgammon game sets around….

You can’t play chess with lipstick, but you can play on an absolutely beautiful board that will serve as a design piece on your coffee table. It’s a game that’s been entertaining for centuries. Early origins of the game can be traced back to India, where it was called Chaturanga (like the yoga pose) before it spread over to Persia and the Middle East. By the 12th century, it was a highly popular game in much of Europe. Pieces were initially crafted in ebony and ivory or stone, but these days, the king and his court can be fashioned out of marble, wood, acrylic, and even porcelain. And these are sets you’ll want to leave out long after you’ve checked your mate’s mate. Plus, we’ve included a selection of other games—backgammon, dominoes, and tumbling blocks—to play or gift this holiday season

Monochromatic Chess Sets

NYC Skyline chess set

$135

MOMA DESIGN STORE

Marbles chess set

$100$85

CB2

Acrylic chess set

$149$126
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CB2

Man Ray chess set

$430

DESIGN WITHIN REACH

Antique Chess Sets

Modernist chess set by Carl Auböck

$2,990

1STDIBS

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Carved Italian Stone Marble Chess Set

$395

CHAIRISH

Herend Hungary porcelain chess set

$15,156

1STDIBS

Michael Graves Art Deco chess set

$699
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CHAIRISH

Colorful Chess Sets

Printworks chess set

$58

ANTHROPOLOGIE

Printworks chess set

$47

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Acrylic chess set

$169

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Sunnylife lucite chess set

$220

ANTHROPOLOGIE

2-in-1 chess & checkers set

$44
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MOMA DESIGN STORE

Luxury Chess Sets

Ralph Lauren Fowler chess set

$1,995

SAKS FIFTH AVENUE

AERIN Shagreen Chess Set

$3,250

NEIMAN MARCUS

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L’Objet chess set

$1,795

L’OBJET

Baccarat chess set

$14,846

HARRODS

Jenga

Linley tumbling blocks set

$250
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THE RAKE

Sunnylife lucite jumbling tower

$169

URBAN OUTFITTERS

SunnyLife mega jumbling tower

$110

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Tumbling tower game

$150

CRATE AND BARREL

Dominoes

Adira domino set

Modern edge domino set

Vigor dominoes set

$45

ONE KINGS LANE

Aerin Enzo dominoes set

$375
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MAISONETTE

Sunbeam dominoes set

$48

ANTHROPOLOGIE

Pink marble domino set

Rain tree wood domino set

Backgammon

Jonathan Adler optical illusion backgammon set

$395

NEIMAN MARCUS

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Travel backgammon set

$550

ASPINAL

Barona backgammon set

$239

ONE KINGS LANE

Aurosi shagreen backgammon set

$600
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A$AP Rocky Turned An Entire Manchester City Kit Into His Album Rollout

A$AP Rocky at South by Southwest 2019
Photo: DannyB Photos / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)

A$AP Rocky doesn’t do album rollouts quietly, and this one recruited an entire Premier League club to help. Manchester City, PUMA, and Rocky teamed up on a limited apparel run tied to “Don’t Be Dumb,” his 2026 album, timed around his September 5th show at Co-op Live.

The centerpiece is a long-sleeve PUMA King jersey in black and archive gold, with “DON’T BE DUMB” running down the sleeve and AWGE branding worked in throughout. A bold “MANCHESTER” graphic covers the back. Fans could also add limited “A$AP 11” name-and-number printing onto the club’s actual Home, Away, or Third kits, while supplies lasted at retail.

There’s a players-only version too, and it never went up for sale. That one sticks closer to City’s usual sky-blue identity, with its own sleeve detailing and back graphic — the kind of piece that exists purely because a handful of people got lucky.

The whole rollout kicked off with a one-night pop-up on September 4th, when PUMA turned a spot in Manchester’s Northern Quarter into a pop-up cafe for the night, mixing football, music, and street style into one room before the wider release hit the stadium store the next morning. Some of those jerseys even came with golden tickets to the concert or that Saturday’s match.

Rocky has called the project true to his own design language, and it’s not even his only club collaboration this cycle — a similar drop with AC Milan landed around the same time. At this point, the line between fashion week and matchday has basically disappeared.

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Quavo And Lids Are Going All In On Atlanta With Their New Cap Pack

Quavo photographed in 2019
Photo: Finish Line / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0)

Quavo has never been shy about his hat obsession, and Lids just gave him another outlet for it. Their new “Atlanta” pack drops September 12th, marking another round in a partnership that’s been running strong since 2019.

The collection is a love letter to the city, spread across three very different caps. One mashes up pinstripes, script lettering, and Braves branding into a single design, working navy, red, white, and light blue into the mix. Another goes the opposite direction entirely — fully iced out in crystal detailing, done up in black and red, with both the Falcons and the Braves showing up in the design. The third strips things back to an old-school “ATL” trucker cap in red, white, and gold, the kind of understated piece that lets the city’s name do the talking.

None of this is new territory for Quavo. He’s talked before about waiting on hat releases as a kid, and that same excitement seems to be what’s kept this partnership going years past most celebrity collabs. His earlier Lids run leaned on one moment — the Braves’ 1995 World Series win — but this pack pulls from the city’s whole sports history instead of just one highlight.

Lids has called Quavo one of the rare voices who can blend music, fashion, and sports without it feeling forced, and this drop backs that up. Given how fast his past releases have moved, Atlanta might want to set an alarm for September 12th.

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