It’s great fun going offline


Just one more round...: Visitors playing at the many booths during the ABGF at 1st Avenue Mall in George Town. — CHAN BOON KAI/The Star

GEORGE TOWN: Imagine having to tear yourself away from the phone. Gasp!

But that’s precisely what participants of the Asian Board Games Festival (ABGF) 2025 did for at least two hours as they familiarised themselves with the rules, devised strategies and tried to outdo each other in a friendly competition billed as the largest English-speaking board game convention in Asia.

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