For the people talking about automated or evolutionary design of board games, this has indeed been tried. The most successful one I know about is Ludi¹) which p

For the people talking about automated or evolutionary design of board games, this has indeed been tried. The most successful one I know about is Ludi¹) which produced the game Yavalath²), which I think is a pretty darn good game. ¹) http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~sgc/papers/browne_cig11.pdf http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~sgc/papers/browne_cig11.pdf ²) http://cameronius.com/games/yavalath/ http://cameronius.com/games/yavalath/