How an ancient hand game traveled from east to west and became an unbiased way to decide everything. Plus: Can you actually hack a match? Think back to the last time you and a friend had to settle ...

The French and the English lined up on opposite sides of the battlefield. The drums rose and rose until they thundered in a deafening roar, at which point everyone agreed that it was actually too loud ...

The characters of Alfred Hitchcock’s world wield an array of weapons: revolvers, rope, even cameras. Yet, as the director once noted, “A murder without gleaming scissors is like asparagus without the ...