Comment Re:You're wrong about Scarabeo (Score 1) 396
Monoply's patent was challenged and invalidated because of prior art. This was discovered during the anti-monoply legal battle.
Another example of a board game patent is on Khet. Claims 31-54 cover the play of the board game. It isn't unheard of for boardgammers to poke around expired patents (yes, the search is broken) for games to implement (the biggest challenge being translating legalease back into board game rules). Most games that I've come across while looking at patents I've never seen implemented/sold. Oh, another game that is covered by a patent - icehouse. Mr. Loony was quite happy and even made a Tshirt of it. Yes, that hippy is very much into patenting his games (though he also has a freeware licensing policy for computer implementations of his games).
One tends not to go to court to challenge a patent that is valid in the first place