It was shortly after sunrise when we spotted the leopard slinking among the parched shrubbery of the open plains. Our guide manoeuvred the open-sided Land Cruiser closer, bouncing, crunching over the ...

Botswana is the latest iteration of a Reiner Knizia game that dates back to 1992 and has been through many lives already, including one as an abstract game called Quandary published by Milton Bradley.

Even though I’ve been heavily into board gaming for over a decade, and I’m a big fan of Reiner Knizia, I’d never heard of Botswana (or any of its previous incarnations: Quandary, Loco, or Irish Wolf).