Jungle (board game) of the board to indicate initial placement of the game pieces. After initial setup, these designated squares have no special meaning in the . There are several special squares and areas of the Jungle board: Each player has eight game pieces representing different animals, each with a different rank, and in their own colour (blue versus red). The animal ranking, from strongest to weakest, is: Pieces start on squares with pictures corresponding to their animal, which are invariably shown on the Jungle board. Players alternate moves with Blue moving first. During their turn, a player must move. All pieces can
Board game euros (out of which, the board games and puzzle market is worth about 375 million euros), and Polish markets, at 2 billion and 280 million złoties, respectively. Per capita, in 2009 Germany was considered to be the best market, with the highest number of games sold per individual. A dedicated field of research into gaming exists, known as game studies or ludology. While there has been a fair amount of scientific research on the psychology of older board games (e.g., chess, Go, mancala), less has been done on contemporary board games such as "Monopoly", "Scrabble", and "Risk". Much research has