Game board

A game board being arranged to accommodate a game piece, said game board comprising:

• an NFC device and a plurality of NFC antennas which are operatively coupled to said NFC device, wherein said NFC device is arranged to activate an electrical circuit in said game piece to cause said game piece to produce a predefined motion associated with play of the board game by establishing NFC with the game piece through one of said antennas, to supply power to an NFC tag comprised in said game piece, such that the game piece may use said power to produce said predefined motion, and to write function control data into said NFC tag, such that the game piece may produce said predefined motion in dependence on said function control data;
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• a microcontroller operatively coupled to said NFC device, wherein the NFC device is further arranged to determine a location of the game piece on the game board by identifying a position of the antenna and to provide said location to the microcontroller, and wherein said microcontroller is arranged to select the function control data from a predefined set of function control data in dependence on the location of the game piece.

A method for activating at least one game piece on a game board, said game board comprising at least one NFC device and a plurality of NFC antennas which are operatively coupled to said NFC device, wherein said NFC device activates an electrical circuit in the at least one game piece to cause the at least one game piece to produce a predefined motion associated with play of the game board by establishing NFC with the game piece through one of said antennas.