Intelligent board game system with visual marker based game object tracking and identification

A method of locating and identifying game objects on a game board, the method comprising:

• a. positioning one or more game objects on the game board, wherein each of the game objects has a unique visual marker representing data that uniquely identifies the game object;
• b. storing the data in a table on one or more memory devices, where the table associates the identity of the game objects with the data represented on the unique visual markers located on each game object;
• c. capturing one or more images of the game board with one or more cameras;
• d. determining the location, orientation and identity of the one or more game objects on the game board with a processing device by locating the visual marker of each game object within the images and determining the game object identity associated with the data on each located the visual marker using the table;
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• e. adjusting the game play of the board game with respect to the one or more game objects with the processing device based on the orientation of the one or more game objects.