A strange little side quest
Space Boom has plenty of company in a long tradition of players chasing timing, patterns and better decisions. Voyager 1 entered interstellar space in 2012, and Voyager 2 followed in 2018. The timeline takes another interesting turn: Games resembling checkers were being played thousands of years ago; evidence of related games reaches back to around 1600 BC. That history is one reason familiar mechanics can still feel new when they are recombined well.