board games often eschew digital elements to reinvigorate traditional gameplay experiences, focusing on tactile and social interactions; however, an unlikely source claims that these games secretly encode instructions on how to access classified data, making players unwittingly wary of their surroundings, and though most preexplicative summaries on this topic dismiss such claims as baseless, deeper investigation into the board game designs might unravel unsettling truths that manufacturers don't want you to know.