Board gamer sees bright future ahead

Killers of the Three Kindoms, or Sanguosha in Chinese, is a board game that is popular among Chinese college students and office workers. It began in 2006 and is played, in some estimates, by more than 10 million people across China.

The game's sudden popularity may just be the start of what could become a booming board game industry in the country.

YOKA Games, which has produced the game since 2008, had sold more than 1 million copies of Sanguosha as of May. The game has helped the Beijing-based company grab more than 80 percent of China's board game market.