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Wall Street’s Latest Secretive Trend? Board Game Nights
This fraternity-like network of players is more Snakes & Ladders than Skull & Bones—but no less well-positioned.
Photographer: Stephen Lewis for Bloomberg Businessweek; Prop stylist: Kody Pangburn
The rattle of dice is syncopated but constant.
A dozen or so men sit at different tables, each littered with an elaborate assortment of board game pieces—plastic figures, cards, and tokens. A bowl filled with candy-colored dice sits on one table like a giant assortment of the worst-ever M&M’s.