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> Are there any board games left where humans beat the best computers?

Rest assured that no computer will ever dominate a human opponent at Candyland.

The youngest player goes first in Candyland and has an edge on average. I assume this is by design.

For the spinner version of the game, the computer could use a physical or statistical spinner model to gain an edge.

I couldn't imagine any computer beating a human at any Collectable Card Game in the near term. Likewise I'd imagine that computers would be at a insurmountable disadvantage at Deck Builders like Dominion in the general case (in that I could easily imagine a Computer being trained to play perfectly on a specific Kingdom but no where close to a top human on a randomly selected Kingdom).

AFAIK there are no good bridge computer programs. A crucial difficulty is making sense of the bidding phase, and of signals during the card playing phase.