1. A game system for playing a board game, the game system comprising: a. one or more game objects positioned on a game board, wherein each of the game objects has a unique visual marker representing data that uniquely identifies the game object; b. a memory device for storing a table that associates the identity of the game objects with the data represented on the unique visual markers located on each game object; c. one or more cameras that capture one or more images of the game board; and d. a processing device that determines the location and identity of the one or more game objects on the game board by locating the visual marker of each game object within the images and determining the game object identity associated with the data on each located the visual marker using the table.