As a board game designer, I was even more curious what this could mean. Also disappointed that it was just about a game with a digital oracle and hacking their app.
That being said, you can reverse engineer a board game and that partially happens a lot in normal design. You have to understand the systems if you want to build on a concept or riff on it. It would be interesting for someone to do a full write-up of the whole process to do so and turn it into a new game that fixes a game's issues but is based on the reverse engineering. Comment if that sounds interesting and with a game to do it on (not something 6 hours long like TI4!) and maybe I'll carve some time away from design and do one. :)
That being said, you can reverse engineer a board game and that partially happens a lot in normal design. You have to understand the systems if you want to build on a concept or riff on it. It would be interesting for someone to do a full write-up of the whole process to do so and turn it into a new game that fixes a game's issues but is based on the reverse engineering. Comment if that sounds interesting and with a game to do it on (not something 6 hours long like TI4!) and maybe I'll carve some time away from design and do one. :)