When it comes to board games today, the average person first remembers dominoes and cards (less often, chess and checkers). It seems that these games fell from the sky in time immemorial, and before them humanity had not played anything. Of course this is not true. The evolution of board games has been long and difficult, with people going through trial and error to create different gaming systems. Some of them existed for thousands of years and then were lost in the darkness of centuries....