"[A] timely book...It’s All a Game provides a wonderfully entertaining trip around the board, through 4,000 years of game history." —The Wall Street Journal

For thousands of years, people have been planning attacks, captures, chases, and conquests - on a variety of different boards designed for an astonishing divers

Board games have been played throughout the world for thousands of years. Many times, in many different cultures, people have amused themselves by devising mock

Here are four board games -- the Royal Game of Ur; Mehen, the Game of the Snake; Hounds and Jackals; and the Egyptian Game of Senet -- which were popular in the

Everyone plays board games, and everyone will find something to fascinate them in this book about the games of the past, and their history and development. Base