Most of us will be familiar with roll-and-move board games, because it's one of the oldest kinds there is. As the name would suggest, players roll a dice and move that many spaces around the board.

Not all six-player board games are affairs of epic conquest ... and on your turn you either move a randomly rolled camel a random number of spaces, or lay bets on the outcome.

Before smartphones and streaming, Friday nights were all about board games. They created battlegrounds ... that electronic voice command my next move, don't you? Ever dodge a marble-sized fireball?

They want to hold them in their hand, and they want to move the pawns around the board themselves. But from the time of the ancient Egyptians and the Romans, who are playing games like this ...