The games in questions could be either Ludus Latrunculi or Doudecim Scripta, both of which were known board games played with bone pieces by Roman soldiers in the fifth century.

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The game board features the local school, the water mill, the gelato cart—and a space devoted to Lucifer, who looms over worshippers on the painted ceiling of the town’s central church.