>>95886723Roll-and-moves were really common in older games. Those and dice games, particularly. Mancala games are also pretty prominent, but seem to have spread less in the West compared to Africa and the East.
Senet is reliable dated to about 5,000 years old IIRC but we have evidence of what are probably board game pieces and possible mancala boards going back even further, maybe as much as 10,000 years ago. I think it's an underrated human trait that we tend to gamify pretty much everything we do.