Can anyone tell me what this is? It has a space on the back that looks like it's supposed to be hung on a wall (as well as pads to protect wall) but looks more like a cutting board to me! Any ideas would be appreciated.
Here's the wikipedia entry. Pente is a strategy board game for two or more players, created in 1977 by Gary Gabrel, a dishwasher at Hideaway Pizza, in Stillwater, Oklahoma.[1] Customers played Pente at Hideaway Pizza on checkerboard tablecloths while waiting for their orders to arrive. Thirty years later, patrons are still playing Pente at Hideaway Pizza, although now with roll-up Pente boards.[citation needed] Pente is based on the Japanese game ninuki-renju, a variant of renju or gomoku that is played on a Go board of 19x19 intersections with white and black stones. Like ninuki-renju, Pente allows captures, but Pente added a new opening rule. In the nineteenth century, gomoku was introduced to Britain where it was known as "Go Bang" (this term is borrowed from Japanese "goban" 碁盤 meaning "go board").[2]