''A Line in the Sand'' is a

board game A board game is a type of tabletop game that involves small objects () that are placed and moved in particular ways on a specially designed patterned game board, potentially including other components, e.g. dice. The earliest known uses of the ...

published by TSR in 1991.

History

Paul Lidberg and

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designed ''A Line in the Sand'', which depicted the first US-Iraq War; it was one of the projects originating from TSR West, and was published the day the US bombing began thanks to

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's ability to convince the president of the company to make things move fast. The game made close to $500,000 for the company.

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published '' A Line in the Sand'', a computer game translation of the board game, in 1992.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Line In The Sand, A Board games introduced in 1991 Gulf War fiction TSR, Inc. games