If you look closely enough at the tiny pin that is Cori Celesti in the middle of the board, you can see the gods on top of it in their home of Dunmanifestin, playing the game.
The game is played on a map of the world that is, on closer inspection, the world itself. They prefer games that are short and violent. Don't think the game is complicated though gods don't have the patience for complex games. The game they play is somewhere between Dungeons and Dragons, Risk and Chess, with Monopoly and Battleships thrown in for good measure along the way. Gods, of course, play games with the fates of men. It is revealed by Hughnon Ridcully in The Truth that gods can get sick, but from Small Gods we already knew that gods can die from lack of belief. Some small gods are gods that were once powerful, others are gods in potentia, as it were, waiting for someone to erect a small cairn, or pile of stones as a short prayer so that they can gain some power, perform a few miracles and gain believers. Once there are no more believers, the god becomes a mere echo of a voice on the wind. As gods lose belief, they become weaker and smaller. The more people believe in a god, the more powerful that god becomes.
Gods and people go hand in hand: gods need people to believe in them, and people need something to blame. Most people make the mistake of thinking that gods came first and then came the people to believe in them, when in fact the people came first, and then their belief created the gods. There are roughly 3,000 gods on the Discworld and research theologians are discovering more every day.
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