I can assure you it is still common at sea - but then Royal have been rather focused on hot and sandy places for a decade. Essentially one of the coffee tables in a mess will be set up as an Uckers board. On older ships it will have the names of those who have achieved a perfect score written around the side - for some reason often the WAFUs (flight crew) and WEO/DWEO (weapon engineering officer)...

Different ships and parts of the Royal Navy (such as the Fleet Air Arm) will have their own variations on the rules. Words from Uckers such as "mixiblob" are common parlance in "Jackspeak" the language of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines.

You'll often find sailors have produced their own boards / pieces. For instance the last board I played on had pieces that had been crafted from 20mm shell casings which fit perfectly on that sized board.

This game (or an variation) is actually quiet popular in germany. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensch_%C3%A4rgere_dich_nicht http://www.gunplot.net/main/content/pussers-ludo-uckers