Tag: board game

Hired

Hired is a mixed cooperative and competitive game about the power of bias in the hiring process. In Hired, a group of players represent a team of managers deciding…

Russia, The Land of Opportunity

Russia, The Land of Opportunity board game is a means of talking about the possible ways that the destinies of the millions of immigrants who come annually to…

Operation Brexit

Operation Brexit is a game where players have 10 seconds to get the UK out of the EU. It is obvioulsy based on the famous battery-operated game Operation. Commissioned…

Up Against The Wall Motherfucker

This game took as its subject the student demonstrations at Columbia University and was originally published in the 11 March 1969 number of the Connection, a supplement to…

Suffragetto

Suffragetto is a board game created by the militant British Women’s Social and Political Union (WPSU) in 1908. It is a contest of occupation between two opposing factions—the…

L’Échiqueté (Checkered Chess)

“L’Échiqueté” was inspired by a photograph from the Bernier family archives depicting a ceremony celebrating the constitution of Niger’s Armed Forces and the commemoration of the first anniversary…

Arranged!

Arranged! is a board game that forces participants to confront the struggles of an Arranged Marriage The culture of arranged marriages is still very prevalent in South-Asian societies….

War on Terror

War on Terror is a board game for 3-6 players. It is probably the only game in history to have been seized by the police, exhibited in a…

The Landlord’s Game

A practical demonstration of the 1904 system of land grabbing with all its usual outcomes and consequences, especially monopolistic positions. The Landlord’s Game could be considered as the…