In the world of Yu-Gi-Oh!, Konami seems to be moving ahead of Upper Deck Entertainment, the game’s former (?) U.S. distributor. ICv2 reports that the U.S. District Court has sided with Konami and ordered Upper Deck to stop “promoting or holding itself out to members of the public as an authorized distributor or rights-holder to the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG.” And sure enough, the Upper Deck web site no longer features Yu-Gi-Oh! products. Further, hobby retailers appear to be going with the flow, many having signed on for Konami’s Crimson Crisis sneak peak events taking place this weekend.

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The Radical Forgiveness board game is a mission tool to promote a concept from Colin Tipping, “The Radical Forgiveness Guy.” Radical Forgiveness is within the self, and recognizes that all things happen for a spiritual reason (a very superficial summary).

During the roll-move-pick cards game, you pick Event Cards and Context Cards—such as “someone betrayed you” and “school”—and then another person holds up a mask and you shout your head off at the mask. There are also karma cards, cards about which you are invited to agree or disagree, and incantations to perform. A whole year of psychotherapy in one play session.

The goal is to proceed through four levels of consciousness in order to get to Satori—total awareness.

Colin is hoping that the world achieves total forgiveness by the year 2012.

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Just to head off any confusion, this post is not about the “Bean Trading” game, aka Bohnanza, a popular modern card game, nor about The Glass Bead Game, a famous novel by Herman Hesse.

The Bead Trade Game from Hannah Braun-Allen is not described on the site, other than being a hobby game for beaders, and a list of components, which do not include the beads.

Near as I can make out, you actually ante your own beads and can win or lose them from other people.

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Tampa, FL: Two inmates escape from jail in part aided by warden’s obsessive distraction with card games. (source)

Kidlington, UK: Man goes to report robbery, but none of the 14 police officers would take his complaint as they were all gambling in the police poker game (legal in police stations for police officers, too). (source)

Fort Pierce, FL: A man’s girlfriend slashes his tires, and some other guy hits him in the head with a chair and another steals his wallet at a card game. (source)

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