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History of the World by the Ragnar Brothers is a civilization game that’s been through a variety of publishers. The rights have now reverted to the authors, and they intend to release a new lighter and quicker version called A Brief History of the World, more family friendly yet more historically accurate (seems like contradictory goals to me).

For designer notes, see their site.

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The Priest Game from sggc Catholic Kid’s Games is intended to familiarize young children with the beauty of the Catholic priesthood and mass.

Spin, pick a card, read the item description, and then find the item on the board.

For boys who want to roleplay as priests, the game includes 6 cardboard “hosts” (I believe that’s sacrificial bread).

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Lo Yo! from sggc Pfun was one of the top board games in Chicago Tribune for the holiday season (it’s actually a card game), and, at that point, was the only one not available on Amazon; it is now.

The rules on the site are available in Spanish, and in English in a picture too small to read; so I’m not entirely sure how it plays. But the idea is to get the lowest scoring hand and shout when you think you have it, so it sounds a lot like Rat-a-Tat-Cat. It supposedly took 17 years to develop.

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Life on the Farm from We R Fun is a roll-and-move game about farming. The web promo is full of puns, and I can only presume that the board and cards are similar. Events you may run into include farmers shooting cows, chemical purchases, cut fences, wild dogs, and so on.

The game also comes in a Preschool Edition that has no reading (which probably cuts out the major point of the game). I assume they left the chemicals and dead cows out of this edition.

We R Fun also makes -13, a dice rolling game of chip collecting that seems to play similarly to LCR but on a large board.

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