Enlighten is a game from Christa Reynolds on comparative religion, or rather a trivia game about religions. In the pursuit of fairness, the creators have tossed in, along with the big religions, slews of various cults and other religions, treating them all with the same respect.

Her aim is to get people of the world learning about each other’s religions.

If major religions aren’t enlightening to you, how about Enlightenment? A 1987 game from a company called Homeward Bound, you progress through different levels of consciousness using Truth, Wisdom, and Karma cards. I have no info about the company Homeward Bound, but you can find the game on various auction sites.

Then we have The Gift of Enlightenment from Veritas Productions, or perhaps Veritas Productions, or possibly neither of these and it’s some other Veritas Productions (in any case, it’s definitely not Veritas Games).

Also revolving around chakras and karma, the game brings healing energy to those who play it as you lose your negative energies and learn your true gift of enlightenment. Comes with real crystals.

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Kalèdo is a board game about nutrition. (The web site has little flags to display either Italian or English information, but I couldn’t get the English flag to work, either on Firefox or IE. And it’s one of those sites that plays annoying midi music without asking, but at least I got that to shut off.)

The designers did a pilot study for the game’s educational value using hundreds of kids and including a control group, and found that the game increased both knowledge and practice of nutrition. (source) I only read the abstract.

I can’t tell you more, but it looks like roll-move-trivia.

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Quinto from the Quinto Game Company, is unrelated to either the Sid Sackson game or the 3M game of the same name. It is, however, and as near as I can tell, nearly identical to the board game Sequence from Jax, with some scoring changes. The use of the word “Sequence” in the page title gives it away, as do the rules provided on the site.

This doesn’t stop the site from modestly proclaiming it the best game in the world. They also source a glowing review from Marc Shayed at the (now defunct) Gaming Report.

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Shift The Game has you rolling the die and picking cards to traverse the board, with the aim of moving from fear to love, dropping your defenses along the way.

It costs $40 plus shipping.

Like other life-changing games, the developers also offer facilitated play and workshops to help players internalize the messages of the game.

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