A young family nearly lost everything in the 1970s farm crisis. Then, they invented a board game. Today on the show, producer Ben Naddaff-Hafrey shares a story about how life shows up in games and what games teach us about risk, life, love, and in this case ... farming.
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12/21/23 • 48 min
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Revisionist History - Board Game Season
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Bushkin. In just a few days, it will be Christmas, and in houses around the world there will be thousands upon thousands of long squat boxes covered in wrapping paper. Inside will be little plastic figurines, trains, top hats, empty octagons. There will be cards, spinners, tokens, potty, pencils, and dice. They will play money. There will be scorecards. For this, my friends, is the season of the board game. Board games have always fascinated me.
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