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board game
Stories tagged board game.
The Ancient Chinese Board Game That Gamified Bureaucratic Climbing
Before Monopoly, China's Shengguan Tu board game let players climb the imperial bureaucracy, with dice rolls deciding promotions, demotions, and even exile.
'The Yin-Yang Errands' Turns Hell Into a Workplace
A tabletop game blends Chinese folklore with office bureaucracy, sending players through underworld departments with quotas, salaries and ghost-bribing money. The concept is striking a chord with players who see their own 9-to-5 grind in the afterlife.