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Playing Hard to Wed

From descriptions listed on cards included in Arranged!, a board game developed by Nashra Balagamwala, a Pakistani designer, and released in May in the United States. Game play consists of…

From the instruction manual for Catan: Oil Springs, a scenario-expansion kit for the board game The Settlers of Catan. Developed by the Worldwatch Institute and the game’s manufacturers, the scenario…

Golden Parachutes and Ladders

God Does Play Dice

by Stephen Haliczer,

From cards used in the board game Vatican: Unlock the Secrets of How Men Become Pope, created by Stephen Haliczer, a professor at Northern Illinois University. The game, which purports…

Go directly to jail

by John Sebelius,

Square one

by Harper’s Staff,

Hotel on Baltic, hourly rates

Translated by Stefania Heim,

Womyn’s Issues

From “karma cards” used in the board game “C’est la Vie! The Game of Lesbian Life,” manufactured by Play on Words in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The object of the game,…

Sorry game

by Sally Mann,

Tools for living

by Harper’s Staff,

Game of wits

Board games

Playing Hard to Wed

Greenhouse Rules

Golden Parachutes and Ladders

God Does Play Dice

Go directly to jail

Square one

Hotel on Baltic, hourly rates

Womyn’s Issues

Sorry game

Tools for living

Debug

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Playing Hard to Wed

Greenhouse Rules

Golden Parachutes and Ladders

God Does Play Dice

Go directly to jail

Square one

Hotel on Baltic, hourly rates

Womyn’s Issues

Sorry game

Tools for living

December 1975

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