A BOARD GAME TELLS ABOUT CHINESE FAMILY HIERARCHY SYSTEMS

Dinner is Ready

🍽 3–8 players 🕰 30–60 min
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This is a board game set around a family dinner table. Players draw cards and take on the roles of elders and younger family members. By trying to impress the elders, players pursue their own goals and compete to fulfill their individual winning conditions. The game aims to allow players, regardless of their cultural or national backgrounds, to experience the pressure, ambition, and emotional responses that can emerge from seemingly ordinary interactions within a Chinese family. By turning these everyday family systems into a board game, it explores how relationships at the dinner table can sometimes resemble a hierarchy, with expectations and approval shaping how family members communicate and behave.

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