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The Goose Will Have Blood

My nine-year-old struggles to read "curvy letters." Case in point, she has read this game's title as "The Goose Will Have Blood" like four times.

I can’t speak to whether The Gods Will Have Blood, the latest game by Dan Bullock, is a faithful adaptation of Anatole France’s Les Dieux ont soif, but it evokes sensations that only rarely creep into our hobby from literature. Perhaps it would be better to call it an abridgement. At only twenty minutes in length (if that), it packs terrible questions into a pressure cooker that threatens to pop with every flipped card and drawn cube.

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