Everything I know about ofrendas I either learned from Coco or Spectre. Okay, it isn’t as bad as all that — twenty-five years ago, I also played Grim Fandango.

Regardless, it’s fair to say that I was eager to learn more from Orlando Sá and André Santos’s Ofrenda, the board game version of the practice. I came away surprised by the depth of the gameplay, but no more informed about the particulars.

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