Roll double-six ... for nirvana

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Steven Morris
Tuesday January 10, 2006
The Guardian


It may be the perfect antidote to games such as Monopoly which are too capitalist for some tastes, or Cluedo, which can be a little morbid. In BuddhaWheel there are no winners and no losers, there is the chance to learn about your inner-self and the game can go on forever.

Inventor Emily Preece, an artist from Totnes, Devon, said the game has been selling well at festivals and attracting interest from the US. The idea is that players go around a board based on the Buddhist wheel of life. A dice decides which realm he or she is born into and they then move around the section.


A "karma card" decides which realm the player is to be reborn into. The idea is to escape from the wheel and become a buddha - once you've done that you can opt to go back in to help other players and prolong the game into infinity.

Mother of two Ms Preece, 27, said yesterday she took the idea around the festivals. "People liked it and wanted one so I decided to produce them."

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