A person in a difficult situation discovers a new perspective when they come up with the idea of turning their problem into a board game. This chapter also features sponsor ads for BetterHelp and Airbnb.
A young family nearly lost everything in the 1970s farm crisis. Then, they invented a board game. Today on the show, producer Ben Naddaff-Hafrey shares a story about how life shows up in games and what games teach us about risk, life, love, and in this case ... farming.
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