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"The Kingdom Seekers" is newest Christian board game
WIStv (Columbia, SC) ^ | December 27, 2005 | Bryce Mursch

Posted on 01/04/2006 6:34:09 PM PST by Gondring

(Kansas) December 27, 2005 - A Kansas woman has taken an idea from a popular kid's game and turned into "a god idea."

Jeanne Dray is the maker of "The Kingdom Seekers" board game. Designed for kids age 3 and older, it's played by moving pieces moved along a colorful path. Along the way, players choose cards that tell them how many spaces to move, just like the game "Candyland."

At the end, Jesus gives the winner the "keys to the kingdom."

"You can learn a whole lot if you want to. There's a story that goes with the game. It teaches them character traits for the children. Or you just play the game for absolute fun," explains Dray.

"The Kingdom Seekers" game is currently sold in christian book stores in Wichita and Manhattan, Kansas. Dray is working to get it on the home shopping network QVC in January.


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Some people are suggesting that she should be sued for infinging on Candy Land (sic). However, Hasbro's copyright page doesn't list Candy Land.

This is a television site, so the capitalization/spelling has been left as in original.

Mods please move if should be elsewhere! :-)

1 posted on 01/04/2006 6:34:11 PM PST by Gondring
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To: Gondring

Sounds like it might lead to gamblin'.


2 posted on 01/04/2006 6:36:37 PM PST by atomicpossum (Replies should be as pedantic as possible. I love that so much.)
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To: Gondring


"At the end, Jesus gives the winner the "keys to the kingdom."""

Well then, what happens to the losers?


3 posted on 01/04/2006 6:38:48 PM PST by LauraleeBraswell
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To: LauraleeBraswell
Well then, what happens to the losers?

Weeping and gnashing of teeth.

4 posted on 01/04/2006 7:55:41 PM PST by Forest Keeper
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To: LauraleeBraswell; the-ironically-named-proverbs2; Lijahsbubbe; aculeus; dighton
"At the end, Jesus gives the winner the "keys to the kingdom."""

Well then, what happens to the losers?

The keys open the bottomless pit.

5 posted on 01/04/2006 8:06:01 PM PST by Thinkin' Gal (As it was in the days of NO...)
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To: Thinkin' Gal
Well then, what happens to the losers?

Has anyone lived to tell?

6 posted on 01/04/2006 8:18:06 PM PST by Lijahsbubbe
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To: LauraleeBraswell
Well then, what happens to the losers?

Depends on whether or not they choose to use their "exempt from an inquisition" card. :-)

7 posted on 01/04/2006 8:23:36 PM PST by Invincibly Ignorant
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To: Gondring

They need to come out with a reformed version. If you draw the 'predestined' card, you automatically win the game.


8 posted on 01/04/2006 11:23:46 PM PST by PAR35
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To: PAR35
They need to come out with a reformed version. If you draw the 'predestined' card, you automatically win the game.

ROTFLOL!

I'm sure there are fights over the rule that says you have to land on the "Baptism" space before you can win.

9 posted on 01/05/2006 4:23:18 AM PST by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: PAR35

Heh. Calvin would be proud of you!


10 posted on 01/05/2006 4:24:42 AM PST by twntaipan (Liberals: Eternally stuck on stupid.)
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To: Lijahsbubbe
Has anyone lived to tell?

Well, there was this one guy, but few people believe Him.

11 posted on 01/05/2006 6:27:32 AM PST by Alex Murphy (Proverbs 12:10)
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To: PAR35
If you draw the 'predestined' card, you automatically win the game.

Hey, that's a "works-based salvation"....you have to be GIVEN the card before the game starts. ;)

12 posted on 01/05/2006 8:18:17 AM PST by Claud
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To: Claud

What about a 1500s version for Catholics where you can buy indulgence cards?


13 posted on 01/05/2006 9:19:44 AM PST by PAR35
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To: PAR35
What about a 1500s version for Catholics where you can buy indulgence cards?

Except my buddy Trent told me that that wasn't in the rule book.

14 posted on 01/05/2006 9:35:53 AM PST by Claud
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To: Claud

A Left Behind version where some players get a shortcut and finish early; everyone else has to take the long path but gets a second chance.

A Mormon version with 3 different finish lines. To have a chance at the best finish line, you have to skip turns to get baptised for the other players.

I think someone has already suggested the Church of Christ version where you have to land on a baptism square before you can keep playing.

Lets see. I've hit Reformed, Catholic, Mormon, CoC, and Evangelical. What other versions are needed.


15 posted on 01/05/2006 9:55:22 AM PST by PAR35
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To: Claud
Hey, that's a "works-based salvation"....you have to be GIVEN the card before the game starts. ;)

Good point. The card would have to be dealt at the beginning of the game rather than picked up after landing on a square.

16 posted on 01/05/2006 9:56:45 AM PST by PAR35
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To: PAR35
What other versions are needed.

The Protestant version where you interpret the rules for yourself, and if no one can agree, you leave and start your own game.

17 posted on 01/05/2006 11:36:54 AM PST by Titanites
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To: PAR35; Titanites
What about a 1500s version for Catholics where you can buy indulgence cards?

In the game the cards are actually free so it wouldn't work for the Catholics.

18 posted on 01/05/2006 11:45:06 AM PST by Invincibly Ignorant
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To: Invincibly Ignorant

Post #14 already covered that.


19 posted on 01/05/2006 11:49:31 AM PST by Titanites
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To: Titanites

big whoop. was repeated for emphasis.


20 posted on 01/05/2006 11:52:44 AM PST by Invincibly Ignorant
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