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Finally, a truly fun, uplifting LDS game! |
| Mortality is the exciting
and popular LDS
board game that helps everyone feel good. Rather than
driving the other players into bankruptcy in order to win, in
Mortality you actually get ahead by helping others! It
also teaches you to laugh at and grow from your troubles. As you build up
enough inner strength, you are able to meet the trials of life and
actually become stronger because of them. |
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Now - buy Mortality
from our
secure online store (free
and fast shipping to U.S. addresses!)
 Mortality is also for
sale at Deseret Book and most other LDS bookstores. Or
call to order 800-537-0414. |
| It's competitive, because there is a winner, but it isn't the
cutthroat competition that forms the foundation of other games. It becomes a
great deal of fun for all the players, not just the winner. Do you have
children with sensitive feelings? Or do you have children who tend to be
ruthless in games? Don't play Sorry! or Monopoly, play the
LDS game Mortality, and
everyone will enjoy it and learn a little about how to truly succeed
in life. Click the button to
play the Mortality radio ad that aired on KSL radio in Salt Lake City.
Mortality featured in USA Today, December 2006. |
2005 recipient of the
Family Review Center
Great Product Award.
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Read what some of the people who have
played Mortality have to say about it.
Mortality is built around gospel principles as taught by the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. However, no LDS background is
necessary in order to play, enjoy, or win the board game, which makes it a
wonderful missionary activity. It's great for parties
and mixers. Get a game going with your friends, and you'll find yourselves
laughing over the troubles each player meets: Your children come home from
school with lice; a hailstorm wipes out your tomato plants; you break your arm
on the kids' jungle gym; mice invade your teenage son's stash of Twinkies. If you have enough inner strength, you'll grow from
each of these challenges. Otherwise, they may do you in!
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Here is a photograph of
Mortality.
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Warm up to the other players as you invite each other over for dinner, as
you happen to bump into them for a "visit," as you administer to the sick,
take turns being the bishop, or counsel over financial difficulties. Run to
fellowship the player who has lost all his testimonies, and you will gain
more strength for yourself. |
A photograph of the box cover. Click to enlarge. |
To order: call 800-537-0414, or click to buy from our secure online store:
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Shipments ordinarily leave within 24 hours, and you'll have your game within 3-4 days, in
most cases!
Retail price is $29.95. $1.95 FedEx Ground
shipping in the United States!
Mortality is an uplifting LDS board game about life rather than
strictly a "church" board game. It isn't
made to teach a list of "facts" about the gospel. Instead,
gospel principles are
woven into its very fabric. It doesn't give any advantage to the scriptorians or historians. Succeeding at the game requires
cooperation, caring for other players, knowing how to build a solid foundation
in one's youth, and an understanding of how faith and testimony help you endure
trials, and any player who approaches it in this manner can win.
This LDS game is great at fostering friendly interaction among
the players. Even the losers enjoy it, because they tend to end up being the
focus of charitable efforts by the other players. Succeeding
requires strategy, luck, and advance planning. It teaches LDS values, including the importance of
building a foundation that will withstand the adversities of life, the value
that hardships can have in building testimony, and the benefits of selfless
service. Yes, there is
competition in Mortality, because there is a winner, and that's a big
part of the entertainment value. But a great part of the fun is in the joking
that surrounds the dealing together with experiences and trials as you play, that
are so much a part of life, but are presented in a somewhat humorous way.
Mortality takes
about an hour to an hour-and-a-half to play, depending on the experience and
luck of the players. It requires a minimum of three players and up to six can play.
Young children can be helped to play it,
but truly understanding it requires an age of at least eight.
You start playing in the childhood section. Here you gain
points or "Testimonies" as they are called, strictly by chance, based on what
your family does. From there you enter the youth section. As a youth, you
begin making decisions on your own that can help you later on or be a detriment
to your later progress. You can serve as a missionary, go on dates, and either
get a civil marriage or a temple marriage. Avoiding a civil marriage may require
some careful advance planning in order to avoid landing on the "civil marriage"
square. From there you move into the adult
section. One player gets to be the bishop. This assignment may pass from player
to player depending on what happens. As you move around in the adult
section, you encounter trials of faith. Depending on how many Testimonies you
already have, these trials can hurt you or help you. You also have an
opportunity to help other players, for which you will gain even more
Testimonies. The first player with 150 Testimonies "finishes mortality" and is
the winner.
Mortality has been played and
enjoyed for over twenty years. This is the first published version,
produced by Mapletree Publishing
Company in Denver, Colorado—a publishing company dedicated to producing
quality books that uplift and inspire.
To order: call 800-537-0414, or click to buy this LDS game from our secure online store:
Retail price is $29.95. FedEx Ground shipping to U.S.
addresses!
Mortality
makes the news!
Click here to read front page local newspaper coverage in Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, where it was first launched. |
