Game helps Filipinos prepare for worstAFP, MANILAIn a library in the Philippines, a dice rattled on the surface of a board before coming to a stop, putting one of its players straight into the path of a powerful typhoon. The teenagers huddled around the table leapt into action, shouting instructions and acting out the correct strategies for just one of the potential catastrophes laid out in the board game Master of Disaster. People play Master of Disaster, a board game about disaster preparedness in Valenzuela, Philippines, on Monday. More than 10,000 editions of the game, aimed at players as young as nine years old, have been distributed across the archipelago nation. While conceding the evidence was so far anecdotal, Macatulad said he believed the game was bringing a “significant” improvement in its players’ disaster preparedness knowledge.

Source: Taipei Times December 30, 2025 16:56 UTC