Feast and Famine Joseph in Egypt Board Game

I bought this to play in our homeschool along with our ancient Egypt/Israel studies. The first half of the game (7years of plenty) is fun and my kids play it repeatedly. Unfortunately, the second half (7years of plenty) is a bit boring because it's obvious that the winner of the first half always wins the second. My kids never play the second half anymore:( It teaches the importance of preparation, though:)

this game was a great idea. my family has a lot of fun with it.

outside of box showed a little wear n tear.

My husband and I are big board gamers and have had this game for a few years now. That being said, we still consider it one of the best games that we have ever played. The game consists of two parts: the "feast" half, and then the "famine" half. The pacing is wonderful, and you can always choose to play half of the game at a time if you don't have 45-minutes or hour required to play the entire game. It also has a good mix of skill and chance, so if you are playing with a mixed group of people, those super intense board-gamer brothers of yours (who always win) may end up losing because of the random luck and chance involved. This levels the playing field considerably and makes it more fun, in my opinion.I noticed that one of the other reviewers mentioned that whoever wins the first half always wins the second half. But I have actually not found that to be our experience. The winners have always been very unpredictable for us. One of the reasons is because even if you gather more tokens than everyone else during the "feast" portion of the game, when it is time to use those tokens to bid on point cards in the "famine" portion, it's too difficult to predict which point cards have the highest value, since they are all face down. It is those cards' point values that will determine the winner. So you may end up spending all your tokens and only end up with a bunch of 1- or 2- point cards. And someone who had gathered fewer tokens than you may end up bidding on and winning the high value cards.Also worth noting is the incredible artwork. The game pieces and board are not only very sturdy, but are beautiful. And whoever created the cards paid enough attention to detail and even used the tribal symbols in found in Genesis 49 so that the pictures correspond to each tribe's name (e.g. Judah is a lion, Simeon is a sword, etc.). We even used these cards to teach our kids about the tribes and their symbols (see picture).All around great game that is great for the family!

I had to laugh about Jacob's review, as he obviously doesn't know how the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Daints treats and respects women. Fun game though.

I haven't bought this yet but it looks like it's worth five stars. You can get this game waaaaaaaay cheaper from Deseret Book.

If you like normalizing plural marriage and teaching your children that women are worth less than men, this is your game. During the famine stage the goal is to obtain character cards. There are 4 card classes - one for each of Jacob's wives. Each character is worth up to 12 points. All of Jacob's sons are worth multiple points. Each of Jacob's wives is worth only 1 point.Which is really the message this game's publisher, Shadow Mountain (a subsidiary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), wants to spread. Thanks Mormons for your continued indoctrination of children's minds with such harmful messages. I can't wait until you put out a game about Sodom and Gomorrah.