Unboxing: The Mahabharata

A few days ago, Jocelyn and I got our hands on a board game that was tucked in the back of a shop beneath some other things. There were only two copies of it, and they seemed to have been forgotten there. Always interested in new board games, we took a look at it. A strange white box greeted us and the game's cover promised something new and exciting; the Mahabharata, it read, India's Epic: experience an ancient legendary adventure.

Always a sucker for strange new board games, we of course bit. Our collection grows apace and this felt like a good addition. The Mahabharata smelled faintly of Indian spices and had clearly been made by hand by someone who felt the epic had not gotten the treatment in the public eye that it deserved. When we got home, we opened it up immediately to have a look at its contents.