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For many people, learning the rules of any unfamiliar board game can feel as alien as learning a brand new language. Yet few games make that experience quite as literal as City of Six Moons.

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For many people, reading the rules to complicated board games can already feel like reading an alien language. City of Six Moons takes that one step further.

That’s what University of Chicago professor Shane Dunkle and his English-learning board game group have found during their weekly Dungeons and Dragons games. The stakes can be high.