Poseidon In The Odyssey

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For this project, Katie and I chose to make our game about Poseidon. In The Odyssey, Poseidon cursed Odysseus many times, causing his journey home to become even longer. We wanted to get this point across to the people that played our game. The players of our game were portraying Odysseus. Our game was exactly like Candyland, you drew a card and that card indicted how many places on the game board to move. If you drew a card that said “Draw a Scenario card” you were to draw a card from the second stack. These scenario cards had questions about the Odyssey. It was like a review of The Odyssey as well. To indicate that you had been cursed by Poseidon you would draw a card that said: “move backward....” There were more “move backward” cards

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