Lost & Found: New Harvest
2020
2–5
players
60m
14+
Show your strategic and collaborative skills in Lost & Found: New Harvest, a historical strategy game of balance between community and family needs.
In this standalone expansion to Lost & Found, players explore how lost and found possessions were addressed under Islamic jurisprudence, as informed by Al-Hidayah and The Distinguished Jurist's Primer. These texts were written in the 12th century by great Islamic scholar and jurists Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani and the polymath Ibn Rushd (Averroes). They provide guideposts for behavior, but it’s up to you to decide how to solve dilemmas.
Set in medieval North Africa, towns are built by families like yours. Take on one of five roles in a struggle to address dilemmas, overcome crises, and avert disasters that threaten to destroy everything you know and love. Look out for your family, but be sure to collaborate with your neighbors as well. Any number of players can win, but if anyone goes destitute, everyone loses.
Explore the ways in which these medieval religious legal systems helped to hold society together and helped to keep neighbors cooperating with one another. Optionally, you can pair Lost & Found: New Harvest with the original Lost & Found and take on both Jewish and Muslim roles, and explore how these laws play out for these two communities living in Fustat (Old Cairo) in the 12th century.
Will you follow the laws of lost and found possessions? Will you break them? Will you go above and beyond the law?
