VIDEO: Made-in-Sask. board game promises fun for the whole cemetery

A new, made-in-Saskatchewan board game is promising fun for the whole family… or the whole cemetary.

Youlogy is a brand-new game that places up to eight players at a funeral where their goal is to create the character they are gathered to mourn.

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In round one, the judge puts a picture of the deceased on display, and all the other players will anonymously write down and submit a name that they believe fits the person. The judge will then pick their favourite, and award a point to the player who submitted it.

Listen to Bourassa on The Evan Bray Show:

In rounds two to seven, players fill in blank topic cards to create details of the deceased person’s life. Each stage represents a point in the character’s life, like “Birth and Toddler,” “School Age,” “Young Adult,” “Career,” “Family Life,” and “Old Age and Death.” Once all seven rounds have finished, the player with the most points wins the game and can choose any other player at the table to perform a three-minute eulogy for the newly created person.

The game is the brainchild of registered nurse and stand-up comedian Shawn Bourassa. It was first created in 2020 at the height of COVID-19 lockdowns. Bourassa said the game was inspired by his wife’s love of Halloween and horror and his family’s love of board games.

Bourassa recently spoke with Evan Bray about the game’s final stretch of production and the unique way he is advertising it.

“We did a video for Kickstarter and I tried to rent a house, and I didn’t have any success,” said Bourassa. “So then I just thought, You can find anything on the Internet. Why not look for a hearse? So I found it, like I said, a 1978 Cadillac DeVille hearse.”

Shawn Bourassa and Evan Bray pose next to the hearse Bourassa picked up to help promote his game. (Alex Brown/650 CKOM)

While the game isn’t on the market just yet, he said it should be soon.

“Once we reach our $5,000 goal, we’re going to go to production. So we’re going to create a full production run of this,” Bourassa explained.

“And then when the games come in, I need to account for time to produce and ship and all that stuff. I put a six-month timeline. So our campaign ends on October 31, and six months from then I said that you’ll most likely be getting your game if everything goes according to plan.”

Anyone who wants to help support the game can do so through Kickstarter.