Bored sisters create coronavirus board game

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These German sisters invented a coronavirus board game

Location: Wiesbaden, Germany

(SOUNDBITE) (German) CORONA BOARD GAME CREATOR, SARAH SCHWADERLAPP, SAYING:

"We developed the Corona game while sitting at home under lockdown. We heard in the media and saw in supermarkets nearby how everyone was panic-buying. That shocked us very much and that is why we wanted to deal with the whole situation and then invented a board game for it."

‘Corona’ can be played by up to four players

who compete to buy groceries for an elderly neighbor

Hurdles include being sent into quarantine

or hoarders buying all the pasta and toilet rolls

Father Benedikt Schwaderlapp has commercialized the game

(SOUNDBITE) (German) FATHER, BENEDIKT SCWADERLAPP, SAYING:

"Yes, the fact that the game was so popular has of course posed a challenge for the family business, like packing and posting 500 games within a very short period of time. The demand from all over Germany is huge. We were also contacted by a game shop called "Rofu Kinderwelt" which bought 600 games at once."