The Game of Sunken Places
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The Game Of Sunken Places is a children's book published in 2004 and written by M.T. Anderson.
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The book follows the story of two 13-year old boys named Brian and Gregory when they visit a mansion in Vermont during fall break, owned by Gregory's Uncle Max. Uncle Max in himself is a strange character who uses complicated words from past such as effluents and insalubrities all the time and acts very much like an aristocrat from the 1700s. The two uncover the board of the Game of Sunken Places in the nursery and unintentionally set the game into motion. Once they go out into the woods and begin playing the game, they meet unlikely allies such as Kalgrash the troll and work together to accomplish all the challenges using the game board as a map. In the final challenge, Gregory is about to win and Brian is being strangled by Jack Stimple. By believing that Jack was their opponent, the two almost fell into his trap. Jack wasn't playing the game at all. Gregory was the player for the Thusser Hordes and was about to win when Brian stopped him. Jack Stimple was meanwhile being dragged away by monks for strangling Brian. Gregory trusts Brian, and lets him win the game and so another battle had been won in the name of the Norumbegans.
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