Filipinos master disaster readiness, one roll of the dice at a time

Participants playing Master of Disaster, a board game about disaster preparedness, at a library in Valenzuela, Metro Manila. - AFP

MANILA: In a library in the Philippines, a dice rattles on the surface of a board before coming to a stop, putting one of its players straight into the path of a powerful typhoon.

The teenagers huddled around the table leap into action, shouting instructions and acting out the correct strategies for just one of the potential catastrophes laid out in the board game called Master of Disaster.