Olga Loresh LORESH·GAMES
Before you ask

Questions and answers

Everything that comes up before a purchase, in the order it usually comes up. If your question is not here, write — it will be answered by a person, not a template.

01

The game

A transformational board game for one to six players, running about three hours. The board is a circle split into a money hemisphere and a desire hemisphere, with six sectors and nine decks of cards. Players earn and lose two in-game currencies while answering questions about what they let themselves want and what they let themselves earn.

Six is the comfortable ceiling for one facilitator, not a minimum. Two or three players get more turns each and go deeper; one player across the table from you turns the whole board into a single conversation.

It is a game about permission. Half the board is desire and half is money, and the method's claim is that a single internal rule governs both: what you are ashamed to want, you will not let yourself receive. Nothing is undressed and nobody is touched — the players talk, roll, pay and collect.

No, and it is not sold as therapy. It is a structured group session with printed questions and a facilitator who keeps the frame. People often leave with something they had not said out loud before, but nobody is diagnosed, treated or given advice about their health.

Yes to both. The set includes a men's deck, and mixed tables work — with the caveat that a mixed table needs a firmer hand on the frame. How to hold one is part of the facilitator training.

Yes, three ways. Two of them are Miro boards: one where the whole table shares a single board — the one to use when a player only has a phone — and a newer pair where the facilitator and the player each have their own. The third is the full online game on this site, where the console keeps the rules and every player gets their own screen in their own language.

All of it has been played through, and an online table runs on the same order and the same rules as one around a physical board. For facilitators the Miro boards come with the set, and so does the first year of the online game.

02

Sitting down to play

You answer what you choose to answer. The questions come up by chance rather than by anyone's choice, which is what makes the table safe: nobody is being singled out. Passing on a card is allowed and costs you nothing except the turn.

No. Sessions are not filmed, participants are not named, and what is said at the table stays there. That is the condition under which people tell the truth. Any story published afterwards is anonymised and used only with written permission.

Write through the contact page or straight to Olga on Telegram to agree the place, the time and the format — online or in person. A thirty-minute demo is free. If you decide to go on and play a full game, what you pay for it is credited back against the price of a set.

03

Leading the game

No. The method carries the session: the questions are printed, the order is fixed, and your job is to ask and then stay quiet. No prior background is required: the training covers the whole method in enough detail to run a table from your first evening.

All three include the complete printed set, the right to run the game commercially, the certificate and the marketing kit. €800 adds the method in writing, €1000 adds the video course voiced in your language, and €1200 adds three live lessons with Olga of three hours each.

See the three options in full

No. You buy the set once and keep every fee you charge. There is no royalty on a table, no monthly membership, and no reporting of what you earn.

At €80 a seat — an ordinary price for a three-hour group session in most of Europe — a full table of six brings in €480, so the set is covered by your second or third game. In Ukraine, where the game has been running longer at local prices, facilitators pay it off in about four.

Tables of two or three are normal and count too, and a private one-to-one session is usually priced closer to an individual consultation than to a seat at a group table.

A trial game rather than an exam. You run one full session, online or in person, and it is reviewed before your certificate is issued — so that your first paid table is not also your first table.

The manual and the video course come in your language, voiced and subtitled. The three live lessons in the €1200 option are held in Russian or in Ukrainian — they are live, Olga teaches them herself, and she works in both. If you need a third language, the €1000 option gives you the same method voiced in your own.

Your first table comes from people who already know you, and it is usually smaller than six. Every set comes with a detailed marketing plan for finding players — the same launch the game itself was promoted with: a four-week calendar, five ready video scripts, the content themes with their proportions, the two posts that sell hardest, how to get past algorithms that throttle this subject, and the invitation and consent texts.

The full list

04

The set, languages and delivery

The printed board, nine decks of 280 cards, player workbooks with reprint rights, A5 note cards, 295 game banknotes in two currencies, dice, tokens, pouches, the rulebook, the Treasury card, certificates for your participants with stamp and wax, your own facilitator certificate, and the box itself.

The full contents

Yours. Nothing is printed until there is a buyer, so the set is produced in the language you name. English, Russian and Ukrainian are ready now; any other language is translated first, which adds about a week before printing.

For the EU and Ukraine, no customs at all: printing and dispatch happen inside the EU, from Hamburg, or inside Ukraine, from Kyiv, so the parcel never crosses an external border. Delivery is included in the price.

Fourteen days from payment for an English set, twenty when a new language has to be translated first, and ten days within Ukraine. Everywhere else customs and any local taxes are paid by you, and delivery takes up to a month.

By bank transfer to the seller's business account, or by card. Nothing is charged on this site: you apply, we talk, and the invoice comes after that.

Instalments are possible — PrivatBank's Оплата частинами splits the price into monthly parts. It runs on Ukrainian cards, so it is the route for buyers who bank in Ukraine.

The fourteen-day right of withdrawal, under both EU and Ukrainian law, does not extend to goods made to your order or to digital content you have already opened — and every set is printed for one buyer, in the language they name. That is why the exception applies here, and it is stated before you order rather than after.

In practice we would still rather talk. A return can be looked at case by case, we can help you resell the set, and we are happy to go through what raised the doubt in the first place.

Yes — we ship worldwide, at the same prices. The one thing to allow for is that outside the EU and Ukraine customs clearance and any local taxes are yours to settle, and delivery takes up to a month.