It's one player representing the 1% versus three players representing the 99%. Players take turns rolling dice and moving around a board that contains spaces called Wall Street, Media, Pentagon, Banking, and the like. The 99%ers work together to occupy spaces that will improve their influence in the media, Congress, and other institutions. The 1%er tries...
In this game, two players are theoretically nations competing in seven named areas. However, the game is highly abstracted, with each area represented by a track. Each player has seven cards which are secretly allocated to the areas each turn. The player allocating the higher card to an area (with the values wrapping around) moves a marker one space closer...
The people call out for Justice. We’ll give them Justice. They call out for Liberty and we’ll give them that too. We’ll give them everything that they call out for, exactly as we’ve designed. And in our magnanimity we will turn the ear of the King in our favor. That is when things really start to change. For once you’ve had the King’s ear, his eyes are...
10 levels of a mast aboard a seafairing ship are the stage for a political battle between the birds of the sea. The first bird to the top of the mast will be crowned with the Star Crown as the King or Queen of Sky and Sea! Each bird has a different approach to how to get to the top. Some hope to soar above their peers with better flying, some risk it all...
In Office Politics, players attempt to establish themselves as the dominant force in a company, which is represented as a pyramidal hierarchy of departments. Players weave their webs of influence through the company, starting from the bottom and spreading through the connections among departments. To establish control over a department, a player must spend...
In the continuing struggle to increase your profile within the company, you must contend with your colleagues, fickle project assignments and politicking to relieve the boredom of the daily grind. A game of choosing when to help a colleague and when to look after one's own interest. Abstract project management where the winner is whomever has the most...
This multi-faceted colorful bilingual game was issued without charge to schools and citizens who requested a copy from the Commissioner of Official Languages of the Canadian Federal Government's Language Development Program. All of the components of the game fit into the cardboard game board, which when closed is a large envelope that is 35.7cm long x 31cm...
Geneva, 1920: The League of Nations convenes for the first time. Proud to be the host for this august world body, Switzerland invites its champion axe-juggling troupe, "Les Bella Lieben Jolie De Von Giorno", to entertain the assembled delegates. Unfortunately, halfway through the demonstration, the Troupe goes insane and begins hurling axes into the...
In this game players choose whether to be Republican or Democrat. Then they embark in different directions and travel around the state to try and collect as many votes as possible to win the election. Cards and each space on the map has different encounters that players must resolve, then based on outcomes and decisions either gain or lose votes. Pieces...
In this game, players strive for the best quality of life. There are different parameters - "health", "income" and "possibilities for personal development". The game board contains a circuit that players roll and move around. Different fields trigger different events or actions, such as choosing a job, buying a house or a car, environmental problems...
HISTORY Frederic Vester designed Ökolopoly in 1980 and it was first published as a supplement in the journal Nature. At the Munich International Horticultural Exposition 1983 it was first offered as a board game designed by Vester information pavilion of the Bavarian Ministry of the Environment. In 1984 Ravensburger launched Ökolopoly for the general...
In Okupa tu també! (Let's squat!), each player is a group that lives in the neighborhood, but the scam of unbearable rents and multi-life mortgages has left you and your people homeless — or at least homeless until now because you have said enough is enough, and you are determined to find a place to live and build your project by whatever means necessary...