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Das Spiel des Lebens
The Game of Life – Briefly Summarized
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The Game of Life is a classic family game where players go through their own life path from choosing a career to retirement.
Goal of the game. Whoever has accumulated the most wealth (cash and assets) at the end of the game in retirement wins.
Gameplay. A central spinner replaces the dice and determines the number of steps. Players move little plastic cars across the board, choose between studying or going straight into a career, get married, start families, and buy houses.
Mechanics. The game combines luck elements on the spins with tactical decisions at forks (e.g. risk path vs. safe path). Event cards trigger financial rewards or costs.
One of my top 5 board games of the 80s.
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I always found that funny too, as a kid. But the premise "Whoever has accumulated the most wealth (cash and material assets) at retirement at the end of the game, wins" - is really typical 80s! 😄
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Phew, I played that too, but Risk was right at the top of my game list in the 80s.
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yeah I used to play that a lot back then too but honestly I feel like I've outgrown it. that rigid moving along a bar without any tactics isn't something I need anymore. still, it was always nice back then with family and friends.
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One of the classics I've never played. Sometimes I get weird looks 😅 But at this point I also have no ambition to play it after all, just to say I've played it.
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Played it in my childhood too. But I probably won't get a new version. Not really my thing anymore.
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Oh, I really loved playing that. Even though the first one at the villa usually won. But I heard that the new version isn't supposed to be as good as the old one. More adapted to today's life... You build up more debt and you only get a salary if you actually land on it... etc. Is that really true?
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We bought it out of nostalgia, but while playing we realized it was more fun as a kid 😉
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Played it a lot as a kid, was super fun back then. But these days, not so much anymore.