Thursday - September 08, 2011

STWA

I gather it took him a year and a half to develop the concept, work up the graphics, and get the game ready for market. And he has obviously put in a lot of effort. The fold up board is visually impressive and worth looking at for 5 minutes even if you don’t play the game. And the Obamabucks play money is fantastic, far better than what passes as real money in Zimbabwe.

He even got John Cox, from the late Cox & Forkum politcal cartoon, to do some of the artwork.

Choose membership in one of four organizations: Public Service, ObamaCare, Big Labor or Wall Street. From your perch atop the ruling class, you’ll bankrupt other players, drag them before show trials, carve them up in unnecessary surgery or just get one of your big labor goons to wack ‘em in Rocko Roulette.

Rather than accumulate wealth in Spread the Wealth Around, you’ll rack up mountains of debt – just like Obama’s America. Scam dead people and collect their Social Security in Public Office. Unplug granny and play the lawsuit lottery in ObamaCare. Gamble and go burnin’ and lootin’ with Big Labor. Cut in line for your Wall Street bailout – it’s all for the children.

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Why earn when you can spend? Why work when you can party? You don’t have to be an assistant deputy undersecretary for central planning to get too big to fail – you just have to Spread the Wealth Around! If you never let a crisis go to waste, then leave behind the little people in the tea party, and get your green job aboard the high speed train to the ruling class.

Prosperity is just another government program away, so don’t wait for global warming and the next ice age before playing the ultimate boardgame for Bamster bureaucrats. Like the deficit and gas prices, there’s no where to go but up! It’s time to reward your friends, punish your enemies and get your fair share of stimulus money.

All of this would be for naught if the game itself sucked. But it doesn’t. We gave it a couple of tries, and it’s not to hard to learn and rather fun. It is NOT Monopoly™. Just because you get money, and go around a board, and there are two decks of random circumstance cards conceptually similar to Chance and Community Chest ( called Social Justice featuring Comrade Obama smiling over a legion of marching skeletal death Nazis, and Nanny State, showing a frightened child’s nightmares as the wicked witch approaches) the similarity ends there.

It’s a game for 4 or more players, but we were able to try it out with just the 2 of us. The first time we each played 3 roles, the second time we tried it with just one. It worked, but it’s best with 4 or more. You get a token ( I suggested acorns in every color of the unicorn rainbow other than white. Phillip came back with ideas for lead pipes, coke straws, food stamps, union membership badges, but regretted they’d have to wait for the Deluxe Edition. They guy has at least as much snark as I do, so I’m impressed ), you get a huge amount of money. And then you buy your position in the government (sound familiar, Chicago residents?). Somebody should be the bank, though it’s the most expensive role. But it makes money, always. Then you go around the board and just follow the notations on the squares. Sometimes you may not make it even once around before getting wiped out, but hey, that’s life. Your debt gets tracked on a little notepad, included along with a microscopic pencil. And the roles are fully explained, each on a nicely made card. So it’s pretty easy to pick up, even if you don’t read the rules.

The game is fun, the messages on the back of the Social Justice and Nanny State cards are really sharp, and the graphics are fantastic. It’s sure to be a hit the next time you have a Tea Party meeting at your house, or if you have a few Right-thinking folks over for chips and beer. Which is almost the same thing.

Spread The Wealth Around is available for online purchase here. The web site gives you much more information about the game, and shows you more of the fantastic artwork. Oh, and it has a love song for Kim Jong-Il too, that master of Progressive Thought.

Posted by Drew458     on 09/08/2011 at 10:26 AM   
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