Game: "The Game of Life"

If you have a lot of free time and a several bunch of people to have fun with, you'd probably want to try "Game of Life" boardgame.

The board game "The Game of Life"

The game in sort of our life; right after school, we can choose either getting an education at college or straight gone into working. Then moving along the path in the game, you'll be showered with undivided attentions from debts and unlikely chance to become rich. It's the game of life, after all.

Many people doesn't know that this board game exist long time ago before 20th. century. It had been created in 1860 by Milton Bradley, as The Checkered Game of Life.

The board game "The Checkered Game of Life, 1923"

The game requires 2-6 players, with setup time for this game is approximately 10 mins. Playing this game may end around 30-40 mins, but sometimes it can be hours.

The game simulates a person's travel through his or her life, from college to retirement, with jobs and marriage and even possible children along the way. The game requires a set of counting and reading skills.

Two couples

100 years later, c.a. 1960, it has been modernized. The modern game consists of a track on which players travel by spinning a small numbered wheel from number 1 to 10, located in the middle of the board. The board also contains small mountains, buildings and other objects that makes it more interesting and real. Each player have one automobile that has 6 holes on top of in which blue and pink people peg can be placed. The game also includes money, insurance policies, investments and stocks.

Multiplied into a family

In year 1988, a CD-rom version of the game was produced by Hasbro - which added computerized move and animations. An option to play multi-player over the internet is also included.

The rules are way much to say, but you can try surf the internet for tutorial of this game.

p/s: Faris have the 50th special anniversary edition of The Game of Life, so those who are interested, just pm me (Faris) on weekends.