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Sep 16, 2022·How to play·03:53·281799·Watch on YouTube

How to Play The Game of Life in 3 minutes

Tabletop Duo

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Watch “How to Play The Game of Life in 3 minutes,” a how-to-play guide for The Game of Life from Tabletop Duo on BoardGameVideo.

Description provided by Tabletop Duo on YouTube:

Nick here! Today you will learn in a concise way how to play The game Of Life. We are going to learn the rules for the game of life going through the setup as well. In this 2-4 player game, each player compete for the one that makes more money before retiring. The Game of Life and How to Play it 0:00 - Setup 0:57 - How to Play Game of life 2 4-player -------------------- Here are a few other cool card Games Monopoly Deal: https://youtu.be/73eBAw4gvuQ DOS: https://youtu.be/i-2Dphy9ENA PHASE 10: https://youtu.be/qIEhLU1m17k -------------------- ☕ You can support our channel by buying us some coffee by clicking on our Ko-Fi page! https://ko-fi.com/tabletopduo ☕ -------------------- 🔔 Subscribe & Turn on Notifications for more how to play videos Visit Tabletop on other medias ▶ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tabletopduo ▶ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/tabletopduo ▶ Twitter https://twitter.com/tabletopduo ▶ Pinterest https://www.pinterest.ca/tabletopduo/ ----------------------- My upload schedule: ►Board Game Unboxing, How to Play videos and Reviews every Tuesday ►Paint Tutorials every Friday #thegameoflife #thegameoflifeandhowtoplayit #thegameoflife2 #howtoplaythegameoflife #boardgames #howtoplay #hasbro Setup Add the spinner to the board. Split the cards into 3 decks according to their back color. Give to each player a car, and a matching invest card, 1 peg of any color and the ammount of money on screen. Each player chooses between college or carreer path. If you choose college path, give 100k to the bank. Take the top two carreer cards, choose one and play it face up in front of you. Only players that chose the college path can take cards with the diploma symbol. if you chose career and both cards have a diploma, draw until you get one without the symbol. Pop the peg into the car and place it on the path you chose. How to play. The object of the game is to accumulate the most money during the match. The youngest player goes first. On your turn, spin the wheel and move that number of spaces along the board. If you reach a stop space, you must stay, even if you have moves left. Then, check the life event it triggers. Play then proceeds to the next player to the left. If you stop on spin to graduate, spin the wheel. If you have 1 or 2, your turn ends. On your next turn, spin again until you pass with a 3+. If you have 3+, take 4 carreer cards, choose one to keep and return the other ones to the bottom of the deck then end your turn. If you stop on get married or grow your family. If you choose yes, pay 50k to the bank, pop a peg into your car, spin again and continue the path. If you choose no, spin again and continue your path. If you stop on midlife spinout, spin the wheel, and check the color in the center. if red, take the road to midlife crisis. if black, move the number of spaces on the wheel. And if you stop on retire early, if you choose yes, spin agan and head down the path to early retirement. If you choose no, spin again and continue the path. If you pass a payday space, collect the salary on your career card and if you land on it, collect the bonus salary. If you land on an action space, draw the top action card from the deck, read it aloud and do what it says. If you land on a friend, pet or baby space, add a peg of any color to your car. If you land on twins, add two pegs. If you land on a carreer space, take the top card of the career deck and choose between it and your current carreer. note that carreer cards with a diploma can only be picked up for college graduates. if you draw a car with diploma and you didnt choose college path, keep your carreer. If you land on a house space, you may buy or sell a house, or skip. If you decide to buy one, take two house cards, choose one and pay the purchase price return the other card to the bottom of the deck. If you decide to sell a house, spin the wheel and collect the sale price for the color as listed on your house card and return the card to the bottom of the deck. If you land on an invest space, decide if you want to invest. If so, take your card, choose a number on the side of the board and slide the card under it, keeping only the invest text visible. Every time you or another player spins that number, display the next payout level and collect that amount. If you land on that space again, you can bumb up your invest card to the next payout level and collect the amount. or move the investment to a different number, which resets the card. If you don’t have money to pay a debt, the banker gives you the cash, plus one bank loan certificate for every 50k you need to borrow. Players can pay the loan certificate by returning the it and 60k in cash to the bank. The game ends when all players reach the retirement space. Collect this bonuses according to who retired first. then, do the following steps listed bellow. the player with the most cash wins! If there is a tie, the player who retired first is the winner.

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The Game of Life

The Game of Life

1960·Reuben Klamer, Bill Markham

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62
Creators
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Some reviews. The Game of Life is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 8 reviews, 6 how-to-play guides, 3 recorded sessions, and 45 other videos.

2 - 6 players
60 min
Light weight: Learn it in minutes

About The Game of Life, from BoardGameGeek:

This game attempts to mirror life events many people go through from going to college, raising a family, buying a home, working and retiring. The intent of the game is to have the most assets at the end of the game, assets are earned primarily by working and earning tokens with dollar amounts on them. Additionally the first person to complete the course gets additional money tokens. There is a very linear board that you move along by spinning a wheel or landing on spaces that tell you to move to a specific space or forward or back. There are a handful of intersections where you can choose to go one direction or another but they ultimately have similar spaces and meet back up quickly. There are a handful of choices regarding insurance and investments but for the most part it is a game of luck. Note -- this entry covers many versions of the game with different rule sets. In general, the newer the printing the gentler the rules. The 1960s original can be quite brutal if the players choose to act on all the options made available to them. The most recent versions are suitable for young children without parental supervision.

Designers

Reuben Klamer, Bill Markham

Artist

David Bracken

Publisher

Alga

Categories

Children's GameEconomic

Mechanics

Roll and MoveSimulation
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