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The Prodigals Club

plan your financial and social ruin!

Strangely, characters in the game want to become poor and so players as prodigals try to worsen their status by losing an election or to get rid of worldly goods or insulting influential people in society. You can combine any two competitions or play all three. In each competition, you try to lose points in a total of five rounds or until one player has arrived at Zero points in one section. A score of Zero, however, is not the aim of the game, you need to balance your score in all competitions - at the end the highest of your scores is compared to the highest score of others and you win with the lowest high score.

In the Possessions competitions money is scored, in the Election Competition votes determine your score and in the Society Competition your sum on influence on four tracks will result in your score.

The phases of a round are: 1. Set up of the necessary game boards. 2. Errands - you command errand boys, place them on free cases on the boards and resolve the corresponding errand; 3. Actions: each player has a turn and can use and resolve any number of action cards, for once-only or multiple actions; 4. If you play the Election Competition, the Hyde Park Phase is played, comparing ownership of Megaphones. 5. If you play the Society Competition, you play the Dame Beatrice Phase with comparison of influence markers. 6. End of round with checking for end-of-game conditions, new turn order and clearing up of game boards.

The game is a Last Will spin-off and can be combined with Last Will or played as a stand-alone game. A dilemma in your choice of actions and the unusual aim of the game provide a tricky and challenging game.

Players: 2-5

Age: 14+

Time: 90+

Designer: Vladimír Suchý

Artist: Tomáš Kučerovský, Václav šlajch, Ján Lastomírský, František Horálek, Michael Petrus, Dita Lazárková

Price: ca. 30 Euro

Publisher: Czech Games Edition 2015

Web: www.czechgames.com

Genre: Worker placement

Users: With friends

Users: For experts

Version: en

Rules: cz de en fr it pl

In-game text: yes

Comments:

High-quality components

Stand-alone or for use with Last Will

Many action options

Unusual winning conditions

Compares to:

Last Will

Other editions:

Club der Verschwender, Heidelberger Spieleverlag (de); CGE (fr), Mindok (cz), Cranio Creations (it), Rebel.pl (pl),

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 2

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0