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The classic „Game of Life“ has now been transformed into a card game? College or Job? Pop Star or Family? Players decide themselves on their way of life. The cards are sorted by colors, shuffled and stacked face down. There are pink family cards, blue profession cards, yellow adventure cards and green assets cards. At the start of the game you draw 5 cards from any stacks of your choice, and should try to achieve a good mixture.

You lay out a card, tell a story to fit the topic of the card and draw a card from any stack of your choice. The cards you lay out tell the story of your life. Cards without a symbol are used to start a column in your life’s story; cards showing a red symbol demand the presence of other cards in the column; the symbol denotes which cards must be in place before you can play this card. Other cards carry an arrow symbol; these cards allow you to acquire cards from other players. Cards that have been placed into any of the four columns as part of a player’s life story cannot be taken up in hand again. If you do not have any card that you want to play you can discard a card and draw a new one, this makes the discarded card available for other players. If you draw a 10+ card, you lay it down; when a total of six such cards are on display the game ends. If you then have the most points on display in your life story you win the game.

Basically, this is a set collecting game, which has been used very felicitous and attractive to turn the card game into a board game, telling a little story when laying out a card is a nice detail that introduces some creativity into the game.

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 15+

Designer: not named

Artist: not named

Price: ca. 6 Euro

Publisher: Hasbro 2011

Web: www.hasbro.de

Genre: Card game

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Attractive and well-made implementation of the board game

Nice graphics

Good travel game

Compares to:

The Game of Life Board game, as to mechanism to all set collecting games with card effects

Other editions:

The Game of Life Adventures, Hasbro US

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 2

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 1

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0