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La Course à l’Élyssée

Electional Campaign in France

Published on occasion of the French Presidential Elections in 2012 - players are candidates and representatives of a political party - Nationalists, Social Democrats, Alternative-Ecologists, conservatives, centralists and Anti-Capitalists. You mount the stairs and must depending on the step reached - either participate in a debate or resolve the instruction of a card. Each party is characterized by a special slogan, which you must include in every debate. These debates are refereed by a “journalist” who is always embodied by the player to the left of the active player. You as the active player draw the topic of the debate from the stack and then choose one of three “Idea” cards in your hand; then you choose one of the players for your opponent who now also chooses an idea from his hand and each player can then speak while the timer is running.  You can use other player’s thoughts, but must take care to include the slogan creatively! The winner is voted for and advances three steps, the party whose emblem is on the idea card used advances two steps. You play two stages in the game; in the first stage two players will qualify for the second stage, the finale. This comprises one final debate; the players not participating in the finale choose the winner and elect him president.

The game is not aiming to be a political satire but a contest of ideas and quick repartees, cynicism is allowed, attacking other party slogans is a must and if you combine all this best with creative choice of words you will enter the Élysée palace as president. Do you have political talents and do you speak French?

Players: 3-6

Age: 14+

Time: 45+

Designer: Abel Anzac

Artist: Christophe Blain, Stéphane Gantiez

Price: ca. 30 Euro

Publisher: Letheia 2012

Web: www.lacoursealelysee.fr

Genre: Political simulation

Users: With friends

Version: fr

Rules: fr

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Needs good knowledge of French language

Emphasis on argumentation

No satire, but simulation

Only for fans of the genre

Compares to:

All debating games with a political topic

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 2

Creativity (dark blue): 3

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 3

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0