Game Of Life

The Game of Life gives players a choice of which path to take in life, and depending on choices a player makes, he may end up kicking back in Millionaire Acres or living on the Poor Farm. Can you use strategy to win this Hasbro creation? Or does luck have anything to do with winning at Life?

Different versions of the game exist, but the concept of the game remains the same. Players progress though life and acquire or lose wealth.

Get a Job

At the beginning of the game, players decide which route to take. If players choose the Business or Career route, the salary earned is lower than any job from the College route. Choose carefully as this will determine your pay day salary.

Plan Life Events

Milestone events, including marriage and children, means players collect presents from opponents. Luck plays a role since the number you hit when spinning the wheel determines the amount you receive.

Insure Your Future and Stock Up

Purchase insurance, if you land on the corresponding space. Otherwise, landing on a hazard and being unprotected will result in a hefty fine. The benefit to insurance is that certain spaces award dividends if you land on one of them.

A stock certificate requires a $50,000 investment. Certain spaces require a stock certificate for a payout.

Wish for Luck

Lucky Day spaces earn an instant payment of $20,000. Players have two options: keep the money or gamble it for the opportunity to turn it into $300,000. Gambling is the preferable choice. The odds of winning are 5:1.

Retire Wisely

If you believe you have the most money, you may retire to Millionaire Acres. In some cases, depending on the number of players, it might be advantageous to gamble to be named the millionaire tycoon. This move, if played successfully, wins the game.

Winning at the Game of Life requires a bit more than luck. Strategy and financial planning will help you succeed and live a lifestyle of the rich and famous.

Game Of Life

In this classic game of fortune, your goal is to dodge bad luck and make a buck. Along the way, you'll also earn valuable Life Tiles by doing good deeds, helping your community, or just taking a break from the rat race! Retire with the biggest fortune, and you'll win! Each space is a different adventure, so you'll get a whole new Life every time you play. What does Life have in store for you' Take a spin and find out! For 2 to 6 players. Game includes: game board, six plastic car pawns, plastic "people pegs", plastic mountains, spinner and bridge, MB money, 25 Life Tiles, deck of 36 cards, insurance policies, bank loans, label sheet and instruction sheet. Color of parts my vary.

From ToyTips.comKids love pretending to be older, even to be adults. With Milton Bradley's Life game, children not only can imitate some of life's most exciting moments like going to college and getting married, they learn to handle money and some of life's pitfalls like losing a job. To play the board game, kids follow Life's path, collect money, experience life's events and go good deeds to earn Life Tiles. At the end of the game, players add up their money and values of the Life Tiles to determine the winner: the person with the most amount of money left. Life is a game that makes children think by challenging them to learn and problem solve through life's bumpy road. Since this is a board game for two to six players, social interaction is a major benefit. Children will not only learn the game and its rules, they will discuss the game's outcome, which stimulates thinking and character development.

In this classic game of fortune, your goal is to dodge bad luck and make a buck. Along the way, you'll also earn valuable Life Tiles by doing good deeds, helping your community, or just taking a break from the rat race. Retire with the biggest fortune, an

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114 of 118 people found the following review helpful.
BEWARE! This is not the game you remember!
By A
Do NOT confuse this new version of LIFE with the old version!!! The old version is a classic--this new version is a big disappointment. In the new LIFE you don't get to choose your career or anything. Instead of monetary bonuses throughout the game (e.g. spinning for gifts when you have a child) you get these silly "Life" cards that you can't look at until the end. At the end you get huge amounts of money with each "Life" card and it's possible to win even if you don't have very much cash in front of you because of those cards. It's disappointing to play the whole game and then lose because of those cards, which are totally random. It's like you play the whole game and then spin to see who is the winner. We became very bored with this game very quickly because it's almost nothing like the old Life game. The old Life game was more true to life. The new game isn't.

115 of 121 people found the following review helpful.
Newer isn't always better
By Efrain Rivera Jr.
If you have ever played the earlier version of life please do yourself a favor and avoid this "new" version like the blak plague. My friends and I used to play the old version every single day up to late hours. Once we learned the new version was out we ran and bought it. WHAT A DISAPOINTMENT!!!! Compared to the old version this one is HORRIBLE. It isn't fun. The new rules [are not good]. You can not bet anymore. Money isn't the way it used to be (what's with the litte pieces of carton?) Maybe if someone at MB reads this they will go back to the basics and bring back what was once a great and fun family game to play. Lucky for us we still have, and play with, our old and much better version of Life.

114 of 121 people found the following review helpful.
Read the Reviews Before You Buy!
By A
I wish that I had read some of the reviews before I purchased this one. We had this game when I was a kid and it was one of my favorites. However, I didn't realize that they had revised the game.

I find the new format frustrating and empty. There isn't as much interaction between players in this one (others don't have to give you money when you get married, have children, etc.), except for the career spots and those detract from the game - they're pretty pointless and not true to the real world as we know it.

I have to agree with the previous reviewer who found the LIFE cards very annoying. There doesn't seem to be any hope for the underdog in this version; if you don't happen to pick a good salary, you won't win, no matter how many LIFE cards you pick up along the way.

I really wish that they had left the game the way it was! I think we'll go dig up the old one that my husband's parents have somewhere. That will be more fun!

Bottom Line: After wanting to own this game for a while, I wish I hadn't wasted my money. I'll just find an older used one. One word - disappointing.

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