Tournament rules are available here just in case you can get a few neighbourhood secret societies together for a game.

The game’s official rules are available on the Steve Jackson Games website. You can find copies of Illuminati: The Game of Conspiracy on Amazon – click here! You can find a full list of cards at the Steve Jackson Games official website.

Just to mention some of them, there were Phone Phreaks, Science Fiction Fans, Hackers, Punk Rockers, The Men in Black, White Collar Crime, Yuppies, Trekkies, Survivalists and Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow. If you’ve played before, then you’ll probably have some form of nostalgia for at least one of these cards. Most of the game consisted of cards played in turn, and this is where the game really got to have its fun. If you’ve never heard of the game before, the sole goal is world domination. The copy was still in excellent, pretty much original condition and it was just the right amount of weird that made me buy it – for less than a dollar at the time. My first encounter with this game was in a Hospice charity store in Johannesburg more than ten years ago. If that doesn’t make you want to play it, what will? If we can make a general suggestion, how about an updated edition of this game with “X Celebrity Wins Election” as an updated card? Tabloids have even blamed the game for predicting World War 3. It was first introduced in the year 1982 according to the official website for Steve Jackson Games, and it’s been the subject of plenty of hype, paranoia and controversy – which was kind of the point. Coyne © Gifts for Card Players Steve Jackson’s Illuminati can be considered one of the strangest, best and most original card and board games to ever hit the market.

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