How to play The Game of Life

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RULES:

The object of the game is to be the player with the most money at the end. The youngest player goes first then play proceeds clockwise. On your turn, spin the spinner and move your car forward, along the path following the direction of the arrows, by the number of spaces spun. You may not move backwards. When you pass a green payday space, collect your salary as indicated on your career card. If you land on a green payday space, then you collect an additional 100K bonus.

When you land on an action space, take the top action card from the deck, read it aloud (except for the yellow highlighted text at the bottom) and follow the instructions. Keep the action cards you draw in facedown pile by you until the end of the game to earn more money.

When you land on a spin to win space, all players choose a number on the spin to win wheel and place their token on that number. You get to put a second silver token on a second number since you landed on the space. Spin the spinner until a number with a token on it comes up. That player wins 200K and the tokens are returned.

When you land on a baby space, add as many pegs to your car as the space tells you and add them to your car. When you land on a house space, you may choose to buy a house, sell a house, or do nothing. To buy a house, draw the top 2 cards from the house deck and pick one. Pay the bank the purchase price and return the other to the bottom of the deck. Place the newly purchased home faceup in front of you. You may own more than one house. To sell a house, spin the spinner and look at the center colored area to see if it is red or black. Collect the sale price as indicated on the card by the color from the bank, then return the card to the bottom of the deck.

When you land on a pet space, draw a pet card, read it aloud and do what it says. Add the card to your collection of action cards until the end of the game for more money.

When you come to a stop space, you must stop moving, even if you had moves left. After resolving your stop you always spin and move again. Each stop space is different, and are as follows:
“Graduation”. Take the top 2 college career cards from the deck, pick one to put faceup in front of you and put the other back under the deck.
“Get Married”. Add another people peg to your car, then spin. If you spin red, every other player gives you 50K. If you spin black, then every other player gives you 100K.
“Night School”. If you don’t want to change your career, you don’t have to. If you want to change your career. Pay the bank 100K. Take the top college career card from the deck. If you want it, swap it with your current career card, if not, put it back under the deck.
“Family”. Pick a direction to travel.
“Baby”. Spin the spinner to see how many babies you’ve had. Add the appropriate people pegs to your car.
“Risky”. Pick a direction to travel.

If ever you don’t have enough money to pay a debt or buy something, you must take out a bank loan. The banker gives you 50K plus 1 white bank loan each time you borrow. Pay the loan back at any time by returning it, along with 60K to the bank.

When you reach the retirement space, choose whether to go to the millionaire mansion or the countryside acres. Park your car, kick back, and wait for everyone else to retire. Collect your retirement bonus from the bank as follows: The first to retire receives 400K. the 2nd receives 300K, the 3rd receives 200K, and the 4th receives 100K.

Once everyone has retired, everyone pays back their debts and add up their wealth. Sell all your houses. Collect 100K for each action and pet card you have. Collect 50K for each baby you have. Pay the bank 60K for each loan. Add all your cash together. The player with the most money wins!

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Its a bit like Monopoly but with an end.

Rstar

My daughter and I watched this video and are going to play for the first time. This is always the channel we go to before playing a new game.

The_Wailing_Doom

I played this game 26 years ago. I would always skip marriage and kids. I broke the rule of choosing a teacher career card without going to college. Years later, I became a teacher without earning a degree, and I'm still single and childless 🙂

charmleneboni

Reuben Klamer the toy inventor of "The Game of Life" died on 9/14/21 He also created the phaser rifle used in the" Star Trek" TV series. It's amazing that a man who created one of the most popular games in US history ended up being it's biggest winner of all. He lived to be 99 years old. Obviously he knew a lot more about winning in the real game of life than anybody ever gave him credit for.

honestone

I used to play this when I was a kid but it has changed so much, a lot more options than before.

DaleSteadman

Played about 4 games of this tonight. Love it. I enjoy it more than the old version I'm used to from the 90's and on. I miss some of the old jobs tho.

Martel

We just played the 2007 edition tonight and it is INSANE how much this game has changed since this point. This game is constantly changing with each revision- some of the rules stated here may be accurate for the current version of the game but according to the rule book we read tonight would not be permitted. Read the rules of your book carefully, I suppose!

jeff

I've always liked the concept of the game of life, but I've always wanted a more realistic version where things can and will go wrong, so you need to keep retrying until you succeed.

MrJoeyWheeler

This lockdown gave me chance to play it properly
Specially with my family
like this I never got chance to play with my family

anandkhanna

I just realized that I’ve been playing this whole game wrong

optimusprime

Thank you! I haven’t played it in years. It’s obviously had a huge facelift since I was a kid. But, I totally enjoyed playing this with my 7 year old.

michaeldomingo

My favorite game!! Thank you Shari Wilson!! We played it Amen!!!

tamarafox

I just got life for the first time in many year and it is different I thought remembering wrong I'm happy to find out that the game was as I remember now I'm trying to figure out why they changed the game

wesley

Man, I he up with my family's traditional 1950-60's versions of these games. Life, Yhatzee, Monopoly. The games rules were so different. If you can get em please show some the old school ones. They were so different! Life had revenge spaces and all kinds of evil stuff.

MetaSynForYourSoul

Awesome bro I didn’t even know how to play this ever since I bought it ever since 2nd grade I bought it’s been a long time since that happened and I forgot how to play in 3rd thanks you really helped

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