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So, a bunch of us were round at a friends place (J) for dinner last week when the conversation turned to boardgaming. This is fairly normal as G (another friend) and I play a lot together. J's ears perked up -
"Boardgames!" says he, "I have the most brilliant game, but no one will play with me".
"Oh," says we, "and what is that?".
"Cashflow 101", says he...
Now, G and I are always up for a game, and always up for expanding the old group of folk the pray upon; and we are well familiar with the challenge of introducing games with steep/long learning curves to newbies and having them put off by a solid thumping (read Agricola); so foolishly we said, "Lets give it a shot." It was only the the box came out that some dim alarmbells about...
Hmm, haven't I heard about this somewhere?
Out with the board. J gave us a quick once over for the rules. Is that really it? Divy up the careers:
J - Lawyer
G - Doctor
P - Nurse (whine, whine; bat eyes)
The mechanics of the game quickly became apparent. As did the strategy and tactics - in a word, "pray". As luck would have it; um, well, yes that is the point - as luck would have it! Doc G advanced ahead with some obscenely fortunate buy/sell card combos. Legal J preached the gospel according the "leverage". And I focussed on steadily reducing my liabilities, and praying that some nurse-salary accessible opportunity would my way come. While G was buying and flogging gold coins, and J was borrowing from the bank even when he had his own capital to spare, I was left with a debt to pay off and a small house to rent out. Brilliant! But then those were the options that came our respective ways (except J's unusual capital-retention-policy - we trust that in his inner workings he had some choice there).
When - eventually - the game was cut short by frustrated wives wanting some snooze-time I was loosely declared as having the smallest gap between "passive income" and "expenses" - obviously a factor of starting with the smallest.
G didn't mind - he had managed a thriumpant croquet victory over me earlier in the day - and both of us knew that set him well ahead... for now.
On a plus side - J has indicated a willness to try one of our games. I'm thinking a nice gateway like Catan...
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Michael R.
United States
West Valley
Utah
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I have played this game 3-4 times and won most of those. But having said that I feel like this is a very boring game and theme. A friend of mine absolutely loves it but apparently this game when purchased from a seminar I am told? Cost a few hundred dollars so he probably just wants to get his money's worth out of it.
When I play this game I feel like I am doing my taxes or balancing my checkbook. It was meant to teach you about positive cash-flow and investments and was cleverly disguised as a board game. The game of LIFE rates higher in my book.
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