KHG - the corrupt have money
| KHG - Corrupt Have Money | |
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 KHG board game |
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| Game data | |
| author | Klaus Hofegger Christian Felsenreich |
| publishing company | Piatnik |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| Art | Board game |
| Teammates | 3 to 4 |
| Duration | 60 to 80 minutes |
| Age | 14 years and older |
KHG , or “Korrupte haben Geld” for long, is a board game for 3 to 4 people by Klaus Hofegger and Christian Felsenreich from 2015. It is suitable for ages 14 and up and was produced by Piatnik . The game makes the strategies and coalitions of corruption in Austria more visible.
Theme and equipment
In the game, 3 to 4 players try to deceive each other with corrupt tricks and thus make the most money. Corruption in Austria is the subject of this board game. The rules of the game say: “Of course, the presumption of innocence always applies. Everything is allowed that is not explicitly forbidden. "
The game material consists of
- 1 game board
- 4 pawns
- 12 sided dice
- 24 corruption case cards from the 3 areas of banking, industry and politics
- 30 action cards "Power and Intrigue"
- 8 yes / no chips
- 15 x 4 friendship services
- 3 money deposit tiles
- 3 professional corruption tokens
- 4 x 21 banknotes
- 1 set of instructions
- 1 booklet with data and facts about the "role models"
Rules of the game
construction
First, the money is sorted by value and placed close to hand next to the game board. All money is the state treasury. Then the “Power & Intrigue” action cards are shuffled to form a face-down pile. The 24 corruption case cards are sorted by number. They are placed next to the game board as a supply along with the Friendship Services. Each player chooses a player color and places his pawn on the starting field. Each player receives 1 x 200,000, 2 x 100,000, 2 x 50,000 and a “Power & Intrigue” action card as starting capital. Then a player takes 8 friendship services (two of each type). The dealer distributes them so that each player gets two different ones. In a three-player game, each player receives three friendship services. The player who in reality committed the criminal offense with the highest penalty starts. If there is a disagreement, whoever rolls the highest begins.
Game flow
You play clockwise. In your turn you roll the dice and move your pawn by the corresponding number of spaces. The field on which the pawn lands determines what has to be done. There are friendship service and corruption case fields, as well as the four corner fields: start, whistleblower, friendship economy and committee of inquiry. During a turn, a “Power & Intrigue” action card can also be bought and any number of action cards can be played. If you have enough money, you can also create a money deposit. If a player has already won several cases, he may take a corruption professional token. Then it is the next player's turn. When the treasury is empty, the game is over. The winner is the player who made the most money in the end.
Emergence
The two brothers Klaus Hofegger and Christian Felsenreich had the idea at the beginning of 2015 and were able to collect the production costs with the help of 603 personal supporters in May 2015 with the crowdfunding platform Startnext . From autumn 2015 the game was produced in several editions by Piatnik . Over 11,000 pieces have been sold so far.
Lawsuit by Karl-Heinz Grasser
After the game appeared, Karl-Heinz Grasser sued the two game developers - among other things for "violation of his name and personal rights". In June 2016, the Vienna Regional Court for Civil Law Matters dismissed the lawsuit in the first instance because the design of the game did not constitute “an unlawful interference with the plaintiff's personal rights”. An appeal to the Higher Regional Court of Vienna was not followed, nor was the subsequent appeal to the Supreme Court . Both the second and the highest instance shared the legal opinion of the Vienna Regional Court for Civil Law Matters .
Individual evidence
- ↑ instructions (pdf); accessed on April 7, 2019.
- ↑ Der Standard (Vienna): Board game “KHG” re-enacts Austria's biggest corruption cases , May 12, 2015, accessed on June 19, 2016.
- ↑ ORF : Grasser lawsuit on board game dismissed , citing an article in the news magazine Profil , which will appear the following day, June 19, 2016, accessed on June 19, 2016.
- ^ Wiener Zeitung : Grasser's fight against a board game , October 6, 2016, accessed April 7, 2019
- ↑ Die Presse : Grasser has to accept board game "KHG" , December 1, 2016, accessed April 7, 2019