Mankomania

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Mankomania
Game data
author Dan Glimne
graphic Anders Jeppsson , Rob Sheffield
publishing company MB games
Art Board game
Teammates 2 to 4
Duration about 60 minutes
Age from 8 years

Shortcoming Mania (full name . Shortcoming Mania As you squandered a Million ; english ! Go For Broke ) is a board game , the first time in 1985 by MB Games was issued. The object of the game is to be the first to spend the starting budget of one million dollars received at the beginning . The aim of the game is the opposite of board games like Monopoly and Game of Life . Production of the game has now been discontinued.

Construction and process

The playing field is square. On all four sides there are event fields next to each other, so that a round is created that the playing figures can cover. Each of the two to four players receives a million dollars in play money at the start of the game. The playing figures, four champagne bottles in different colors, start in one of the four corners of the playing field. Each player receives a suitable hotel, which he sets up on the space provided. The player entitled to start is determined by rolling the dice; the player with the highest number starts. After the start, the players move their pieces clockwise along the event fields of the playing field according to the numbers on the thrown die. It is now a matter of reaching the event fields that result in a loss of play money and avoiding those that result in a money gain.

In addition to the simple event fields, there are those that result in special actions:

  • Hotels: If a player lands on one of the blue hotel fields, he has the opportunity to set up his hotel there and thus collect rent from fellow players who land on his hotel field in the course of the game.
  • Lottery: If you land on one of the "Go to the lottery" fields, you go to the lottery field and collect the dollar amount previously paid in by the other players as a prize.
  • Stock Exchange
  • horse race
  • Casino: contains the two games of chance, the slot machine and the roulette table
  • Evil 1

The player who was the first to spend his entire million and thereby become insolvent wins.

Awards

The game was awarded Årets Spil ( Game of the Year ) in the category Best Family Game in 1988 , an award from the Danish games industry.

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