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1935
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2 − 6
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Best with 3, 4 players
Recommended with 3, 4, 5 players
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Playing Time
60 minutes
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Moderate in-game text - needs crib sheet or paste ups
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Game of Politics
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Oswald B. Lord's Game of Politics
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Politics simulates a very simplistic version of the presidential election in the United States of America (electoral votes based on the 1950 census).

The playing board represents a map of the United States showing each state and its capital. On a player's turn, they roll 3 dice (1 colored, 2 white) - the colored dice tells the player which states to be worked in this turn and the white dice tells the player how many "counties" (4-7 in each state) they win.

An official "vote" is taken when all the states have at least one candidate in it and someone rolls doubles. The player who has the most counties in any given state wins all the electoral votes from that state. If one player does not have a majority of electoral votes (269), only the two players with the highest votes continue - the rest are eliminated. It continues until another official vote is taken and a winner is determined.

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Game of Politics
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Boxed Edition 1952
Publisher: Parker Brothers
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Year: 1952
Size: 19.75 x 14.00 x 1.25 inches
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Oswald B. Lord's Game of Politics
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First Edition Small Box and Separate Board
Publisher: Parker Brothers
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Year: 1935
Size: 9.00 x 6.75 x 1.38 inches
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2 Game of Politics Tally Sheet 1952 version
For use with the 1952 version of the Game of Politics. There are 48 states listed as Alaska and Hawaii were not yet states. I kept the games original abbreviations because of whimsy.
2008-11-04
5 Speech Cards from the 1935 edition of Oswald B. Lord's Game of Politics
The full text from all cards included in the 1935 edition of the game, along with a tally as to the value of the card in terms of the equivalent die roll required to do such campaigning.
2008-11-02
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