Game: Get Out

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igloo — 2008-03-24T15:12:42+00:00

All the components that ceom with the game: Rules, board, cards, and the envelope in which everything else is stored

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igloo — 2008-03-24T15:10:56+00:00

The two decks of cards, front and back, in their paper wraps

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igloo — 2008-03-24T15:09:02+00:00

The board

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quadshot — 2008-02-05T01:01:46+00:00

HRS of game envelope

Thread: Re: Need Rules for Get Out

DrFaust — 2008-01-24T06:20:41+00:00

I can't offer you the PDF myself, but you might try contacting Cheapass Games directly. I once lost the rules to Unexploded Cow. Not only were they kind enough to send me a replacement copy, they threw a bunch of freebies in the envelope, too.

Thread: Need Rules for Get Out

Rygel — 2007-12-17T22:21:38+00:00

Can anyone please send me a pdf with the rule for Get Out. Thanks

Thread: Need Rules for Ebola Monket Hunt

Rygel — 2007-12-17T22:20:00+00:00

Can anybody please send me a pdf of the rules for this game? A bought a copy but when I got it there were no rules included. Thanks

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jpsharp — 2007-09-04T07:27:04+00:00

Thread: Re: Eviction Can't pay for Hotel?

MrBeefy84 — 2007-05-11T19:15:52+00:00

Ah Thanks alot that makes sense and clarifies the problems we had.

Thread: Re: Eviction Can't pay for Hotel?

kusinohki — 2007-05-11T05:17:57+00:00

I had to double check the rules...

The only thing I can find is under special squares around the board - pay day: "If you can't make rent, you pay what you can, and then you get evicted."

*searching...* ah ha! I knew there was another blurb... Under strategy hints - turn order it mentions you get to choose the order you pay apartments if you have more than 1, effectively allowing you to choose which one to get evicted from.

Thread: Re: Level Movements

kusinohki — 2007-05-11T05:09:00+00:00

It's something you choose to do on your next roll. Your 'application marker' immediately goes above the job or apartment.

Thread: Level Movements

MrBeefy84 — 2007-05-09T16:43:29+00:00

After you get a job or hotel do you automatically go up to the next level or is that something you can choose to do on your next roll?

Thread: Eviction Can't pay for Hotel?

MrBeefy84 — 2007-05-09T16:41:34+00:00

When reading through the rulebook I couldn't find where it exactly said what happened when you couldn't pay for your hotel. I think your evicted but we couldn't find it in the rulebook where it said it. Does anyone know?

Thread: Re: User Review

lenrob49 — 2007-01-22T04:04:26+00:00

Played this the other day with 3 players. If this is a Monopoly clone then it is certainly a huge improvement. There are far more choices to be made. It takes far less time (about 1 hour for us) and players are not eliminated. We were not disappointed at all.

Thread: User Review

zombiemonkey — 2004-03-18T23:44:50+00:00

Get Out casts the players as geeks living with their parents, competing for jobs and apartments with the ultimate aim of 'getting a life' in order to win.

Players race around a Monopoly style board putting in job applications and earning cash from their new employers. Once players have a job, they can then ascend to the next level of the board and try their luck at staying in an apartment whilst paying the bills and dealing with random events (brought on by cards - Comic Page and Plot Twist, rather than Chance and Community Chest). The winner is the first player to accumulate four life points.

Get Out is little more than a Monopoly clone with the trademark (and very amusing) Cheapass sense of humour. It is a fairly entertaining diversion, although there isn't much replay value - and it lasts far too long considering the type of game that it is. There are many more Cheapass games out there that are far more deserving of your cash than this. Disappointing.

Thread: User Review

Thedalek — 2002-07-29T21:42:30+00:00

Get Out is the game of being a freeloading teenager who's trying to live life free from your parents. Well, four months of life, anyway. In order to do this, you must get a job, rent an apartment, and keep from going broke.

Like the summary for this game says, it is a lot like Monopoly, but with more twists than a corkscrew. Getting a job takes up free time, which means that on certain rolls of the dice, you don't get to move as much. The more jobs you take, the fewer chances to move you get.

Also, once you get an apartment, you have to pay rent each month, so you not only have income, but also expenses.

Another interesting twist is that just landing on a job or apartment does not necessarily mean you get it. Sure, if you're the only one wanting that job/apartment, you're more likely, but when two or more people have put in applications, things get competitive.

Lastly, the event cards are really funny. A lot of the time, when you buy a Cheapass game, you're buying the humor as much as the game. This is really the case with Get Out.

All in all, it's a fairly fun game, and reasonably priced to boot. Granted, it suffers from a lot of the same luck issues as Monopoly, but the many twists make it interesting enough to make you want to play again.

Suggested for at least 3 players, best with 4 who are willing to roleplay the situations.

Thread: User Review

cardshark28800 — 2002-07-25T16:14:30+00:00

Get Out is a game from the Cheapass Games line. This means you get the bare essentials, everything else is up to you. In the case of Get Out, you get several pieces of tagboard that become the gameboard, and two decks of cards. It's up to you to provide play money, two dice, pawns, and matching tokens for each player. For this trade, you pay less than $10 for the game, and most every gamer can find this equipment lying around somewhere.

Now, to the game. Each player represents a slacker living in his or her parents' basement. All of them have the same goal: find a job, get a place to live, and survive life for four months. Whoever does this first wins. You can adjust the length of the game by adjusting how many Life Points you need to win.

Moving is accomplished through two dice. A neat-o effect occurs when you get your first job; any six you rolled is cancelled, and you move what's on the other die. Every new job you take on means that the next lowest number also cancels out (so if you have three jobs, you won't move at all on a pair of fours). If you can't move three times in a row, you have to quit a job.

Your jobs provide a pathway to the apartment ring, the farther along the track, the more expensive the apartment is. It's through the apartment ring that you move to the "Get Out" ring. If you have enough money to survive here without getting kicked out, you get a Life Point.
Get three more and you win.

Since players can do more with more money, they are tempted to try and get as much of it as possible. This isn't a good idea, since players can have loads of money, but no way to get through the game, and they wind up stranded, and someone with a hundred bucks to spare sneaks out the win. The point isn't to be rich, it's to get a life.

As in most Cheapass titles, the game is fairly straightforward, there isn't lots that you can do outside what the dice tell you to. That said, it's still a fun game. Many of the business and apartment building names
are clever puns, and the chance cards inject some levity into the proceedings. For seven dollars, you could do a lot worse.

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