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For laughs break the rules play it coed and ask the men to imagine a that their answers would be ii they were women. Now that s revealing. Monopoly style games that involve play Money buying and Selling Wheeling and dealing always Are popular. Among the new ones is Broadway adapted by Mike Farrell who starred As b j. Hunnicut in a a Shl in which the abject is to invest in a Broadway show such As Oklahoma and move around the Board trying to bring it to Broadway. In another Money Board game the Bottom line each player starts out $2 million in debt. It s the brainchild of British financier Trevor peppers who tested the game while he was in a London jail convicted of 15 million pounds Worth of Bank fraud. The game is the first in a series of nine that Pepperell says comprise his financial autobiography. The Winner is the Wheeler dealer in property Gold and gambling who is the first to amass $5 million. For monopoly Tan there s a new Book beyond Boardwalk and Park place subtitled the unauthorized guide to making monopoly fun authors Noel Gunther and Richard Mutton aim to Speed up and spice up the old game by Ehan Inq the rules. In traditional monopoly for instance the main strategy has always been to buy any properly you land on. In the new version when you lend on a property you can boy it for double the list Price or it will be auctioned off. At double the Price players would go broke buying everything. Instead they must use strategy and skill. The new version also eliminates $1 Bills and mortgages end introduces something new go cards. When a player lands on go to collects $200 but also must pick a card. They Range from you be been elected sheriff. Send another player to jail to you hold a party to Curry favor with Community leaders pay $25 for the television has been a source for new games for years with last year s introduction of wheel of Fortune the Best Rove yet. Wheat. America s most popular syndicated to show has produced the Best Selling braid game. More than four million copies have been produced and the game is so hot a truckload of the new deluxe edition recently was hijacked from the manufacturer s loading Dock. The show wheel of Fortune derives from the old Pencil and paper game a new game with Pencil and paper roots is out of it s like dictionary Only instead of picking the real definition from among the phonies context asks ils players to pick the real quotation from a Field of Bluffs. And if the name will sell the game there s one sure Winner among this year s crop. It is titled screw the . Internal Revenue service in which the players try to match their salary cards with deductions always under the threat of an audit. Among these new games cafes Europe now carries wheel of Fortune and out of context said a Hamilton director of purchasing end distribution Lor cafes suit of game profits in t trivial ,.ney involved in Selling Board game Lun As Well As profit triumvirate Lich currently is being 28th and 29lh line estimates it has ill Roduco Ion five the last 36 months pried j on Ihler laurels a new game i Haney said in an i in the United i one time and there Fly in Australia offs came out in i before we Sud it seems like y found the world j divided into six game divides the and Only need to i happened where i have to locate ii if people told me 1 was their favorite a said Haney who said he has topped around All Over Europe and Africa which makes geography a natural for him. He did not learn his geographical trivia at school. I left school Al 17," he said. Biggest mistake i Ever Mode. Should have done it Al 12." actor Mike Farrell Best known As b j. Hunnicut in a a so has come out with a Board game in which the players invest in a show and try to bring it to Broadway. Farrell himself preferred to invest in Broadway the Board game. When i was in a a so and in looked like it would run a while. I had Money to invest Farrell said but i did t want to invest my Money in something that would Poison the atmosphere or kill people. Ii was hard to find an a Friend named Ernie Parmentier had invented a game years ago that never became popular except As a kind of cull backstage among new York actors it was always Ernie get the game out of your closet and let s play " far refi said. We used to play on a handmade Board with thumbtacks and Little artefacts he had put together we had great fun. Laughing and Yelling at each other at the time electronic games were popular everything was beeping at you and making you feel like on alien in your own Home. Also the games were Between oneself and a machine not among Farreh s brother in Law a graphic artist designed a new Broadway Board and Farrell and friends worked on refining the game then we were faced with How to Market a new product something we had absolutely no experience in he said. We were a Little cottage Industry. We got All the components and my kids put Little pegs in plastic bags. We were working of of my garage for a couple of years which is not How you Market a National Farrell eventually signed up with str inc. The people who do dungeons and dragons. British financier tuned jailbird Trevor Pepperell found a system All his own for Market testing his game the Bottom line the first of nine games he has devised thai comprise what he Calls my autobiography in until 1979 Pepperell enjoyed the High life. I had a chateau in France a yacht on the Riviera a Flat and things in Switzerland overlooking the Pepperell said. I enjoyed All the gee Gaws of Success of being a in 1979, Pepperell s Bubble burst he was convicted of Bank fraud involving More than 15 million pounds. He claims he was innocent but nevertheless was convicted and served two years in prison. Eventually the Gates of Wormwood scrubs closed behind Pepperell said Over the years i had formulated various games but the difficulty with these games is that you have to have a lot of Lime to draw them All out and an enormous number of people to play them out. When the prison doors crashed behind me i was somewhat upset then i looked around and saw 500 men doing nothing. I knew Fate had led me to my research and development when he was transferred to a belter jail with a higher Quality prisoner. The games were edited he said. When i got Down to Ford open an open prison where they get a very High Quality of prisoner no Riff Ralf my games were proof read by some of the finest criminal minds in Pep Peroh waa released from prison in 1963, found Backer willing to take flyer on his game and produced the Bottom line which has been very popular in Britain and now la available in the United state. Hit had not been for my Joum at her majesty s pleasure Pepperell said i might not have been Able to do my nine games. When a door Larnt behind you like that you have a Choice you can crawl into a Comer and die or you can see what door Fate has left open for the stars and stripes
