Here's how to play; the game is designed with a board similar to a Monopoly
board. There are 50 spaces. On just about every space, it tells you either
to take one of a variety of cards ( Guest Pass, Photo Pass, Press Release,
Crew Pass, and Access All Areas ) or it tells you to go backwards or
forewards several spaces, and gives some reason for the move -- "23 Hour
Drive To Next Gig; Back 2", or "Meet Fans At Instore; Foreward 5" for
example. A few spaces are the "Blag A Pass" spaces. If you land on one
such space, you then spin the Pass Disc to see which pass you should take.
The idea, as I see it, is to get to the last space of the board, the Hotel,
with a certain variety of cards; either an Access All Areas card or a Photo
Pass AND a Crew Pass AND a Guest Pass. If you either do not have the
correct passes or you do not land directly on the space, you continue around
the board. In the corners, there are areas similar to Jail in Monopoly, or
the Hospital in Careers; the Photo Pit, the Catering Tent, and the Backstage
Area. If you land on these spaces or are told to go to one of them by the
instructions on a space ( like "Go Directly To Jail; Do Not Pass GO, Do Not
Collect $200" from Monopoly ) you must use one of these passes to get out;
the Guest Pass gets you out of the Catering Tent, the Crew Pass gets you out
of the Backstage Area, and the Photo Pass gets you out of the ( guess
what... ) Photo Pit -- or an Access All Areas will get you out of any of
them. If you do not have cards, you can also get out by spinning a 6 on the
spin disc. If you spin a 6, you then spin the spin disc again to find out
how far you should move. Or, if the spinner lands on Blag A Pass, you spin
the Pass Disc. If you get a relevant pass this way, you then spin the Spin
Disc. Or if it tells you to take a Press Release, you do that and then
follow whatever instructions it has on it instead of spinning the Spin Disc.
Also, the player with the longest hair or the largest Megadeth collection (
me of course ) goes first, and then the the Spin Disc goes around clockwise.
I think that just about explains it.
if this all sounds familiar, it's because you went to Mark Smeets site and read his FAQ. I sent this to him and many other people through The Rattler, the Megadeth e-mail discussion group
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