{"product_id":"game-of-life-classic","title":"Game of Life: Classic","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe game where you get a job, buy a house, have children, and retire — all in about forty-five minutes.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Game of Life has been asking players to spin a wheel and make life decisions since 1960, and there's something both deeply silly and deeply compelling about it. You pick a career, choose whether to go to university (and take on the debt that comes with it), get married, have children, buy a house, and eventually retire — all while hoping your spin of the wheel lands on something better than your opponent's.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eHow it works\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlayers move their little cars along a winding life path, spinning to determine how many spaces they advance. Landing on different spaces triggers life events — career changes, salary adjustments, unexpected windfalls, or equally unexpected disasters. Decisions made early in the game (college versus career, house choices, number of children) affect your financial position all the way through. The player who retires with the most money wins — which is perhaps the most honest summary of modern life ever captured in a board game.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWhy families keep coming back to it\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Game of Life creates stories. The retired accountant with six children and a beach house is a different character to the artist who went to university and ended up winning the lottery in the final stretch. Every game is a different narrative, and that's genuinely rare in classic family gaming.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlayers: 2–6 | Playing time: 45–60 minutes | Ages: 8+ | Publisher: Hasbro\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePerfect for:\u003c\/strong\u003e Families, game nights, introducing kids to the concept of life decisions and consequences, anyone who enjoys irony\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hasbro","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49569264009368,"sku":"HASF0800","price":54.8,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.cartellgames.com.au\/products\/game-of-life-classic","provider":"Cartell Games","version":"1.0","type":"link"}