Game Daze Arrowhead Towne Centre Manager Recommendation, June 2010

Bob -

Careers is a classic game that everyone can enjoy. In Careers you will set out your own formula for success at the start of the game. Do you want to have lots of fame, money or happiness? Or a mix of each? You have 60 points to divide any way you want, and when you meet your formula, you win. Be mindful of your formula though, because it doesn't matter if you have 100 fame if you only have 10,000 and 10 happiness if you need 20 of each to reach your formula.

As you go around the board you will be able to enter into career tracks which will provide you with different opportunities to meet your formula. You might get a bonus for doing a good presentation in the Big Business career, or a lot of fame in the Astronaut track. But you can also have bad things happen, like getting chewed out by your boss and lose happiness, or even get fired and moved into the unemployment square.

You also have to be mindful of what your opponents are doing. If someone lands on you, you get sent to the unemployment square where you have to roll 5 or less to get out, or pay half of your wage. You will get experience and opportunity cards at certain points in the game after completing certain tasks or landing on special spots. These cards will let you move to different parts of the board, or a certain number of spaces to work to your advantage, or the disadvantage of other players.

Overall this game is a lot of fun, and provides players with lots of different strategies to fill out their formula, and try to mess with opponents. The turns go by quickly so no one gets bored waiting for other people to decide on what to do. There's certainly lots of replay value packed into this amazing classic.