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1979 Ranked #17,159

The American Dream Game

An economic race game where players invest in stocks, pursue business deals, and try to become the first millionaire. Opportunity cards can generate royalties or insurance, while traps threaten to strip away cash, patents, and shares.

Economic Negotiation Auction/Bidding Stock Holding

Players

2-4

Play time

Not listed

Age

10+

Complexity

1.33/5

Rating

6.34

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.4/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.7/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

The object of this game is to be the first player to collect $1,000,000. Players move around a board with opportunities to buy/sell stocks, patent inventions and copyright items, purchase insurance, and avoid traps.

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The object of this game is to be the first player to collect $1,000,000. Players move around a board with opportunities to buy/sell stocks, patent inventions and copyright items, purchase insurance, and avoid traps. Each player starts with $50,000 and tries to collect shares of Goodyear, Levi's, Delta Airlines, Hershey's, Coca-Cola, etc. By landing on specific spaces, they can get Experience Cards that allow player to buy/sell stocks and make other business deals, purchase Prudential Insurance for use when player hits a Trap, get American Dream cards which allow player to earn royalties for things like patenting the light bulb or copyrighting Donald Duck, or get caught in a Trap where the player loses patents or stocks or even cash. The game is filled with major brand names like US Steel, KFC, NFL, RCA, and Disney.

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Play and group

Players
2–4
Best with
2
Play time
60 min
Age
10+
Complexity
1.3/5
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Credits

Designers

1
(Uncredited)

Publishers

1
Milton Bradley

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