![]() The game has ominous secret societies competing with each other to control the world through sinister means, including legal, illegal, and even mystical. ![]() Perhaps the clearest insight into Illuminati’s alleged soothsaying properties comes from Mr Blankenship, who told Vice: “It’s pretty much like any psychic - say that a Middle Eastern leader will be killed next year and you have a decent chance of getting it right. Illuminati is a standalone card game made by Steve Jackson Games (SJG), inspired by the 1975 book, The Illuminatus Trilogy, by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea. That’s why groups like the South American Nazis, the Cattle Mutilators, the fluoridators, the Communists, the oil companies and the United Nations, are in there.” “As much as possible, I wanted to retain the ‘flavour’ of the conspiracy material I’d been reading. Logically, then, a wacky game should be more fun to play. Items in the Price Guide are obtained exclusively from licensors and. Among all the material I’d read, the articles with the really wacky theories - even if they were presented totally seriously - were the most fun to read. ILLUMINATI 1994-1995 NEW WORLD ORDER GAME 576 CARDS NIB This is what you will get. Mr Jackson explained that he had carried out extensive research into cults and conspiracy theories and observed: “It’s possible to get deadly serious about the idea of conspiracies and assassinations. “Giant golden dope-smuggling submarines, talking dolphins, anarchistic midgets, the holy man underneath Dealy Plaza (the Dealy Lama, of course), dozens of secret organisations with obscene acronyms, and a final deus ex machina in the form of a real live (and horny) goddess… Even if you could figure out who was on whose side, which I didn’t think I could, how could you make a game out of it? But it was such a fascinating thought!” ![]()
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