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“CLIMB-O. The only truly realistic game of status-seeking and social mobility. First turn goes to the child whose father has the largest yearly income (or greatest number of business connections, in case of a tie): play then moves clockwise. Object of the game is to become morally bankrupt while acquiring as many material possessions as possible. Play continues until one player owns Biggest Car, or until all players have become hopelessly entangled in debts and are forced to become Men’s Furnishings salesmen.

During the course of the game, players experience all facets of middle-class life in America. With the aid of the Exploitation and Get Ahead cards, children learn how their parents have been beaten and hounded into submission to the system (promotes cross-generational understanding), and they are taught the dirty, filthy, demeaning tricks adults must play to acquire even a small measure of self-sufficiency.

CLIMB-O is educator approved, guaranteed to metamorphosize even the happiest child into a morose, neurotic, guilt-ridden grown-up, or double your money back. $12.88.”

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