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[ 0 => '{{short description|Board game}}', 1 => '{{italic title}}', 2 => ''''''The Mad Magazine Game''''', later reissued as '''''Mad Magazine: The "What-Me Worry?" game''''', is a [[board game]] produced by [[Parker Brothers]] in [[1979 in games|1979]]. Gameplay is similar, but the goals and directions often opposite, to that of ''[[Monopoly (game)|Monopoly]]''; the object is for players to lose all of their money. Play proceeds to the first player's right and the first player is determined by a left-handed roll for the lowest number. The game includes cards, money, dice, and tokens, and the game board features [[Alfred E. Neuman]] and illustrations from ''[[Mad (magazine)|Mad magazine]]''. By design, no conclusive strategy exists for the game, since even if a player is winning, several spaces and cards direct players to exchange money or chairs with others, causing advantages to be lost instantly.', 3 => '', 4 => '==Rules and gameplay==', 5 => 'To begin the game, after placing all tokens on Start and determining the first player, one player is selected to be the Banker ("preferably someone honest"), who gives $10,000 to each person. The dice may only be rolled with the left hand (giving no instructions on how those who physically cannot may roll the dice); a player using his/her right hand is penalized by receiving $500 apiece from all other players. Also, tokens move counterclockwise around the outside track. If moving clockwise, the player is informed that he or she is a nerd person and may never play the game again. The board contains two "inside track" sections, which can only be entered by landing on one of the double-arrow spaces leading onto them. A player who does so immediately takes another turn by rolling one die; while on an inside track, players may only roll one die. ', 6 => '', 7 => 'The cards and spaces bear a variety of bizarre directions, such as trading places or money with a particular opponent, winning or losing money based on what the other players are doing, or losing money by performing a comical stunt. If any disputes or ambiguities arise concerning the directions, they may be resolved by majority vote; in addition, if any questions come up concerning what constitutes a majority, the rules allow for them to be [[circular logic|settled by majority vote]]. A player who lands on the "Tough Luck" space must take all the money that has accumulated there. ', 8 => '', 9 => 'The winner is the first player to lose all of his or her money.', 10 => '', 11 => '=="Card cards"==', 12 => 'The game includes 24 "Card cards"<ref name="MAD">{{Cite web |date=2010-08-10 |title=What’s In That Game Box? – The MAD Magazine Game (1979) |url=https://magisterrex.wordpress.com/2010/08/10/whats-in-that-game-box-the-mad-magazine-game-1979/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200930170732/https://magisterrex.wordpress.com/2010/08/10/whats-in-that-game-box-the-mad-magazine-game-1979/ |archive-date=2020-09-30 |access-date=2021-09-22 |website=Recycled Thoughts from a Retro Gamer |language=en}}</ref> printed with various instructions. Examples:', 13 => '*Change chairs with anyone.', 14 => '*Change money with anyone.', 15 => '*Flip this card in the air. If it lands with this side face up, you lose $1000. If not, go to 'Tough Luck'', 16 => '*If you are good looking, stand up and imitate your favorite animal, and lose $2000.', 17 => '*If you can jump up and stay airborne for 37 seconds, you can lose $5000. If not, jump up and lose $500.', 18 => '*If you like this game, cross your legs, sit on your hands, cackle like a chicken and lose 1 egg; also $500.', 19 => '*Plan ahead and move to any space on the board.', 20 => '*Put this card on top of your head and walk around the table backwards. If it doesn't fall off before you sit down you lose $1000.', 21 => '*Stand up and boo the person on your left. Also lose $1000.', 22 => '*Take the next card, don't peek, and give it to anyone else.', 23 => '*This card can only be played on Friday (''no other instructions are given on the card'').', 24 => '*You are a rock. Act like one. If you're good, you lose $1000. If you're not so good, you win a rock.', 25 => '', 26 => '==Spaces==', 27 => 'Instructions on the board's 60 spaces include:', 28 => '*Start: Whenever you pass or land here, lose $500.', 29 => '*If no one is standing you lose $1000. If someone is standing you win $2000.', 30 => '*Must gamble everything you have. Roll dice: Odd - win twice as much; Even - lose everything, but collect $1500.', 31 => '*Lose your turn or go ahead 27 (if your name is Alfred E. Neuman, forget it).', 32 => '*If there is an opponent with elbows on the table lose $2000. If not, lose $4000.', 33 => '*Tough Luck (If anything is under here, you gotta take it).', 34 => '*Everyone moves one chair to the right.', 35 => '*Everyone moves one chair to the left.', 36 => '*Old Maid (Stay right here until someone rolls a one or seven).', 37 => '*If someone is smiling go back 3 spaces. If no one is smiling go ahead three spaces.', 38 => '*Wait right here for another player to pass you…and then move with him or her.', 39 => '*Exchange money with the person on your right.', 40 => '*Change money with the person on your left.', 41 => '*Anywhere (Roll 7, collect $500 and go to start. if you don't; just go to start).', 42 => '<!--*[[File:Mad Magazine Game fake $1329063 bill.jpg|The $1,329,063 bill included in the game for the Alfred E. Neuman space|right|thumb]]-->If your name is Alfred E. Neuman collect $1,329,063. If not, lose a turn.', 43 => '*Everyone else moves 1 space back and does what it says.', 44 => '*Go to Toledo, Ohio. If the bus has already left, stay where you are and pay $500 for train tickets.', 45 => '*If you are "magnificent" go to Anywhere.', 46 => '', 47 => '==Bills and Game Pieces==', 48 => '* 1 game board', 49 => '* 4 player tokens (red, green, yellow, blue)', 50 => '* 2 dice', 51 => '* 24 cards', 52 => '* 15 $500 Bills', 53 => '* 20 $1000 Bills', 54 => '* 10 $5000 Bills', 55 => '* 1 $1,329,063.00 Bill', 56 => '', 57 => '==Reviews==', 58 => '*''[[:fr:Jeux et Stratégie|Jeux & Stratégie]]'' #15<ref>https://archive.org/details/jeux-et-strategie-15/page/6/mode/2up</ref>', 59 => '', 60 => '==See also==', 61 => '*''[[The Mad Magazine Card Game]]''', 62 => '', 63 => '==External links==', 64 => '*{{bgg|1604|''The Mad Magazine Game''}}', 65 => '', 66 => '==References==', 67 => '{{reflist}}', 68 => '', 69 => '{{Mad magazine}}', 70 => '', 71 => '[[Category:Licensed board games]]', 72 => '[[Category:Roll-and-move board games]]' ]