Out of it

In this educative Dutch boardgame, up to 6 players can battle to lose their cards - cards that symbolize their opportunities in life to use drugs. Every card is categorized in one of two categories: soft- or harddrugs, as the Dutch policy makes a distinction between health-affecting drugs and non-addictive drugs. The available types of cards each represent an archetype drug: Weed, Hashish, Mushrooms, XTC, LSD, Cocaine and Heroine are among the available cards.

Each turn, a player rolls the die, moves forward the number of spaces indicated by the throw and is then able to play ('use') a drug-card. Each card has 6 possible outcomes, and the more dangerous drugs have more negative outcomes. The worst outcome is to get 'out of it' - getting a bad trip or losing consiousness. The result the drug-use has is indicated by another throw of the die ('risk'). If the player is 'out of it', the player is repositioned to a place on the board that's extremely hard to leave.

There are many other things that affect drug-use, for example friends or events. Several fields on the board represent these opportunities.

The winner is the first player to lose all cards and reach the starting field.

While the final execution and visualisation of the board was not in my hands, the concept remained very much intact and was one of the most powerful and fun games presented.