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Public Assistance
Maker: Hammerhead Enterprises Inc.


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Year: 1980
Model: 9206
Number of Players: 2-4
Age Range: Adult
Game Summary
Subtitled ' Why Bother Working for a Living?', this politically-incorrect game was the focus of a boycott in 1980; Touted by inventors as *invented by liberal government bureaucrats- we just put it in a box.*
Original Game Contents:
Gameboard
4 playing pieces
4 identical pieces representing each player's live-in or spouse
80 cardboard pieces representing illegitimate children
4 cardboard markers to keep track of the number of months played
3 dice
54 Working Person's Burden cards
54 Welfare Benefit cards
a set of bank notes
play money in 5 denominations


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