The Mad Magazine Game

The Mad Magazine Game (1979) takes the logic of a money game and flips it: everyone starts with $10,000, and the first player to lose all of it wins. The board looks like a Monopoly track, with two inner tracks you can also use, and play runs counter-clockwise. Silly rules add to the mess: you must roll the dice with your left hand, certain spaces and the ever-present Card cards send you elsewhere, make you pay money (which is good), hand you money (which is bad), swap your seat with another player or trade cash. It is a joke game in the spirit of the magazine, short on strategy and long on deliberate nonsense, for two to four players.