Posted on 09/06/2017 2:12:36 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I was house-sitting for my brother this summer when I saw something suspicious: a box in his living room emblazoned with the words “Secret Hitler.”
On his return, I confronted him. “What in God’s name is that?” I asked, pointing at the box.
“It’s a board game,” he said, rolling his eyes.
More specifically, Secret Hitler is a social deduction game, one that has caught on quickly since it began to ship to players last summer. It’s like Mafia, or Werewolf, or other games in which players try to identify a traitor in their midst.
In this version, anywhere between five and 10 players are divided into two uneven teams: a larger team of liberals and a smaller team of fascists. (There are no antifa.) One player is chosen as Secret Hitler. The fascists, aware of their leader’s identity, work to install him by fooling the liberals, who are kept in the dark.
The makers of the game have raised close to $1.5 million since announcing it on Kickstarter in November 2015. It briefly become the top-selling item in the toy and game category on Amazon when it launched, and it recently sold out its second print run. (The company does not publish sales data, but the money they have raised suggests that they have sold tens of thousands of copies.)
The game was conceived in early 2015 and boosted by its association with Max Temkin, 30, who is one of the creators of the provocative party game Cards Against Humanity. But Secret Hitler benefited from another, unforeseen trend: a significant surge in interest in fascism around the 2016 election, which also saw brisk sales of dystopian literary classics and a rejuvenated discussion of the movement that brought leaders like Hitler and Mussolini to power....
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
You aare correct. It’s all a lie (I said, rolling my eyes).
...it's all fun and games until somebody invades Poland.
That’s what I thought. Author “confronted” his brother/boyfriend/whatever over a board game. So self righteous.
Games
Now, THAT is a game.
I miss Avalon Hill and SPI.
[Sounds exactly like the lead-up to the 2008 election!]
In that one, the liberals never figured out who the Secret Hitler is.....
[None of the game’s creators, who are based in Chicago]
Well, surprise, surprise, surprise.
[Fake dialog. But typical of Libs who have no issue constructing fake dialogs to push a storyline over facts.]
Like landing under sniper fire, getting shot down in a helicopter and a daddy/birth narrative with quite sketchy details?
Or Poland Creek Bottled Water.....
There are still a few board wargame companies out there. Columbia Games, Multi Man Publishing (Advanced Squad Leader), and GMT are still in business.
I bought my first new wargame in 20 years this summer, and it is a thing of beauty...
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/162009/us-civil-war
Apparently there are some add-on cards so the Fascist team can play Trump and his advisors.
Sheesh.
Frankly, as described, the game would more accurately model the situation during the Democratic Party’s primary: a small band of Hillary supporters (the evil “super-delegates”) work against a larger band of Bernie supporters (the naive “party base”) to install their corrupt leader as the party’s candidate going into the general election.
Secret Pol Pot sounds Hillary-ous!
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