For stories about your everyday world suddenly taking on these rules, see Life Is a Game. It shouldn't be confused with the cellular automaton "game" created by John Horton Conway. This game was America's first popular parlor game. Going for broke and failing resulted in that player being placed on the "Bankrupt" space, which would become the more forgiving Countryside Acres in the Retool. In the classic version, all cars ended at the Millionaire space unless a player who was knowingly significantly behind attempted to force a Non Standard Game Over by risking everything on one spin of the wheel. In the current version of the game, upon retirement you can choose to live in Countryside Acres (more or less a "safe zone") or Millionaire Estates (a route that offers more chances to score large amounts of cash, provided you arrive there first). This was Retooled in 1991 to the collection of LIFE Tiles, which had a much more significant impact at the end of the game (awarding large amounts of money for "notable events" you were a part of during your life). In the 1960-1990 version, milestones such as getting married and having children were celebrated by that player "collecting presents", small amounts of money from each of the other players. The game ends with your retirement, the manner in which you do so determined by how quickly you ended the game, as well as how much money you think you ended with in comparison to the other players. You can land on spaces that cause you to lose your job, collect or pay money, have children, and more. After that, it's pretty much free-for-all.
You begin the game with two choices: go to college, which puts you at a financial disadvantage at first but gives you more career options or go immediately into a job, but have fewer career options (in the original game, a flat salary lower than ANY job available on the "college" route.) Soon after that, you travel a bit before getting married. Along the way, there are "Pay Day" spaces which give you a salary whether you land on or pass them, as well as spaces at which you must stop while participating in a major life event such as buying a house. A typical turn of the game is as follows: Spin the multicolored wheel (numbered 1-10) in the middle of the gameboard, advance that number of spaces, and do what the space you land on tells you to (usually collect or pay money).
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