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Abundance is a roll and move game which teaches basic financial principles and incorporates character or spiritual development as a means of achieving financial success. Players track income, expenses, assets, liabilities and "Potential Energy" (character) in order to achieve financial success. Many of the more lucrative paths are only available to those who achieve a higher spiritual ranking. Players must aid one another to increase spiritual scores.
From the publisher's website:
"Learn to unleash your Lion Within™, the key to infinite returns and getting rich even if you have little or no money.
In the game’s active environment, you will learn in a few hours what could take months or even years elsewhere. It allows you to practice getting rich both spiritually and financially so that you can have a greater capacity to go out and do it in real life.
The Abundance™ Game Will Teach You:
• How your spiritual well-being and character are directly related to making you rich.
• How the rich use creativity to make their money.
• How “good investments” are determined more by your mind than by the deal itself.
• How you can discover opportunity in your life that has been there all along."
Abundance was designed to be a successor to Cashflow 101 by the former employee and Kiyosaki (Cashflow 101 designer) trained trainer.
Redevelopment of Cashflow 101
TDG: Earth: Abundance
- Adds a new level of player interaction.
- Sprout storage is a convenient addition.
- New cards are interesting for scoring.
- Seed tokens provide a less random way to find cards.
- Offers the option for team games with six players.
- Not considered an essential expansion.
- Interaction is not huge, still largely playing your own thing.
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Play — New cards with new and interesting card effects are added, some of which affect other players.
- event cards — Event cards can be played between players' turns for bonuses.
- Player Board Expansion — A new part of the player board is added to the bottom for sprout storage.
- player count expansion — Components for a sixth player are included, enabling team games.
- Resource Management — Seed tokens are used to look through decks to find specific cards.
- Set Collection — Sprouts are a component that can be stored and then moved to cards.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- You don't need a parachute to go skydiving. You just need a parachute to go skydiving twice.