CHANCE CARDS

One must be drawn by any player landing on any `Take a Chance' square, and instructions followed immediately.

You sell Caesar's Gallic Wars to The Times for £100,000. Atticus says, 'Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes' (I fear The Times even when bearing gifts). Daily Express beats you to serial by Calpurnia entitled 'I was Caesar's wife and beneath suspicion.' Repay £99,950.

Your translation of Hilita—describing love_ affair of 80-year-old woman and 10-year-old boy— accepted for publication. Mr. Macmillan says, 'If it had been available in 1917 I would have read it in no-man's-land instead of /Eschylus or Homer or Virgil or whatever my PRO says I did read.' Hilita sells ten copies. Lose £500. (If you own a publisher's, £750.) Libelled by Spectator. Decide to take no action. Rung up at 3 a.m. by Randolph Churchill. Decide to take action. Lose action. Pay £2,500.

Publish history of Jameson Raid. Mr. Gaitskell demands public inquiry into scandalous revelations. Foreign Office defends memory of Lord Salisbury's grandfather. Mr. Macmillan says, 'The country will judge.' Move forward four spaces.

Sell 110 tin boxes containing Mr. Asquith's bridge scores to Lord Beaverbrook. Mr. Macmillan says, 'Cabinet papers cannot be published.' Pressed by Mr. Bevan, says, 'Country will judge.' Lady Violet Bonham Carter threatens to publish Bonar Law's secret memoirs, The Comparable Max. 110 tin boxes fetch £50 as scrap metal.

If you own Clore or Samuel, you make successful take-over bid for Hatfield House. (Lord Salisbury retires to Suez.) Receive profit of £5,000 on deal. If you do not own Clore or Samuel, you visit Hatfield as tripper; move back three spaces.

Refused permission to publish a book on activities of under-cover archers at Battle of Hastings. Dame Irene Ward raises subject in Commons. Mr. Macmillan refuses permission in national interest and says, 'Country will judge,' Pay £50 for paper and typing.

Discovered tapping Mr. Gaitskell's telephone. Given life peerage. (Pay £250 for coronet.) Mr. Gaitskell claims parliamentary privilege. Mr. Macmillan says, 'Country will judge.'

Appointed Warden of new women's college at Cambridge, Radclyffe Hall. John Gordon de- nounces entire project. Times says 'time is not ripe.' Resign, with dignified letter to Times (not published). Pay £100 robe-maker's bill.

Go to BBC, directly, without passing 'Go.' Do not collect £600. Instead receive £1 14s. 6d. fee including three weeks' rehearsal time. Throw a five to get out.

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BBC Globe Theatre

(Charges E150 rent for your production)

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(Charges £200 rent for your production)

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Labour Party

(Charges £100 as contribution to your election expenses)

Liberal Party

(Charges £100 for J. Grimond's autograph)

British Lion

(Charges £75 rent of film studios)

A-R TV

(Charges £1,000 for your commercial)

Tory Party

(Charges £100 for peerage)

J. Arthur Rank

(Charges £50 rent of film studios)

Howard Samuel

(Charges £2,500 rent)

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How y 1. Colour the strips round the side of the board as shown, to distinguish the different groups.

2. Cut out the 'Chance' cards (beside the board) and paste them on pieces of card. Shuffle and place them face downwards.

3. Provide each player (best number, 4) with a distinguishable token or counter. Place counters at `Go.'

4. Provide each player with 'money' representing a total of £10,000. (If played on Greek ship- owner's yacht, money should be at face value.) 5 ' Toss for order of play. Play with one dice. Move clockwise.

6. A player landing on any property that has not yet been acquired has the option to buy it at a cost of one rent or charge (as marked on the properties). Money is paid to bank. if the player elects not to buy it, it remains un- sold, and option passes to next player who lands on it. A player landing on a property pays no rent or other charge (apart from purchase) if the property is not owned by any player. If the property is owned, he pays the appropriate charge to the owner.

7. If any player owns all the properties in any group (i.e., all of one colour), any player land- ing on one of them must pay double rent.

8. Double rent is also payable to any owner of the following combinations : Colman, Prentis and Varley and the Tory Party; MacGibbon & Kee and the Labour Party; any news- paper and any TV station (note that no player owning a Beaverbrook paper, is allowed to own a TV station). Treble rent is payable if a TAKE A CHANCE

Charles Clore

(Charges £2,000 rent)

BLACK South6 (Charg4 for comm BLl

WHITE WHITE TAKE A CHANCE Daily Mail

(Charges £500 for 3 column inches)

Daily Sketch

(Charges £350 for full page)

House of Commons

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player owns an entire group plus any of the `connected' properties as listed in Rule 8. Quadruple rent is payable if any player owns Howard Samuel, MacGibbon & Kee and the Labour Party. (Note that no player is allowed to own more than two political parties.) 9. A player landing on `Go to BBC,' or drawing the Chance card telling him to do so, must go there directly, without passing 'Go,' and without collecting his £600. He must stay there until he throws a 5. If a player lands on BBC in his turn, he is 'Just visiting,' and incurs no penalty.

10. A player landing on the House of Commons may stay there as long as he likes. He does nothing and nothing happens to him.

1 I. Every time a player passes `Go' (whether he lands on it or not) he draws £600 from the bank.

P. Players may sell each other properties at any time during the game, lend and borrow money, or form mergers.

13. Any player landing on Clore and Samuel in the same round is 'taken over.' All his assets are divided among the owners of these two properties, and he retires from the game. Any player unable to pay charges due, or to com- pound with his creditors (note that the bank must be paid in full at once) is declared bankrupt. His assets go back to the bank, and his properties can be bought by other players landing on them, as at the beginning of the game.

14. The game ends when all players but one are bankrupt or 'taken over.' MacGibbon & Kee (Charges {600 0 as insurance against libel in your book) TAKE A CHANCE Macmillan's

(Charges £700 for insurance against loss on your book)

Granada TV (Charges £750 for your commercial) Sotheby's

(Charges

£1,000 commission) Christie's

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Colman, Prentis and Varley

(Charges £1,750 commission)

GREEN Daily Express

(Charges £1,500 for half page)

PURPLE J. Walter Thompson (Charges £1,500 commission) GREEN GO TO BBC CHANCE CARDS Cast by Binkie Beaumont as back legs of horse in pantomime. Collect salary £250. if you own a theatre pay back £250 when play flops.

Put on George Devine in Beckett Mime Play, Taper's Last Trap. Harold Hobson writes: 'I could not have written it better myself—not, that is. in French.' Collect subsidy of £500 from Schweppes. If you own a theatre collect extra £1,000 when play is smash-hit.

Write article referring to Randolph Churchill as 'war-time hero.' Careless printer makes it 'war-time zero.' Pay £3,000 into court.

If you own Daily Sketch, send photographer, and gossip-writer to cover suicide pact. Vindicated by Press Council. Collect £2,500 in increased circulation.

Lord Chief Justice resigns. Lord Tenby appointed. Lord Kilmuir appointed part-time director of Bank of England. Mr. Justice Salmon appointed Governor- General of South Africa. Attorney-General ap- pointed County Court Judge. Advance to Tory Party.

You sell idea of having programmes on ITV only during natural breaks in commercials. Sir Robert Fraser delighted. Collect £1,500. Protests in House of Commons. Sir lvone Kirkpatrick writes article in Sunday Times defending practice. Collect another r. £500.

Discover graffiti signed 'Vincent' on wall of public convenience near Arles. Sir Leslie Plummer gives certificate of authenticity. (M acmillan says, 'Country will judge.') Auction wall. Fetches £5,000 at Sotheby's. Pay 10 per cent. to Sotheby's.

Photograph Mr. Grimond and Mr. Gaitskell flanking Mr. Macmillan and suggest slogan, 'Some one isn't using Colman, Prentis and Varley.' Move to J. Walter Thompson. Mr. Macmillan says, 'Country will judge.'

Make all-British film starring Cary Grant and Jayne Mansfield, script by Paddy Chayevsky, pro- duced by Sam Goldwyn. Advance to J. Arthur Rank.

Sultan of Sharjah deposed. Entire population spend three days dancing in streets to celebrate. British troops sent to liberate population, restore order, put out forest fire, separate combatants, strengthen UN, protect British lives and property. Discover Sharjah contains no disorder, forest fire, combatants, UN delegates, British lives or property. Mr. Mac- millan says, 'Country will judge.' All players pay £1,000. • Discover Sir Hartley Shawcross tapping Mr. Butler's telephone. Fined £500. Sir Hartley Shaw- cross says, 'I am the master now.' Mr. Butler says, `What courage, what integrity, what flair.'

Bank rate increased by 5 per cent. Pay €500. Two inches of Mr. Keswick found to be missing. If you own the Labour Party, Take a Chance. Macmillan says, 'Countri will judge.' Country judges.