The Rich and the Good

An economic game simple to play and deep to master, with “shared card hand” mechanic and an original victory condition.

The Rich and the Good is the new edition of Carlo Rossi’s cult classic Hab & Gut, with a completely new graphic design, still featuring Michael Menzel’s great art, and a new 2-players game mode.

Players are stock brokers during the second Industrial Revolution, trying to make as much money as possible while also coming across as good citizens by donating money to charity. During the course of the game, players purchase or sell shares of stock, and then manipulate the stock prices with the cards that they share with their two neighbors. Additionally, players donate stock to charities, which is sold off at the end of the round for the charitable donation. Whoever donates the least to charity by the end of the game automatically lose, no matter how wealthy he’s made himself.

The game uses a system of shared information where each player knows a little of what is about to happen in the markets, with each player knowing different pieces of information. The player who makes the most money at the end of the game is the winner, provided that he or she is not the person who donated the least to charity.