The premise of the game is simple. It presumes a TEOTWAWKI apocalyptic scenario, and it presents the player with apocalyptic problems. It doesn’t test your knowledge, so much as it tests your personal ethics. Each card poses an ethically challenging question in an apocalyptic world. The rules are found here: https://www.conflictedthegame.com/pages/how-to-play.
The cards are also number-marked on the corners with the standard suites of Spades, Clubs, Hearts, and Diamonds, and can be used to play a regular card game.SURVIVAL CARD GAME – HOW TO PLAY:
- Every scenario assumes the world has gone into chaos and that the apocalypse has taken place.
- When dealing cards, feel free to shuffle and pass around the cards between the players or leave the deck in the center of the gaming area and everyone draws a card, or any other way you see fit.
- Each turn starts with a player reading a question card to the person next to them, moving clockwise.
- Once the card is read, discard it aside.
- The answering player has 3 minutes to describe exactly what he or she would do in order to deal with the scenario.
- The remaining players will grade the answering players question on a scale from zero to three.
- The player with the most points at the end of the game wins.
- Feel free to vote openly or in secret, depending on the maturity of the group. If in secret, one player must be chosen to add up the grades and announce a winner.
- Always take the scenarios on the cards at full face value. When in doubt about the complexity of the scenario of a card, the asking player will have the right to frame the scenario or question as they see fit, keeping it close to reality.
- Although Conflicted:The Survival Card Game has no foul language or nudity, the content is aimed at mature audiences only. Life in a post apocalyptic world isn’t to be taken lightly.
Here’s an example of the kinds of questions it asks, grabbed at random:
Another question asks:You are behind on rent and now that the Electromagnetic Pulse went off and the banks aren’t open, your landlord has come trying to collect. He says either pay up in cash or in goods, or he will evict your family and put them on the street in 3 days with the help of his armed security guards. You are not prepared to bug out at all, and your landlord says if in 3 days you don’t have a payment, he will bring armed men to to take you out of the house, but right now he is standing in front of you alone. How would you handle this situation?
I’m hoping to play this with my family this weekend.List five crimes that are punishable by death in a post-apocalyptic world that do not carry that sentence in the world of today.