Spitting Image
1984
Parker
 
First produced
1984
Players
2 to 6
Age(s)
15+
             

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1 x game board
6 x Spitting Image caricatures of world leaders
1 x journalist caricature, red nosed pig
6 x sets of 3 world leader cards
18 x white bases
50 x scandal cards
24 x dirty tricks cards
125 x banknotes in 4 denominations;
- $20 million, $10 million, $5 million, $1 million
1 x set of rules

Based on the TV programme. Each player is a world leader with 3 scandals to hide. Try to expose your opponent's scandals, before they expose yours. When all 3 of your scandals have been revealed, you're out of the game. The last player remaining, wins.

Scandals are won at auctions and exposed at press conferences. Winning auctions and press conferences enables you to hold turn and control the game.
The detailed, moulded playing pieces are approx. 6cm high and are a great collection of world leaders of that era who were regularly mimicked;
- Ronald Reagan, The Pope, David Owen, Neil Kinnock, Margaret Thatcher and Michael Gorbachov.

Daily newspapers are also ridiculed;
- The Daily Torygraph (Telegraph), The Sin (Sun), Daily Excess (Express), Daily Error (Mirror), The Mole (Mail), Sunday Spurt (Sport) ,Absurder, (Observer), News of the Weird (World) and Depravda (Pravda).

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