The document describes a board game called "Propaganda" based on the 2011 Irish presidential election. The game uses a board with 100 squares containing trivia questions of varying difficulties. Players take turns rolling dice to move their game pieces around the board as different candidates. The board includes squares that offer "propaganda cards" containing strategies to help or hinder other players, like making others lose votes or swapping points with another player. The winner is the first player to reach the 100th square with the most total votes.

1. Propaganda!

2. Propaganda
• A board game based on the 2011 Irish
presidential campaign.
• 2-6 players can play, each player playing as
one of the 6 candidates.
• Micheal D Higgins, Sean Gallagher, Martin Mc
Guinness, Gay Mitchell, David Norris, Dana.
• Requirements- board, dice, propaganda cards,
player avatars, players.

3. Rules
• The game is an amalgamation of monopoly,
snakes and ladders as well as a general
knowledge quiz.
• 100 squares on the board. Every square has a
question with a difficulty of 1-3 stars.
• 1- easy 2-medium 3-hard
• A vote is awarded for every star earned.
• The winner is the first person to reach the
100th square, Aras an Uachtarain with the
most votes.

4. Brief explanation
• Most squares offer a question.
• Some offer ‘propaganda’ cards. These cards
are based on real life types of propaganda.
• Some are press squares. Depending on either
getting good or bad press you can go further
or behind your current place.

5. Propaganda cards
• 1-Ad Hominem- choose a player to lose votes, roll to decide
the number of votes lost.
• 2-Ad Nauseum-the card picker chooses a category, e.g
“American states” all layers except the card picker must name
an american state going clockwise in the game circle. The first
to not be able to choose one loses 3 votes.
• 3-Bandwagon-choose yourself and one other person to
recieve 2 points each
• 4-Black and White fallacy-“ all or nothing” pick another player
to roll the dice against. Whoever gets the lower roll must
forfeit all his/her votes to the winner of the roll.

6. Propaganda Cards
• 6-Scapegoat- the holde keeps the scapegoat card ( a
la a get out of jail free card) and chooses to defer a
loss of votes to another player at a given time.
• 7-Transfer- pick any two players to swap points.
• 8-Straw Man- others players are told either a lie or
truth about the number of votes the card picker has
from the card picker. If the card picker lies
successfully he wins 5 votes.
• 9-Quotes out of context- a card has a quote with
blanks, if the player can fill in the correct words he
wins 5 votes.

7. 1 star questions
• Where in Ireland is Dublin city? a) On the South Coast. B ) On the East Coast. c) On the
West Coast . d) On the North Coast.
• 2) The main street in Dublin city is called ; a) Connolly Street. B) O'Connell Street.C) Spire
Street.
• 3) The Dublin Millennium Spire was built in ...a) 2000b) 2001 c) 2002d) 2003
• 4) The Daniel O'Connell monument has four of these.a) Lamps.b) Lions.c) Angels.
• 5) Nelson's Pillar monument - which the Dublin Spire replaced, was blown up in what
year?a) 1916 b) 1922c) 1960d) 1966
• 6) Which beer is Dublin famous for?a) Heinekenb) Murphysc) Guinness

8. 3 star questions
• 7) Three of these people were born in Dublin, Which is the odd one out?a) U2's Bonob) The
Duke of Wellington c) Bram Stoker d) Patrick Kavenagh
• 8) The author of Gullivers Travels, Jonathan Swift, was Dean of this Dublin Cathedral.a)
Christchurch Cathedralb) Saint Patrick's Cathedral.
• 9) The memorial bust of Michael Collins, the Irish politician & War of Independence leader,
is in which Dublin park?a) The Garden of Rememberance.b) MerrionSquare.c) National
War Memorial Gardens.
• 10) The motto on Dublin City's antique coat of arms says; Happy is the City ...a) Where
Taxes are Paid!b) Where Citizens Obey!c) Where Industry Thrives!
• 11) A new bridge over the River liffey was opened in December 2009, named after a
famous Irish author is it the a) James Joyce Bridge. b) Samuel Beckett bridge. c) William B.
Yates bridge.d) Patrick Kavenagh Bridge .