Your company wants you to do 40 hours of overtime work this month without pay.
1) Resign and take a part-time job for less pay
- Income reduced to 1 credit per round
2) Keep the job
- Lose 1 Health
- Lose 1 Shame
A member of your household skips high school and chooses to enter the workforce.
Income increase by 1 credit per round
You win the lottery!
Receive 4 credits
Your district has issued new guidelines for recycling and waste management. You accidentally sort your garbage incorrectly and receive a fine from your landlord.
Lose 1 credit and gain 1 Shame
The members of your household are gifted designer clothing by a close friend.
1) Sell the clothes:
- Gain 1 Credit
- Gain 1 Shame
2) Keep the clothes:
- Lose 1 Shame
You are offered a promotion at work!
Income increases by 1 credit
A new food bank opened in your neighborhood. You visit and they are overstocked.
Food is free during this round.
A member of your household has developed an illegal gambling addiction.
1) Do nothing
- Gain 1 Shame
- Lose 1 income every round
2) Report the household member
- Gain 2 Shame
- Eliminate 1 member of your team
You currently live and work in the city, but your home is destroyed during an earthquake and you have to relocate.
1) Buy a home in a rural area and commute to work
- Pay 6 credits
- Shelter is free for the rest of the game
- Pay 1 credit per round for transportation
2) Buy a home in the city
- Pay 8 credits
- Shelter is free for the rest of the game
3) Move into a temporary shelter
- Pay normal shelter cost
- Lose 1 Health
Your friend is getting married and you are invited to the wedding. If you attend, you will need to bring a “Goshugi”(cash envelope gift).
1) Attend the wedding
- Pay all of your income for this round
2) Skip the wedding
- Gain 1 Shame
You inherit debt from a recently deceased relative.
Pay half your total assets
Your company goes out of business.
You gain a new job, however, your income lowers by 1 credit
A typhoon floods your house!
1) Pay for the damages
- Pay 6 Credits for Shelter this round
2) Continue living in your home
- Housing is free this round
- Lose 1 Health
3) Sleep in a friend's house
- Housing is free this round
- Gain 1 Shame
You win the lottery!
Receive 4 credits
You showed up to work with unprofessional attire.
Your income is one less credit.