Pyramid Review
Dilbert: The Board Game
Published by Hyperion
Designed by Eric Lang
Graphics by Simon Stone, Brian Wood
Copy editing by Pat Harrigan
Full-color boxed set with game board, six-sided die, six employee stand-ups, six employee cards, Pointy-Haired Boss stand-up, plastic stands, 15 glass signature tokens, 70 memo cards, 26 project cards, 18 consultant cards, 18 trait tokens, 17 work tokens, six happiness tokens, six cubicle tokens, two donut tokens, one out of order token, one Todd token, one Ted token, one family portrait token, one plastic plant token, rulebook; $29.95
Scott Adams, creator of the mega-popular Dilbert comic strip, has been accused of having spies in everyone's office. How else could his observations be so piercing? Well, the folks at Hyperion must have agents in everyone's game group, because they've developed a fine adaptation that brings the strip to the tabletop while maintaining its cursed humor. Everyone must now report to work at Dilbert: The Board Game.
The object of the game -- designed for two to six players with an hour playing time -- is to have the highest Happiness level when the boss finally gets traded to upper management.
Players take an employee playing piece and the card and work tokens that accompany it. Three to six drudges can take part. Everyone gets lined up in cubicles; the closer one is to the boss, the unhappier one becomes, knowing at any moment the call could come to perform the most pointless . . .
This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.
Article publication date: November 9, 2007
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