This is a fascinating book about a game designed to bring about World Peace. The author developed the game over several decades and it does appear to be a fascinating one, forcing people to work together to solve fifty different issues that all interlock with each other all while making sure that everyone finishes the game in a better economic state than when they started. Meanwhile, there is someone in the game attempting to further the chaos present by whatever means they judge necessary.
According to the author there has never been a failed game by the participants that he has overseen but then he does the game with students deemed gifted so perhaps that is why. Throughout the book he provides accounts of very memorable games that were played and the one that I enjoy the most is the one time where one of the children almost becomes the first person to ever win the game by themselves before being struck down by one of the shortest, quietest kidos in the classroom to his great surprise.
There is a documentary mentioned by the writer about the game but I have not seen it yet. By all accounts it must be good as the movie along with the book got one of the writer’s classes a trip to the Pentagon. I rather hope I can play the game someday.
I would heartily recommend this book to anyone who wants a boost in optimism for general life and humanity’s ability to solve the world’s problems.
