The Illuminati Card Game

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About the Article Series

The Illuminati Card Game is more than just entertainment you buy at a play store. Most analysts who looked deeper into the deck realized that topics depicted within are, in many ways, a form of collective archetypes—like a classical tarot set. Even more, it is plain to see that these cards depicted profound events that happened years after the game got released. A graphic example is the cards that predicted 9/11. Therefore, the Illuminati Card game could be considered an oracle that foresaw specific trends and events.

I wrote this series of articles during the lockdown in 2020 for those people who card game that felt that there was some deeper mystery to it. The motivation arose from the fact that even the event based on the “virus of unknown origins” was predicted in the deck. At the end of 2022, I had to rebuild my website, which made me edit and reorder my articles.

My ambition is to show you the correlation between real-life events and the connection with the Illuminati Brotherhood. Accordingly, I will refer those cards to corresponding conspiracy theories and what the card tells us about the organization behind it and their agenda in a subtle encrypted, and sometimes straightforward fashion.

— Christian Köhlert

Author of the Article Series

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About the Illuminati Game

In September 1981, Steve Jackson and his regular freelance cover artist Dave Martin shared their affection for the Illuminatus! Trilogy, and the latter proposed a game. Steve Jackson decided against adopting the fiction because of the payment of game rights and the predicament of adapting a story with such a complex plot. He chose “a game about the secret-conspiracy idea behind Illuminatus!” as viable.

After researching the Illuminati, conspiracy theories, and “extensive and vigorous playtesting,” it went on the market in July 1982 in the usual SJG Pocket Box format. Over the next few years, three expansions for the Pocket Box Illuminati game were published. The first two were substantially incorporated into the deluxe edition, while the 3rd version would become Illuminati: Brainwash.

Robert Shea provided a four-paragraph introduction to the rulebook for the Illuminati Expansion Set 1 (1983), in which he wrote:

“Maybe the Illuminati are behind this game. They must be—they are, by definition, behind everything.“

Steve Jackson Games also released a collectible card game version called Illuminati: New World Order and a stand-alone version called Illuminati: Crime Lords. SJG also developed some Illuminated role-playing game modules for its GURPS system, including GURPS Illuminati, GURPS Illuminati University and GURPS Warehouse 23.

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Overview of the Cards in my Articles