Careers patented
Careers
(#1) ?year
(#2) ?year
(#3) 1965
(#4) 1969
(#5) 1971
(#6) 1978
(#7) 1979
(#8) 1982
(#1) ?year John Waddington
(#2) ?year John Waddington
(#3) Parker Canada
(#4) Parker Canada
(#5) Parker Canada
(#6) Palitoy Parker
(#7) Parker US
(#8) Palitoy Parker

 
First produced
1957
Players
2 to 6
Age(s)
             

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#1   1 x thick card game board
28 x opportunity cards
28 x experience Cards
6 x wood playing pieces
1 x light blue dice
1 x pink dice
1 x set of money; £10,000 (20), £5000 (10), £1000 (30), £500 (10), £100 (20), £50 (10)
1 x pad of score sheets
1 x rule book

- patent No. 801964 on box lid only
- 8 career choices; big business, uranium prospecting, going to sea, politics, expedition to the moon, farming, Hollywood and University


From now on;
- patent No. on lid, board and booklet
- board made of thinner card
- plastic pieces replace wood
- gloss red and blue dice replace lighter colours













This edition;
- newly designed cards and money
- cream innner packaging














This edition;
- smaller paper money
- blue moulded plastic packaging replaces card
- 2 score sheets replace single;
-- #1 to record success formula, education and experience
-- #2 to record progress on salary level, fame and happiness








This edition;
- on the underside of the box; "Careers has been a favorite of game lovers ever since it first appeared in 1957. Now it has a bright new board, and some new career choices, like ecology, which reflect the world of the 1970s."

- new career choices; ecology, college, big business, teaching, politics, the Arts, sports and space
- opportunity knocks cards replace opportunity cards
- inner box packaging now moulded plastic and cardboard
- the score sheet is now a single pad again


From now on;
- only 5 career choices are available; sports, show biz, politics, space, big business. Choose College degree courses; PE, science, business, Law and 2 regular degrees.
- certificates of achievement for degrees replace annotating on the score sheets

This edition;
- money in £








US edition;
- cardboard inner packaging with game Q and As
- money in $














This edition;
- money in £

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Choose a career and succeed by earning fame, happiness and money. Each player chooses their ideal proportion of fame, happiness and money to a total 60 points. The first player to achieve their own 'success formula' is the winner. A great game, now out of production.
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