QUICK START GUIDE

HOW TO PLAY EXIT STRATEGY

A quick-start guide for employees with limited time, declining morale, and no meaningful legal protection.

Follow these steps in order and start playing.

STEP 01 — BOARD SETUP

Place the board in the center of the table.
Shuffle the decks and place them where everyone can reach them.
Set the Share markers nearby.
Each player chooses a game piece.

The company is now operational.

STEP 02 — GET YOUR BADGE

Each player draws 1 Badge card.
Your Badge tells you who you are and what kind of employee you are.

Everyone starts as an Errand Drone.
Everyone begins with 0 Stress and 0 Shares.

Congratulations. You are now employable.

STEP 03 — ENTER THE LOBBY

Place all player pieces in the Lobby.
This is where every employee begins the game.

Your orientation is complete. Your regret will arrive shortly.

STEP 04 — CHOOSE THE FIRST PLAYER

Each player rolls 2 dice and adds their Multi-Tasking score.
The highest total goes first.
Play continues clockwise.

Management calls this leadership. It is mostly luck.

STEP 05 — TAKE YOUR TURN

Roll.
Move.
Check whether a Meeting happens.
Resolve the space you landed on.
End your turn.

Most of the game is just moving and doing what the board tells you to do.

STEP 06 — RESOLVE THE SPACE

If you land on an Office, you may have to fight a Boss.
If you land in the Lobby, you get your Annual Review.

Some spaces help you.
Some spaces hurt you.
Some spaces hurt everyone.

The board is not neutral.

STEP 07 — TRACK YOUR STRESS

Keep an eye on your Stress at all times.
Too much Stress causes serious problems.

If your Stress gets too high, you may end up in C.R.A.P.
If it gets even higher, you are fired.

The company encourages resilience and ignores context.

STEP 08 — EARN SHARES AND GET PROMOTED

Win fights to gain Shares.
Use Shares to buy promotions.

Promotions move you up the Corporate Ladder.
The higher you rise, the closer you get to control of the company.

This is what success looks like here.

STEP 09 — WIN THE GAME

You can win by becoming CEO.
You can win by being the last employee left.
You can also survive long enough for the company to collapse.

Every victory condition is a cry for help.

STEP 10 — YOU’RE READY

You do not need to memorize everything.
Just start playing.

The board, cards, and corporate consequences will guide the rest.

This concludes orientation and your will to live.

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