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Clearance Sale: Last Chance To Get Our Boxed Version Of The CIA’s Training Card Game

from the going-fast dept

Last chance to get your boxed copy of CIA: Collect It All!

If you’ve been around Techdirt for a while, you’ll probably recall that almost exactly four years ago, we launched our Kickstarter for CIA: Collect It All. This was our version of an internal CIA training card game, called “Collection Deck” that was partially released in response to a FOIA request. The release included heavily redacted cards. We redesigned the cards to make them much nicer, and then came up with our own scenarios and CIA methods to fill in the blanks where the redactions had been.

The Kickstarter was quite successful, with over 4,000 people supporting the project. Over the years since then, we’ve continued to sell the game in various places. We’re now down to just a few copies left of our original printing, and we don’t currently have plans to print any more. The remaining copies are for sale on Amazon at a steep discount as we try to clear out our last remaining copies. This may be your last chance to get a boxed copy of the game, so please check it out! Already got one? Get a backup copy! Or buy one for a friend. The underlying game is public domain and the other elements are released under a Creative Commons license, so you can still download the files to print and play if you’d like. However, having a professionally produced boxed version of the game is quite a different experience.

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CIA: Collect It All Card Game, Now Available On Amazon

from the surveillance-techniques dept

Get your copy of CIA: Collect It All on Amazon »

Some of you may remember that in 2018, we were able to take the (heavily redacted, but very much public domain) details of a CIA internal card game that was used to train analysts, and create our own version of it, which we crowdfunded on Kickstarter. After that was released successfully, we continued to sell remaining copies directly via our fulfillment partner. However, until last month, it was not available on Amazon — even as we heard from multiple people who expected it to be there. That’s finally been solved, and our game, CIA: Collect It All is now available on Amazon for those who’d like to get it that way.

For what it’s worth, they’ve actually been selling relatively quickly since being added to Amazon, and we’re not sure when we’ll get a chance to do another printing run, so if you want the game, you should consider ordering soon.

Separately, we’ve been hard at work on a follow up game, designed entirely by us, but on a related theme. Though, I can assure you that our new game will not have the CIA’s stamp of approval. Keep an eye out for that one, coming soon.

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Filed Under: cia, cia analysts, collect it all, collection deck, public domain, training game