
THE LONG WAY
495.png — patent drawing with numbered callouts + risograph print in two spot colors + long-exposure light painting.
Source: the IRS built a free tax-filing tool. It worked. The tax-prep industry spent years and money making sure it died anyway.
The board only has one path drawn on it now. The rule card says so, cheerfully, like it's a feature: the short way has been removed from this edition, all players must use the long way. Ages 18 and up, one to a hundred and fifty million players.
Nobody hid anything. That's the joke. The other lobby didn't need to bury the easy version — they just got to reprint the box.
— Gaspard