Expansions
Available expansion sets are:
- Illuminati: Brainwash
- Illuminati: Y2K
- Illuminati: Bavarian Fire Drill
- Illuminati: Mutual Assured Distraction
Illuminati: Y2K brought two new Illuminati groups to the deck (Shangri-La and The Church of the SubGenius), many non-Illuminated new groups, and a minor optional rule of canceling privilege status in attacks for control.
Brainwash is a set of optional rules for brainwashing (altering the alignment of one group), propaganda (represented by an included special gameboard - altering the power and Income of all groups of given Alignment), adding attributes to groups, and a few minor optional rules.
Bavarian Fire Drill adds 110 new cards, including Artifacts (a new type of card) and several new groups.
In issue #72 of Space Gamer, Bill Cassel presented an unofficial expansion entitled "The Pythonated Illuminati", which added cards based on the television series Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Mutual Assured Distraction introduces "New World Order" cards to the classic Illuminati game. A NWO card affects all the players, not just the one who put it down. These 18 NWO cards to boost, penalize, and offend major political and social groups of all kinds. There are also five special cards to trigger, add, or remove NWO effects.
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