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With The Chaps From Amsterdam, Hard Impact Board Games has finally confirmed a nagging suspicion of ours: Board games are more fun when you're stoned. (The exception to this rule is Risk, which is so complicated that you'd end up cowering in South America, paranoid you'll be attacked by Kamchatka.) In Chaps, the premise is a bit more stoner-friendly, as you play a dealer navigating the complicated drug markets of Amsterdam.

You play as one of six "chaps" and start off with $250,000 and a designer drug called SPACE. The first dealer to unload all of his gear wins. Even though the rules appear to make it easy, be careful: There are cops, courts and informants, and if you land on the Rehab square three times you're out of the game. Fittingly, the rules encourage cheating and tangling yourselves into hazy alliances with other dealers.

Available now in the U.S. for $50.

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