Embezzlement: Honesty Never Pays 2024

Embezzlement is a board game of stealing, lying, and covering your tracks. Players take turns (over)paying invoices. Once paid, every payment stays on their board for the next 7 turns; giving opponents a chance to catch them in their lie.

You’re an underpaid, overworked, and ill-appreciated employee in the accounts payable department of Whispering Goat Games Incorporated. You and your colleagues have been “skimming a little off the top” to make ends meet and “get back at the corporate fat-goats” who run this company.

Recently, Jackson, from audits, got caught taking company funds. Now corporate are on the war path, setting traps, trying to weed out you and your embezzling colleagues. They’ve gone as far as to incentivise snitching; handing out rewards for information that lead to a successful Audit.

Things are getting tense, but you still don’t have enough money to run away to the desert. How much can you embezzle before your luck runs out?

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