Japan Creates The World's Largest Game Of Life

[Initech]

If you thought you'd mastered the Game of LIFE, think again.

The American board game classic is being adapted into a real-life rat race on Japan's Southern island of Yoron, and participants need only pay a $5 entrance fee to join the month-long match.

The inaugural Game of LIFE will feature all the signature pieces of the board game – a life-sized roulette, 18 square foot boards, and a bus parading as a game piece, shuttling players from marriage to retirement…or in this case, one end of the island to the other.

A remote Japanese island and the all-American parlor game may seem like an unlikely fit, but Takanori Iwamoto, who is helping organize the event, says it only seemed natural, considering the eight-square-mile island bears a striking resemblance to the game's oddly shaped spinner.

http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/real-life-game-life-played-japanese-island/story?id=19346793#.UbefL5z1V8E

[Recursion]

1. I was hoping you meant Conway's life (nt)

[bananas]

2. That's what I thought too. nt