Deal with your S#!t is a gamified model of life geared towards anybody with capacity to tackle conversations and reflections about all of the complex factors at play. During gameplay, players work through life’s “S#!t to Deal With” in order to earn “Good Feels”, using healthy, and sometimes unhealthy, “Ways to Deal” cards. Players learn about community, teamwork, isolation, money, luck, and the consequences of your choices. Deal with your S#!t is intended to support meaningful engagement with serious topics in a humorous, fun, and accessible way. It is a game suitable for anybody with the capacity to handle conversations and reflections about life’s most challenging topics ages 14 and up, and as young as 12 years old with an adult present. Although the game tackles difficult topics with humor, players must feel comfortable with engaging with potentially triggering topics.

Play with any combination of these variants.

Economic Inequality – Each player roles a dice to determine their starting # of coins.

Teams, Families, Clans, and Factions – Break into equal teams, pick a victory option, and see which team can band together to collect the most good-feels.

Collaborative Group Play – See how many good-feels your group can earn in a period of time. Compare your scores to prior rounds. Good for 2 players.

Healthcare Variant – Each player roles a dice to determine their health insurance status. Roll 1-2: Normal Healthcare Rules. Roll 3-4: Player does not have insurance and cannot mental mental or health care cards (only coins). Roll 5-6: Universal Healthcare - All Mental and Health Care is reduced to 0 on S#!t Cards

GOOD-FEELS FOR THE WIN: Be the first player to reach an agreed upon number of good-feels. We recommend playing to 25-35.

DEAL WITH SOME S#!t: Randomly select any number of S#!t Cards to deal with and see who has the most good-feels once you run out of S#!t Cards. We recommend 20 cards to deal with as a start.

LIMITED TIME TO DEAL: Winner has the most good-feels after a certain amount of time. We recommend 30min.

It’s for anyone that can handle conversations about serious S#!T with a sense of humor. It is intended for a general adult audiences, and can be used in high school classrooms, or with middle school students with adults helping facilitate and provide context for challenging topics.

Not all players are prepared to engage with these difficult topics - with or without the cheekiness in this game. Some of the content and topics can be challenging, and that is why the content warning is in the instruction manual. Examples of some triggering topics: cancer, chronic illness, depression, addiction, violence, death, abuse, etc.

Everybody poops and everybody has S#!T to deal with. Poop characters on S#!t cards are intended to lighten the mood around serious issues to create an accessible platform for better engagement. It’s a very Cheeky game :)