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Publish or Perish

The Game of Peer Review

Requirements

30-60
2-6
12+

Description

Publish or Perish is the game for grad students, professors, and anyone else wanting to find some comic relief in the life of academia.

You play as first-year assistant professors trying to get as many manuscripts through peer review as possible before you go up for tenure. But getting papers accepted by the other players means honing your negotiation skills and playing the right cards at the right time!

Each round, players bid on turn order and the opportunity to select cards that give them advantages. During their turns, players can play a card or submit a manuscript for publication to one of three journals. Two of the journals require the peer review process, in which the other players secretly vote on whether it can be accepted.

Players can influence the peer review process through cards from their hands and by negotiating with other players. The player with the most Victory Points at the end of year 6 wins!

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Publish Date December 13, 2014
Edition First
Department Games
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More Info Publish or Perish web site

Why buy this?

  • Easy to learn, easy to play
  • Now you get to be the reviewer!
  • Unique reviews on every card, and you can write your own

Games by Dr. Byrd

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Notes

  • This game contains laser cut components. Laser cut items will have a slight amount of soot around the edges, which can easily be wiped off; and will have a campfire smell for about a week after you open them.

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