The crowd sourced encyclopedia's article on the 1982 card game, read directly for this entry. Its strength is a clear production history: Steve Jackson's own account of the game's origin as a conspiracy themed adaptation of the Illuminatus! Trilogy's premise, the six playable factions in the original Pocket Box edition, and Robert Shea's own introduction to a later expansion. It is cited here for the game's design history and its documented Discordian references, not as an authority on Discordianism itself, which the tradition's own primary texts and its existing atlas sources supply instead.
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Reliability Tier3
Wikipedia's community maintained article on the 1982 card game is a continuously revised tertiary encyclopedia entry with no named author or peer review process, hence the lower tier, though useful here for the game's documented design history. NotesRead directly. Cited for the July 1982 Pocket Box release, designer Steve Jackson, the game's origin in Jackson and cover artist Dave Martin's shared admiration of the Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, "The Discordian Society" as one of six playable Illuminati factions, and Robert Shea's own introduction to a later expansion set.
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PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminati_(game)
Source Typereference
Claims Backed By This Source (19 claims)
This source backs 19 claims across the atlas. As facts: 15 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 3 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Games, 9 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 6 claims: 6 well-attested.
- Articles, 4 claims: 2 well-attested, 2 general references.
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