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Later it was taken to represent the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, showing the Wako clock tower in Tokyo although, again, this was not damaged in the disaster, and the mostly dark-skinned people in the drawing do not look particularly Japanese. At one point this was interpreted by some as predicting the 7 July 2005 London bombings, with the clock tower being Big Ben (despite the fact that Big Ben was not damaged in the attack, and a terrorist attack on Parliament featured both in the cult 1973 novel Christy Malry's Own Double Entry and in actual plots going back to the 17th century). It shows several buildings collapsing, including a clock tower.

Combined Disasters is probably the most talked-about card beyond the two that suggest 9/11.

One commentator has taken this to represent Monica Lewinski, despite the fact that the woman in the drawing looks absolutely nothing like the brunette Lewinski.Ī card taken to predict, variously, the 2005 London bombings, the 2011 tsunami in Japan, the 2011 riots in England, and an atrocity that was supposed to occur (but never did, unsurprisingly) during the 2012 Olympics at London.

Bimbo at Eleven depicts a blonde(!) woman with glasses holding a notepad and pencil, presumably some kind of reporter or journalist.

'This card predicted it, and the demons manifested themselves through the fire.'

Population Reduction shows a giant skull formed from smoke or smog hovering over a cityscape: 'The fact that this card shows a demon face in the smoke of the Twin Towers in 1995 demonstrates that the Illuminati planned to make the Twin Towers a Fire Sacrifice that would call up Fire Demons', says Cutting Edge.

The fact that different commenters insist that this drawing matches two people who look nothing like each other in real life indicates the levels of pareidolia involved.

A card named Backlash shows a man at a podium being pelted with paint (or possibly rotten fruit) this has been taken to predict either the then Danish prime minister having red paint thrown at him by anti-war protestors in 2003 or Barack Obama, whom the man in the drawing vaguely resembles.

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Full card lists for all can be found here.Ī lot of the weird interpretations of the cards are underpinned by the interpreters' lack of general knowledge, especially about things and events predating the twenty-first century. It has two supplements - INWO: Assassins (1996) and INWO: SubGenius (1998 based on the Church of the SubGenius). INWO, 1995) is a trading/collectible card game (unlike the original game that comes with all cards, players have to buy booster packs to compose their deck).

Illuminati: Bavarian Fire Drill is the second expansion set to the 1999 edition (card list).

Illuminati Y2K is a supplement/expansion set to the 1999 edition that adds more cards to the original game (card list).

It comes complete with 110 cards (card list of the 1999 edition).

Illuminati: The Game of Conspiracy (1982, 1987, 1999) is the original card game.

This is significant because some of the claims center around the dates of events and the (assumed) release date of the game, claiming that particular cards are prophetic of those events. The game has also several spin-offs and expansion packs, but the conspiracymongers usually assume that there is a single game and mix all the cards despite that they have been released in different years as parts of different products. Perhaps the clearest insight into Illuminati’s alleged soothsaying properties comes from Mr Blankenship, who told Vice: “It’s pretty much like any psychic - say that a Middle Eastern leader will be killed next year and you have a decent chance of getting it right.The original Illuminati was released in the 1980s and there have been several re-releases. That’s why groups like the South American Nazis, the Cattle Mutilators, the fluoridators, the Communists, the oil companies and the United Nations, are in there.” “As much as possible, I wanted to retain the ‘flavour’ of the conspiracy material I’d been reading. Logically, then, a wacky game should be more fun to play. Among all the material I’d read, the articles with the really wacky theories - even if they were presented totally seriously - were the most fun to read.

Mr Jackson explained that he had carried out extensive research into cults and conspiracy theories and observed: “It’s possible to get deadly serious about the idea of conspiracies and assassinations. “Giant golden dope-smuggling submarines, talking dolphins, anarchistic midgets, the holy man underneath Dealy Plaza (the Dealy Lama, of course), dozens of secret organisations with obscene acronyms, and a final deus ex machina in the form of a real live (and horny) goddess… Even if you could figure out who was on whose side, which I didn’t think I could, how could you make a game out of it? But it was such a fascinating thought!”