Illuminati Card Game

The Illuminati Card Game was originally released in 1982 by Occultist Steve Jackson, as a game in which players control secret societies and compete with each other to control the world. The original version featured 110 cards, and was so popular that it received numerous awards, including being named the best science-fiction board game. The game was inspired by The Illuminatus! Trilogy. The Illuminatus! Trilogy is a series of three novels written by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson first published in 1975.

The trilogy is a satirical, postmodern, science fiction-influenced adventure story; a drug-, sex-, and magic-laden trek through a number of conspiracy theories, both historical and imaginary, related to the authors' version of the Illuminati. The trilogy is thematically dense, covering topics like counterculture, numerology, and Discordianism.

The trilogy comprises The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, and Leviathan and were first published as three separate volumes starting in September 1975.

The Illuminati game has ominous secret societies competing with each other to control the world through sinister means, including legal, illegal, and even mystical. It contains groups named similarly to real world organizations, such as the Society for Creative Anachronism, the Symbionese Liberation Army and the Boy Sprouts.

There are a number of cards which are almost eerie in their accurate predictions of events to come since these cards were published in 1981.