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Review by Peter Sarrett.
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Family Business Review  Each player is the boss of one of 6 Mob organizations, all of whom are trying to eliminate each other while keeping themselves alive. On each turn, players draw a card from the deck and play one or discard one...
http://www.gamereport.com/tgr2/familybusiness.html

Review by Dan Becker.
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Game Review Family Business by Mayfair Games  Business is a delightful card game of the beer and pretzels variety. The dark theme is the well-known American crime world, firmly rooted in folklore and Hollywood cliches. It is played by 2 to 6 players in about 30 minutes....
http://www.io.com/~beckerdo/game...eviews/FamilyBusinessReview.html

Stealth variant for the game, which adds depth and strategy.
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Stealth Variant for Family Business  The aim of this variant rule is to add depth and strategy into the original game without introducing additional cards or changing the basic rules. Concealment of identity is the central mechanism of the variant rule. Bluffing becomes an important...
http://gamecabinet.com/rules/FamilyBusinessStealth.html

Description and online sale of the game.
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Family Business Card Game  This fast paced card game of gangster warfare, intrigue and suspense puts the emphasis on fun. Each player is a mob boss competing to survive the murder and mayhem of the Prohibition era. The last player to have a mobster...
http://www.boardgames.com/familybusiness.html

Review by Busco Charlie.
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familybusiness  Chicago gang leaders duke it out big time! Type: Card of Players: 2 6 Rating: Ken says: Who can resist being part of the mob? Well, if you're one of the many who can't, then this game is for you....
http://www.geocities.com/buscocharlie/familybusiness.htm

Review by John, a member of this gaming group.
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REVIEWS  A fun game to be taken as such, not a game for bad losers. As the Boss of a gang you have to eliminate your opponents by skilfully playing your cards, thus making what's left of your Family Business all...
http://www.wiltsgames.co.uk/familybusiness.html

Review and session reports by Ivan Hanley.
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Board Gamers Anonymous  Business is a card game with a mobster theme. Each player chooses a faction to represent them (these come in a 6 different coloured sets of 9 cards each A second deck of effect cards is used to allow players...
http://www.bg-anon.co.uk/familybusiness.htm