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‘You Are Jeff Bezos’ game lets you spend the Amazon CEO’s billions | GeekWire

A new game asks the simple: How would you spend Jeff Bezos' money?
Credit: Drew Angerer
Jeff Bezos, chief executive officer of Amazon, December 14, 2016. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

The current Mega Millions frenzy that has everyone running around buying lottery tickets and dreaming of what they’d do with $1.6 billion is nothing compared to playing with 100 times that amount.

That’s the figure you start with in an online, choose-your-own-adventure style game called “You Are Jeff Bezos,” in which you wake up with the Amazon CEO’s vast wealth and get to figure out how to spend it. Motherboard pointed at the game, created by Kris Ligman in Twine, on Monday.

The simple, text-driven game starts with the player waking up as the world’s richest person. Each option for spending a chunk of Bezos’ fortune comes with a price tag, and as you advance through the game, you chip away at the $156 billion that Bezos is worth.

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