In this boardgame, you are a desperate street criminal with smallpox in New York’s Bowery more than 100 years ago. You rob pedestrians, pick pockets and dodge hotel bills while on the run. You must keep other thugs from stealing your ill-gotten gains. The thug with the most cash who stays free from “the pest house” (the smallpox confinement facility) comes out on top. Forty Bowery area hotels may have cheap rooms, but often they are unsafe or unsanitary. Dreadful things, although all based on true New York hotel stories, are bound to occur throughout the game. You never know what is going to happen. You find a room at the Garfield Lodging House on the Bowery and discover it became available only after yesterday’s guest slept walked and broke his neck. The room at the Glenmore House on Chatman Square smelled strongly of cleaning solution, unfortunately the lingering vapors were caused by the previous guest ending his life by drinking carbolic acid. Fortunately, leaking gas from the lighting system at Hall’s Hotel on Park Row might have made you a bit sick, but it didn’t kill asphyxiate you while you slept.