The Game of Life & Law

To understand the inner workings of conjuring a bill into a law: Roll the dice!
With the aesthetics of  the modern version of The Game of Life, today’s infographic thoroughly walks us through the trip a bill takes from introduction into the House of Representatives through publication as an official law.

 “the journey of life is governed by a combination of chance and judgment.” Milton Bradley


In 1860, the year Abraham Lincoln was elected President, Milton Bradley invented America's oldest, and probably most popular board game "the Checkered Game of Life"

Here a short introduction to the original rules (highly relevant, not just "on board"!):
Play starts at a square labelled Infancy and ends, usually but not always, at Happy Old Age.
It simulates a person's travels through his or her life, from college to retirement with jobs, marriage, and possible children along the way.
Like many games back then, it had a strong morals implied:
There are good patches, and bad, in roughly equal number. On the one hand: Honesty, Bravery, Success. On the other: Poverty, Idleness, Disgrace.The game illustrates late-eighteenth century social values assigned to various careers. Just like in real life, those values experienced an immense renewal over time.
Having survived its founders death in 1911, the Depression and the two World Wars, the original checkered Game of Life changed to only "Life". It bears almost no resemblance to its nineteenth-century predecessor.

Comparing the rules of a game with the complexity of law-making might surprise you, but...

 ...imagine a game in which the play is brought to a standstill because of  a conflict in the rules.Obviously such a game is less fun and furthermore violates the canon of game formation requiring it to be playable to its conclusion. In such a case, the players have two alternatives to play on: they may abandon the game or save the game by altering its rules so that the conflict will not reoccur. Given that the principles were adopted in the first place because they were believed to identify Right and Wrong makes the "ruling" of the whole game a challenge for a life time.
The process of law making  is therefor just as complex and flexible. In the Game of Life, on board and reality, there are certain rules applied. Firmly established and unchangable, based on universial morals and common sense - but there will always be room for improvement or need for readjustments, according to constant changes of life in the real world.

"That's life!"