Steve Jackson Games turned its conspiracy boardgame into a CCG and dropped the Limited Edition in December 1994 — roughly 84,000 sets that, by every account, sold out almost on contact (Wizards of the Coast even loaned SJ Games the money to finance that first printing). The 1995 Unlimited run brought it back for the masses. Telling the two apart is the whole game at the counter: Limited cards wear gold titles across the board, while Unlimited only gilds the Illuminati and color-codes everything else — blue Plots, pink Groups, purple Resources. The set is pure mid-'90s satire, packed with real names and institutions: Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Dan Quayle, Lawyers, Ninjas, Nuclear Power Companies. Famous for the eerie 9/11-foreshadowing cards that gave it a second life online, INWO was never reprinted after 1995, which keeps clean Limited copies genuinely scarce.
- 1Limited Edition: every card title is printed in gold.
- 2Unlimited Edition: gold is kept for Illuminati cards only; other titles are color-coded — blue Plots, pink Groups, purple Resources.
- 3Wide-format cards with rounded corners; some card faces/wording were revised between Limited and Unlimited even where the art stayed the same.
Wide cards with rounded corners — edge whitening and corner softening from play are the usual condition issues. Verify edition before grading: Limited = all titles gold; Unlimited = blue Plots / pink Groups / purple Resources, with gold retained only for Illuminati cards.
Every card in the set, across all 2 editions. Pick an edition to narrow the listed copies; listed cards are clickable.








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