Each player begins with a card representing their central conspiracy, or Illuminati faction, with options ranging from the original Bavarian Illuminati to the masters of the Bermuda Triangle. The spirit of Wilson's original trilogy is effectively invoked the game abounds with ludicrous conspiracies, moments of high weirdness and quintuple-cross after quintuple-cross.
Illuminati is a game of social satire, much influenced by Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminatus! sequence, with one simple goal: take over the world.