Real Estate Broker
Real Estate Broker is an endowment game in which one performer plays a real estate agent trying to sell a property while the other players act as prospective buyers with secretly assigned quirks or deal-breakers. The agent must adapt their pitch to each buyer while managing the increasingly chaotic viewing. The game rewards reading the room and quick character adjustments.
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