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# 4.8/5 from 2,844 readers 95 pages of timeless wisdom Published since 1978, enduring classic THE GAME OF LIFE AND HOW TO PLAY IT: A Prosperity Classic

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- • **Proven Positive Impact:** 4.8-star rating from thousands confirms its effectiveness in manifesting prosperity.
- • **Authentic Original Text:** Read the unfiltered, original 1978 edition for pure, unaltered spiritual guidance.
- • **Enduring Bestseller Status:** Ranked top 20 in Occult & Paranormal and New Thought categories, proving timeless appeal.
- • **Practical Affirmations Included:** Includes a curated list of prayers, denials, and affirmations to transform mindset instantly.
- • **Compact Powerhouse of Prosperity:** 95 pages packed with actionable success principles for busy professionals.

## Overview

THE GAME OF LIFE AND HOW TO PLAY IT by Florence Scovel Shinn is a 95-page paperback classic first published in 1978. It distills powerful prosperity principles through easy-to-understand affirmations and spiritual laws, maintaining a 4.8-star rating from nearly 3,000 readers. This enduring bestseller continues to inspire professionals seeking practical, original wisdom to manifest wealth and happiness.

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Timeless wisdom... entertaining style... easy-to-grasp explanations of success principles. In her classic book, THE GAME OF LIFE AND HOW TO PLAY IT , Florence Scovel Shinn established herself as the leading prosperity writer of her era whose down-to-earth, practical, and helpful suggestions appealed to readers and seekers from all walks of life. Years after their initial publications, her books continue to reign as some of today's most prominent prosperity resources that help you win the game of life through positive attitudes and affirmations. Generations after the original release date, new readers are still connecting with THE GAME OF LIFE like never before as they yearn to understand the spiritual guidelines that will give them the framework to build a life of wealth and happiness. DeVorss Publications is proud to be a long-standing publisher of this classic book, providing inspiration for prosperity readers around the world.

Review: A Jewel for More than One Read - 'The Game of Life and How to Play It' is a booklet of barely 100 pages that looks rather insignificant but turns out to be a real treasure of spiritual wisdom and prosperity secrets. Every single word counts and has meaning; there is not a single sentence that could be traced out. It’s a highly condensed read and a very convincing lecture. One of the most precious prosperity books that I have found. This book shows that it’s really nothing new to think and write about prosperity, as it’s so much a fashion today. I would boldly allege that the best that was written about the subject was written about it in the first half of the 20th century. Think only of James Allen who published ‘As a Man Thinketh’ in 1902, Charles Haanel who published ‘The Master Key System’ in 1916 and Ernest Holmes who published ‘The Science of Mind’ in 1927. We may today prefer to read secondary literature about these books, we may resort to sampler reviews in the style Tom Butler-Bowden published them, or we may even consider watered-down approaches, reading republished versions of some of those books that were adding comments and bold text for highlighting important passages. All this is of course legitimate but does it convey the original intention of the author? Some argue that the older English was hard to read, that expressions could be misleading, that the spelling was confusing, or that language had to be updated to the standard of the ‘psychological thinking’ of today’s world. I regard all these arguments as off-topic. There is nothing more refreshing and instructive than reading original texts, from whatever period of time and in whatever language we can muster to decipher. Let me point this out clearly here: my reviews are not written in the intention to replace the lecture of the original books. I believe we need to read the original, always, and without exception, in order to truly understand what an author has to convey. That’s why I often quote authors because I believe we cannot always accurately paraphrase what others have written. This being said, the author puts a real stress on the power of the word, actually in all her books. To my knowledge, all leadership and success authors stress this point, in particular also Napoleon Hill and Joseph Murphy. Murphy gives a number of equally striking examples in his books, as we have seen already. This is perhaps the single most important fact to know about the workings of the subconscious mind. It carries out literally what we affirm, if only we affirm it often enough to impress the subconscious on a consistent basis. Another example the author cites is a woman who had a lot of money but liked to joke about ‘getting ready for the poorhouse.’ In a few years down the road, then, she was almost destitute, the author reports, because she had impressed her subconscious mind with the picture of lack and limitation. But fortunately, as I mentioned already, this law works in both ways, so if we are aware of such a situation, we can change it for the better once again by using appropriate positive affirmations, repeating them often enough to impression the inner mind. Now, let us ask, once again, why are words exhibiting such a powerful force in the universe? Why can they move the world? Charles W. Leadbeater, and later other members of the Theosophical Society, have inquired deeply into this question and found that all language, every single syllable, every letter, carry a unique and specific vibrational code. The Jewish tradition knows this truth since millennia: all the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet have been assigned a ‘tone’, a vibration that carries through from the subconscious to the conscious world, thereby deploying creational power. The author reports the words of Isaiah ‘My word shall not return unto me void, but shall accomplish that where unto it is sent.’ She speaks of words and thoughts as being ‘a tremendous vibratory force, ever moulding man’s body and affairs.’ /15 Some life coaches speak of ‘setting an act’, which in spiritual circles is called ‘making a demonstration.’ It is the fact that an act of faith has the most astonishing consequences. As the author reports it in her book, a woman was looking for an apartment in NYC during a period of great shortage and her friends were sorry to tell her that she will have to store her furniture and live in a hotel. She denied the fact and simply affirmed: ‘Infinite Spirit, open the way for the right apartment.’ Then she went to a department store and bought bedsheets while her negative inner voice said something on the lines of ‘You will have no use of these blankets as you won’t get an apartment anyway … ‘. Although there were over two hundred other applicants, she got an apartment. Indeed, we can only receive what we allow ourselves to receive. This is what an act of faith is all about. We already learned that the spoken word has creative power. This has been called the Law of Command or the Law of Decree. In addition, we have seen that for the world to unfold its creational power, there must be nonresistance. However, there is something magic about it for when you look up to a situation fearlessly, there is no more situation to face. The author reports the example of a woman who was deadly afraid to walk under a ladder. One day she had to take something out of her safe-deposit vault in her bank but workers had put a ladder right in the way to it, so she turned around and went out of the building in fear. However, as the author had previously told her to walk fearlessly under the next ladder she was facing, she remembered her words, turned back, and fiercely decided to walk under the ladder. But there was no more ladder. It had been taken away! On the same line of reasoning, to idly chat about ‘hard times’ means to harness the power of the spoken word negatively and destructively. The author mentions the old saying that the spoken word should be used only for three purposes, to ‘heal, bless or prosper,’ for what we say of others will be said about us, and what we wish for another, we are wishing for ourselves. Sickness can be brought about through using negative language. For example, the author reports that criticism can produce rheumatism, ‘as critical, inharmonious thoughts cause unnatural deposits in the blood, which settle in the joints.’ /27 The law of nonresistance can be put in the formula: ‘Resist not evil, be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.’ When we see children attracting fatal diseases, we may wonder why, as their innocent minds are not yet stricken with negative thoughts. But the problem is that they are sensitive and receptive toward the thoughts of others around them, and thereby manifest the fears of their parents. As their subconscious mind is especially open to receive suggestions, they are easily manipulated into forms of behavior that are not for their best. In a chapter entitled ‘Casting the Burden’, the author gives advice about how to impress the subconscious. She compares it to the winding-up of a victrola: we must wind ourselves up with the spoken word. But this requires us to transmute fear into faith; then we can ‘make believe’ the subconscious with an act that expresses that faith, and thereby manifests the desired outcome. In the next chapter about ‘Love’, Florence Shinn declares that suffering is not necessary for our evolution, ‘but few people seem able to rouse themselves from their ‘soul sleep’ without it.’ /58 In this same chapter she expresses what all prosperity authors say, namely that money must be kept to flow, and that hoarding brings about losses. However, she also says that saving money brings about its loss. This is in contradiction to what we have seen is said by Napoleon Hill who spent a whole chapter on the power of saving money. I think to resolve this apparent contradiction, we need to again remind ourselves of the mindfulness required for any action that is set to improve our lives. Saving money can be done in two different states of mind. It can be done in a ‘hoarding’ state of mind, as an act of withholding flow and depriving others from the benefits an outflow of resources produces, but it can also be done with a mindset of abundance that is set to prevent waste. When we spend money lavishly, which is a prosperous behavior generally, there is a borderline that is easy to trespass: that borderline is the one that separates management from waste. Resource management should avoid the hoarding of resources but it must be done with the intention to avoid waste, for otherwise the door would be open to squandering wealth. Another important principle for building prosperity and basic happiness in life is to refrain from judging. In the Bible we read: ‘Condemn not lest ye also be condemned.’ Such a result is a simple outflow of the law of karma. In addition, judging is an attitude that blocks the flow of the vital energies, and in so doing blocks the flow of money. And it’s quite staggering how a karmic spear can hit home. The author gives the example of a woman who was extremely judgmental about another woman who had an affair with her husband. The author told her to stop condemning that woman, for otherwise she would attract the same situation for herself. And this really happened. A year or two later, the author reports, that woman became deeply interested in a married man herself. To close this book review I would like to tell the reader that a list of prayers—denials and affirmations—is contained at the end of the highly useful booklet.
Review: Awesome! - This book is a great read. It can be read in a single day.

## Features

- Author: Florence Scovel Shinn.
- Publisher: Devorss & Co.
- Pages: 95
- Publication Date: 1978
- Edition: DeVorss Publications
- Binding: Paperback
- MSRP: 5.95
- ISBN13: 9780875162577
- ISBN: 0875162576
- Other ISBN: 9781633846104
- Other ISBN Binding: printisbn
- Language: en

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #2,372 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #18 in Occult & Paranormal #20 in New Thought #62 in Spiritual Self-Help (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.8 out of 5 stars 2,844 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Jewel for More than One Read
*by P***R on May 22, 2014*

'The Game of Life and How to Play It' is a booklet of barely 100 pages that looks rather insignificant but turns out to be a real treasure of spiritual wisdom and prosperity secrets. Every single word counts and has meaning; there is not a single sentence that could be traced out. It’s a highly condensed read and a very convincing lecture. One of the most precious prosperity books that I have found. This book shows that it’s really nothing new to think and write about prosperity, as it’s so much a fashion today. I would boldly allege that the best that was written about the subject was written about it in the first half of the 20th century. Think only of James Allen who published ‘As a Man Thinketh’ in 1902, Charles Haanel who published ‘The Master Key System’ in 1916 and Ernest Holmes who published ‘The Science of Mind’ in 1927. We may today prefer to read secondary literature about these books, we may resort to sampler reviews in the style Tom Butler-Bowden published them, or we may even consider watered-down approaches, reading republished versions of some of those books that were adding comments and bold text for highlighting important passages. All this is of course legitimate but does it convey the original intention of the author? Some argue that the older English was hard to read, that expressions could be misleading, that the spelling was confusing, or that language had to be updated to the standard of the ‘psychological thinking’ of today’s world. I regard all these arguments as off-topic. There is nothing more refreshing and instructive than reading original texts, from whatever period of time and in whatever language we can muster to decipher. Let me point this out clearly here: my reviews are not written in the intention to replace the lecture of the original books. I believe we need to read the original, always, and without exception, in order to truly understand what an author has to convey. That’s why I often quote authors because I believe we cannot always accurately paraphrase what others have written. This being said, the author puts a real stress on the power of the word, actually in all her books. To my knowledge, all leadership and success authors stress this point, in particular also Napoleon Hill and Joseph Murphy. Murphy gives a number of equally striking examples in his books, as we have seen already. This is perhaps the single most important fact to know about the workings of the subconscious mind. It carries out literally what we affirm, if only we affirm it often enough to impress the subconscious on a consistent basis. Another example the author cites is a woman who had a lot of money but liked to joke about ‘getting ready for the poorhouse.’ In a few years down the road, then, she was almost destitute, the author reports, because she had impressed her subconscious mind with the picture of lack and limitation. But fortunately, as I mentioned already, this law works in both ways, so if we are aware of such a situation, we can change it for the better once again by using appropriate positive affirmations, repeating them often enough to impression the inner mind. Now, let us ask, once again, why are words exhibiting such a powerful force in the universe? Why can they move the world? Charles W. Leadbeater, and later other members of the Theosophical Society, have inquired deeply into this question and found that all language, every single syllable, every letter, carry a unique and specific vibrational code. The Jewish tradition knows this truth since millennia: all the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet have been assigned a ‘tone’, a vibration that carries through from the subconscious to the conscious world, thereby deploying creational power. The author reports the words of Isaiah ‘My word shall not return unto me void, but shall accomplish that where unto it is sent.’ She speaks of words and thoughts as being ‘a tremendous vibratory force, ever moulding man’s body and affairs.’ /15 Some life coaches speak of ‘setting an act’, which in spiritual circles is called ‘making a demonstration.’ It is the fact that an act of faith has the most astonishing consequences. As the author reports it in her book, a woman was looking for an apartment in NYC during a period of great shortage and her friends were sorry to tell her that she will have to store her furniture and live in a hotel. She denied the fact and simply affirmed: ‘Infinite Spirit, open the way for the right apartment.’ Then she went to a department store and bought bedsheets while her negative inner voice said something on the lines of ‘You will have no use of these blankets as you won’t get an apartment anyway … ‘. Although there were over two hundred other applicants, she got an apartment. Indeed, we can only receive what we allow ourselves to receive. This is what an act of faith is all about. We already learned that the spoken word has creative power. This has been called the Law of Command or the Law of Decree. In addition, we have seen that for the world to unfold its creational power, there must be nonresistance. However, there is something magic about it for when you look up to a situation fearlessly, there is no more situation to face. The author reports the example of a woman who was deadly afraid to walk under a ladder. One day she had to take something out of her safe-deposit vault in her bank but workers had put a ladder right in the way to it, so she turned around and went out of the building in fear. However, as the author had previously told her to walk fearlessly under the next ladder she was facing, she remembered her words, turned back, and fiercely decided to walk under the ladder. But there was no more ladder. It had been taken away! On the same line of reasoning, to idly chat about ‘hard times’ means to harness the power of the spoken word negatively and destructively. The author mentions the old saying that the spoken word should be used only for three purposes, to ‘heal, bless or prosper,’ for what we say of others will be said about us, and what we wish for another, we are wishing for ourselves. Sickness can be brought about through using negative language. For example, the author reports that criticism can produce rheumatism, ‘as critical, inharmonious thoughts cause unnatural deposits in the blood, which settle in the joints.’ /27 The law of nonresistance can be put in the formula: ‘Resist not evil, be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.’ When we see children attracting fatal diseases, we may wonder why, as their innocent minds are not yet stricken with negative thoughts. But the problem is that they are sensitive and receptive toward the thoughts of others around them, and thereby manifest the fears of their parents. As their subconscious mind is especially open to receive suggestions, they are easily manipulated into forms of behavior that are not for their best. In a chapter entitled ‘Casting the Burden’, the author gives advice about how to impress the subconscious. She compares it to the winding-up of a victrola: we must wind ourselves up with the spoken word. But this requires us to transmute fear into faith; then we can ‘make believe’ the subconscious with an act that expresses that faith, and thereby manifests the desired outcome. In the next chapter about ‘Love’, Florence Shinn declares that suffering is not necessary for our evolution, ‘but few people seem able to rouse themselves from their ‘soul sleep’ without it.’ /58 In this same chapter she expresses what all prosperity authors say, namely that money must be kept to flow, and that hoarding brings about losses. However, she also says that saving money brings about its loss. This is in contradiction to what we have seen is said by Napoleon Hill who spent a whole chapter on the power of saving money. I think to resolve this apparent contradiction, we need to again remind ourselves of the mindfulness required for any action that is set to improve our lives. Saving money can be done in two different states of mind. It can be done in a ‘hoarding’ state of mind, as an act of withholding flow and depriving others from the benefits an outflow of resources produces, but it can also be done with a mindset of abundance that is set to prevent waste. When we spend money lavishly, which is a prosperous behavior generally, there is a borderline that is easy to trespass: that borderline is the one that separates management from waste. Resource management should avoid the hoarding of resources but it must be done with the intention to avoid waste, for otherwise the door would be open to squandering wealth. Another important principle for building prosperity and basic happiness in life is to refrain from judging. In the Bible we read: ‘Condemn not lest ye also be condemned.’ Such a result is a simple outflow of the law of karma. In addition, judging is an attitude that blocks the flow of the vital energies, and in so doing blocks the flow of money. And it’s quite staggering how a karmic spear can hit home. The author gives the example of a woman who was extremely judgmental about another woman who had an affair with her husband. The author told her to stop condemning that woman, for otherwise she would attract the same situation for herself. And this really happened. A year or two later, the author reports, that woman became deeply interested in a married man herself. To close this book review I would like to tell the reader that a list of prayers—denials and affirmations—is contained at the end of the highly useful booklet.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Awesome!
*by N***E on June 3, 2026*

This book is a great read. It can be read in a single day.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A timeless little book I keep coming back to
*by D***R on October 4, 2025*

Reading The Game of Life and How to Play It feels like opening a window into early 20th-century wisdom that still resonates today. The language is old-fashioned in spots, but the core ideas, faith, mindset, and speaking positivity into your life, feel surprisingly relevant. I’ve picked it up a few times over the years, and every reread highlights something I’d overlooked before. It’s short and easy to get through, but it’s the kind of book that invites you to pause, reflect, and even write down affirmations as you go. If you’re drawn to classic self-help or spiritual prosperity books, this one’s worth having on your shelf. It’s simple yet uplifting, like a gentle reminder to trust your words and your outlook. Pro Tip: Read it slowly, a chapter at a time, and keep a notebook handy, the affirmations and examples are fun to adapt to your own life.

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