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A board game box titled “No Worries If Not!” sits in a metal bucket filled with ice and crumpled paper. The colourful cover features a winding path and a wide-grinning face. Above the box, white serif text reads “The game where quitting is for winners.” Below, a paragraph describes the game as a challenge based on the experience of existing as a woman.
A board game box titled “No Worries If Not!” sits in a metal bucket filled with ice and crumpled paper. The colourful cover features a winding path and a wide-grinning face. Above the box, white serif text reads “The game where quitting is for winners.” Below, a paragraph describes the game as a challenge based on the experience of existing as a woman.

No worries if not! Take a look at the board game women can’t win

It’s “the game women never wanted to play”. Little Troop designs a tongue-in-cheek product for bodycare brand Billie.

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Date
10 August 2023

Ever felt life is a game you just can’t win? Well, we’ve found the board game for you. No Worries If Not! is a game that plays on the “real life setbacks and pitfalls” that women face everyday. The product was designed by Little Troop for the bodycare brand Billie. It also features an 80s-style ad directed by the photographer and director Luca Venter. The whole project is a hoot – if a slightly depressing one at that.

The rules of the game are fairly simple. To play, you have to navigate a set of “doomed” paths including Judgment Junction, Self-Doubt Spiral, Fertility Forest and You Look Tired Triangle. The aim is to not get knocked off path and to be the first to reach Everyone’s Happy and No One’s Mad Land. The catch? It’s pretty hard (surprise surprise!).

A board game box titled “No Worries If Not!” features a colourful, winding path with various obstacles and challenges. The box is set against a black background with the headline “The game for ‘I’ll-just-do-it-myself’-ers.” Below the box, a card reads “DRAW CARD” and another says “AIM HIGHER!”. Small text at the bottom describes the game as a challenge for women, intended for 2–4 players aged 17 and up.
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Little Troop: No Worries If Not! (Copyright © Bille, 2023)

Little Troop went for a bold and multicoloured approach to the game’s design, perfectly matching the ironic tone of the game. The studio also designed a set of playing counters – a bottle of eternal youth, a biological clock and a never-ending to-do list.

The promotional video features comedian Ruby McCollister in a “David Byrne big suit” – created by stylist Zoey Radford Scott – who walks us through the game in the style of an 80s infomercial. The set, which is crafted by Sensitive Studio, draws from elements in the game and includes pieces like a giant biological clock.

GalleryLittle Troop: No Worries if Not! (Copyright © Bille, 2023)

A board game set titled “No Worries If Not!” laid out against a black background. The colourful game board features a winding path, accompanied by a matching box, a deck of cards, and six small character tokens.
A pink patterned paper with the repeated phrase “No Worries If Not!” in bold white typography. A small, colourful illustration of a building is visible at the top.
The box for a board game titled “No Worries If Not!”. The cover features a colourful, surreal illustration of a winding path with various obstacles and the text “The game women never wanted to play”.
A colourful board game box featuring a winding path and surreal landscapes. Bold text reads “Think you can win?” and “No Worries If Not!”.
A board game box titled “No Worries If Not!” is engulfed in orange flames against a black background. Above the box, white text reads “Warning: This game includes goals not compatible with reality.” The box art features a colourful, surreal game board with a smiling rainbow and various obstacles. Below the image, a paragraph of text describes the challenges of existing as a woman, followed by the credits “A game for ages 17 & up”, “2–4 players” and “Brought to you by billie”.
An acrylic standee of a pink alarm clock with green bells and a green clock face. The text “BIOLOGICAL CLOCK” is written around the edge of the face.
An acrylic standee of a red pump bottle illustration. The label on the bottle reads “ETERNAL YOUTH” in black capital letters.
Two bright pink and green cards lay on a black surface. The first reads “The Ticket Outta Here” in bold black type, with a smaller instruction to “FLIP + READ ME OUT LOUD”. The second card contains a short manifesto about playing by one's own rules.
Three bright green game cards are scattered over a pile of pink cards. The green cards feature text about societal expectations, including instructions to “Go to Smile More Street”, “Go to Judgment Junction” and “Go to You Look Tired Triangle”. The pink cards repeat the phrase “No Worries If Not!”.
A hand places a game piece shaped like an alarm clock on a colourful board game. The board features a path called the “Self-Doubt Spiral” and the title “Worries Not! The game women never wanted to play”.

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Little Troop: No Worries if Not! (Copyright © Bille, 2023)

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