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Uptown Man Crowdfunds $15,000 For Card Game In Just Two Days

 Creator Dan Killian started a Kickstarter with a $10,000 goal earlier this week.
Creator Dan Killian started a Kickstarter with a $10,000 goal earlier this week.
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UPTOWN — How much money would someone have to pay you to break a stranger's arm?

That's just one of the less risque questions in Dan Killian's card game Pricetitution, which he began crowdfunding this week. And apparently people are pretty excited about it: Killian reached its $10,000 goal in just one day and the funds are still pouring in.

"It was overwhelming in the best way possible. A key part of this game is getting people to connect ... and I think it shows people relate to it," he said.

So far, the campaign has raised more than $15,000 from about 400 donors, according to the website.

Killian, a 29-year-old Uptown resident, created the card game based on the question "How much would it cost?" to get your friends to do absurd things. The idea was sparked by conversations he would have with his buddy on his stoop, he said.

The project was also "a test for myself," Killian said. "I was tired of having ideas and not acting on them."

It also served as a "creative test" for himself. He works on the business side of advertising and usually has a team of creatives working for him on projects, he said.

"I wanted to prove to myself I could do this also," he said. "It's been amazing and one of the most fulfilling things I've ever done."

Over the last 1½ years, Killian tested a prototype of the game by bringing it to Guthrie's Tavern, 1300 W. Addison St. — a regular haunt for board gamers — and asking random folks to play it as he watched silently because "it's got to work on its own," he said.

"It felt a little bit odd and weird at first," Killian said, but "I never had one group turn it down."

Match.com has signed up to use the game at a singles event in Chicago in late June, he said.