This article describes how a board game bearing the same title as Eric Berne’s bestseller “Games People Play” was created. The interviewees of the Editor-in-chief of the “Transactional Analysis in Russia” journal share their stories and memories about how and where the rare original English version of the board game was found, and recount the difficulties encountered when transporting the game from the United States to Russia. The author and her interviewees reflect on whether Eric Berne created the game himself or whether he edited and consulted a team of professional game designers. The article highlights the differences between the original game and the Russian version, as well as the challenges faced when translating materials from English into Russian. The article also explains the principles of group work for the host and the knowledge required to host the game. The journal’s interviewees expressed their opinion that to create such a game, its author must be a genuinely free person, with a strong Free Child, a structuring Adult, and a solid, healthy Nurturing Parent in his ego-state profile. The very fact of discovering such a board game, published in the same year as Berne’s legendary book, indicates that the founder of Transactional analysis was a large-scale, multilateral, and brilliant personality, the one who allowed his contemporaries to experiment with TA theory and enabled the method to be not only structural but alive as well.