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Age range. 12+. Skills. Strategy. 1830: The Game of Railroads and Robber Barons is a railroad operations and share trading board game first published by Avalon Hill in 1986 based on an original design by Francis Tresham. The popularity of 1830 spawned an industry creating similar "18XX" games. It was the inspiration for Sid Meir's Railroad Tycoon.
Economic game. Strategy game. Players. 1–12. Playing time. 60 minutes. The Stock Market Game is an economic strategy game involving negotiation designed by Thomas N. Shaw and published in 1970 by Avalon Hill. [1] Players buy and sell five different stocks and bonds of fluctuating prices within timed rounds to ultimately become the richest player.
Pit (game) Pit. (game) Pit is a fast-paced card game for three to eight players, designed to simulate open outcry bidding for commodities. The game first went on sale in 1904 by the American games company Parker Brothers, having been developed by the attributed clairvoyant Edgar Cayce. [1] [2]
60 minutes. Age range. 12+. Stocks & Bonds is an economic strategy game published by 3M in 1964. [1] The game is a simulation of the American stock market in which players buy and trade fictitious stocks to become the richest by the end of the game. A video game adaptation titled Computer Stocks & Bonds was released by Avalon Hill in 1982.
Destination is a turn-based, roll-and-move strategic board game. In the original edition, two to six players compete as taxi drivers. Each player starts at a taxi rank with destination cards. [1] They take turns to roll dice, planning routes to reach their destinations across the board. Players can strategically choose routes to maximise money.
Power Grid is the English-language version of the second edition of the multiplayer German-style board game Funkenschlag, designed by Friedemann Friese and first released in 2004. Power Grid was released by Rio Grande Games. In the game, each player represents a company which owns power plants and tries to supply
There are two basic strategies to making money at the game. The first is to buy whichever stocks are safely in dividend-paying territory. Using this method, if a stock splits and returns to the $1.00 value, the owner should sell out and reinvest in a stock that is safely above par. Similarly, if a stock drops below a dollar, the owner should ...
Finance. (game) Finance, or The Fascinating Game of Finance or Finance and Fortune, is a board game originally released in 1932. The game is based on The Landlord's Game in the movement of pieces around the board, the use of cards, properties that can be purchased, and houses that can be erected on them. The game also has railroads; however ...