Playing time: from 40 minutes

Number of players: 2-6 people

The playing field is the schedule of your day. You decide for yourself: to work till night and get a small salary increment for overtime or to realize your ideas and become a leader. Therefore, it is important to utilize all opportunities and say “yes” more often. For example, your friend suggested that you open a café: will you take the risk or will you continue to work in the office?

The main task of the players is to make passive income exceed expenses. But not at the cost of your vacation or cherished dream: this game proclaims the balance of life and work.

What does it teach?

Why it’s important to read economic news and always keep your dreams in mind.

2. MarginGame

Game time: from 15 minutes

Number of players: 2-8 people

At the start of the game all participants have virtual 10 million rubles. The players’ task is to multiply their capital with the help of investment tools. For example, you can deposit your money and get a return of 10%. Or you can bet everything on a startup: you roll the die, and if it shows the right number, your capital will increase 10 times. If you are unlucky, you will lose 20% of your savings. This game shows how profitability depends on risk and how market mechanisms work.

During the game you can define your role on the stock exchange: an investor who works out a long-term plan or a trader who wins on short trades.

Play with a large company (5 people or more) to recreate the competition in the market.

What it teaches.

Develop strategic thinking and learn how to make investment decisions by trusting your intuition.

3. Cashflow

Game time: 1-1,5 hours

Number of players: 2-6 people

This financial simulator was developed by entrepreneur Robert Kiyosaki, the author of the bestseller “Rich Dad, Poor Dad”. He claims that the more often you play Cashflow, the more you will earn.

The goal of the game is to get out of the rat race lane. The rat race is a life enclosed in a work-home framework. You can take it to the next level by investing in real estate and securities. When your passive income is greater than your expenses, you get into the “big game”. The first person to increase their monthly income to $50,000 wins.

What is taught.

You will gain practical skills in financial planning, learn what assets, liabilities are, and how to repay loans effectively.

4. Startup

Game time: from 20 minutes

Number of players: 2-6 people

Feel like a Silicon Valley startup making a breakthrough IT project. Gather your team, assign tasks and solve the big problems of a small business.

The set contains cards with business ideas (e.g. an online store), opportunities (hack your competitor’s website) and incidents. Participants must realize the project, make a profit, and get out of the incidents without loss to the company.

What is taught.

Negotiate: you will need to ask your competitor more than once to help with a “burning” project.

5. economikus

Game time: from 10 minutes

Number of players: 2-5 people

The game field consists of 11 industries (medicine, auto industry, construction). Each player has 12 company chips, which they place by industries. And each turn players bargain to buy another company, take loans and sponsor startups. The profitability of a company depends on the popularity of the industry, which is determined by luck, i.e. the dice. In the set there are cards with predictions (which industry will have a crisis), event cards (stabilization of the economy) and opportunity cards (gives a special right to influence the game, such as the right to raid).

What does it teach?

To anticipate the actions of other market participants.
Company reputation is the key to success.
6. Kommersant. Money

Game time: from 30 minutes

Number of players: 2-6 people

The game is very similar to the famous “Monopoly”. You will build skyscrapers, open supermarkets and earn big money. The rules are simple: move along the track and perform tasks. The winner is the one who collects 3 “Deposit” chips. You don’t need to ruin your competitors – your success depends on you, not other people’s failures.

What does it teach?

To make decisions quickly: the player must build up the largest territory to conquer the market while the competitors are developing the perfect strategy.