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Players are stock brokers during the second Industrial Revolution, trying to make as much money as possible while also coming across as good citizens by donating money to charity. During the course of the game, players purchase or sell shares of stock, and then manipulate the stock prices with the cards that they share with their two neighbors. Additionally, players donate stock to charities, which is sold off at the end of the round for the charitable donation. Whoever donates the least to charity by the end of the game automatically lose, no matter how wealthy he’s made himself.
The game uses a system of shared information where each player knows a little of what is about to happen in the markets, with each player knowing different pieces of information. The player who makes the most money at the end of the game is the winner, provided that he or she is not the person who donated the least to charity.
Year Published
2008
Transcript Analysis
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Board Games Hitting My Table general_discussion at 2:30 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Engaging charity twist and endgame tension
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Wealth management, charity, and social pressure
- Economic game with charity twist
- Social bluff with a charity twist
Comparison games
- High Society
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- charity twist elimination — Endgame condition based on how much money you stash and donate
- economic engine — Investing, collecting, and manipulating market-like resources
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Quotes (from this video)
- one of the coolest initiative mechanisms that I've ever seen
- this is like an essential because it is that good
- an absolute blast playing these couple of games
- the two-player card game on the market
- Mandala is absolutely smooth as silk
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Board Games Hitting My Table general_discussion at 0:50 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Thin, elegant rules
- Smart mechanism that creates tension between donation and final scoring
- Underrated and increasingly appealing
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- market manipulation with charitable donation twist
- A modern economy with private markets and charity options
- economic strategy with twists
Comparison games
- Between Two Cities
- High Society
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- donation to charity affecting scoring — Halfway through, players donate funds to charity; donors affect final scores and elimination risk.
- hidden/partial information and interaction — You only see your own cards; interaction with neighbors affects market.
- stock market manipulation via neighbor cards — Cards between players shift stock prices up or down; some moves are full distance, some half distance.
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Quotes (from this video)
- the market is manipulated because you have these cards that are sat between you and one of your neighbors
- the rules are so thin
- it's fantastic I think it's criminally underrated
- the rich and the good definitely one of the highlights of the period
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Chairman of the Board top_10_list at 15:36 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
highly_positive
Pros
- Flows wonderfully with an extremely simple rule set
- Considered one of the best stock/commodity-style games of its kind
- Strong set of mechanisms despite simplicity
Cons
- Past impressions of imbalance have been noted by others; not seen here
- May feel slow to players seeking speed
Thematic elements
- commodity trading and market manipulation
- economic/stock market simulation
- reverse drafting with hidden information and strict economy
Comparison games
- High Society
- Raccoon Tycoon
- Raids
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Hidden information / opponent visibility — Cards placed between players reveal or obscure values affecting decisions.
- Stash money and elimination twist — Unstashed funds influence endgame and elimination risk
- Stock market management — Buy/sell stocks to maximize value; stocks revealed to others in play.
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Quotes (from this video)
- this is a jeweling game
- self-contained box so that you're not paying paying to win this style game
- these type of games aren't generally for me
- the rules are quite fiddly
- extremely simple rule set
- one of the best styles of games like this that I've seen
- instantly fell in love with it
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Shman of the Board top_100_list at 1:23 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- easy to pick up and play
- clear flavor of commodity speculation
- interactive market manipulation with social payoff
Cons
- plays a bit lightly for some heavy euros
- donation mechanic may feel punitive to some players
Thematic elements
- wealth building, market manipulation, philanthropy
- Stock market and charity-driven economy with commodity investments
- economic simulation with drafting and scoring variants
Comparison games
- High Society
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- card drafting — Drafting cards from shared racks to influence market values.
- donation/tiebreak mechanism — At game end, the player with the least donation to charity is disqualified, creating a social pressure dynamic.
- Market manipulation — Players push stock prices up or down via card plays and neighbor interactions.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- this has been a real steady Eddie on my top 100 list for many many years now one of Kia's most iconic kind of bidding games
- I love the way that you can manipulate the market here as you and your neighboring opponents can draft cards from the same racks of cards in order to manipulate that stock price
- this game is so good and after playing so many games I think maybe this one got lost in the shuffle at the time but now I've given it the time of day it is just an excellent engine builder
- super fun dice rolling game as you're trying to roll a huge cluster of Dice and select one of those pit values
- one tile system ... really dynamic and interactively restrictive in a good way
- there are so many ways you can approach this game by spreading yourself thin and being good at everything or just being really good at one thing
- the nagging tension of these rats coming to plague you
- a wonderful evergreen for me
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Board Game Buys general_discussion at 10:32 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- minimalistic packaging
- clear stock market concept
Cons
- housekeeping and information asymmetry can be tricky
Thematic elements
- buy low, sell high with commodity cards
- economic stock market simulation
- minimalistic, economic strategy
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- stock market simulation — players influence market through cards and decisions
- two-city visibility — cards offer partial visibility to adjacent players; you can't see both racks
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Quotes (from this video)
- I think this game is really cool
- this is a very simple kind of family weight puzzly game
- it's a very fantastic game
- the rules are absolutely horrendous
- I really love this game and I've played it a few times now and I think the balance is fine
- Luke from the Broken Meeple thinks this game is really imbalanced
- the row system where the positioning of your characters is important
- one of the best two-player games I've played in some time
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