2015 · Economic
Ponzi Scheme
Players assume the roles of fraudulent financiers who recruit investors with promises of high returns and use incoming funds to acquire Industry tiles. Each turn a player takes a Fund card from the market, collects the cash and its matching Industry tile, and is obliged to pay the card’s promised reward after a set number of rounds. Between funding rounds, players may conduct bilateral “inside trades” to buy or sell Industries with other players. At round end players advance a Time Wheel to track due payments and pay any rewards that come due. Play ends when a player cannot meet a payout and goes bankrupt; the remaining player with the highest victory points from Industries wins.
- Players
- 3–5 best 4
- Playing time
- 60–90 min
- Age
- 12+
- Complexity
- 2.4 / 5
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Full stats in Ludoya- 137
- Plays logged
- 264
- Players
- 1h 8m
- Average play
- 45
- In collections
- 8
- On wishlists
6.8/10
from 28 Ludoya reviews
Mestremuten6.0 Rating: 3/5 Production value: 3/4 Is the game in my collection/Love to have?: 0/1
I can't understand the good point of this game. Pretty random, mechanics that apparently have no connection... didn't enjoy it
Josu Txasko7.0 Hacía siglos que quería jugar a este juego, me lo imaginaba más complicado y profundo, porque un montón de gente me decía que si tal o tal juego se parecía a este o que éste, sin duda era el mejor. Bueeeeeeno, el juego está bien pero es un poco plano. Pero es un buen juego, pero no le llega a juegos como John Company por ejemplo.
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