Games To Teach Money With Cards

Board games. What better way to connect as a family, have some fun, and learn a thing or two? Well, the games on this list may aim to teach your kids more than a thing or two.

You'd be surprised how much your kids can learn from a game, but if you look back at your childhood, there's a good chance you learned a lot from several different games. That's because games can increase learning outcomes by two grade levels, according to a 2013 study. ¹

When learning becomes playful, it becomes more natural. It becomes easier to learn. ² This may be why kids aren't always willing participants in games that are obviously meant solely to teach, such as many math games in school, but they are always willing to play a board game at home with the family.

When kids are free to choose the games and how they learn, they're much more likely—sometimes 2-3x more likely—to gain a deeper sense of understanding. ³

I think we all know the benefits of playing board games together as a family. Learning, fun, and family all together in one place, and it's engaging.

Board games are so important in our household that we make a special exception for them, as we typically try to bring as little into our home as possible. We understand the importance and usefulness of the games so much that we are willing to bring them into our home despite our minimalism journey.

We also don't have every game on this list. That would make for a cluttered game closet. But we have many of these games, and we always like to try new ones.

What These Games Teach

Many of these games teach basic finance skills. Others teach entrepreneurship. Some teach how to play with stocks — it's a good idea to get this out of your kids' system while they're young, instead of actually speculating with real money later on. Other games teach real estate concepts.

Though this list is about fun, I took it very seriously.

The games that made it on here are here for a reason: because they teach some sort of financial concept. That being said, I don't endorse every game on this list. I give a brief synopsis (sometimes taken from the manufacturer, but most often my own).

I wanted to give you all the options I could find, but you need to find a game that works for you and your family. The last thing I want is for you to pick a game off this list only to find out that it sucks, in your opinion. That doesn't help anyone.

So find some games you like, read the descriptions carefully (whether on Amazon, a different website selling the game, or a board game review website like Board Game Geek), and make a wise choice.

I hope you find a game for you and your family. Enjoy!

Ages 5-8 (14 Games)

At this age, kids are starting to understand the concept of money, but they won't grasp the true value of it. They know that 4 is more than 1, for example, but they're just starting to learn that 4 quarters is worth less than 1 $5 bill. These games will help your kids understand the value of money.

1. The Allowance Game (5+)

Kids do chores to earn an allowance, and they can spend the money however they see fit! Its' a fun way for young kids to learn how to handle money, make change, and interact with others. It also helps them identify money values, and do basic math.

Learning Concepts:

• Handle money
• Make change
• Identify money values
• Basic math

2. Exact Change Card Game (5+)

Like Uno, whoever plays all their cards first wins. It actually has a lot in common with Uno, except it uses money values and making change, instead of basic numbers. Exact Change has won multiple seals of approval from several learning agencies.

Learning Concepts:

• Make change
• Basic math

3. Cash Flow for Kids (6+)

This is one of my kids' favorite games. With a goal to get out of the rat race, you go around the board collecting assets and liabilities. Some tough decisions need to be made — a lot of the same decisions adults fail at every day. Things like, should I buy a new boat or invest for retirement? It instills important concepts at a young age.

Learning Concepts:

• Identify difference between assets and liabilities
• Financial decision making
• Critical thinking

4. Buy it Right (6+)

In Buy it Right, kids learn how to make smart purchases, and set their own prices on the things they sell. It shows them that it's ok to correct errors, or change what they thought was a good idea to make it even better. Plus, kids love playing with all the fake money.

Learning Concepts:

• How to buy and sell
• Identify money values
• Make change
• Basic math

5. Money Bags Coin Value Game (7+)

This is an entire games of collecting, counting, and exchanging money. It's fun and educational for kids to win by knowing the money values, making change, and collecting money.

Learning Concepts:

• Make change
• Identify money values
• Basic math

6. Cover Your Assets (7+)

Cover Your Assets is a fast-paced, competitive game. Don't be offended by the title — it makes sense. You amass a fortune by collecting and building a tower of matching asset cards, but the top asset can be stolen by the other players if they so choose. The stack of cards increases in value each time it's stolen. It's fun, but it can be quite entertaining.

Learning Concepts:

• Identify difference between assets and liabilities

7. Money Matters (7+)

This is the only Christian finance board game I know of, other than Dave Ramsey's products. However, Money Matters focuses on Christian concepts specifically. Players move around the board, as they collect income and pay bills. Each player gets 14 envelopes, as part of an envelope budgeting system. Similar to Act Your Wage, whoever pays off everything first wins.

Learning Concepts:

• Smart and controlled spending
• The value of being debt-free
• The difference between needs and wants

8. Ice Cream Empire (7+)

Ice Cream Empire is a combination of family fun and learning business concepts. Each player competes to build an ice cream franchise of eight stores across the US. As you drive your ice cream truck around the board, you fill up your inventory by buying and selling ice cream at local market rates. Whoever has the most profits wins it. You're an ice-cream entrepreneur.

Learning Concepts:

• Entrepreneurship
• Building a business
• Inventory management

9. GoVenture (7+)

GoVenture was designed specifically with business concepts and ownership skills in mind. It combines many ideas from classic board games, while adding plenty of new ones. You run your own business, compete, collaborate, and negotiate with the other players. It provides engaged learning and fun, as kids learn entrepreneurial traits. It's suggested for ages 12 and up, but the owners noted that plenty of kids as young as seven have been able to play this game, which is why I listed it as 7+.

Learning Concepts:

• Entrepreneurship
• Inventory management
• Managing employees
• Managing cash flow
• Investing
• Negotiation
• Work/life balance
• Preparing financial sheets (optional)
• Accounting (optional)

10. Pay Day (8+)

Pay Day is great for social interaction. It's a game that parents and children can play on a relatively even level. Simple and quick, a two lap game takes as little as 15 minutes. Kids will learn how to earn and save money, manage their money, and even take out loans — better to learn how destructive debt is in a game than in real life.

Learning Concepts:

• Earn and save money
• Basic money management

11. Monopoly (8+)

We've all played it. Hopefully not too many relationships have been ruined over it, but seriously, it's a great tool to teach real estate value and assets to your kids. Buy, sell, dream and scheme your way to riches. Build houses and hotels on your properties and bankrupt your opponents to win it all. Chance and Community Chest cards can change everything. There's actually an entrepreneur accessory pack to Monopoly, but I have no idea where to get it. If you know, please leave a comment. Also, show your kids how to win every time, or at least, most of the time.

Learning Concepts:

• Real estate principles
• Buying and selling
• Ruining relationships?

12. Easy Money (8+)

Travel around Easy Money Town, collecting real estate by buying and selling properties. If you think this looks a lot like Monopoly, that's because it does. But there are some differences. Easy Money is a little more in-depth than Monopoly, but if you already have Monopoly, I don't know that Easy Money is completely necessary.

Learning Concepts:

• Real estate principles
• Buying and selling

13. Net Worth (8+)

This is a strategic card game where you rid yourself of debt and collect assets, while unleashing financial doom on other players. You and your kids will have to think critically to protect your assets from a stock market crash, and other financial perils, such as a job loss or a lawsuit. The ultimate winner at the end of each game is the player with the highest net worth. It combines fun with learning better than any other card game I've seen.

Learning Concepts:

• Identify difference between assets and liabilities
• Concept of net worth and how to increase it

14. The Game of Life (8+)

This was one of my favorites growing up. Life is full of adventures: this edition of the game includes 115 cards offering exciting choices as players move through the twists and turns of life. Choose from 31 Career cards, featuring unusual or quirky careers such as Ice Cream Flavor Maker or a Secret Agent. Many awesome vacations included as well. Whoever has the most money at the end of the game wins.

Learning Concepts:

• Smart and controlled spending
• Identify difference between assets and liabilities

Ages 9-11 (14 Games)

At this age, kids understand the value of money. They're ready for more complex, real-world concepts, and there are plenty of games to teach that. These games will teach kids to think strategically like an entrepreneur, learn the stock market, and become business-minded.

15. StartUp (9+)

The ultimate business game for your kid. It's challenging for kids and adults, and it teaches many business concepts. You can make money in business opportunities, manage your own business, and navigate the world of lawsuits, price wars, and networking. Whoever completes their company headquarters first wins!

Learning Concepts:

• Math skills
• Building and running a business
• Business problem solving

16. Act Your Wage! (10+)

Get gazelle intense with this new board game from Dave Ramsey. Invite friends over to play or have a family game night. It's always competitive and fun! Keep your savings up and expenses down as you compete to be the first to yell, "I'm debt-free!"

Learning Concepts:

• Basic budgeting
• Smart and controlled spending
• The value of being debt-free

17. Catan (10+)

If you've expanded your realm of board games beyond Candyland, there's a good chance you've come across Catan, also referred to as The Settlers of Catan or Settlers. Whether you're familiar with the game or not, you're probably wondering why it's on a list of money-related board games. Think of it like a money game, before money existed. Catan lives in a time when bartering was how you paid, and managing resources was like managing a checking account.

You may not be managing money, but you're managing brick, lumber, ore, grain, and wool — all financial resources within the game. It's a blast, and it's a great transition into what a lot of experienced board gamers would consider "real board games." That is, imaginative board games that foster real strategy.

Learning Concepts:

• Decision making
• Managing resources
• Trade and barter
• Critical thinking

18. Co-opoly (10+)

This isn't another Monopoly ripoff. We've all seen the countless versions of Monopoly, from Cat-Opoly to Bacon-Opoly. Co-Opoly is completely different. With influences from Pictionary, Taboo, many other games, and of course, distant remnants of Monopoly, this is a game of strategy and teamwork. Everyone works together, and in the end, everyone either wins or loses. Basically, you're running a cooperative together. It's great when you want to play a game together, but not against each other, and it teaches plenty of life skills.

Learning Concepts:

• Business management
• Teamwork

19. Stock Exchange Game (10+)

A great introduction to the stock market, but no prior stock knowledge experience is required. There are three levels of play: family fun, strategic, and partners. Think of each trip around the board as a year in your life. Investing with the goal of retirement. Early in the game, purchase risky assets with higher returns, then later in the game sell the risky stocks for safer, more stable investments. Buy and sell stocks to turn profit into more money! The investor to retire with the most assets wins!

Learning Concepts:

• Introduction to the stock market
• Buying and selling stocks
• Teamwork

20. Venture Card Game (10+)

A card game where players purchase companies using various sets of monetary denominations known as "resource cards." A matching set is worth more than the individual values of the cards combined. The idea is to collect as many sets as possible. You purchase corporations, based on a system of matching letters. You have to cover your most valuable assets with less valuable assets — like a company minimizing capital gains taxes by claiming other losses. Once the deck of corporations is empty, the game is over, and the winner in tallied.

Learning Concepts:

• Maximizing gains while minimizing losses
• Business management

21. Crypto Cards (10+)

Dive into the cryptocurrency and blockchain world. Each action card contains the specific rule for that scenario. There are three different games you can play with the cards, but the primary game is called "Crypto-90." I don't want it to get confusing by explaining the rules. It's easy to understand when you're looking at the cards, but given all the different options, you do need to be looking at the cards to get the idea. You'll learn a lot about crypto through the cards, and the popular memes on them.

Learning Concepts:

• Knowledge of cryptocurrency
• Teamwork

22. Daytrader (10+)

Another finance game with no prior finance knowledge required. While I certainly don't endorse day trading (or speculating in general), this game brings all of the fun and thrills day trading can provide, without losing all of your money in real life. You start at the bottom, working for companies to get the cash to buy stock in the companies you work for. Whoever retires first wins. Again, it's a great way to keep day trading where it belongs: on the game board.

Learning Concepts:

• Maximizing gains while minimizing losses
• A concept of what day trading is in real life
• Buying and selling stocks

23. Crypto When Lambo (10+)

Another crypto-fan favorite. It's a strategy game that's fun and interactive. The goal is to establish offices in eight cities over the world, and ultimately, build the next successful crypto currency. You must increase the value of your crypto, and build a business team around it. You can list your crypto on coin exchanges, speculate in the crypto market, and trade all crypto. You'll have an ICO (Initial Coin Offering) for your crypto and the opportunity to invest in other players' coins.

Learning Concepts:

• Knowledge of cryptocurrency
• Knowledge of markets
• Business management
• Teamwork

24. Modern Art (10+)

The game of buying and selling collectible modern art. In this card game, you'll go to auctions to buy art, and then resell them for profit. The profit is based on valuation principles. The player with the most money after four rounds of buying and selling wins.

Learning Concepts:

• Buying and selling
• Profit margin
• Asset valuation

25. Brass (10+)

If you could go back in time, would you know where to put your money to make a fortune? Brass gives you the opportunity to find out. You're going back to 18th-century Lancashire, England, just before the Industrial Revolution. You'll be given the opportunity to take advantage of the coming change, but it's up to you to figure out how you do it.

As you take advantage of opportunities, you'll be able to build factories, dig canals, develop new technology, or innovate in whatever way you see fit. Make your money work for you through investing. May the best investor win.

Learning Concepts:

• Decision making
• Critical thinking
• Building businesses
• Investing

26. Know Opportunity (10+)

This is kind of the model game for this list — fun for the whole family, yet highly educational. The game created for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs. Know Opportunity teaches entrepreneurship from the global level. It comes complete with a full educator's package, if you choose that option. This game fits well into any homeschool curriculum for children, as an addition to public school curriculum, or simply as a fun game to play with your kids. While it was designed for adults, the makers claim that children as young as 10 have been able to easily figure it out.

Learning Concepts:

• International trade
• Entrepreneurship
• Business startup
• Investing

27. Merchants of Amsterdam (10+)

You're competing to build castles in historical Amsterdam, but there is more than one way to win the game. You can win in one of three ways, depending on how you build your castle empire. There are special abilities, capture cards, and special cards that all change up the game. While some luck is involved, skill and strategy are most important.

Learning Concepts:

• Business management
• Buying and selling

28. I'm the Boss (11+)

The real game of making deals. It's all about making deals with other players, and negotiating to get what you want. The action cards change things up, as other players can insert themselves into deals, and otherwise mess up other players' deals. The odds increase as you go.

Learning Concepts:

• Business management
• Negotiation

Ages 12 and Up (25 Games)

At this age, kids are ready to play more challenging games. They fully understand the value of money, and they're starting to understand the ways they prefer to acquire it. These games will continue to teach kids about the stock market, other investing skills, and more importantly, the entrepreneurial skills they need to think strategically in any industry.

29. Charge Large (12+)

Now we're getting into managing liabilities and assets. Players start off with gold, an entry-level credit card, and some cash. As you travel around the board, you have the opportunity to leverage cash and credit. The goal is to upgrade to the "Black Card," and accumulate $2,500 in cash. You may be thinking that this game teaches kids to want the best credit cards, but to win you must be debt-free! Weird flex, I know.

Learning Concepts:

• Basic financial management
• Managing assets and liabilities
• The value of being debt-free

30. The World of Wall Street (12+)

Players move around the board buying and selling shares of stock in eight corporations. News headlines and random events impact the price of the stocks daily. The player with the most money after 24 days (rounds) wins the game. It's simple to play, but it gets kids making stock market decisions.

Learning Concepts:

• Introduction to the stock market
• Stock trading and valuation

31. Go for Broke (12+)

Go For Broke is a roll and move game, where players receive one million dollars from the bank and race to be the first player to spend all of their money and go bankrupt. Players can risk money at the racetrack, the casino, or the the stock market… or they can make donations to charity. Outcomes are determined by spend and receive cards, and by the spinners that represent the various locations. You know how people say it's good for kids to play games like Grand Theft Auto (not that I'm endorsing it), instead of doing those things in real life. Yeah, that.

Learning Concepts:

• Teaches the financial concept of bankruptcy
• Shows how risky gambling and the stock market can be

32. Hot Company (12+)

Players each control a company and try to be the first to earn $100,000. This is accomplished by moving along the game board path and following the instructions for the squares landed on. The game focuses not just on the accumulation of wealth but also on social and environmental responsibility. There are also three decks of cards that add variety to the game: fortune, challenge, and situation cards.

Learning Concepts:

• Basic financial management
• Financial and business trivia
• Introduction to business ethics

33. Globalization (12+)

Globalization brings the exciting world of big business into your living room. You are the head of a multinational corporation with one goal in mind: to make money. Outbid your competitors to acquire businesses within six different industries, and grow your conglomerate. Streamline operating costs, build additional factories, sue your competitors or take one of your subsidiaries public for big returns. Your corporate strategy will impact which companies you buy and how to take your corporation worldwide. The synergy that comes from the right company combinations increases your perceived net worth. The first to reach a billion in net worth wins!

Learning Concepts:

• How to calculate net worth
• Business management
• Business acquisition

34. Joel Harden's Mogul (12+)

The real estate game that teaches real business skills, whether you plan to pursue real estate or not. Each player will move tenants into properties, collect rent and salary, and even get hot tips for great deals on properties. Mogul is an open-ended game. The goal is to get to a pre-determined net worth first, but how you do it is up to you. Will you leverage every asset you have, flip properties, or take a more conservative approach? You can diversify your holdings all over the board, or try to corner a neighborhood — there is no right answer, but unforeseen events can throw all your plans askew. Just as easily as a new office complex can double your properties' value, a natural disaster can wipe out your entire neighborhood.

Landing on B"ills and Maintenance" can either bring a $100 fine, or a $20,000 sewage system replacement. Good Luck / Bad Luck cards are just as unpredictable. Players go through the math, calculate finance and acquisition costs, calculate equity, and determine net worth, so you know when you win.

Learning Concepts:

• Real estate management
• Real estate acquisition
• Business management
• Business acquisition
• Financial management

35. Genoa (12+)

This is a game of trading, wares, and negotiation. The players take the roles of traders in 16th-century Genoa. They fulfill orders, deliver messages, and take ownership of buildings in the city. Of course, this is not possible without the help of the other traders. Thus, the need for clever negotiation. And that can cost money and other valuable goods. The player who earns the most is the winner.

Learning Concepts:

• Real estate acquisition
• Financial management
• Trade skills
• Negotiation

36. Puerto Rico (12+)

Players assume the roles of colonial governors on the island of Puerto Rico. The aim of the game is to amass victory points by shipping goods to Europe or by constructing buildings. Each player uses a separate small board with spaces for city buildings, plantations, and resources. Shared between the players are three ships, a trading house, and a supply of resources and doubloons.

During each round, players take turns selecting a role card from those on the table (such as "trader" or "builder"). When a role is chosen, every player gets to take the action appropriate to that role. Players earn "victory points" for owning buildings, shipping goods, and manned "large buildings." Each player's accumulated shipping chips are kept face down and come in denominations of one or five. This prevents other players from being able to determine the exact score of another player. Goods and doubloons are placed in clear view of other players and the totals of each can always be requested by a player. As the game enters its later stages, the unknown quantity of shipping tokens and its denominations require players to consider their options before choosing a role that can end the game.

Learning Concepts:

• Real estate acquisition
• Real estate management
• Trade skills

37. The Entrepreneur Game (12+)

The Entrepreneur Board Game teaches real entrepreneurial skills.It's the first and only entrepreneur board game in the world that is STEM approved! You choose between a home-based business or a brick & mortar business. There are four decks in the game that are color coded with the game spaces. Land on a colored space and pick a card from the corresponding colored deck. "Marketing" cards give you the opportunity to market your business, if you have the cash. "Wild" cards can mean anything for your business. "Losses" cards will throw challenges and setbacks at you that you'll have to overcome. "Trump" cards are big-business cards that trump all. Compete to be the winning entrepreneur.

Learning Concepts:

• Financial management
• Building a business
• Decision making
• Marketing and branding
• Communication
• Negotiation
• Investing

38. 1920 Wall Street (12+)

On September 16, 1920, a cart, pulled by horses and loaded with dynamite, burst in the middle of the financial district's most famous street, leaving a multitude of victims. In 1920 Wall Street, each player tries to collect shares from four different companies (corn, cotton, steel and oil), sell them if they need money, and influence the value of the different companies in the stock market. They earn points for making the market fluctuate and for the shares they collect — if they reach the minimum quantity of each kind.

The "Wall Street Bombing" that occurred in 1920 will trigger the end of the game, and make some changes on the way it's scored. These changes are affected by the way players discard their cards during the game.

Learning Concepts:

• Buying and selling stocks
• Wall Street history
• Critical thinking

39. Acquire (12+)

In Acquire, you plan, build, and own the next super city. Saxon City is buzzing with promising startups. Investors predict it will emerge as a prime location for entertainment, fashion, food, marketing, and other major industries. Players compete with other venture capitalists to build the city, and own majority shares in the most lucrative corporations. Players make money by forming, merging and expanding corporations, plus buying the right stocks at the right time. Who will end up being the richest investor in Saxon City? The winner, that's who.

Learning Concepts:

• Business management
• Building a business
• Buying and selling stocks

40. The Bottom Line (12+)

The idea of The Bottom Line is to accumulate $5,000,000 and land on the Bank, so as to buy it. Not as easy as it sounds. You have $1,000,000 cash, $2,000,000 in debt and 2000 oz. of gold to begin. There are several different businesses, and you can buy parts of them for anywhere from $100,000 each for residentials, to $600,000 for casinos. When someone lands on a property you own, you get $50,000 per property of the same kind you own.

The big money comes when you collect a full set of property. Land on a Drive-in Realtor and you can collect multiple millions for selling your set. There are also Options, which allow you to buy lots from your opponents at nauseatingly low prices, and gold is bought for $600,000 a brick (or in that area) and sells for over $1 million. Gold seems to be the fast way to money, but you must have the appropriate card, or you'll get fined $100,000. As players get out of debt (or deeper in it), they will find themselves in a die-rolling race to land on the Bank, or square 17, which allows you to go anywhere you want. ⁴

Learning Concepts:

• Property management
• Acquiring and managing real estate
• Financial management

41. The Next Big Thing (12+)

As you may have guessed, players compete to create "The Next Big Thing", using your initial cash savings and your skills to create a minimal viable product, gain initial traction, and then go on to raise multiple rounds of capital from investors. During the game, you'll experience many of the ups and downs of the entrepreneurial journey including: increasing revenues while balancing against expenses to grow the company, various significant events (good and bad), and creating an impact that changes the world.

There are also multiple paths such as an accelerator path, pivot paths, and in the end (if you haven't gone bankrupt), players decide to either take the acquisition path or IPO path. The winner is the player who exits ("cashes out") with the most money, by creating the company with the largest valuation, while still maintaining the most founder's ownership and generating the most positive impact on the world.

Note: This game has been criticized by more than a few people (you'll see at least one example in the Amazon reviews) for leaving too much to chance and luck. This doesn't take away the fun factor, but it can hinder the learning factor.

Learning Concepts:

• Business management
• Entrepreneurship

42. Power Grid (12+)

The object of Power Grid is to supply the most cities with power when someone's network gains a predetermined size. Players mark pre-existing routes between cities for connection, and then vie against other players to purchase the power plants that you use to supply the power.

As plants are purchased, newer and more efficient plants become available, so you're effectively allowing others access to superior equipment. Additionally, players must acquire the raw materials like coal, oil, garbage, or uranium to power the plants, making it a constant struggle to upgrade your plants for maximum efficiency. It takes about two hours to play.

Learning Concepts:

• Acquiring and managing resources
• Business management

43. ThriveTime for Teens (13+)

Developed with guidance by Sharon Lechter, co-author of the Best-Selling Books: Three Feet from Gold, Rich Dad Poor Dad and the Rich Dad series of books and products, including the Cashflow 101 board game (featured below).ThriveTime for Teens teaches financial management and cash flow skills in a fun and engaging way. Plus, it puts an emphasis on giving back to others and inspires discussion and further learning.

Learning Concepts:

• Financial management
• Cash flow management
• The value of giving

44. Automobile (13+)

This game goes back to the invention of cars and let's you participate. Tapping into the talents of men like Ford, Sloan, Kettering, Howard, Durant, and Chrysler, you balance quality versus quantity, mass production versus premium branding, and innovation versus distribution and aggressive sales. Lose your balance and you go bust. Strike the best balance, shift the right gears to beat your rivals, and you'll be rich.

Learning Concepts:

• Business management
• Production

45. Oneupmanship (13+)

Oneupmanship is a satirical board game where the players struggle for money, power, and ego. The winner is the first player to earn $100,000 through any means possible: playing the stock market, building skyscrapers, gambling, or collecting trophies.

Learning Concepts:

• Buying and selling stocks
• Entrepreneurship

46. Stockpile (13+)

Stockpile is an economic board game that combines the traditional stockholding strategy of buy low, sell high with several additional mechanisms to create a fast-paced, engaging and interactive experience. Players act as stock market investors at the end of the 20th century hoping to strike it rich, and the investor with the most money at the end of the game is the winner. Stockpile centers around the idea that "nobody knows everything about the stock market, but everyone does know something."

Do you hold onto a stock in hopes of catching a lucrative stock split, or sell now to avoid the potential company bankruptcy? Can you hold onto your stock until the end of the game to become the majority shareholder, or do you need the liquidity of cash now for future bidding? Do you risk it all by investing heavily into one company, or do you mitigate your risk by diversifying your investments?

Learning Concepts:

• Buying and selling stocks
• Decision making

47. Cashflow (14+)

Battle your way out of the "Rat Race" by acquiring property, stocks, businesses and precious metals. You're not just playing against each other; you're playing against the housing market, the stock market and even mother nature.

Cashflow starts you in a typical 9-to-5 job (that's not the fun part) and takes you on a journey to build up an arsenal of assets that will propel you into the fast track where real wealth is built (the fun part). The game not only teaches you how to invest and acquire assets, but most importantly how you behave within investing scenarios. You can test out strategies for building wealth that you might never try in real life. If you're a saver, try aggressive investing. If you're a risk-taker, try slow growth.

Learning Concepts:

• Business acquisition
• Financial management
• Investing principles
• Investing methods

48. Million Dollar Challenge (14+)

Though this game can be fairly complex, it gets easier with each play. You and your kids will learn all about different types of investments that you can make in real life (stock indexes, bonds, gold, etc.), and you'll have to decide which route you want to take. This is one of the best games on the list for teaching, but it's also one of the more difficult games to grasp.

Learning Concepts:

• Financial management
• Investing principles
• Investing methods

49. Startup Fever (14+)

In Startup Fever, you play as company founders in Silicon Valley. You'll manage money and employees (engineers, sales, executives), and allocate them to the right products. Investing in engineers creates better products, who attract more users, who generate money.

Investing in sales generates more money, which can be used to hire more engineers, but doesn't directly improve the products. At the end of every year, the best products steal users from the other products in a product showdown.

Learning Concepts:

• Business management
• Entrepreneurship

50. Franklin's Fortune (14+)

Created by a small Massachusetts company, Franklin's Fortune is an incredibly fast-paced, challenging, strategy and deck-building game. Each player must create their own long-term strategy to build up as much of Franklin's fortune as they can. Every turn is an opportunity to use your resources: energy, persistence, and sterling, to strategically gain and build on Ben Franklin's secrets to living life to the fullest.

Each player has limited energy available, so players must weigh out the opportunity cost of what they decide to pursue during their turn. You'll work from "sunrise" to "sunset" learning to turn motion into action, as the secrets of success become your wisdom of how to use your own energy.

Learning Concepts:

• Financial management
• Self improvement

51. Billionaire (14+)

As a modification and retheme of a Parker Brothers game called Landslide, Billionaire takes the same concept, but applies it to building a business. In Billionaire, players try to become a billionaire by investing in various commodities from around the world. Secret "Sealed Bids," and a unique stock analyzer randomizer, are the basis behind this game. It's marketed in the UK under the name, Fortune Hunter.

Learning Concepts:

• Financial management
• Investing

52. Global Mogul (14+)

In Global Mogul—the game where money and deals flow like water—players build their empire across the globe, sending agents far and wide as they expend capital and gain access to valuable resources needed to fulfill lucrative contracts. Struggle to dominate world markets and control resources regionally.

Expand your interests, acquire companies that provide an edge on the competition, and more efficient use of resources. The venture-capital market is giving away money, and you don't even have to pay it back, but it does tie up valuable agents until you do. Global Mogul is a limited action, worker placement, resource acquisition and opportunity management game. Win by being best at balancing your short-term goal of fulfilling contracts for cash with your long term goals of building corporate infrastructure, and controlling markets and regions.

Learning Concepts:

• Business management
• Decision making

53. Playing Lean 2 (14+)

Playing Lean 2 is the board game where players face the hard choices of innovation without leaving home. It's like a flight simulator for creating a startup company. It's a safe place where thousands of entrepreneurs have learned to fly without risking their life savings.

InPlaying Lean 2, you lead a team that tries to get from an idea to a winning product. The transition from dealing with visionary individuals to capturing large chunks of thousands of customers will be difficult.

The choices you make will be hard ones. Should you go with your gut and build what you think the market needs, or should you spend your sparse resources on experiments? Though it was really created for adults, it's a great introduction into the world of entrepreneurship, and startups, for teens.

Learning Concepts:

• Building a business
• Business management
• Entrepreneurship

Adding More Games

I hope to add more games as I find them. I've added some games since I first made this list in 2019. While this isn't a completely exhaustive list, it's pretty close. If I found a game that can teach any sort of finance lessons, I included it on this list.

As I find more games, I'll add them!

Note: Games become available and unavailable all the time. All of these games may not be available for purchase at any given time (the majority of them will be), but eventually, they should be back on sale. If a link isn't working, and you want the game, just do a quick Google search. You may have to buy some of these used.

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Source: https://freedomsprout.com/money-board-games/

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