Black Friday

1. Objective:inBlack Fridayyou want to turn your stock market moves intogold: buy and sellactionsto docashand then use it to buy the precious metal. The winner is the one who has accumulated at the end of the gamemore gold(and/or overall value tied to gold).
   
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   Heart of the game: trading before the crash:the game revolves around a market that goes up and down untilgreat collapseYou have to choose when to buy a stock, when to exit, and when to hold cash: those who get the timing wrong end up with a lot of paper... and a lot of cash.
   
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   Shift: Buy/Sell and Influence Prices:in your turn you perform operations ofpurchase and saleof actions trying to anticipate changes. Your choices are not passive: transactions and game events candrive market developmentand then theprices.
   
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   Converting cash into gold (the real goal):Making money is only half the game: the crucial part is converting the cash intogoldbefore it becomes too late or too expensive. The strategy is to find the moment when you have enough liquidity without exposing yourself to too much risk.
   
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   MIBS (automatic broker) and end of game:Depending on the number of players you can include theMIBS, an "automatic" opponent who buys/sells and alters the market, making the flow more unpredictable and tense. The game ends when the final post-crash/predicted close phase is reached and the results are compared: whoever manipulated the market better and secured the most gold wins.
   

Black Friday Rules in English