From the instructions: "Concept: Life is a cycle of paychecks, bills and taxes that make it seem almost impossible to 'get ahead.' It has even been said that there are only two certainties in life...death and taxes. Today, of course, there is a third certainty...INFLATION!! LIFE IS RUFF is about the cycle of income vs. outgo. As in reality, the proper...
(from the instruction booklet) LIMIT UP is a board game which simulates commodity futures trading and which stresses good money and portfolio management. LIMIT UP players learn not only how the commodity markets work, but how to trade in them as well... The object is to accumulate as much wealth as possible through the buying and selling of commodity...
This game was published in 2004 and never made it to stores. This game was given as gift to the partners of firm Limonaad and to some random lucky people who got it from Limonaad's mascot. This is a short Estonian discovery game, where the main character is Limonaad's mascot called Limpa. He starts discovering Estonia and things happen with him on the way....
THE LINCOLN CHALLENGE is a monopoly style stock-market board game developed by the LINCOLN (UK) YMCA to generate funds for its activities. Lincoln is situated in the East of England and 120 miles above London Players progress around the board as a result of the roll of 2D6. When landing on a Company square a player may purchase a share in that company...
This is a Monopoly clone. The publisher Lokalspelet i Skandinavien AB did a lot of these games as promotions for different cities in the 1990s. In the middle of the board is a photo from Ystad and around that is a lot of the stores in the city. You can buy stock in them, and you can get cards that ask you questions about the city. This game is endorsed by...
Amabel Holland's London & NorthWestern is based in England & Wales at the beginning of the great Railway Age. In addition to using Amabel's seminal 'leased track' mechanism, it includes the benefits of improved technological developments that characterized railways in the United Kingdom. For 3-5 players for about an hour, one page of clear rules and absent...
Investing game created by a Mother/Daughter team. The objective of the game is to be the best stock and bond investor and make the most money. If you lose all your stocks, bonds, and money then you lose the game. The game has been illustrated by a child to help appeal to other children and create interest in investing for both children and adults. Look Out...
From the designer (English): Lost Planet is a game that simulates the colonization of the first planet found outside the solar system. Initially this planet is called Lost Planet by the mass media for being the only in this foreign solar system. Players represent corporations that send staff and resources from the Earth to carry out the colonization of the...
Lots is an abstract shareholding game with an unusual method of valuation. Players will build 5 “Lots” of objects collectively, taking shares in lots of their choice as the game progresses. Each lot’s ability to score is dependent on the objects in lots to the right of it, so players will have to be clever to maximize the value of their own lots, sometimes...
Woodcutters compete in their annual Lumberjack game where they use real timber as components. In preparation for the game someone has spray-painted 100 logs in 5 different colors, and stacked them in a huge round tower with layers of 6 logs arranged randomly. A player takes a free log from the tower and uses it to build his own tower. Each player may only...
The island of Luzon — the largest and most populous in the Philippines — poses a series of challenges to those seeking to build a railroad network and profit from it. The island's topography is difficult to work with as large mountain ranges collide with wetlands, and an already established shipping industry means that coastal cities will be profitable...