Stonk Market

A day of trading in real time, with everyone shouting offers at once. You hold a hand of cards in made-up companies, and there is no turn order: you swap cards with anyone who will take the deal, trying to end up with the most valuable stocks. Meanwhile a small display in the middle, the Stonk Exchange, keeps shifting, and it decides which company is worth negative points when the bell rings. Values stay hidden until the end, so you are guessing what everyone else holds and why they are so keen to offload it. It is one of Reiner Knizia's fast, loud designs, twenty minutes from first trade to final count. It suits a table of five or six who like noise, and lets shy players hide in the chaos. Teach it in minutes, and use it to wake a group up before the evening's main game.