Customer Reviews

Stock Rush Board Game

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I got this as a game that I could use to teach my kids some basic ideas about investing while having some fun. Overall, it succeeds quite well. My 7-year old daughter asked to play it again and again at first - I think she wants to see somebody hit the Mother Lode, which hasn't happened yet in our games.

The only thing I dislike about it is that, unlike real life, cash is a very UNSAFE way to keep your assets - you can lose 50% of your cash on hand (!!!) for landing on one of two spaces on the board. I'm still considering ways to tone that down a little without totally losing the penalty. This effect should be mitigated if you have more players (it's always been just me & my daughter), as you'll get more action in the market relative to the number of times you land on the big gotcha spaces.

Other than that, though, the game is very well done. The rumor/news system is simple yet brilliant - though I did have one question that came up that I didn't see any answer for in the rules: what should be done if the number of times a rumor has been activated before being confirmed or dispelled exceeds 12? (This *almost* but did not quite actually happen in one game.) The game has a built-in timer (number of times the "Opening Bell" space is landed on) such that the time to play should not be greatly affected by the number of players, though it can vary significantly. Bankruptcy (= out of the game) is possible but fairly rare, and the gold mine offers the possibility of recovery to anyone who is still in the game.

I certainly don't know of any other stock market game that comes close - if you're interested in the subject, it would be hard to go wrong with this game.

i played stock rush for the first time since my wife bought it 2 weeks ago. she works on wall st and thought that this game would be fun. and wow, she was right!! what a game!!! at first, things looked a little confusing. but the detailed instructions were very useful and easy to understand. when we started getting into the game, we realized how much fun this game actually is. we were trading stocks like big shots and i was actually learning some things about the stock market. but what made this game really fun is that there is constant CHANGE!!! the stock prices are actually changing during the game and if your not wise about things, you could lose your shirt trading stocks(just like real life i suppose). whats really cool is that no two games will ever be the same, because the stock prices are always changing. so,you'll never get bored of playing this game. Great game if you ask me. a big change from the bland and generic board games that have been on the market for years.

I ordered Stock Rush a few days back and we almost played 6-7 games in two days. It is quite a fun exciting game. At the same time, it is quite educational for young people.

The concept and idea behind the game is well planned. The stocks do vary quite a lot within a game(So, fortunes change quite often) and also between games(no two games you play will be alike). Add to this the gold rush and gold mine concept of earning money in the game, it becomes a great game.

I recommend this board game to all lovers of monopoly, stock market and strategy based board games.

Strategy involved: 2 out of 5

Luck involved: 4 out of 5

Playing time: 30-90 minutes (short game-long game)

This game is a great education value. I had my friends son be the banker and he had to do all the math. He learned alot of multiplication and division.

The game is also alot of fun to play. It looks like you are leading the pack and then the tax man shows up at your door to get 50% of your money.

If it is not the tax man then you stock may fall do to rumors that are spreading through out the stock market and before you can dispell the rumor the stock has lost its value and you are no longer on top of the world.

The other great part of the game is that you just don't now how long the day may go. On day went for many trips around the board the next day did not even make it half way around the board.

We laughed and cried and screamed with joy as we rolled the dice and watched the market go up and down and pray for the day to go on or the day to end. Hoped that we would pass the tax man and be allowed to keep are money to invest in a new product or a stock.

If you have young children then this is a great learning game and even if you don't it is a great game to play.

I play this game whenever I can. Most of the time I play with my parents because I have gotten so good at the strategy part nobody likes to play with me. This game is all about managing money, knowing when to sell and when to buy stocks. Of course this game isn't the same as real life in the sense of evaluating stocks before you buy it; but it does have some "rumors" that can cause fluctuation for either up or down. To me the more risky maneuvers (like buying a stock low even when it is still going down on the off chance that it can go back up) seems to work every time. For example, stock "A" has a rumor that is making it lose value and it is currently valued at $12 per share, (you start with $20k) I would buy 1k shares for $12,000 then for every point the stock goes up I make one thousand dollars. Sometimes I lose sometimes I gain. Today I bought a stock at 12 per share and it went up to 80 per share ($80,000).

For those of you who don't like Monopoly because of the 95% luck involved (me). Then this is the game for you. I would say this game is 70% skill (strategy) and 30% luck. In one game I was left with $100 in cash and no stocks. I was able to finish the game with $40,000 in equity. It's all about the choices you make. Every decision should be whether the money you are risking is heavily outweighed by the gain. (A stock worth $1 per share is one thousand dollars for one thousand shares if it goes bankrupt then you only lose one thousand dollars, if it goes up, usually in increments of 10-30 you can gain 10-30 thousand in one turn). Then that is a worthwhile investment.
Good luck making good decisions..... Oh, buy this game.

I played this game with my two kids and they absoulutely loved it. Its so cool to see all the stock prices rise and fall it feels just like E-Trade... My kids and I can't stop playing it!!!!!!

Stock Rush! is great value-for-money; you get so much in the box and the attention to detail is impressive. The game itself is heaps more fun than anything else on the market, and you never know when it will end - it could be minutes or hours, depending on your ability and luck. Actually, it mirrors the real-life stock market and is an excellent educational tool for budding brokers. It will also teach your children the value of money and the perils of reckless gambling. We play the game regularly and will continue to do so for many years, I'm sure.