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18 economics games.
No score, just understanding.

Sit on the MPC, defend the shilling, build a CPI, read a paper — then test yourself across 481 hand-curated trivia questions.

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Featured games

Flagship sims

5 scenarios

Set the rate · 12 months

MPC Simulator

Sit on the Monetary Policy Committee at the Fed, ECB, CBK, CBRT, or BCB during a real episode. Make the call month by month; beat the dual-mandate loss.

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5 episodes

Allocate · Hyperinflation

Survive the Curve

Live through Weimar, Zimbabwe, Argentina, Türkiye, or Venezuela. Rebalance cash, dollars, gold, and goods each month. How much real wealth survives?

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5 crisis weeks

Governor · CYOA

Shilling Defender

You are CBK Governor during a week of pressure on the shilling. Each day brings a choice: hike, sell reserves, jawbone, capital controls. Reserves, inflation, credibility all move.

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Quick games

Rapid-fire

11 series

Macro · Predict

Higher / Lower

We show you a chart up to month t. You call whether month t+1 prints higher or lower. Inflation, unemployment, the policy rate — fast rounds, real series.

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30 calls

Markets · Reaction

Headline → Market Move

A real headline drops. Did SPX, DXY, and the 10-year yield go up, down, or flat in the hour after? Ten rounds, three indicators each.

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50 quotes

Attribution · MCQ

Quote → Economist

Smith, Keynes, Friedman, Sen, Mboya, Mazzucato — match the line to the thinker. Classical, twentieth-century, contemporary, and African schools.

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14 scatters

Empirics · Identify

Phillips Curve Museum

Unlabelled inflation-vs-unemployment scatters. Name the country and decade. From the stable 60s curve to the stagflation cloud to the flat 2010s.

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18 puzzles

Data · Forensics

Wrong Number

One number in each table or chart was fabricated. Spot the impossible — an identity that doesn’t sum, a ratio out of range, a level that breaks the series.

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8 rounds

Valuation · Relative

Mispricing Hunt

Three comparable companies, three multiples. Which one is the relative mispricing? Defend your call against the model answer.

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12 cases

Policy · What-if

Counterfactual

What if Volcker hadn’t hiked in 1979? What if Greece had defaulted in 2010? Choose the alternative trajectory historians and economists most defend.

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16 curves

Rates · Regime ID

Yield Curve Detective

An unlabelled yield curve. Is it the US in 2007, Japan in 1998, Türkiye in 2023, or post-COVID 2021? Read the slope, level, and curvature.

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Build & allocate

Interactive sims

5 scenarios

Fiscal · Allocate

Budget Builder

You are Treasury. Slide allocations across health, education, defence, debt service, and more — under a binding envelope. Hit the policy objectives without blowing the deficit.

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4 baskets

Inflation · Weights

Build-a-CPI

Compose the CPI basket for an economy. Get the weights wrong and the headline number misses the household’s experience. See how Kenya, the US, and Argentina differ.

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6 scenarios

Trade · Ricardian

Comparative Advantage

Allocate labour between two goods in two countries. Pick the specialisation pattern that maximises world output, then trade to consume more than autarky.

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4 books

EM debt · Allocate

Eurobond Roulette

$100m to deploy across frontier sovereigns — Kenya, Ghana, Egypt, Nigeria, Zambia. Read the spreads and the macro; survive the next twelve months without a default.

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12 rounds

ROSCA · Group savings

Tontine

A five-person rotating savings group. Contribute KES 1,000 each month; one member takes the pot. NPCs default, fall behind, get wealthy — does the tontine survive?

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Strategy & puzzles

Pattern recognition

72 puzzles

Beginner → Master

Forks, pins, skewers, smothered mates, back-rank combinations, endgame technique. Four difficulty levels from Scholar's Mate to master-level sacrifices. Train your pattern recognition one position at a time.

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Empirics

Rigour

11 questions

Identification · Diagnose

Spot the Bias

A study setup is described. Which identification flaw breaks the causal claim — selection, simultaneity, measurement, attrition, or omitted variables?

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3 papers / round

Papers · Comprehension

The Reading

Three short paper excerpts per round, three questions each. What’s the identification? What’s the headline finding? What does the robustness check actually test?

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Trivia · 6 subjects

481 questions, zero memorisation required.

Pick a subject, set a difficulty cap, choose a length. Every wrong answer comes with a teaching note — what the right call was and why.

100 questions

Econ 101 → 401

Economics Trivia

Micro, macro, history of thought, policy, finance, models, and African markets. From Adam Smith to Mundell-Fleming to AGPO procurement.

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90 questions

Markets, instruments, valuation

Finance Trivia

Equities, bonds, derivatives, valuation, risk, corporate finance, and personal finance. From P/E to put-call parity.

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93 questions

Syntax → window functions

SQL Trivia

JOINs, aggregation, window functions, CTEs, NULL behaviour, and performance. The fluency that turns analyst into senior analyst.

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71 questions

OLS → IV → DiD

Econometrics Trivia

Linear regression, identification, IV, panel data, time series, limited dependent variables, and reading empirical work critically. The methods that turn data into defensible claims.

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57 questions

Tokens → RAG → agents

AI Literacy Trivia

LLM fundamentals, prompting, retrieval-augmented generation, agents, evaluation, and ethics. The vocabulary every analyst should now own — tokens, embeddings, hallucination, jailbreaks.

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70 questions

Syntax → pandas → analysis

Python Trivia

Python for analysts: syntax, data structures, control flow, functions, OOP, errors, and the pandas/numpy toolkit. Built for the analyst who needs to wrangle real data, not write a web server.

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How it works

One concept per round. Win or lose, you learn.

Scenarios with stakes

Games ship with scenario picks and clear win conditions. Every wrong answer comes with a teaching note — what the right call was and why.

Trivia your way

Pick categories and a max-difficulty cap (easy / medium / hard), choose 5, 10, 15, or 25 questions, submit, and see green / red with a note attached either way.

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18 economics games. No score, just understanding.

Featured games

MPC Simulator

Survive the Curve

Shilling Defender

Quick games

Higher / Lower

Headline → Market Move

Quote → Economist

Phillips Curve Museum

Wrong Number

Mispricing Hunt

Counterfactual

Yield Curve Detective

Build & allocate

Budget Builder

Build-a-CPI

Comparative Advantage

Eurobond Roulette

Tontine

Strategy & puzzles

Chess Puzzles

Empirics

Spot the Bias

The Reading

481 questions, zero memorisation required.

Economics Trivia

Finance Trivia

SQL Trivia

Econometrics Trivia

AI Literacy Trivia

Python Trivia

One concept per round. Win or lose, you learn.

18 economics games.
No score, just understanding.