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Economics games and trivia for the curious.
18 simulation and identification games — sit on the MPC, defend the shilling, build a CPI, read a paper — plus six trivia subjects with 481 hand-curated questions. Built to teach a concept whether you win or lose.
Featured games
Flagship sims
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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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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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
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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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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Attribution · MCQ
Quote → Economist
Smith, Keynes, Friedman, Sen, Mboya, Mazzucato — match the line to the thinker. Classical, twentieth-century, contemporary, and African schools.
Play quote → economist →
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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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
Empirics
Rigour
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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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
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.
Play economics →
Markets, instruments, valuation
Finance Trivia
Equities, bonds, derivatives, valuation, risk, corporate finance, and personal finance. From P/E to put-call parity.
Play finance →
Syntax → window functions
SQL Trivia
JOINs, aggregation, window functions, CTEs, NULL behaviour, and performance. The fluency that turns analyst into senior analyst.
Play sql →
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.
Play econometrics →
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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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.
Play python →
How it works
One concept per round. Win or lose, you learn.
- ·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: 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.
- ·Personal bests are saved per scenario or subject in your browser. No accounts, no tracking, no ads.