Learn Economics
By Playing
Six games, ordered easiest to hardest. Recognise economies from their data, out-think rivals in a price war, run a whole country, then push policy simulations of the informal economy, asymmetric markets, and shipping cartels to their breaking point.
Game 01Guess the Country
Identify a mystery country from five live economic indicators. 35 real economies, 10 rounds.
How to play
- 1Read five real indicators for a hidden country: growth, inflation, currency, and more.
- 2Pick the country from four options before the 35-second clock runs out.
- 3Score builds across 10 rounds, faster and more confident guesses score higher.
Game 02Price War
Run a telecom company against two AI rivals in a real oligopoly pricing game. Eight rounds of Bertrand competition.
How to play
- 1Set your price every round, higher protects margin, lower grabs market share.
- 2The Strategist best-responds rationally, the Discounter just undercuts everyone.
- 3After 8 rounds, see your profit against the Nash equilibrium and full collusion.
Game 03Run a Country
A five-year economic policy simulator. Set rates, taxes, spending and trade, survive random shocks, and see how you did.
How to play
- 1Each year, set interest rates, tax policy, spending, and trade stance.
- 2Random shocks hit, an oil spike, a recession abroad, a currency run.
- 3After 5 years, get a report card on growth, inflation, and debt.
Game 04The Leakage Engine
80 businesses sit somewhere between fully informal and fully formal. Set policy and watch which way the network tips, or how much of it just disappears.
How to play
- 1Set three sliders: tax rate, enforcement pressure, and formalization benefits.
- 2Watch 80 connected businesses react in real time on a live network map.
- 3Each one silently formalizes, stays informal, or shuts down for good.
Game 05Lemon & Match
40 sellers, one buyer pool that can't see quality, only price. Design the market before asymmetric information collapses it.
How to play
- 1Set a certification floor and decide whether to mandate a warranty.
- 2Run the market, buyers only see average quality, never any one seller's.
- 3Watch across 10 rounds whether good sellers survive or the market unravels.
Game 06Cartel's Dilemma
You run one of five shipping lines on the same route. Collude and the whole pie grows, but a regulator is watching for exactly that pattern.
How to play
- 1Each round, pick a price tier: undercut, match the market, or premium.
- 2Four AI rivals respond with different strategies, from tit-for-tat to grim trigger.
- 3Price high together for bigger profits, but trip the regulator and get fined.