How money works, one game at a time
Ten short lessons. Each one is a narrated story with mini-games: you move the hard idea with your thumb and watch it respond. About five minutes each, on a phone, a laptop, or a booth screen.
A learning game with illustrative numbers. SimFinancial is a fictional bank. Not investment advice.
The ten modules
Progress is saved on this deviceA token's meaning comes from its rules and issuer, not its look.
Game: Spot the backingA shared record is hard to change, not automatically true.
Game: Tamper with a blockA loan creates a deposit.
Game: Two balance sheetsA new record, the same bank promise.
Game: What does not changeA $1 promise is only as good as its reserves and redemption.
Game: Run on the issuerTime does more work than the rate.
Game: The snowballWhen rates rise, bond prices fall, and longer bonds fall further.
Game: The seesaw, and three moreThe yield curve is the market's forecast, drawn as a line.
Game: Build the curvePooling turns "how long will I live?" into a paycheck for life.
Game: Retire 100 peopleEvery price is a buyer and a seller meeting.
Game: Run the order book