Investments Game
Once you’ve mastered budgeting and saving, it’s a good idea to take your money a step further by exploring ways to build long-term financial security, such as investing. After all, many of us have dreams and financial goals for the future.
These simple investment principles won’t require you to dive into the complexities of the stock market or technical details. Instead, they introduce a few basic concepts to give you a solid foundation for the future.
The Investments Board Game is an interactive game where you along with other players can practice your financial decision making around savings and investment funds. You will move around the board and encounter hypothetical market events and life scenarios.
Each roll of the dice will result in players needing to make a calculation to their savings and investment pots and note these down on the tracker.
The game is designed for 2 - 4 individual players per board, or 2 - 3 pairs.
To play the boardgame you will need the following which can be download from this page:
· How to play The Investments Board Game
· The Investments Board Game (best printed A3)
· Savings and funds tracker (for each player)
· Game cards
· Counters (contains dice alternative if needed).
All scenarios, investment figures and market changes featured within this game are fictional and designed to provide players with an understanding of some of the factors to consider when thinking about investing. The information is hypothetical and has not been sourced from real market data.
For an introduction to investing watch our animation.
If you’re thinking about investing but are unsure where to start, read ‘How to start your investment journey’, which is also available to download from this page. It outlines steps to consider including how to check if a company is regulated and trustworthy to avoid falling victim to an investment scam.
For more information on how to spot an investment scam, you can use this guide provided by MoneyHelper.
