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Trusts and Busts or Frenzied Finance

Trusts and Busts or Frenzied Finance

  • Description

    This game is a vivid representation of stock speculation as carried on by the general public through the brokers' offices of Wall Street. The uncertainties of the game and the anxiety of the players to be on the right side of the "Market," together with the possible occurrence of a "Boom" or a "Slump" give to the game the power to call up every emotion that sways the real speculator in stocks.

    Parts:

    86 cards with the following values -
    60 cards representing "value" cards (6 sets of 10 cards with numbers on them)
    13 "Trust" cards
    16 small "Market" cards the represent the different occurrences

  • Details
    Ages:  
    Category: Economic
    Designer: (Uncredited)
    Mechanics: Stock Holding
    Time:  
    Year: 1904