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25 Million IN Switzerland

25 Millions in Switzerland is the aim of the game; we want to earn as much money as possible by trading shares and earning dividends. You alternate a Stock Round with a Dividends round plus change of starting player.

In each Stock round you have three actions: Buy one share per action, maximum two, and pay the money to the company; or sell, once, any number of shares of a kind, or you pass. In the same round you cannot first sell and then buy or first buy and then sell shares of the same company, and you can only buy up 4 of the 5 shares of a company.

In the Dividends round you as president of companies pick up the money on those companies and can now place cards on the dividend areas, always value+1 of the previous card, regardless of the company name in order, to end up with stacks topped by a card of one of your own companies. For each company on top of a stack the share price rises by one, for all others it decreases by one million. Share holders of companies with rising price are paid dividends: Stacks with the same company on top are joined, more expensive stack on top, the president gets the two top cards and then deals all cards in turn to all share holders. If you received the lowest dividend you are new starting player. Cash in access of 8 millions must be paid into the Swiss account and you pay 50% tax when paying in or drawing money from the Swiss account.

The double use of the cards allows a lot of tactics, as you know colors and numbers of cards placed at a company for the dividends round; all in all the simple mechanisms provide a challenging and attractive game.

Players: 2-5

Age: 10+

Time: 50+

Designer: Florian Isensee

Art: Klaus Beilstein, Iris Dahlke

Price: ca. 5 Euro

Publisher: Isensee Verlag 2011

Web: www.isensee-verlag.de

Genre: Stock market game

Users: For children

Users: With friends

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Inventive double use of cards

Simple mechanisms with lot of tactics

All in all an attractive and challenging game

Compares to:

All games with stock market mechanisms; San Juan, Bohnanza and other for multiple use of cards

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0