Here are the questions we hear most, about what Market Fortune is, how to play, who it is for, what is included and how to bring it to a company, a university or an evening with people who matter to you. If what you are looking for is not here, write to [email protected].
Market Fortune is a premium tabletop financial simulator. You build a portfolio of investments while reading your rivals, managing risk and deciding under pressure. The first to form four investments worth 25 million wins, but no one sees the value of yours until someone declares victory.
It's a game about learning to invest, protect and grow a fortune in a competitive market, where the cards you hold matter less than how you play them.
On your turn you take one action: Build, to improve your hand; Risk, by pairing a Stock and a Return from the same industry and rolling the Fortune Die to lock in the investment; or Dominate, playing a Strategy card to attack, defend or change the state of the table.
2 to 6 players, 20 to 60 minutes per game, no board required. The full mechanics are on how to play, and you can read the rulebook.
Yes. It is built for people who make money decisions seriously: entrepreneurs growing a company, investors inside and outside the stock market, and traders who want to train timing, risk management and psychology without risking real capital.
It also bridges the trading and business worlds: the same skills (risk, protection, negotiation, reading the cycle) apply to both.
Market Fortune is a strategic card game where you practice investment, negotiation, risk, protection and crisis decisions using capital in cards under real pressure, without risking your own money.
Every game puts the player in front of market crashes, fleeting opportunities, defenses, rival attacks and simulated crises, in 20 to 60 minutes. The pressure is psychological and strategic, the lessons stay.
School and university teach financial theory but rarely sit the student in the chair when the market falls, when someone attacks, or when intuition contradicts the math. Most people learn about money, risk and business too late, when they have already lost money, time or trust.
Market Fortune was born to fill that absence, a table where you practice what life ends up charging, without having to lose first.
With a tabletop simulator that reproduces the real emotions of a financial decision, pressure, limited resources, rivals thinking, incomplete information and visible consequences.
Market Fortune uses fake money in cards so anyone, regardless of capital level, can live crashes, defenses, opportunities and negotiations, and learn from each decision as if it were real.
Reading books and watching courses teaches concepts, but rarely teaches judgment under pressure. Judgment is trained through practice, in situations where each decision has immediate and observable consequences.
Market Fortune turns concepts like risk, cycle, protection, intuition, entry window and negotiation into concrete plays, where the player feels what it means to decide cold, decide late, or decide under attack.
Traditional financial education loses people because it delivers information without experience. Market Fortune delivers experience first, concepts after, which flips the order and improves retention.
The premium tabletop format, the short game duration, the competitive dynamics and the option to play with 2 to 6 people make it suitable for classes, workshops, family events, university programs and corporate training.
Market Fortune is the modern alternative to classic financial board games: instead of luck and rent, you invest, manage and grow a company and a fortune under pressure, with 12 industries, market cycles, negotiation and reading intent.
Cashflow teaches basic financial literacy, Monopoly depends on the dice and Catan is about gathering resources. See the full comparison.
Market Fortune is a strategic card game designed to practice investment, negotiation, risk management, capital protection and decision-making under pressure.
It plays with 60 Stock cards across 12 industries, 60 Return cards, 60 Strategy cards including weapons, shields and master plays, and a Fortune Die that introduces the realistic randomness factor of any market.
Market Fortune was designed so loss is possible, visible and useful. The game mechanics include market crashes, rival attacks, robberies, late defenses and opportunities that appear only once.
Living a simulated loss leaves a stronger cognitive mark than reading about it, which is why the simulator works so well as a learning tool for entrepreneurs, investors and executive teams.
Market Fortune was designed by an entrepreneur and investor for entrepreneurs and investors. Every game concept, from industry choice to defense against attacks, comes from real experience building companies and investing in markets.
It serves to train financial judgment before committing own capital, to review how you decide cold versus under pressure, and to discover personal patterns of financial behavior that cannot be seen any other way.
Market Fortune incorporates market crash dynamics in its rules, prices move, industries drop, rivals attack, and the player who did not protect in time loses returns.
The concept of financial protection, usually taught with formulas in courses, in Market Fortune is lived as a visible and memorable decision, someone always protected in time, someone always waited too long.
Market Fortune is lived in an evening of 2 to 6 people, around a table, in a competitive simulation format with fake money and real pressure. Each game lasts between 25 and 45 minutes, and a table can run multiple rounds in a single night.
We also offer private table format with host, ideal for partner meetings, investor encounters, strategic farewells or evenings where the conversation deserves an object that holds it together.
No. Market Fortune offers a qualitative observation of behavior during play, meant for conversation and team development. It is not a psychometric test, a clinical diagnosis, or an individual performance evaluation.
Market Fortune Corporate Championship is the corporate version of the simulator, an experience designed to reveal how a team decides under pressure, observe real behavior under limited risk, and work on risk management, negotiation and leadership in a 3 to 5 hour competitive evening.
Corporate formats are quoted per team: the company-run Corporate Kit is USD 69 per participant (from 4 people), and founder-led championships start at USD 1,500 plus a per-participant rate, with diagnostics and reports available. Custom quotes at market-fortune.com/empresas.
A tabletop simulation puts the team in the real scenario without the real consequences. Players face the same dilemmas as an investment committee, a trading desk or a board, deciding with incomplete information, limited resources, rivals thinking and time against you.
At the end of the session, leaders can observe who froze, who improvised, who protected, who attacked late, and what the collective decision pattern was, data that in daily corporate life is rarely made visible.
Because important decisions in a company are rarely made calmly, they are made with short deadlines, incomplete information, board pressure, rivals thinking and visible consequences. A financial tabletop simulation trains the team in that scenario before it happens in real life.
The cost of this type of training is marginal compared to the cost of a bad decision in a real committee.
Market Fortune Corporate Championship is a competitive evening where a team faces simulated crises, limited resources, thinking rivals and decisions with visible consequences. It lets leaders and HR observe real behavior under pressure without real financial risk.
It is a strong alternative to traditional team building, it does not train abstract cooperation, it trains judgment in motion.
Market Fortune can be used as a tabletop financial simulation in finance, economics, MBA, business school and university executive education programs. It turns abstract concepts of investment, risk, cycle and protection into a hands-on experience where students absorb deep principles without noticing.
It is compatible with master classes, finance labs, behavior under risk modules, investment student groups and senior management programs.
Market Fortune is a premium board game for adults aged 14 and up, designed for lovers of business, investment and strategy.
It plays in 20 to 60 minutes, for 2 to 6 players, combining Stock cards, Return cards, Strategy cards and a Fortune Die in a table that teaches as much as it entertains.
Market Fortune is a premium gift for entrepreneurs, investors, financiers and strategists, a competitive table experience that replaces conferences and books with an evening of real pressure, intuition and negotiation.
The box, the illustrated rulebook and the table tent are designed for the object to be inherited, not discarded.
Market Fortune is a strategy card game built to practice how an investor and an entrepreneur think: choosing an industry across 12 sectors, weighing risk, protecting capital, negotiating and deciding when to enter or close. Each game, 2 to 6 players and 20 to 60 minutes, puts you in the decision under pressure with game capital. It is not a financial-literacy manual or advice, it is training judgment by playing. See the comparison.
Market Fortune is a competitive evening of decisions under pressure that, in its company format, makes visible how a team decides: risk, timing, negotiation, protection and closing. It is played at tables of 2 to 6 people, with a 15-variable business layer and reports, useful for leadership, committees, sales teams and investment teams. See the method for companies.
Market Fortune is a premium competitive evening of decisions under pressure. Monopoly is the bridge almost everyone knows, with luck and rent; Cashflow teaches personal finance; Market Fortune sits in its own category: investing, real market cycles, negotiation and judgment under pressure, in a collectible box for 2 to 6 players and games of 20 to 60 minutes. We respect both and occupy a different place.
No. Market Fortune is a financial strategy card game created by David May Anaya and published by Market Fortune LLC, based in Cartagena, Colombia and Albuquerque, New Mexico. It has no relation to Market Works or any other similarly named game. It ships with 180 cards in 3 decks of 60 (Stocks, Returns and Strategies), 1 Fortune Die, for 2 to 6 players ages 14 and up, in games of 20 to 60 minutes, with no board. The official site is market-fortune.com.
Each edition includes 60 Stock cards across 12 industries, 60 Return cards, 60 Strategy cards covering weapons, shields and master plays, 1 Fortune Die black with gold, 1 illustrated 24-page rulebook, 1 table tent with quick rules reference, and 1 premium box with collector finish.
Available with rulebook in English or Spanish.
The Original Edition is priced at USD 44.99 plus international shipping. During pre-order, shipping within Colombia is courtesy of Market Fortune.
Corporate formats are quoted per team: the company-run Corporate Kit is USD 69 per participant (from 4 people), and founder-led championships start at USD 1,500 plus a per-participant rate, with diagnostics and reports available. Custom quotes at market-fortune.com/empresas. Each tier offers a different level of service, private table, host and experience design.
No. Market Fortune uses fictional money in cards. No real money changes hands during play.
Pressure is psychological and strategic, not actual financial, which is why it lets you practice losses and decisions under risk in a safe environment, suitable for educational programs, corporate workshops and family gatherings.
We are on pre-order until October 2026. Orders placed during pre-order ship in October 2026 with international shipping. During pre-order, shipping within Colombia is courtesy of Market Fortune.
If your purchase is for an event, gift or specific delivery, write to [email protected] and we coordinate the date with you.
Yes. It's a premium tabletop experience where high-volume clients and teams live risk, volatility, crashes and decisions under pressure. It works as a VIP corporate gift, investor community activation and client acquisition tool for financial institutions, not a webinar or a generic team-building exercise.
Risk management, timing, negotiation, recovery, prioritization and closing: the decision patterns that appear under pressure and that traditional training never makes observable.
It's competitive, emotional and social: it makes real decision behaviors visible instead of leaving behind theory nobody applies. What happens at the table opens an executive conversation backed by reports.
It's the same table. At home it's strategic entertainment; for companies it adds the Fortune Method with a 15-variable report per person and facilitation. The difference is in what you need to observe.
After 21 years investing, he learned that money is not lost for lack of theory but in how you decide under pressure. He built a table to practice that pressure without paying for it with the real account.
On the founder's 21 years of real investing: market crashes, leveraged liquidations, rug pulls, betrayals from people close to him, and a world that changed overnight with the pandemic. Every blow left a lesson, and every lesson became a card. See the full story.
It was tested and tuned over 27 months with people of different ages, places and cultures, and more than 65,000 Monte Carlo simulations to fine-tune pace, balance and tension. No card is made up: each one comes from a real market pattern.
That money tests character before talent: when to risk, when to wait, and when to take the cost of a mistake. It promises no results and does not replace financial advice; it trains judgment under pressure with game capital.
You build your position with investments, survive the Market Crash and dominate with attack, defense and alliance strategies. The winner is whoever first closes four investments worth a total of 25 million.
Before deciding where that money goes, it helps to train how you decide. Many people receive a meaningful sum once in a lifetime and never practiced risk, timing and protection decisions under pressure.
Market Fortune is a table where you train that judgment with game capital, without risking a real cent and without financial advice. It does not tell you where to invest. It trains you to decide better when the money and the moment are real.
Starting a business is a chain of decisions under pressure: which industry to enter, how much to risk, when to protect yourself, when to close. Almost no one practices that chain before committing their own capital and time.
Market Fortune turns it into a game with 12 industries, market cycles, rivals thinking and visible consequences in 20 to 60 minutes. You leave the table having lived decisions a real business ends up charging for, without having risked what is yours.
Money is not learned in a lecture, it is learned by deciding and living the consequence. School teaches theory but rarely sits you in the chair when the market falls or when you must choose fast.
Market Fortune turns risk, cycle, protection and negotiation into concrete plays with game capital. Every game leaves an honest conversation about how you decide, which builds judgment better than any theory.
Like any muscle: with repeated practice and real consequences inside a safe environment. Reading about decision does not train decision.
Market Fortune gives you limited resources, rivals, incomplete information and time against you, again and again, until deciding in the cold stops scaring you. Practice makes the master, and here the practice is an evening, not a course.
Every market has cycles: they rise, collapse and recover. What does not change is that the one who reads the cycle and decides under pressure wins, not the one who piles up the most theory.
Preparing is not guessing the future, it is training the judgment that works in any scenario. Market Fortune trains that cross-cutting skill (risk, timing, protection, negotiation, closing) by playing, so the next change finds you with a steady hand.
You can train the judgment investing demands, by playing. Market Fortune does not make you rich or tell you where to put your money.
It recreates the pressure of a financial decision (limited resources, rivals, cycles, crashes) with game capital, so you practice risk, protection and timing without losing first. Practice makes you better at deciding, and deciding better is what separates a good investor from one who learns too late.
That is the honest premise of Market Fortune: judgment is trained, like any skill. By playing you practice the same skills that make a better investor, a better entrepreneur and a better decision-maker: reading risk, choosing timing, protecting what is yours, negotiating and closing.
We promise no financial results and do not replace advice. We train the muscle of deciding under pressure, the one that shows when the ground moves.
Buy the game, bring it to your company, or reserve a private evening with host. What comes next is decided here.