A dice-and-property board where the same seeded board, played under two economic rule-sets, ends up rich for very different people.
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How to play
Roll the dice to advance the current player around a square ring of properties. The whole point is to feel how the rules, not the luck, decide who ends up wealthy.
Pick a model: Monopolist routes full rent to the owner of any land you land on; Taxation taxes land each circuit and pays an equal dividend to everyone.
Roll & play a turn, or hit Auto to fast-forward to the end of the run.
Watch the live Gini inequality bar climb or hold steady as wealth concentrates or spreads.
At the end, the same board is replayed under both models so you can compare final inequality side by side.
Controls
Desktop: click Roll & play turn, Auto to end, and the mode/Daily/Practice buttons.
Phone & tablet: tap the same on-screen buttons, no keyboard needed.
Tips & strategy
Run the same daily seed under both models to isolate how much of the gap is rules versus dice.
Inequality usually climbs fastest under the monopolist toll, but a few seeds buck the trend, so explore several.
What you'll learn
Toll & Trade reimagines the property-trading board game as a teaching tool about economic systems and inequality.
Skills: economic systems, wealth and inequality, property markets
Best for: roughly grades 7–12 (ages 12+)
For parents & teachers: uses a familiar board game to examine economic systems.
About Toll & Trade
Toll & Trade reimagines the classic property-trading board game as a teaching tool about economic systems and inequality. It is an original, free browser game built in-house.
A free, original browser game on PlayPendium. No download, no install.
