Toll & Trade

A dice-and-property board where the same seeded board, played under two economic rule-sets, ends up rich for very different people.

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.

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