GRYSKLL ARCADE
GRYSKLL PRESENTS
STACKORMELT
Prices rise. Cash melts.
Learn what holds.
Learn what holds.
You run a family's money for 12 years. Every year you get paid, decide where your leftover money goes, and then the news hits: inflation, tariffs, interest rates, crypto laws, scams, and crashes. Some of your money keeps up with rising prices. Some of it melts. The goal is to learn why, so you can see the money game more clearly at home.
A learning game for every age. Not financial advice. Game returns are made up and simplified. News cards are drawn from public reporting through October 2026 and dated on each card.
How it works
You run a family's money for 12 years. No timers. Take your time.
1
Payday. Your family gets paid, then the bills get paid. Whatever is left over gets split into 10 stacks.
2
Place your stacks. Cash jar, savings, a basket of companies, property, crypto, or your own skills. Anything you don't place stays in the cash jar.
3
The news hits. Each year brings a headline from the world. Read the simple version, open the deeper version if you want, then think it through.
4
See what held. Prices rise every year. Watch your cash melt and see which stacks kept up.
Two scores. Your family's stack, measured in what it can buy. And your Awareness, earned by thinking things through. Awareness is the one that travels with you.
Your progress saves itself on this device at the start of every year. Tap Save at the top anytime to download a backup file or copy a save code, so you can pick up where you left off on any device, even after the game gets updated.
Tap How to Play at the top to see this again, and Field Guide for every idea in plain words.
