Walking back across the Jane Coston Bridge (“A perfect location for protest banners”, but I didn’t tell you that) I caught sight of the vast expanse of roofs (rooves?) of my housing estate. Good god its ugly, a sea of red nothingness, just the same for what seems like miles. I feel ashamed to live in such a lifeless, historyless place.
The boot fair over in the Cowley Road park and ride car park could get quite addictive – todays finds were the pretentiously titled “Dr Who – battle for the universe”, a simple looking board game (3.50 complete), and “Speculate”, a share trading game (1, share price markers missing but otherwise complete). So, less than a fiver and I’ve got two more fully fledged games.
Indeed, Speculate looks like an interesting game for understanding some of the dynamics of the stock market, it was published in 1972 so it doesn’t cover modern markets, no derivatives or futures, and it deals rather heavy handedly in sectors rather than shares themselves, but its a reasonable trade-off given the level complexity that is possible with what is essentially a card game.
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