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Stock Holding

Understanding "Stock Holding" in Board Games

"Stock Holding" is a mechanic where players purchase, trade, and manage shares of various in-game entities. The goal is often to exert control, influence outcomes, and generate income.

Key Concepts

Shares: Portions of entities players can buy or sell.
Market: The in-game economy affecting share value.
Dividends: Profits paid to shareholders.
Control: Owning a significant share may grant special abilities or decision-making power.

How It Works

Players strategically buy shares to invest in company growth or earn dividends, affecting both the company's performance and the player's wealth within the game.

Examples

Acquire: Players merge companies and acquire stock to become the wealthiest shareholder.

Power Grid: While not a pure stock holding game, it involves economic strategy akin to managing company assets.

1830: Railways & Robber Barons: A heavy economic and stock manipulation game where players buy, sell, and manipulate railroad stocks.

Impact on Gameplay

Stock holding mechanics can:

Introduce depth and realism
Encourage strategic planning and foresight
Mimic real-world economic principles

Stock holding in board games offers a rich, strategic experience, engaging players in the intricacies of economic influence and investment.

Economic themed games with Stock Holding

Chartered - The Golden Age

Last Spike, The

Stock Holding and Investment games

Black Friday (2023 Edition)

1920 Wall Street

Tesla vs. Edison - War of Currents

East India Companies

Chicago Express

1846 - The Race for the Midwest (2nd Printing)

Iron Rail #3: Iberian Gauge

Stock Holding and Commodity Speculation games

Turn into a high-flying stock trader in a thrilling game of stark market shenanigans.Over the course of the game, you'll buy and short stock, depending on a variety of events. Forecast cards indicate how the price of a stock will increase or decrease...

Iberian Rails is a share-holding train game in which players employ services of characters, some more reputable than others.Each round, the players select their characters using an original character-row mechanism, then the railway companies take their...

Enter a Growing Market!Welcome to the Community Hedge Fund where players take on the roles of gardeners dedicated to growing flowers and profits. When the market crashes, the Gardener with the most valuable Stalk portfolio wins.Garden shrewdly to grow...

Stock Holding games published by (Self-Published)

18CZ is a game of the 18xx family that is set in the Czech Republic. In the game, the players seek to make the most money by buying and selling stock certificates of up to fifteen railroad companies. The player with the most stock of a particular company...

1882 is set in an area of western Canada known as Assiniboia. Twoto six players represent investors in railroad companies, spendingtheir initial capital to buy private companies and later shares inpublic companies. The public companies are each controlled...

The island of Luzon — the largest and most populous in the Philippines — poses a series of challenges to those seeking to build a railroad network and profit from it. The island's topography is difficult to work with as large mountain ranges collide...

Stock Holding games published by Lonny Games

1840 - Vienna Tramways

18Mag - Hungarian Railway History

1824 - Austrian-Hungary Railway

Stock Holding games illustrated by Ian O'Toole

Stock Holding and Auction/Bidding games

1862 - Railway Mania in the Eastern Counties (2nd Edition)

Magnate - The First City

1860 - Railways of the Isle of Wight (Kickstarter Edition)

18 Chesapeake - The Birth of American Railroads

Stock Holding and Worker Placement games

Transportation themed games with Stock Holding

Fantasy themed games with Stock Holding

1889. The mechanical and magic empire of Queen Victoria rules the world. On the occasion of her jubilee, the queen challenged the most distinguished Clubs in London to prepare an expedition into the Shadow Market, a huge underground, illegal maze where...

SUMMARYValda is a competitive strategy game where you as a viking warchief manage a village and resources, play powerful spells and build temples. So you gather followers, fight off enemies and climb the steps to divinity.STORYRealm of the gods: Loki...

Lagoon: Land of Druids is a game about forging the destiny of a world. Lead your circle of druids in search of enchanted sites that offer magic powers, and use them to bend destiny. Each site is aligned with one of three divine energies. You will alter...

Stock Holding games designed by David Wang

Mini Express

Mini Express is a strategic train game where you and other wealthy capitalists manage four railroad companies. Players will compete to complete the transcontinental railroad.

mostly positive, 72%

Network and Route Building

Stock Holding and Set Collection games

Stock Holding and Area Majority / Influence games

Turncoats is a competitive game for 2-5 players, where three factions are at war. The players take on the role of Aspirants and Interlopers, not obviously tied to any one group. Instead, they must manage their loyalties, represented by stones in their...

Veggie Garden is a fun and fast-paced game for 2-4 players, all of which are trying to grow the most vegetables in the shortest amount of time. But it won’t be easy — other players will be fighting for space in the garden, along with the pesky Groundhog...

Tesla vs. Edison: Duel is a fun, easy-to-learn, 2-player card game that takes less than 30 minutes to pay. Duel distills the epic War of Currents to its essence while still preserving all major areas of play from the original smash hit. It's AC vs. DC...

Each player is a dog, digging for bones and returning them to dog bowls. Bones will have different values based on the activity in the yard. The dog with the most valuable bones is the champ!

Stock Holding games designed by Amabel Holland

Trans-Siberian Railroad

Space themed games with Stock Holding

21Moon

21Moon is a new board game designed in Sweden based on the excellent 18XX train game mechanics. However, instead of taking place in the past, 21Moon is space game where players run corporations that explore and mine critical minerals on the Moon during...

mostly positive, 71%

Science Fiction

Network and Route Building

Stock Holding and Point to Point Movement games

Stock Holding and Pick-up and Deliver games

Stock Holding and Connections games

David V. H. Peters' Paris Connection is a 3-6 player game lasting 30 minutes. This simple but compelling railroad game covers all of France. Through the use of company expansion and adding to your portfolio, the goal is to earn more than your fellow...

Each player conducts their own cable car company and tries to expand their network. Victory points are awarded for each destination station connected to a player’s line. Who will finally be the owner of the most successful cable car company?Expansion...

18SJ is set in Sweden and pits two to six players as railway investors in the formative years of the Nordic railways.Railway corporations are just a means to and end and the corporate treasury might very well be looted by one player and the empty company...

Card Game with Stock Holding

Stock Holding games published by GoKids 玩樂小子

Grasshopper & the Ant, The

In The Grasshopper and the Ant, players take turns playing the part of the industrious ants and the grasshopper content to sponge off the labor of the ants.

Stock Holding games illustrated by Will McDermott

Pan Am - Triumph in the Golden Age of Air Travel

From island hoppers of the ‘30s to glamorous jet-liners of the 1960s, Pan Am set the pace of the airline industry. Compete with Pan Am and other players as the head of your own fledgling airline. Expand your fleet of planes, build airports, outbid rivals...

mostly positive, 76%

Aviation / Flight

Auction: Fixed Placement

Auction/Bidding

Constrained Bidding

Stock Holding games published by Eagle-Gryphon Games

Card Game the Card Game Expansion

15 Excusive Kickstarter Cards

Ancient Civilization

Auction/Bidding

Auction: Multiple Lot

Stock Holding games illustrated by Chris Whitpan

18 India

At the dawn of the 19th century, the invention of the steam locomotive transformed ground transportation forever. From the purview of those looking to line their pockets, few places were more enticing than India. Under the guise of proving a service ...