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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.

Stock Holding and Push Your Luck games

Stock Holding and Commodity Speculation games

Stock Holding games published by Moaideas

Mini Rails distills the essence of the stock-buying and track-laying game genre into a tight experience that can be finished under an hour.The game includes only two types of actions — "Buy Shares" and "Build Tracks — and you must carefully decide how...

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.

Card Game with Stock Holding

1920 Wall Street

Tesla vs. Edison - War of Currents

North American Railways

Tesla vs. Edison: Duel

Import / Export

Trains themed games with Stock Holding

18CZ - The Railway Comes to Czech Lands

San Francisco Cable Car

Last Spike, The

Stock Holding and Pick-up and Deliver games

East India Companies

Steam - Rails to Riches: Steam Barons Expansion

Whistle Stop: Rocky Mountains Expansion

Iron Rail #2: Ride the Rails - France & Germany Expansion Map

Stock Holding games published by All-Aboard Games

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...

This revised edition of 18MS is designed to appeal to new and veteran 18xx players alike. 18MS features quick gameplay with a Round of Play chart to limit the game to exactly 10 operating rounds. This makes for a short game that could be useful to teach...

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...

1822MX welcomes the 1822 system to Mexico. However, the terrain is rough and cash is hard to come by. There are new ways to overcome these obstacles. The first is the introduction of builder cubes. Still can't crack the rugged mountains and high plateaus...

Stock Holding games illustrated by Andreas Timmelmayer

1840 Vienna Tramways is an 18xx game that tells the story of Vienna's tramway system. Each player controls a holding company that can operate up to three tramway lines. Each of these lines lay track and stations on the map and run its tramways earning...

1840 - Vienna Tramways

18Mag (Magyarország meaning Hungary) is an 18xx game that tells the story of Hungarian railroads and their supporting companies.Depending on the player number, 13 different railway companies are drafted equally between the players. These railways operate...

18Mag - Hungarian Railway History

Stock Holding games published by Winsome Games

Stock Holding and Worker Placement games

In American Rails, players assume the role of a wealthy capitalist managing a portfolio of stocks and bonds in six fictional railroad companies. Through ruthless negotiation and rigorous planning, these enterprising railroad barons struggle to increase...

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...

The Salton Sea in California is one of the greatest brine reserves in the USA. Your company is dedicated to the ecological exploitation of this material, whose processing allows the production of geothermal energy as well as the extraction of lithium...

Stock Holding games designed by Brett Sobol

The Stockmarket game of insider trading.You have insider information about the stock market! It’s up to you to choose the best investments and outplay your opponents to earn the most money. Build your stock portfolio by bidding wisely at auction and...

Stockpile (Epic Edition, Kickstarter Exclusive)

Illicit Investments, the second expansion for Stockpile, contains a deck of Investment Strategies. Investment Strategy Cards give each player the ability to perform a unique action every round.Engage in Corporate Espionage, Rogue Trading, Vulture Capitalism...

Stockpile: Illicit Investments Expansion (Clearance)

Science Fiction themed games with Stock Holding

Stock Holding games designed by Mike Hutton

1862: Railway Mania in the Eastern Counties is set in this cauldron of railway construction. Players will vie to start railway companies, invest money in railway shares, and attempt to run the railways they control for personal gain, trying to keep ...

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

Railways on the Isle of Wright were always a triumph of public service over proftabbil9ity. Work started in 1860, as an odd collaboration of the South of England’s bitter rivals, the LSWR and LBSC. Further lines were built by local companies often with...

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

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...

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...

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...

Stock Holding and Ownership games

Stock Holding and Set Collection games

Stock Holding games published by Hollandspiele

The Soo Line is a train game set in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. As in many such games, the players invest in railroad companies, building track to increase the company's income and paying dividends to the shareholders. And as in several of Tom Russell...

For-Ex is the game of currency trading. An opaque, nerdy, butterfly-effect game, players take on the roles of international financiers who trade and manipulate currency values. Each of the game's several currencies only has value relative to one another...

It's the year 325 and it's a pretty chill time to be a Christian.Not only has it been a hot minute since they were forced to renounce their faith on pain of death, but the emperor Constantine has really leaned into it, hoping it will unite the often...

The title Dual Gauge refers to the fact that there are two kinds of track - standard gauge and narrow. Standard is more expensive and more efficient, while narrow gauge is cheaper and rather inefficient. These rectangular track tiles are laid across...

Stock Holding and Territory Building games

Stock Holding and Variable Phase Order games

Stock Holding and Hand Management games

Chartered: The Golden Age is a 2-6 player board game that immerses you into Amsterdam's Golden Age, challenging you to become the wealthiest merchant of the city by building and buying your way to riches.You are establishing your first warehouses in...

Rich merchants and their families ply the Silk Route of the Orient with their caravans in order to make lucrative business. The players assume the role of traders who marry into other families to extend their influences. Who will be the richest merchant...

The Caribbean during the 17th century: Various nations are in a constant struggle for dominance, all while striving for the consolidation of their political and economic power in this area.You are seafarers and adventurers, trying to increase your reputation...

Stock Holding games designed by Alan R. Moon

Discover the Iberian Peninsula and embark on a train trip where every step of your journey will resonate with the rhythm of celebration. From the lively streets of Barcelona to the festive squares of Seville, collect and maximize sets of Festival Cards...

Ticket to Ride: Iberia & South Korea Expansion (See Price in Cart)

Place the first rails of the glorious train adventure that all started in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in the 19th century. Learn to master the power of steam to build trains that go faster and farther, develop your technologies, ...

Ticket To Ride: Map Collection #5 - United Kingdom

Stock Holding and Hexagon Grid games