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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 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.

Trains themed games with Stock Holding

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...

Arabella is an 18XX-themed roll-and-write for 1-4 players, set in Estonia. The goal is to collect most victory points but similar to other 18XX games trains, shares and dividends play here an important part.During their turn players choose dice from...

It’s the 19th century. Railroads are expanding into the new world. Invest wisely in the numerous upstart companies in order to become the wealthiest Rail Baron and take control of the North American Railways.

Abstract Game with Stock Holding

Strategy Game with Stock Holding

1920 Wall Street

Paris Connection

San Francisco Cable Car

Great Dinosaur Rush, The

Whistle Stop: Rocky Mountains Expansion

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

Iron Rail #2: Ride the Rails

Stock Holding games designed by Leonhard "Lonny" Orgler

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...

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...

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...

Stock Holding and Open Drafting games

Samarkand - Routes to Riches

Ticket to Ride: Iberia & South Korea Expansion

Tesla vs. Edison: Duel

Ticket To Ride: Map Collection #5 - United Kingdom

Stock Holding and Variable Player Powers games

Stock Holding and Victory Points as a Resource games

Colonial themed games with Stock Holding

In the 18th and 19th centuries, shipping companies aimed to strengthen the trade between the West and the Far East that had begun in previous centuries. Tea, spices, coffee, and silk are commodities much consumed in Europe, and their buying and selling...

East India Companies

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 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...

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 games published by All-Aboard Games

Stock Holding games published by Lumenaris

Leaving Earth - Stations (2nd Edition)

An expansion for Leaving Earth, focusing on manned exploration and habitation of the inner Solar System. Adds many new features, including: joint ventures where agencies cooperate on shared projects hydroponics to be able to grow food in space habitats...

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Science Fiction

Pick-up and Deliver

Point to Point Movement

Stock Holding and Tile Placement 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...

Chartered - The Golden Age

In the Last Spike players cooperate to build a continuous railway from St. Louis to Sacramento. Different routes are possible and some towns never get a railway link. Each player competes to accumulate the most money from land speculation before the...

Last Spike, The

Stock Holding and Modular Board games

For untold eons, the mortal races lived in separate worlds, but now the dragon god Azema forges a new world by opening rifts to other planes.Dawn of Ulos is an economic tile-laying game in which players compete in a game among Gods! Manipulate the rise...

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...

Lagoon - Land of Druids

Stock Holding games published by Asterion Press

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 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 ...