Gamehelpstonks

Overview

Have the most profitable stocks in your portfolio by game's end

Turn

This is a trick taking game

A player plays a starting card, and all subsequent players either

Play a card of the matching suit

If unable, they can play any card or a trump card, the trump card is the current company with the lowest market value

The player with the highest value card in the starting suit wins the trick, unless a trump was played in which case the highest trump card wins

If a player plays a card with the Stock Market symbol (two arrows) then they also get to adjust the Stock Market as discussed below

The winner of the trick takes one of the played cards of their choice and adds it to their portfolio and commences the next trick

Stock Market

If a player plays a card with the Stock Market symbol (two arrows) then they also get to adjust a stock in the market by one level up or down at the time of playing (This could change Trump)

Some cards have TWO Stock Market symbols, in which case both must be applied to the same company in the same direction, if this would push the company further than allowed (i.e. there is just one space left in that direction) the player has to move in the other direction or pick a different company

Whatever company just got changed will gain the black mark, a company with the black mark cannot be adjusted at the next adjustment, at which point the adjusted company will instead gain the black mark (i.e. there will always be one company which cannot be affected, but this will always be changing)