Getting ready to play Big Board Raiders All players choose a play piece (pawn) to represent themselves on the playing board and place it on any space on the board to start. You cannot choose a Yellow, Blue, Red or Green pawn, these are reserved and go on their dots. Then follow the instructions in the video to setup the board for play. Have fun and let the kids win sometimes... You will notice when it mentions how many time cards there is a flub, this is because the old rule set in the manual that accompanies the game says 5 time cards, it ...
In bigboardraiders you want to hold directorships for two reasons: the first is you collect dividends at the year-end for each one you hold and this is how you grow a year-end income stream. the second is you need a majority of directorships in the company of your escrow directorship to win the game. There are two kinds of directorship: The first kind of directorship, that was touched on earlier (when we reviewed the Proxy Sheet) called the escrow directorship. This directorship is one where the player has to be elected by proxy to hold it. This is accomplished by collecting or earning all the proxy votes of the ...
Review of the Proxy Sheet - When the game begins you will be given a play piece, some cash and a Proxy Sheet. When you land on a subsidiary space on the playing board, you are given a proxy vote to be elected to a special directorship of that company. The first player to collect all six proxy votes of any company is elected to this special directorship that is held in escrow. Don't let the word escrow scare you, it just means that something is held in trust until a condition is fulfilled. The condition here is, "you were first to ...
Review of the Prospectus - This is the document that is filed with the SEC for every company that publicly trades. It is supposed to tell all so that everyone has the same information and in theory level the playing field. If you believe that, I have some lovely swamp land for sale. The Prospectus has all the information about the number of shares in the company which is called equity, the number of directors, what the company does and why it needs your money. If it borrows from you in the form of a bond issue, this is called debt, the ...
TIME Review – Another of the basic components of this game is how TIME is measured for the various time related investments available for the players to exploit. Put another way, what governs the time value of money. The mechanics of time are that there are 40 spaces on the playing board and 8 of those spaces are TIME spaces. That means that on any given turn, the odds are 1 in 5 that a Time space will be landed on and will result in a TIME CARD to be drawn from the top of the deck. The deck is stacked ...
Market Review – One of the basic concepts of this game is how the market records and maintains the share value of the four companies that trade on the Rutland Stock Exchange. In this fictitious country called Rutland, they have a central bank and their own currency that is injected into the economy regularly through the stock exchange. And like any fiat economy inflation is a part of the deal. The share values are recorded on the Big Board in the center of the playing board (a small section of it is shown as the thumbnail in this review). The Big Board is the 4 color coded columns ...
All players decide the order of turns and then choose a play piece to represent themselves on the board and place it on any space on the board to start. You cannot choose the Yellow, Blue, Red or Green pawn, these are reserved and go on their dots. Then you get yourself a proxy sheet and some dough, as in cash, and you are ready to rumble.
In bigboardraiders you want to hold directorships for two reasons:
the first is you collect dividends at the year-end for each one you hold and this is how you grow a year-end income stream.
the second is you need a majority of directorships in the company of your escrow directorship to win the game.
There are two kinds of directorship:
one kind of directorship that we touched on earlier (when we reviewed the Proxy Sheet) called the escrow directorship. This directorship is one where the player has to be elected by proxy to hold it. This is accomplished by collecting or earning all the proxy votes of the [...]
Review of the Proxy Sheet; When the game begins you will be given a play piece, some cash and a Proxy Sheet. When you land on a subsidiary space on the playing board, you are given a proxy vote to be elected to a special directorship of that company. The first player to collect all six proxy votes of any company is elected to this special directorship that is held in escrow. Don’t let the word escrow scare you, it just means that something is held in trust until a condition is fulfilled. In this case, you collected all [...]
Review of the Prospectus – This is the document that is filed with the SEC for every company that publicly trades. It is supposed to tell all so that everyone has the same information and in theory level the playing field. If you believe that, I have some lovely swamp land for sale.
The Prospectus has all the information about the number of shares in the company which is called equity, the number of directors, what the company does and why it needs your money. If it borrows from you in the form of a bond issue, this is called debt, the [...]
TIME Review – Another of the basic components of this game is how TIME is measured for the various time related investments available for the players to exploit. Put another way, what governs the time value of money. The mechanics of time are that there are 40 spaces on the playing board and 8 of those spaces are TIME spaces. That means that on any given turn, the odds are 1 in 5 that a Time space will be landed on and will result in a TIME CARD to be drawn from the top of the deck. The deck is stacked [...]
http://www.bigboardraiders.com Market Review – One of the basic concepts of this game is how the market records and maintains the share value of the four companies that trade on the Rutland Stock Exchange. In this fictitious country called Rutland, they have a central bank and their own currency that is injected into the economy regularly through the stock exchange. And like any fiat economy inflation is a part of the deal.
The share values are recorded on the Big Board in the center of the playing board (a small section of it is shown as the thumbnail in this review). The Big Board is the 4 color coded columns [...]