Zwarte Vrijdag

The panic when the market crashes and you're still holding shares is genuinely tense, and the buy-sell timing mechanic keeps everyone at the table engaged. Played it with four people and the gold-spending decisions got surprisingly cutthroat near the end.

Was nervous this would be too math-heavy but the buy-sell mechanic clicks after one round. Watching my wife dump her shares right before the crash and still lose was honestly the highlight of game night.

Finally a game where the market crash actually feels like a relief instead of a disaster. My group spent the whole last round frantically buying shares, then scrambling to cash out before the crash hit. The tension of deciding when to sell is what keeps us playing it back to back.