Games

Games that make you a little sharper.

A quick brain break — a daily quiz, a word hunt, a guessing game. Free, no account, and the kind of thing that quietly teaches you how money and markets work. Come back tomorrow: the quiz deals a new set of questions, the word search hides the same ten terms in a new grid, and the guessing game reshuffles the deck.

Quiz 2 min

Money Trivia

Seven quick questions on how money and markets actually work. A fresh set every day.

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Word search 4 min

Market Word Search

Ten business and money terms are hiding in the grid. Hunt them all down.

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Guessing game 3 min

Higher or Lower

Two U.S. state economies. Guess which one produces more in a year, and see how long a streak you can build.

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Tech

A deletion request is now a standing instruction

Since August 1, a California deletion request has been a standing instruction rather than a one-time message: brokers must keep deleting every 45 days, and the bar on selling you again has fewer ways out than the duty to delete.

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Markets

PJM's power auction bought less generation at its price cap

PJM's own auction reports, read in one column: the price of scarcity climbed toward its ceiling while the new generation it bought fell to a few hundred megawatts, and PJM has asked FERC to stop counting some of the demand behind that climb.

By 6 min read

The games are just for fun — nothing here is financial advice, and no score means anything beyond bragging rights.

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