Market Isle: An Online Economics Board Game

Set sail for an unforgettable economics adventure in Market Isle, a strategy game where students learn by doing. Players settle a resource rich island, collect goods, and trade in a live marketplace where prices constantly change based on supply and demand.

As they compete to build settlements, cities, and civic projects, students naturally experience key economic concepts like scarcity, opportunity cost, investment, inflation, transaction costs, and market shocks. Every decision matters. Should they sell their grain now or save it for a city? Buy expensive ore or wait and hope prices fall?

Perfect for economics, social studies, and personal finance units, Market Isle turns abstract economic ideas into exciting, hands on learning. The game supports solo play against computer opponents or pass and play with up to four players, making it ideal for stations, early finishers, review days, or whole class activities.

Students won't even realize they're learning economics because they'll be too busy trying to become the richest merchant on the island!

Includes:

• Interactive HTML5 game that runs in any browser

• Built in economics explanations and vocabulary

• Solo and multiplayer modes

• Reinforces supply and demand, scarcity, opportunity cost, investment, inflation, and more

• Perfect for grades 5 through 9 economics and social studies classrooms