Tangent Games demonstrated its "Bankruptcy" game for me today. It's extremely easy to learn, taking on a few minutes. Once you learn the basics, you're ready to play with 1-5 additional people.
In Bankruptcy, the object is to play all the cards in your hand, which makes you bankrupt. There are four types of cards. The first type represents a number of shares of stock. When you draw one of these cards, you in essence own that much stock. Bear Market cards have a numeric value on them, allowing you to discard up to that number of shares of stock. Bull Market cards also contain a numeric value and allow you to specify the number of additional cards one of your opponents must pick up. The final card type represents an event in the financial markets that you can use to your advantage or to punish an opponent.
The game takes seconds to set up and about 5-10 minutes to play through.
I enjoyed it enough in a quick demo to pick up a copy.
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