A.Maze.ing Singapore

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Overview

The Singapore Challenge is an engaging board game that allows players to go through the process of getting a company listed while travelling within Singapore, allowing a sense of locality and familiarity that can enhance the game play experience. The board game is in a form of a maze which increases the challenge and also deviates from the conventional format of just having a standard route to follow, providing more enjoyment for the players.

Each player represents a company. The aim of the game would be to get the company listed through fulfilling some criteria for listing on the Singapore Exchange.

Players can choose to move from various start points on the board game, giving players the element of choice. The roll on a die shall determine how many steps a player can take. On the routes of the game are boxes allow players to draw cards, gain cash etc. Players will gather resources through the Question & Reward cards, banks etc. Finally, when the criteria are fulfilled, players have to make their way to the Monetary Authority of Singapore and go past the Winning Route, which consists of higher level questions.

Why Play?

This board game serves to enhance corporate finance learning in a fun and risk-free environment. Players will get to learn more about corporate finance from a different perspective while competing against each other to win. Our board game is strategically designed with the purpose of stimulating each player’s learning as well as making the entire game enjoyable at the same time.

Equipments and Pre-game Setting

Equipment

The equipment consists of a board, a die, tokens, and My Performance Sheet. There are also Do You Know? Cards, Question & Reward Cards, Wild Cards and Winning Route cards.

Preparation

Place the board on a table and put the Cards face down respectively on their allocated islands. Each player chooses one token to represent him/her while traveling around the board.

Each player will start with $15,000 as their company start-up money and they would have to earn the rest of the money through opportunities gained traveling around the board. Each player will also receive a My Performance Sheet to help them jot down any new changes to their company. Players are expected to use the My Performance Sheet to write down their rewards earned as well as assets accumulated etc. Failure to do so will result in disqualification in the game.

All remaining money and other equipment go to the Bank.

Banker – Select a player to be a Banker who will be helping to keep track of monetary matters during the game. A Banker who plays in the game must keep his/her personal funds separate from those of the Bank.

Auditor – The person on each player’s right will be the auditor for that player. An auditor will have to check the player’s My Performance sheet regularly to check for any discrepancies.

Company – Each player will be playing as an individual company and the game objective is to get their company listed first.

How to Play and Win

Playing the Game

1. Each player will represent a company with the objective of getting publicly listed on SGX and MAS first.

2. Starting with the Banker, each player in turn throws the die. The player with the highest total starts the play.

3. Place your tokens on each Starting Point, throw the die and move forward the number of spaces indicated by the die.

4. After you have completed your move, the play passes to the left. The token remains on the space occupied and proceeds from that point on the player’s next turn. 2 or more tokens may rest on the same space at the same time.

5. According to the space your token reaches, you may be entitled to draw a card indicated on the space and obliged to miss a turn etc.

6. Whenever players pass through a key institution, they will have to stop next to the institution regardless of the number of advancements indicated by the die.

7. Player can make use of the My Performance sheet given to write down new changes to the company such as the addition of new shareholders etc.

8. Players can choose strategically their preferred route to SGX and MAS but must pass through all the key institutions before qualifying for the Winning Route.

9. Once at the Winning Route, players will have to answer a series of challenging questions. Only 1 question per turn and a correct answer to a question will earn an advancement to the next square.

10. If a player goes bankrupt, he can be disqualified from the game or he can start all over again from the Starting Point.

11. Each player is entitled to read out what their cards say and failure to do this will result in disqualification.

12. A player can only roll a die in each turn.

13. Players can move anywhere they want but in a forward fashion. No backward or diagonally moving is allowed.

14. Players may only loan money from the bank, not from each other. Bank loans are charged at an interest rate of 5% per annum each.

How to Win the Game?

1) Pass by Legal Firm, accounting firm, Deloitte, underwriter, UOB, and stock broking firm, DMG.

2) At least 500 shareholders AND

3) Cumulative Profit of 7.5million for last 3 years OR

4) Cumulative Profit of 10million for last 2 years

Players have to fulfill criteria 1, 2, and 3 or 4 before getting the right to travel on the Golden Route.

After fulfilling the criteria, players have to make their way to the Monetary Authority of Singapore to complete the Winning Route. The player wins when he/she reaches SGX.

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