Practical Money Skills for Life provides multiple interactive financial games designed for educators, parents and students. Two games are Financial Football and Financial Soccer. While playing the game, students' money management skills are tested as they answer questions to make their way down the playing field to win the game. Both games include lesson plan modules for educators to review ahead of time.
Presented by Wells Fargo, Stagecoach Island is a simulation style interactive financial game that places players into a virtual world. While playing, students must learn to earn money and manage their finances wisely. The game includes the option to go to college and choose a job. The player must choose and pay for items such as housing. The online game allows players to interact with others who have signed up to play as well.
Another game from Practical Money Skills for Life, the Countdown to Retirement game takes players on a journey from their first job to retirement in which they must make choices along the way while accruing debt and trying to save. To begin the game, the player must choose a character carefully considering salary and other factors from a bowler, cowboy, physicist, plastic surgeon and cube dweller. The player has to decide on items such as his home, transportation and even career choices that may affect when or if he receives a promotion.
Smart Money Quiz Show is a game show type of interactive financial game. Players start out with $10,000 of debt and must answer questions, such as "Which of these is the best way to build a good credit history?" in order to erase debt. When players answer incorrectly, the dollar amount for the question is added to the debt. Answer enough questions correctly and the player ends the game with a positive bank balance.
Presented by Sovereign Bank, KidsBank.com provides interactive financial games for younger children to introduce them to banking. The players are first introduced to concepts with stories using characters such as "Penny" and "Interest Ray." After learning about a concept such as savings, the player heads to the game room to take a quiz to test her knowledge.
In the Road Trip to Savings game, players start out with $1,000 and must try to move as much money into savings as possible over a span of four weeks, simulated with levels. While on the road trip, the player receives income and expense opportunities and must move the car around the screen to choose the best choices. If the player doesn't move the car quickly enough, she may take on too many expenses and not enough income and lose the game.
For younger students, Ed's Bank from Practical Money Skills, teaches about saving by requiring the player to drop as much change as possible, choosing coins worth a larger amount, into a piggy bank in allotted amount of time. Once the time is up, the player may "purchase" an item in the store with the saved money for Ed. The player may play as many times as he likes, continually adding to the savings in the piggy bank for more items from the store.