A FREE BROWSER GAME

THE LONG TRAIL

Oregon Trail, but for your money.

Travel from your first real paycheck to the finish line, one decision at a time. The twist: you do not win by getting rich. You win by writing a plan and holding to it when the trail turns hard.

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EVERY DISASTER IS A FINANCIAL ONE

THE HOT TIP

A relative at Thanksgiving with a chart that only goes up. It is already up 10% since you sat down.

LIFESTYLE CREEP

The raise you somehow never feel, because the truck has a payment now.

THE CRASH

Five weeks that make your account look like a typo, and every instinct screaming to sell.

THE GOLD RUSH

Everyone around you getting rich quick. Holding your route feels like the dumbest plan on the trail.

Sound familiar? That is rather the point.

HOW FAR WILL YOU GET

TRAIL BOSSYou let the plan do the exciting part. The trail never rattled you.
SETTLERSteady hands, few detours. You arrived in good shape.
GREENHORNYou learned the trail the hard way, but you learned it.
STRAGGLERYou scraped in. The plan took every hit and somehow held.
LOSTYou died of FOMO, or snake oil, or a boat. It happens.

Your rank is set by how intact your plan is at the end, not by how much money you made.

CHALLENGE SOMEONE

Send it to the friend who has definitely bought a hot tip.

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Made by Jack Casady

A marketer who cannot really code, who built the whole thing in about a day by directing AI.