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First Place, the money game.

The money game you play with your class, or on your own. Free, from Lilypad Learning, for grades 4 to 12.

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  • Free
  • No accounts
  • No ads
  • No in-app purchases
The game's 3D city: a little Calgary with its tower, river and park
The First Place home screen: play with your class, or play solo at your level
In a workshop

The whole class plays together.

Every student plays on their own phone. The big screen shows the whole class in a little Calgary.

The big screen at the end of a chapter: the top three students' characters on a 3D podium, with the class around them
  1. Join with the codeScan the QR code or type the code from the big screen.
  2. Make a characterPick a look from lists. Nobody types a name: everyone gets a made-up nickname.
  3. Play the chaptersYour character walks into the city on the big screen, and the class plays each chapter at the same time.
Three chapters

Budgeting, debt and investing, played.

Chapter 1

Cash Flow

One month of pay, bills and surprises.

  • Your pay pours into tanks for needs, wants and savings.
  • Bills drain them on their due dates.
  • Life throws surprises at you, and the red tap covers any shortfall.
Cash Flow on a phone: day 5 of 30, the pay split into needs, wants and savings tanks
Chapter 2

Balance Due

Beat your debts before interest grows them.

  • The class takes on The Balance, a giant made of its debts.
  • Fire coins at your own debts with a slingshot.
  • Interest grows every debt you leave alone.
Balance Due on a phone: The Balance made of credit cards, with each debt's rate and amount
Chapter 3

Skyline

Years of saving and investing, built into a tower.

  • Pocket cash lands every round.
  • Build a tower of savings, GICs, bonds, an index fund and single companies.
  • The market follows real history, crashes included.
Skyline on a phone: a tower of savings, a GIC and an index fund, with buttons to build
On your own

Keep playing after the workshop.

Everything you do on your own stays on your device.

Play solo

All three chapters, with practice classmates.

Learn

Short lessons, each with something to play with.

My money

Split your real allowance or pay into spend, save and give.

Three levels

The same game, sized for every grade.

SeedlingGrades 4 to 6
SproutGrades 7 to 9
LilypadGrades 10 to 12
Safe for students

Nothing to sign up for.

  • No accounts, names, email addresses or phone numbers.
  • Everyone gets a made-up nickname, like "Lucky Otter".
  • No ads, no tracking and no in-app purchases.
  • Playing solo, Learn and My money stay on the device.
  • A class room erases itself 36 hours after its last activity.
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Bring the game to your class.

Our workshops are free for schools and community organizations.

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