{"id":11611,"date":"2026-11-12T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=11611"},"modified":"2026-11-11T23:07:20","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T04:07:20","slug":"stonk-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/12\/stonk-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Stonk Market."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Allplay has brought back a minor Reiner Knizia game from 2002, originally called Wheedle, but now with the very how-do-you-do-fellow-kids name Stonk Market, complete with the meme guy on the cover of the tiny box. It\u2019s a very silly, fast-moving game that works really well at its higher player counts because it becomes a chaotic shoutfest \u2013 which I happen to think is great \u2013 even though there isn\u2019t exactly a lot of game in here. It\u2019s available on Allplay<\/a> and is showing up as a pre-order on Miniature Market<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Stonk Market, the deck has 61 cards showing nine different colors\/suits that represent different companies. At the start of each round, you deal the entire deck to all players, with one card left in the middle. The companies are numbered 5, 7, or 9, showing how many cards in total there are from that company in the deck, so you need 3, 4, or 5 cards, respectively, to get a majority. (The companies have names and their own imagery, all pretty silly, although they don\u2019t matter for game play and I can never remember them.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Your goal in a round is to get a majority of the cards for any company where you have at least one in your hand; if you get a majority, you score one point per card, but otherwise your cards aren\u2019t worth anything. You get those majorities by frantic trading, either by swapping a card from your hand with the one card on the table, or by making trades with other players. It\u2019s much faster to trade with the table, of course, but that\u2019s limited to one card at a time, whereas in trades you can give or receive any quantity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The round ends when someone has only majorities in their hand and yells \u201cStonks!\u201d to stop play. Then you score: 1 point per card if you have a majority of that company, 2 points per card if you have all<\/em> cards of that company, -1 point per card you have that matches the card still on the table, and 5 points if you were the person who yelled \u201cStonks!\u201d \u2013 unless you were wrong, in which case you get 0 points for the round. You play two more rounds and total your scores from all three rounds to determine the winner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A number of gamers have compared this to Pit, the 1903 commodities-trading game that is one of the few games of that era to survive and remain somewhat popular today. They\u2019re similar in that you\u2019re shouting with other players to make trades, but I think that\u2019s as far as it goes. Pit insists that you get a monopoly in one commodity, and you make trades by shouting the number of cards you\u2019re trading but not the commodity. Stonk Market is inherently going to be faster because all players are saying what they need, there\u2019s always a trade on the table, and you only need to get majorities rather than monopolies. I can\u2019t say if that\u2019s better than Pit \u2013 I have never actually played the older game, I just know the rules \u2013 but it\u2019s not really the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stonk Market plays 3 to 6, but it really needs the higher player counts to be more fun \u2013 there\u2019s more madness on the table and more people shouting for trades. With three, the market isn\u2019t fluid enough, although with six it can be faster for someone to get to \u201cstonks!\u201d You can also play this with just about any age, as long as they can understand the concept of getting a majority of those three numbers (5, 7, 9). It\u2019s another tiny-box game in the $9 line from Allplay, so it\u2019s a pretty low bar to clear for me to recommend it \u2013 there are a few I don\u2019t like, but this one\u2019s a keeper. It\u2019s a B- for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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