Kenny Malone

And we share this little tale because a good title or a bad title

will absolutely sink a really great game.

That was the very serious warning we got previously on Planet Money Makes a Board Game.

Let's catch everyone up real quick.

We're making a game.

That paper is literally about asymmetric information in the market for used cars.

But broadly, it's about how making deals when one side knows more than the other causes chaos, distrust, and ultimately destroys a market.

We chose to make a mass appeal party game that sneakily brings the economics, the partial information, the mounting distrust, the spiral into joyful chaos.

Instead of a complex, hardcore, nerdy economics game.

And that is because we're hoping that this game can be our Trojan horse into reporting and learning from inside a world that no other Planet Money project has gone.

The real shelves at real big box retail stores.

That test was named Jamie Wolanski.

Jamie is a longtime game consultant.

She's legendary, convinced Target to carry Settlers of Catan way back when.

And Jamie had two notes on our joyfully chaotic deal and distrust card game.

Note one.

She loved our game, but note number two, she told us...

Don't mess this up now.

And I'm Kenny Malone.

The Planet Money game needs a Planet Money name.