FULL REVIEW

Specialty Toy and Gifts
Staff Writer
June 2004
USA

As of press time, the financial world’s lead story is the proposed IPO of the search engine Google. It could make its founders billions of dollars. American’s have always been fascinated with the stock market and the roller coaster ride that goes with the buying low and, ideally, selling very high. This fascination has been the subject of books, movies and board games. It’s a fascination that is certainly not new. More than 100 years ago an entrepreneur named Harry E. Gavitt created a game called Gavitt’s Stock Exchange. The object of the game is for players to earn stock values by collecting the majority of stock cards from any one of six railroad companies. The first player to earn $2,500, or more, wins the game. Out of the Box Publishing has brought the original game back to market with a few minor adjustments. Players still trade railroad stocks, the hot industry in the early 1900s, but the amount of a player’s winnings has been reduced to $1,000 to make the game play faster. Gavitt’s original game sold for 35 cents per set. The Out of the Box version is still a bargain with a suggested retail price of $12.99.

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