Games Magazine
John J. McCallion
May 2003
USA

Pit your wits against the savvy of other traders in this noisy stock market. Sixty-one cards represent nine stocks in different colors, each with five, seven or nine cards. A number on each card indicates the total number of cards in that suit. Shuffle the deck and deal one card facedown to the center of the table. Deal the remainder evenly among the players. The dealer opens the market, and unleashes the bedlam by turning the table card face up. Now everyone may simultaneously offer to exchange cards with anyone else. Players conclude deals by exchanging cards faceup. Exchanges may be for equal or unequal amounts of cards and you can even give someone cards for nothing—if he or she chooses to accept them. You can also exchange the faceup table card with one from your hand, leaving the replacement faceup for the competitors.

"Yell “STOP!"  to halt trading when your hand consists entirely of majority stock holdings. That is, you must have at least three cards of any stock that has a total of five cards in the deck, four or more cards in each seven-card stock, and at least five cards in each nine-card stock. All hands are then revealed. You get five points if you correctly halted trading; but you lose five points, and replay the round if you erred (that is, if you have any cards in a suit in which you do not hold a majority). You earn one point for each card in a color of which you hold a majority; and if you hold all the cards of that color, you get two points for each card.  However, you deduct a point for each card held of the color of the final table card. The player with the most points after several rounds wins. The most quick-witted and devious Wheedle-dealers will profit from investing in this entertaining game! –John J. McCallion

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