Is the American Dream a promise, or a game of chance?
Take a decent job. Raise your kids. Make every sensible choice for twenty years. Then find out if it was enough to make it in America.
Plays on any phone or laptop. Bring a room of up to 150.
The Dream wheel
In the game, in Denver
The house sets the odds.
The wheel is weighted. Not by effort. By what opens up.
Change systems, not choices.
Doing everything right is not enough on its own. What changes the odds is access to an opportunity: a retirement match at work, help with a down payment, a stake in the business, a renter wealth program, an inheritance. This game lets you feel the difference.
Along the midway
How it works
Booth 1 · Twenty years
Live the stages
Four stages of one working life: the childcare years to the home stretch.
Booth 2 · One spin a stage
Spin for luck
Every stage holds one spin. Some years, an opportunity opens that no paycheck could.
Booth 3 · At 52
See where you land
Two hundred and fifty other lives play your exact choices. Find your box.
For groups
Fill the grandstand.
Play it with a room of up to 150 on their phones, with one shared screen for the facilitator. Everyone lives a life at once. Then the room sees, together, where its families landed and what opened up for them.
wealthplay.org/host · a team, a class, a board, a conference hall.
In the room already? Join a workshop with the code on the shared screen.
Where the numbers come from
Where America stands
One box is one household in a hundred. Read it upward, from the floor most families stand on to the green block at the top.