Market Mayhem is an interactive, facilitator-led educational game designed to teach market basics through live decision-making, visual feedback, and real-time cause-and-effect. Built for beginners through advanced learners, the game uses simple physical tools—such as a whiteboard, colored markers, spinners, and laser pointers—to simulate how markets actually move.
Players experience how prices change when different types of orders hit the market, how supply and demand interact, and how reactions like fear, momentum, and hesitation can amplify volatility. Concepts such as stop orders triggering cascades, limit orders slowing price movement, sector rotation shifting outcomes, and options strategies altering risk profiles are introduced in short, focused rounds.
A single host or moderator guides the session, adjusting scenarios in real time and tailoring complexity to the audience. Market Mayhem is modular by design, allowing the same core mechanics to teach multiple topics—from stock price formation to sector dynamics and basic options behavior—without requiring prior investing knowledge.
Rather than relying on lectures or slides, Market Mayhem turns abstract market mechanics into something participants can see, feel, and influence. The result is faster understanding, higher engagement, and lasting intuition about how markets function under real conditions.