Cha-Ching!
Buy land, open businesses, set your prices and wages, and play cards to boost your shops or slow down rivals. First tycoon to finish all three goals wins.
Drag to move around town, scroll or pinch to zoom, and tap a building or a FOR SALE sign. Keys: 1–0 play cards, Space pauses, Esc closes panels. Progress saves on this device.
What students practice
Cha-Ching is a real-time business strategy game. Every player in a town shares the same customers, so each decision is a trade-off against rivals: a lower price wins market share but earns less per sale, premium quality attracts picky shoppers but costs more to make, and low wages save money until morale drops and workers slow down or strike.
How a match works
Each match has three goals, such as earning a revenue target, winning half the market for one kind of business, or reaching a net worth. Players race to buy the best land, build businesses, and manage price, quality, wages, marketing, repairs and research. Blue cards boost your own businesses; red cards hit a rival with a bad review, a supply delay, or a surprise audit. The first player to finish all three goals wins.
Career, coins and investing
The career mode has 12 missions across four towns, each with a boss rival. Winning earns coins that students can spend on a new HQ or put in an investment account that grows 5% after every match, a quick look at compound interest. The first mission has a guided tutorial.
After every match
Students see a full income statement (revenue, cost of goods sold, gross profit, operating expenses, interest, net profit) and a balance sheet of what they own and owe, plus coach's notes on what to do differently, such as customers turned away, low morale, or idle cash.