Escape the 9-to-5
Rat Race is a family board game that teaches real financial literacy through play. Draw your job, take your lap, and build passive income until it covers your expenses — and you are free. Assets set you free, not salary.
How it works
1
Janitor, teacher, doctor — each with its own salary, expenses and starting balance. The big salary is not the advantage it looks like.
2
Paydays, tempting doodads, and investment deals: rental properties, small businesses and stocks with real market swings.
3
Assets put money in your pocket every month. When passive income covers your expenses, you are out of the rat race.
The lesson
The doctor starts with the highest income and the highest expenses, so every doodad costs more and the bar to clear is further away. The janitor needs less passive income to be free, and gets there first. One game and most players — including the kids — understand assets versus liabilities better than they did an hour earlier.
The details
Pass-and-play with friends and family, or against AI opponents with distinct personalities. Automatic on-device save and resume.
Income, expenses, assets and liabilities — the game's true scoreboard, kept the way an accountant would keep it.
Condos, duplexes, apartment buildings, car washes, pizza franchises, and stocks that actually swing.
Impulse buys, car loans and the 10%-a-month bank loan trap, with a bankruptcy rule that teaches the spiral without anyone losing real money.
Inside the app
Pricing
Rat Race
Free
No ads, no tracking, no in-app purchases.
US pricing shown.
Questions
It is family-friendly and works from roughly upper primary upward — anyone who can read the cards and follow a budget. Adults get plenty from it too.
No. You can play against AI opponents with distinct personalities, or pass-and-play with up to four people.
No. It is fully offline, with automatic on-device save and resume.
Yes. No ads, no tracking and no in-app purchases.
The difference between an asset and a liability, how passive income compounds, and why a higher salary does not automatically make you freer.
Requires iOS 16.0 or later.