>The next game will be a "straight" game, but I will do the "losing" variation again, perhaps for game #5.

It'd be interesting to try a simultaneous high/low game, with two winners- the highest and lowest scores. If you majorly slip up the first day's investments, you can start aiming the other way. -;-)
Or perhaps one with a 'spread' factor.. having a 'gainer' and a 'loser' fund, seperate, but both controlled by the same player. You could buy stocks into either fund - each starting with, say, $125- and try to get the highest spread between the funds. (It'd be rather like playing a gainer and loser game at the same time, and averaging to find the winner.)

The Mystic Mongoose, aka Robert W. Armstrong
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