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"So you watch the stocks. Maybe invest some of your hard earned cash in big ones like GOOG and perhaps a few oilmen, too. Perhaps you\u2019re betting on a greener future, and have pocketed a number of shares in solar.\nBut you\u2019re forced to give the tickers a break every weekend. (Nevermind the after-hours and the news analysis that holds you over through to Monday morning.) What to do on your days off? How about a game?\nThis find comes by way of Mashable reader Shelly L. It\u2019s called StockNewsGame, and the rules are pretty simple. You\u2019re given 180 seconds to determine whether on a particular day in the past a stock closed up or down and by how much. No need to cheat and look back into the markets\u2019 histories. Just try your best to make an educated guess.\n\nYou should be warned, if you consider yourself an unlucky player, and are perhaps unfamiliar with the way stocks shift daily, prepare to burrow your score firmly in the red. Having spent just a few moments in the hot seat, I can assure you my assumptions of trading days past are thoroughly wrong. In just a few button clicks I managed to dig a hole from which I cannot possibly emerge. Suffice it to say that if you\u2019re looking for something to challenge your memory of recent Wall Street history, this is it.\nLast year we covered another simple stock game, one in the form of a widget called Jambaz, which, instead of tracing the markets back in time, was intended to sit on a web page as a miniature application of sots and allow the user to predict the future performances of indexed companies. But while the idea of Jambaz, which has likely been exemplified many times over by newer developments, has more relevant and currency than StockNewsGame, the newest of the two releases is, I think, much more fun, despite the fact that it is so very hard to master, let alone maintain a no-win-no-lose equilibrium."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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