LIVEKitchen Table
“The money comes in when it comes in. Decide anyway.”
A Household's Year · 25 min · No easy year
A year at one kitchen table, on an income that does not arrive evenly. You decide what gets paid, knowing some of those choices only look wrong later. Four real years — Volcker's 1979, a Mesa household in 2021, a year of shifting hours, a year where the work was lumpy — each built on actual price and rate data.
Why ambitious players love it
Four scenarios on real historical price and rate data, not invented crises
Volatile income, not low income — which changes every piece of standard advice
Runway as the scored variable: did you keep a cushion, not did you get rich
A four-act debrief that separates your judgment from the luck of the year
A wisdom engine and a named cast, so the year has people in it
Skill versus luck measured explicitly — no taking credit for a good year you did not cause
How to Play
- 1
Read the month. See what came in and what is due.
- 2
Choose what gets paid. There is no move that makes the year comfortable.
- 3
Watch your runway — under one month and every choice gets worse
- 4
Reach the debrief and find out how much of it was actually you
Choose your level
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"I balanced the year and still felt like I had failed somebody. That is the correct feeling." — Play-test note, 2026
Screenshots coming — drop files in public/screenshots/kitchen-table/