Most games want you to get rich. Trash Traders wants you flat broke, and that upside-down goal is the whole joke. The debut party card game from new outfit Ruggiez hands two to four players a fictional coin to buy and sell as its price lurches around the table, and the person left holding the least cash at the end is the winner.
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Start organising for freeIt plays in 15 to 30 minutes and leans hard into trading-meme culture without asking you to understand any of it. Action cards riff on the lingo, with FUD, HODL, Gas Fees, Chart Analysis, Server Down and Swap among them, and the studio says playtesters with zero finance background picked it up straight away. The twist that ends a round is a hidden Rug Pull card: when it appears, everyone reveals their holdings, anyone clutching Stop Loss coins is forced to sell, and the poorest player walks away the champion.
"Most people have bought high and sold low at some point," the team says. "We just made a party game out of it." Early backers get a Trader ID, a founding-member number that doubles as a keepsake, and three expansions are already lined up: Full House, Market Madness and Diamond Hands. The game scales up to five or six players with those extra packs.
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Set up your group for freeTrash Traders launched on Kickstarter with a base pledge from $25, and the campaign closes on 24 June 2026. If your group enjoys a quick, mean filler between heavier games, grab the gang for a session and see who ends up bankrupt and beaming.
Sources: Trash Traders press release
