BOARD GAMES 3: What’s in a name?
Published: January 22, 2026
Duration: 36:03
Planet Money has teamed up with the company Exploding Kittens to make a board game inspired by the legendary economics paper The Market for Lemons. We’ve decided we want a mass-appeal party game that quietly sneaks in the economics, so that we can report from inside a world that no other Planet Money project has entered: the real shelves at real big box retail stores.
We have a great game mechanic and a set of rules. Now all we need is a good name and theme.
Turns out, that is way harder and way higher stak...
We have a great game mechanic and a set of rules. Now all we need is a good name and theme.
Turns out, that is way harder and way higher stak...