The Sopourns, a married couple living in South Florida, were trying to explain the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)—better known as the government bailout—to their three home-schooled children.
[1] Due to the children's young age (the oldest was 10), they had trouble understanding the concept, so their parents turned it into a board game.
"[2] Each player chooses a bank to play (examples: "Bankruptcy O’ America", "Worth Farless"), and starts with $2.5 billion.
[1] Each turn, players make an investment decision which can cause their bank to gain or lose assets based on die rolls.
Answering a trivia question correctly will increase the debt of bank that the player is playing for.