The Money Machine – Spend a Billion Game

Preparing your budget…

Still yours to spend$1,000,000,000

Spent$0

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What will you choose?

Choose an experience from the cards to see it here.

Changing your budget starts an empty receipt. Undo brings back your previous budget and purchases. Buy max uses all the money that fits whole copies.

The Money Machine · Zero Star Games

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Illustrative game prices in US dollars; not current quotes.

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Select an item name to edit its quantity in the shop. Sell refunds the same price. Clear and all changes can be undone up to 40 steps.

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Small purchases, big numbers

Make sense of money scales

One thousand. One million. One billion.

A million is 1,000 thousands. A billion is 1,000 millions. Switching between the three budgets makes the same purchase feel very different.

At the game’s $5 price, a million dollars buys 200,000 cups of coffee. A billion buys 200 million.

Try three challenges

With $1,000, buy a console and dinner, then leave less than $5. With $1 million, compare a racehorse with smaller purchases. With $1 billion, try spending the entire budget.

Watch the percentage as you experiment. What seems expensive at one scale may barely move the total at another.

Keep experimenting

Buy and Sell use the quantity you enter. Buy max uses all the money that fits whole copies of that item. You can Undo or Redo purchases, sales, Clear, and budget changes.

Your receipt and the last 40 steps save in this browser when storage is available. Print or download a text receipt to compare your choices later. Tab, Enter, Space, mouse, and touch use the same native controls.

Original illustrations and animated scenes created for The Money Machine. Selecting an experience is a preview; use Buy to put it on your receipt. Scenes play in the same display and return automatically. Scene sounds start after your choice; use Sound off to mute them. Sound credits.

Sound credits

Field recordings from BigSoundBank by Joseph SARDIN, DenisChardonnet, and cecilegatina. Concert excerpt: Funked Up by Joth. These recordings are offered under CC0; clips are trimmed, mixed, faded, and compressed for this game. Arcade, phone, and rocket cues are original. Recording sources and edits.