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Game Time!

Play to have fun--don’t take this too seriously!

You are a farmer…

You have a choice of taking out a loan for quality inputs that would make you much more productive in normal years

But you would lose the farm if there was a drought this year, because you wouldn’t be able to repay the loan

You have a 1 in 5 chance of drought.

We have 5 packages of gum in my hat.

  • The 4 blue ones represent a year with adequate rainfall

  • The 1 red one represents a year with a drought

We will randomly draw one of the packages from the hat, and if its red, there was a drought.

But first--make your choice!

  • Put your left thumb up if you take the chance

  • Put your left thumb down if you stay with your current, low productivity package

We typically add real world prices, etc. to the game But that’s no fun in a workshop so we will point you to tools to do that later!