Hi Everyone,
Welcome to the ‘Buying and Selling’ Game.
How to play?
The ‘Buying and Selling’ Game involves three simple steps.
- Choose one or more of six goods to buy.
- Choose the city or town where you will be buying these goods.
- Choose the city or town where you will be selling these goods.
All the information you need to know to play the game is provided in the question; i.e. no external research is required as all prices are hypothetical and locations are fictitious.
All entries must be made in the comments section of this post.
Each account is only permitted one entry.
Objectives of the game
The objective of the game is to make the highest profit from the sale of all the goods you have bought. If two participants make the exact same profit, the participant that entered first wins.
Game assumptions
All goods of the same type are identical; for example, Good A bought in Town X is the same as Good A bought in Town Y.
There are zero transaction and transport costs.
All towns use the same currency.
What information is provided?
- All the cities and towns are provided.
- All the goods that can be bought in the game are provided.
- All the buying prices of the goods are provided.
- None of the selling prices of the goods are provided. Instead, a possible range of prices is provided. This range is represented by maximum, minimum, and mode prices (i.e. most frequently occurring price). See diagram below.
Selling Price Distribution
Note: Triangular Distribution
How are the results of the game determined?
A Microsoft Excel Model is used to determine the selling prices of each good in each city or town. These prices will be used to calculate the profits made by each participant. In the results post, the calculation of the selling price will be presented in a video. Below is the results post for Contest 9.
Contest Prizes
The account with the winning entry will receive 20 Hive and the first 12 entries will be given upvotes.
Let the contest begin
For Contest 10, the buying and selling will take place in fictitious coastal towns. Toys will be the goods bought and sold in this game.
For this contest, participants have been allocated $15,000 to buy 1 or more toys from any of the 5 fictitious coastal towns. These coastal towns are as follows:
- Bridge Town
- Ancient Garden
- Metro Island
- Northern North
- Gnoma Village
See map below:
Map of Coastal Towns
All the toys are available in all 5 coastal towns. The available toys are as follows:
- Teddy Bears
- Toy Trains
- Dolls
- Action Figures
- Robots
- Play Sets
Table 1 contains the prices of the toys for each coastal town.
Table 1: Prices of toys for each coastal town
Note: Toys can only be bought as whole pieces. For example, a participant could only buy 937 action figures from Metro Island, as there is insufficient money to buy the 938th action figure.
After buying the toys, the participant must then sell all of toys he or she has bought in just one of the coastal towns named in the question. Remember, the selling prices are revealed in the results post. These prices are determined using the information provided in Tables 2, 3, and 4.
Table 2: Minimum, maximum, and mode (Bridge Town & Ancient Garden)
Table 3: Minimum, maximum, and mode (Metro Island & Northern North)
Table 4: Minimum, maximum, and mode (Gnoma Village)
Entry format
For this contest, I expect to see entries made in the following format:
Buying
Name of Place:
Goods purchased:
Number purchased:
Amount spent on goods:
Selling
Name of Place:
Example of entry
Buying
Name of Place: Metro Island
Goods purchased: Robots
Number purchased: 125
Amount spent on goods: $15,000
Selling
Name of Place: Gnoma Village
The closing date and time for this contest is 6PM coordinated universal time (UTC) 20/08/2020. Responses after this time will not be accepted. The answers will be provided in the results post along with the video containing the generation of selling prices using the model.
I hope everyone has fun and enjoys this contest.
More information
If you want to know more about the ‘Buying and Selling’ Game, I suggest that you watch the following video:
If you have any questions, feel free to ask in the comments section.
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