New game challenges you to fix the economy

To bail out or not to bail out -- that's the question posited by a new game that turns the current economic crisis into a quirky timewaster.

Bailout Game Screenshots

The aptly-titled The Bailout Game looks a bit like Monopoly, tasking players to move around a board while choosing whether or not to bail out different banks and automakers. Along the way, news tidbits and well-produced video segments offer generally bleak factoids about how and why the economy crumbled in the first place, making it as much a learning tool as a game. It also has a sense of humor -- if you're not sure what to do, you can always get a hint by pressing the "Ask A Greenspan" button.

Though it's not exactly the deepest game in the world -- you don't even get to roll dice -- it's certainly sensitive to consumer spending issues: the web-based game is absolutely free.

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