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Hold or Hike: the Bank of England job simulator

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An interactive game puts you in charge of UK interest rates for 20 quarters, with inflation, unemployment, delayed policy effects, and energy shocks to manage.

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This is a neatly focused economic simulation with actual consequences: rate changes arrive one quarter late, targets must be hit together, and historical scenarios include 1974, 1992, and 2008. It also has the pleasingly severe premise that, after five years, someone will judge your record.

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Lunch Through the Bee Veil

August 11’s newborn domains include a bee veil with a lockable lunch flap, a book designed to unfold over ten years, a Colombian missing-person and aid board, and a brick studio made by a dad and his 10-year-old co-founder.

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