The game is designed for a group of 2 to 10 people. The duration of the game depends on the number of players, their communication with each other and the starting conditions determined at the beginning of the game. For 4-6 players under standard conditions, the game lasts 1,5-2 hours if you spend no more than 5 minutes on the turn.

Game objective
To create, in five «game years», the greatest capital in assets and money on the account. One dealing of cards is considered to be one game year. One conventional unit of game currency is accepted as money, call it as you like. Assets – are stocks, garages, rooms, offices, cottages, apartments, shopping centers and businesses (see item «Assets» of the Game Rules).

Beginning of the game
Before the start of the game, all participants are issued a start-up capital in accordance with the chosen difficulty mode of the game. This is the money that players have accumulated over the previous year economizing their wages, as a financially literate person should do. The players will invest this money in various assets in order to increase capital. The player puts down the issued amount in the form field «Money». The same amount is subsequently issued to players before the beginning of each following game year.

Difficulty modes

• Basic: start-up capital 2,000, annual accruals 2,000. Playing time is 3-5 years. Three cards are dealt to each player.
• Standard: start-up capital 1,000, annual charges 1,000. Playing time is 5 years. Three cards are dealt to each player.
• Difficult: start-up capital 500, annual charges 500. Playing time is 5 years. Four cards are dealt to each player.
• Profi: start-up capital 10,000, no accruals. Playing time is 10 years. Five cards are dealt to each player.
• Ultimate: start-up capital of 1,000, there are no accruals. Time of the game is 10 years. Five cards are dealt to each player.
• Advanced: an addition for any standard difficulty mode, allowing you to take into account the changes in revenue from assets, depending on the difficulty. This game mode is recommended only for experienced players! See its description in the end of the Rules.

Basic «Flixa Classic» game box includes:

• Game rules - 1 pcs
• Box- 1 pcs
• Forms - 30 pcs
• Dice - 2 pcs
• Pen- 1 pcs
• Game cards - 55 pcs

Add-ons include: 

• «The Crisis Has Come!»: game cards - 25 pcs
• «Let’s do business!»: game cards - 20 pcs.

Third edition of «Flixa Classic» game  includes both add-ons.

• You can spend your time with benefit and pleasure.
• The game demonstrates the basic functioning principles of the rental, real estate, and stock market.
• It will teach you about basic business skills and earning income.
• You will train your negotiation skills and find mutually beneficial solutions with your game partners.
• It allows you to study loans and deposits, insurance principles.
• Promotes the development of economic horizons.
• The game will make you remember mental arithmetic.
• Our game will show you how to properly manage your finances, save, invest and secure your capital in a crisis situation. This game will help you understand the power and necessity of savings, capital preservation tools, as well as develop the skills of oral counting.

The history of the Flixa game goes back over a decade. Somewhere in 2010, the idea came up to make an economic TV show in the style of «Jeopardy!» (in Russia — «Your Game»). Asset prices (stocks, real estate, bonds) had to change on the opening screens. The players had a minimum initial capital and had to increase it during the TV show.

According to the plot of the game, the players opened screens and saw profitable offers - to buy stocks, businesses, real estate. They have to play in triplets, and the richest reached the final at the end of the round. The TV producer did a lot for the future game. Each time she «killed» the scenario plan and asked to make the game easier and more accessible. As a result, the game never made it onto television, but an idea came up of how to put the TV script on paper cards.
After the refusal of the TV producers, the game was reworked and tested for two years. The first paper version of the game, tentatively titled «Igrika», appeared at the end of 2011.

After many tests, the first print version was created.

The game also needed a new sonorous name. During the naming process, more than 100 original names were created; only ten made it to the final of the open vote. The people chose Flixa over options like: Cardchan, Flixcard, Caraga, Cardix, Zikar, Chaka, Xcard and etc.

Flixa is a shorthand for two words: flip and exchange which describes the gameplay.

Since the first Flixa game hit the market there have been several editions translated into six languages (Russian, Belarusian, Lithuanian, Latvian, English, German), two official add-ons and a dozen branded versions have been released for various companies and corporations.

You are reading about the freshest, revised, improved and expanded third official edition of the Flixa game on this page!