Can you run this?
An amusement park simulation

Can You Run an Amusement Park for a Season?

Twelve rides, a loan on the land and a payroll that doesn’t care about the weather. A sunny Saturday fills the park; a rainy week or a 47°C afternoon empties it, and the bills stay the same. You set prices, hours, crews, maintenance and insurance, decide whether to borrow for a new ride, and keep the queues short enough that people come back. A serious accident can end it all.

  • 8 weeksthe opening weeks, two per page
  • +12 weeksEid, the summer holidays and the end of the season
  • $300,000+in fixed costs every week before anyone buys a ticket

About this simulation

Difficulty
Advanced High risk. Debt, leverage, crises and big systems. Many runs end early.
Length
8 weeks + 12 more, about 10 minutes for the first part
Category
Run a business
You decide
Tickets, rides, staffing

How it plays

  1. Weeks 1–2 · Opening — Open your park
  2. Weeks 3–4 · Finding the rhythm — Queues, food and comfort
  3. Weeks 5–6 · Planning the summer — A new ride and the summer plan
  4. Weeks 7–8 · Before the rush — Ready for the peak

After the debrief, “Keep going — run the whole summer” continues the run with calendar events, new challenges and opportunities that build on what you chose earlier. Every decision page has a live preview that shows what your picks do to the numbers before you lock them in.

What you get at the end

A debrief with your outcome, charts of where the money went, your biggest mistake and roughly what it cost, and a full report you can copy or save as a PDF. Everything runs in your browser: no sign-up, nothing to install.

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