Have you been wishing you had a say in how the government bailout of financial institutions went down? Now you have your chance in The Bailout Game, a cute-looking board-game themed romp down Wall Street in a truck full of money.

The game itself is a repetitive and seemingly meaningless trudge from square to square (bank to bank), each offering the same basic question: Do you bail out: YES or NO? No matter your answer, you'll get an animation or video with some vaguely related news bit or textual riff. Occasional mini-challenges like a sweeping gas meter and a slot machine make things slightly more interesting. Eventually a recession closes in behind you, which mostly causes the game to scroll slowly and maddeningly back and forth between your truck token and the recession after each turn.

I was never able to determine why or how the game wanted me to chose to bail out specific banks or to let them fail, save for invoking the "Ask a Greenspan" button or following obvious hints on the playing cards. It's games like this that make me wonder if I should give up tracking them entirely.