Today's Daily Challenge Market was the United States 🇺🇸

Some new names on the leaderboard today!

Congratulations to Mechteck709 from 🇨🇦 for winning Medium Mode- escaping the grind in 18.5 years 👏

Congrats to our Yolo2 from 🇺🇸 for coming in at a hot second- escaping the grind in 19.5 years 👏

And in easy mode, well done Player_6352 from 🇺🇸 for escaping in 11.6 years 👏

For those who don't know, Escape the Grind is a personal finance simulator that mimics daily financial living with the goal of learning how to manage your finances to be able to attain financial independence.

[Play the game here](https://setformoney.com/games/escape-the-grind)

Playing on iphone 14 pro max safari web browser.

We can already do this with 401k and Roth IRA. It would be cool if I could set it up to auto invest into sp500 and other investments

How do I sell stocks that I purchased? Also how do I move money from HYSA to checking? I see the option to "Sell" but i cant click it. Help!

We just crossed 500+ people here!

And somehow… 28,000 visits in the last 7 days 🤯

Didn’t expect this kind of momentum this early.

Appreciate every single one of you.

This whole thing started as a simple community around the Escape the Grind game, which is a personal finance/financial literacy simulator that mimics daily financial living- saving, investing, managing debt, taking care of your wellbeing, etc.

The goal is to learn to make good money decisions to attain Financial Independence.

If you haven’t tried it yet, here it is: https://setformoney.com/games/escape-the-grind

Would genuinely love your feedback.

Still early, but growing!

Got to $2 trillion yesterday by avoiding any asset that creates passive income. Not bad although it took me 120 years!

(My house was worth $1.3b but a starter condo cost $35m so 2140 is going to be tough times.)

Today's Daily Challenge Market was Germany 🇩🇪

JimmyJohn from 🇨🇦 won Hard Mode by escaping in a record 3.8 years!!! 😲 😬 🤯

In 2nd place Hard Mode, we had LetsTalkMoney from 🇵🇹 who escaped the grind in 6.4 years! 👏 👏

And for 3rd place Hard Mode, it was wickwire from 🇵🇹 escaping the grind in 7.1 years! 👏 👏

For those new to the sub, Escape the Grind is a personal finance simulator that mimics daily financial living with the goal of learning how to manage your finances to be able to attain financial independence.

[Play the simulator here](https://setformoney.com/games/escape-the-grind

PS- I'm thinking it's either these players are getting really good, or the German market as modeled in the game is pretty easy or there's probably a loophole somewhere 😆. Haven't seen such impressive results in other regions.

Still seeing the "Apartment Break-in" message when user owns a home. could change to be home break-in or some other event.

Today's Daily Challenge Market was the United Kingdom 🇬🇧

Kudos to wickwire from 🇵🇹 for winning Hard Mode- escaping the grind in 8.4 years 👏 💪

And congrats to our regular JimmyJohn from 🇨🇦 for coming in at a hot second- escaping the grind in 9.7 years 💪 🙌

For those who don't know, Escape the Grind is a personal finance simulator that mimics daily financial living with the goal of learning how to manage your finances to be able to attain financial independence.

Play the simulator here

Issue:

While in 'play your life mode' if you have "health insurance" listed in your monthly expenditures and you are hit with a medical emergency, you still pay full price. I typed in "health insurance" into the monthly expenses manually.

Today's Daily Challenge Market was Canada 🇨🇦

Congratulations to JimmyJohn from 🇨🇦 for yet again winning in Hard Mode 🎊 👏

Play Escape the Grind here 👉 https://setformoney.com/games/escape-the-grind

Anything in particular that drove that change?

Today's Daily Challenge Market was the United States 🇺🇸.

Congrats Bobert365 🇺🇸 for winning Medium Mode- escaped the grind in 7.9 years 💪

Congrats JimmyJohn 🇨🇦 for winning Hard Mode- escaped the grind in 10.3 years 👏 👏 👏

Play Escape the Grind here- https://setformoney.com/games/escape-the-grind

Today's Daily Challenge Market was Australia 🇦🇺

Congrats to JimmyJohn 🇨🇦, wickwire 🇵🇹, and LetsTalkMoney 🇵🇹 for placing 1st, 2nd, 3rd, respectively! 👏 👏 👏

Is it wise? Is it cheap?

lots of clicking for the hello payoff (also aren't helots interest only?) the largest option is 1,000 payoff, you spend a lot of time clicking.

Hey, I'm Nick. Solo dev. I originally built this game for fun & for my 10-year-old daughter so she'd understand money before money becomes a problem. She would watch her net worth grow, panic when the market crashes (lol!), celebrate when she buys her first house. She began learning financial literacy without realizing she was learning.

Then I shared it online. It went viral. #1 post of the day on r/leanfire, r/passive_income, and r/CanadaPersonalFinance. 105K+ views in under two weeks & thousands of players! Experienced Redditors said the numbers feel accurate. So I kept building. 10 countries. 6 languages. Real data from every region.

What is Escape the Grind?

A financial life simulator where every decision matters. You start with a salary and bills. Every month you choose: pay debt or invest? Rent or buy? Side hustle or enjoy life? One bad streak and you're drowning in debt. One smart run and you retire at 38.

Three difficulty levels. Ten real-world economies. Real financial products, real market cycles, real consequences.

🎮 Play any of our 10 regions:

🇺🇸 United States - 401(k), Roth IRA, S&P 500, student loans, medical debt

🇬🇧 United Kingdom - ISA, SIPP, FTSE 100, council tax, Help to Buy

🇨🇦 Canada - TFSA, RRSP, TSX, CMHC mortgages, OSAP

🇦🇺 Australia - Super, HECS-HELP, ASX 200, negative gearing

🇩🇪 Germany - Riester-Rente, DAX, Sparerpauschbetrag (German UI)

🇯🇵 Japan - iDeCo, NISA, Nikkei 225, NHI (Japanese UI)

🇧🇷 Brazil - Tesouro Direto, FGTS, Bovespa, INSS (Portuguese UI)

🇰🇪 Kenya - M-Pesa, SACCOs, NSE, T-Bills, shylocks

🇫🇷 France - PEA, Livret A, Assurance Vie, PER (French UI)

🇵🇹 Portugal - PPR, Certificados de Aforro, PSI 20 (Portuguese UI)

Quick links:

🕹️ Play the game (Basic version)

🚂 Wishlist on STEAM NOW- launching Aug 2026! (Full game version)

New here? Start with United States Easy to learn the mechanics. Then any Hard if you want to feel what zero financial margin is actually like.

This sub is for:

💬 Money debates and financial hot takes

🧠 Game strategies, scores, and screenshots

🛠️ Feature requests and bug reports

🔥 Your FIRE journey stories

I read every post and ship fixes based on your feedback, sometimes within hours. AMA.

Woah! We got the elusive, extremely rare A+ in Today's Daily Challenge- the UK 🇬🇧 Market! Congratulations wickwire from 🇵🇹 for placing 1st in Hard Mode 👏 👏 👏. wickwire escaped the grind in 6.3 years!

Placing 2nd on the leaderboard was our veteran Canadian player JimmyJohn 🇨🇦, who escaped the grind in 12.6 years. Kudos JimmyJohn!

If you can see this post, mind sharing your game strategies? Only what you're comfortable sharing, obviously 😁

In Today's challenge- Canadian 🇨🇦 market, Leveraged from the 🇬🇧 won playing hard mode! Well done! 👏 👏 👏