CelebDaq

I recently got involved through a friend in BBC's Celebdaq game. Located at http://bbc.co.uk/celebdaq it is free to register and play. Basically it involves trading shares in celebrities. On joining you are given 10,000 virtual pounds to trade with. The celebrities share prices move up and down relative to how many people buy and sell shares in them. Another factor in this is their dividend payment which is based directly upon how much press coverage they received in the trading week. The league placings are based on percentage increase over the last 7 days, top traders sometimes gain in excess of 3,000% in that period. There are two ways to play the game ...

Celebdaq is a Celebrity Stock exchange sit run by the BBC. The object is to amass as much money as you can by predicting which Celebs will make the headlines and grab the news. The reasons they make the newspapers or news is not important just the fact that they do. Sounds easy doesn't it. You start of with a budget of 10000. From there you buy shares in the Celebs you think will do the business for you. As on the real Stock Exchange the Celebs are listed along with their current price. Obviously if a Celeb does not make the news for a while their price drops and so does your total value. However should one of your Celebs hit the headlines shares prices go up ...

Just yesterday I became a multi-millionaire, but before you all get your begging letters sent off, I’d better explain, it’s not real money (sadly), but “cyber cash” that I’ve built up by playing the celebrity share trading game, Celebdaq. So maybe, you want to know a little bit about this strangely addictive game and the website it calls home. Well I’m not sure if I want to tell you. The trouble is, if I let you in on the secret, you might just beat me at the game. Oh well, a little competition never hurt anybody so here goes…. Celebdaq is part of the BBC website and before being able to play you will need to register with BBCi, which is a simple enough ...