Money Games
Fun games about money for ages 5–6. Nothing to download, no sign-up.
For parents
What each game teaches, and how we handle your child's privacy.
Recognising rupee coins and notes, and counting them up to a target.
Maps to NCERT Class 1 Maths Chapter 12, "Money".
Telling the difference between things we need and things we simply want — the foundation of every spending decision.
The most useful money idea at this age.
Waiting a little for a bigger reward, and learning a trick that makes waiting easier.
Practising patience is a good habit — see the note on research below.
These games collect nothing. There is no sign-up, no account, no name, no age and no email. We run no analytics and no advertising on this page, and there are no third-party scripts of any kind.
Your child's language and sound preferences are saved only in your own browser and are never sent to us.
India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 treats everyone under 18 as a child and prohibits tracking, profiling and targeted advertising directed at children. We've built this section so those questions don't arise.
A 2013 review for the UK's Money Advice Service by Whitebread and Bingham at the University of Cambridge found that the foundations of adult money behaviour — self-control, planning ahead, delaying a reward — are largely formed by around age seven. That's the window these games aim at.
The “Be Patient” game is inspired by the well-known marshmallow experiments, but we want to be straight with you: later research has challenged how much those results really predict. A 2018 replication found roughly half the original effect, and much less again once family background and home environment were accounted for. Waiting is a useful habit worth practising. It is not a test of your child, and this game doesn't score them.
Counting rupees maps to the “Money” chapter in NCERT Class 1 Maths. India's formal school financial-literacy curriculum (CBSE with NPCI) starts at Class 6, so the 5–6 age group sits below it — which is part of why we built this.
For more, the Reserve Bank of India publishes free financial-education material for schoolchildren in 13 languages, and SEBI publishes “Financial Education for School Children”.
Best played with a grown-up nearby. Tell us what your child thought