Buy and hold a steady dividend stock, collect a payout every few ticks, and toggle DRIP to reinvest. Watch compounding snowball your shares on simulated DIVCO — $5,000 play money, no sign-up, no real risk.
This dividend investing game is a buy-and-hold game, not a scalping game. You start with $5,000 of play money and buy shares of a steady simulated dividend stock, DIVCO, whose price drifts gently upward with low volatility — the calm profile of a mature dividend payer. Every dozen ticks the company pays a dividend on the shares you hold, and you decide what to do with it.
Leave DRIP (Dividend Reinvestment Plan) switched on and each payout automatically buys more fractional shares, which then earn their own dividends next time — the compounding snowball that powers long-term dividend investing. Switch DRIP off and dividends land in cash instead, so you can compare the two paths side by side in a single session.
The dividend loop: buy shares → collect a dividend → reinvest it (DRIP) → more shares pay bigger dividends → repeat. Patience and compounding do the heavy lifting.
Both lines start the same, but the reinvested path curves upward as each dividend buys shares that pay more dividends. That widening gap is compounding — the single most powerful force in long-term investing.
Reality check: real dividends are never guaranteed — companies can cut or suspend them, and a high yield can signal a troubled business. This is a free skill game with a fictional stock, not financial advice — see investor.gov.
Learn the ideas behind this game in what are dividends, what is dividend yield, and dollar-cost averaging.
It is a risk-free game where you buy and hold a simulated dividend-paying stock with $5,000 of play money. Every few ticks the stock pays a dividend on your shares, and you can choose to reinvest it (DRIP) or take it as cash to see how compounding works.
DRIP stands for Dividend Reinvestment Plan. When DRIP is on, each dividend automatically buys more fractional shares, which then earn their own dividends — the snowball effect of compounding. Turn DRIP off to collect dividends as cash instead.
Reinvested dividends buy more shares, which pay more dividends, which buy still more shares. Over time this compounding can grow your position faster than spending the dividends — the simulator lets you compare both paths in one session.
No. The stock DIVCO and its dividends are a seeded simulation and all balances are play money stored in your browser. There is no real company and no real money. It is a free educational game and not financial advice.