About

The Chair · A Screwcap Games, LLC property · Updated 25 August 2026

The Chair puts you in the seat: you set the policy rate, you live with what it does to inflation, unemployment and your own credibility, and the press asks you about it afterwards. The scenarios are drawn from real episodes — the Volcker disinflation, the pandemic reopening, the years when nobody agreed what the neutral rate was — because invented crises let a player off too lightly.

It is a game about the lag. Nothing you do lands this quarter. That is the single hardest thing about the actual job and the thing almost no simulation models, so it is the thing this one is built around: you commit before you can see, and then you live inside the consequence of a decision you can no longer explain away.

The Chair absorbed FlyMacroPilot, a separate macro game we shelved in July 2026. Its scenario engine, its cast and its board dynamics are all in here now; flymacropilot.vercel.app redirects to this game. If you are looking for it, you have found it.

How it pays for itself

Advertising on the free tier — on menus, between hands and on end screens, never during a live hand — with a one-time ad-free unlock to come. That is the whole business model for this game. Which analytics and advertising vendors we let near you is listed by name in the Privacy Policy; if a tool sets a cookie, it is in there.

Who makes it

The Chair is made by Screwcap Games, LLC, a small independent studio in Walworth County, Wisconsin. We build games about judgment under uncertainty — monetary policy, commodity markets, household finance — and a few card and domino games that are just games. The rest of the catalogue is at Screwcap.Games.

Bugs, corrections, licensing, or an argument about the rules: play@screwcapholdings.com. Corrections to the data or the history get answered first — if something here is factually wrong, we want to know before a player does.