MONEY TALKS EDU
WILL YOU FUMBLE THE BAG?
CARD GAME • APP • LIVE GAME SHOW • LIVE RANKINGS
What Is a Financial Literacy Game Show?
What Is a Financial Literacy Game Show?
A financial literacy game show turns money education into an interactive competition. Will You Fumble The Bag?™ combines real-world financial questions, live gameplay, digital challenges, rankings, and immediate feedback so students can practice money decisions while educators measure learning.
Real-world financial decisions
Game-based learning
Measurable student growth
Financial Education Meets Live Competition
Financial Education Meets Live Competition
Money Talks Edu created Will You Fumble The Bag?™ to make financial literacy more active, social, and measurable. Students compete through practical money scenarios while learning how everyday choices affect credit, budgeting, saving, banking, taxes, fraud prevention, insurance, contracts, and long-term planning. Founder Crystal Evans brings experience across financial services, entrepreneurship, and EdTech, including Columbia Engineering FinTech Boot Camp training, an invitation to the NYSE ETF Central Creator Summit, and development of a patent-pending financial education system and method of use.
Money Talks Edu created Will You Fumble The Bag?™ to make financial literacy more active, social, and measurable. Students compete through practical money scenarios while learning how everyday choices affect credit, budgeting, saving, banking, taxes, fraud prevention, insurance, contracts, and long-term planning. Founder Crystal Evans brings experience across financial services, entrepreneurship, and EdTech, including Columbia Engineering FinTech Boot Camp training, an invitation to the NYSE ETF Central Creator Summit, and development of a patent-pending financial education system and method of use.
Financial Education Can Feel Too Theoretical
Students may learn definitions without understanding how those concepts affect their actual lives.
Financial Education Can Feel Too Theoretical
Students may learn definitions without understanding how those concepts affect their actual lives.
Money Decisions Start Early
Bank accounts, digital payments, employment forms, credit offers, college costs, and online financial risks can begin well before adulthood.
Money Decisions Start Early
Bank accounts, digital payments, employment forms, credit offers, college costs, and online financial risks can begin well before adulthood.
Traditional Lessons Don’t Always Hold Attention
Financial literacy competes with social media, gaming, entertainment, and countless digital distractions.
Traditional Lessons Don’t Always Hold Attention
Financial literacy competes with social media, gaming, entertainment, and countless digital distractions.
Knowing Isn’t the Same as Doing
Students need opportunities to practice making decisions — not simply listen to someone talk about money.
Knowing Isn’t the Same as Doing
Students need opportunities to practice making decisions — not simply listen to someone talk about money.
How the Financial Literacy Game Show Works
How the Financial Literacy Game Show Works
How the Financial Literacy Game Show Works
Participants join the same game, answer real-world financial questions, make decisions under time pressure, earn points, and climb a live leaderboard. Each answer can trigger immediate feedback and explanation, turning competition into a teaching moment. The format can be delivered as a live game show, digital experience, physical card game, school activation, workshop, or community event.
Participants join the same game, answer real-world financial questions, make decisions under time pressure, earn points, and climb a live leaderboard. Each answer can trigger immediate feedback and explanation, turning competition into a teaching moment. The format can be delivered as a live game show, digital experience, physical card game, school activation, workshop, or community event.
Participants join the same game, answer real-world financial questions, make decisions under time pressure, earn points, and climb a live leaderboard. Each answer can trigger immediate feedback and explanation, turning competition into a teaching moment. The format can be delivered as a live game show, digital experience, physical card game, school activation, workshop, or community event.
Game-Based Learning
Challenges, questions, competition, levels, rewards, and interactive experiences keep students engaged.
Game-Based Learning
Challenges, questions, competition, levels, rewards, and interactive experiences keep students engaged.
Game-Based Learning
Challenges, questions, competition, levels, rewards, and interactive experiences keep students engaged.
Real-World Financial Decisions
Students work through situations involving budgeting, credit, banking, debt, saving, consumer choices, fraud, taxes, insurance, and long-term planning.
Real-World Financial Decisions
Students work through situations involving budgeting, credit, banking, debt, saving, consumer choices, fraud, taxes, insurance, and long-term planning.
Real-World Financial Decisions
Students work through situations involving budgeting, credit, banking, debt, saving, consumer choices, fraud, taxes, insurance, and long-term planning.
Measurable Learning
Pre-, mid-, and post-assessments can help schools and partners understand student knowledge, progress, confidence, and learning gaps.
Measurable Learning
Pre-, mid-, and post-assessments can help schools and partners understand student knowledge, progress, confidence, and learning gaps.
Measurable Learning
Pre-, mid-, and post-assessments can help schools and partners understand student knowledge, progress, confidence, and learning gaps.
Flexible Delivery
Programs can be delivered through assemblies, workshops, cohorts, school partnerships, community activations, and digital learning.
Flexible Delivery
Programs can be delivered through assemblies, workshops, cohorts, school partnerships, community activations, and digital learning.
Flexible Delivery
Programs can be delivered through assemblies, workshops, cohorts, school partnerships, community activations, and digital learning.
10 Financial Literacy Skills Behind the Game
10 Financial Literacy Skills Behind the Game
Every challenge maps to 10 practical pillars: budgeting, banking, credit, saving, consumer decisions, fraud and identity theft, insurance and risk, contracts, taxes, and long-term planning.
Every challenge maps to 10 practical pillars: budgeting, banking, credit, saving, consumer decisions, fraud and identity theft, insurance and risk, contracts, taxes, and long-term planning.
Budgeting
Build spending plans and make informed tradeoffs.
Budgeting
Build spending plans and make informed tradeoffs.
Banking
Understand accounts, financial institutions, fees, deposits, and everyday banking tools.
Banking
Understand accounts, financial institutions, fees, deposits, and everyday banking tools.
Credit
Learn how credit works and how financial behavior can affect future opportunities.
Credit
Learn how credit works and how financial behavior can affect future opportunities.
Saving
Practice setting goals, preparing for emergencies, and building financial stability.
Consumer Decisions
Evaluate purchases, compare options, recognize costs, and make informed spending choices.
Consumer Decisions
Evaluate purchases, compare options, recognize costs, and make informed spending choices.
Fraud & Identity Theft
Recognize scams, protect financial information, and understand common digital risks.
Fraud & Identity Theft
Recognize scams, protect financial information, and understand common digital risks.
Insurance & Risk
Understand how insurance can help manage financial risk.
Insurance & Risk
Understand how insurance can help manage financial risk.
Contracts
Recognize the responsibilities connected to agreements, subscriptions, loans, leases, and financial commitments.
Contracts
Recognize the responsibilities connected to agreements, subscriptions, loans, leases, and financial commitments.
Taxes
Build foundational knowledge of income, taxes, paychecks, and government finance.
Taxes
Build foundational knowledge of income, taxes, paychecks, and government finance.
Long-Term Planning
Connect today’s decisions to education, career, investing, retirement, and future financial goals.
Long-Term Planning
Connect today’s decisions to education, career, investing, retirement, and future financial goals.
More Than Trivia: Measurable Financial Learning
More Than Trivia: Measurable Financial Learning
The experience is designed to measure more than correct answers. Educators can track accuracy, completion, response time, strengths, gaps, and performance by financial literacy pillar.
The experience is designed to measure more than correct answers. Educators can track accuracy, completion, response time, strengths, gaps, and performance by financial literacy pillar.
Stronger Financial Decision-Making
Students practice evaluating choices before acting.
Stronger Financial Decision-Making
Students practice evaluating choices before acting.
Greater Financial Confidence
Students gain language, context, and experience that can make financial conversations less intimidating.
Greater Financial Confidence
Students gain language, context, and experience that can make financial conversations less intimidating.
Applied Math Skills
Students connect percentages, interest, income, expenses, debt, and other mathematical concepts to money.
Applied Math Skills
Students connect percentages, interest, income, expenses, debt, and other mathematical concepts to money.
Consumer Awareness
Students learn to recognize financial risks, misleading offers, scams, and high-cost decisions.
Consumer Awareness
Students learn to recognize financial risks, misleading offers, scams, and high-cost decisions.
Career & Income Awareness
Students examine how income, employment, education, skills, and entrepreneurship connect to financial outcomes.
Career & Income Awareness
Students examine how income, employment, education, skills, and entrepreneurship connect to financial outcomes.
Future-Focused Thinking
Students begin connecting immediate financial choices with longer-term goals.
Future-Focused Thinking
Students begin connecting immediate financial choices with longer-term goals.
CREATOR • FOUNDER • FINANCIAL EDUCATOR
CREATOR • FOUNDER • FINANCIAL EDUCATOR
Crystal Evans
Crystal Evans
Crystal Evans
Crystal Evans is an EdTech founder, product builder, financial educator, and former banking professional. Her work connects financial education with technology, game-based learning, and real-world decision-making. She completed Columbia Engineering’s FinTech Boot Camp, was invited to the NYSE ETF Central Creator Summit, and is developing a patent-pending financial education system and method of use.
Crystal Evans is an EdTech founder, product builder, financial educator, and former banking professional. Her work connects financial education with technology, game-based learning, and real-world decision-making. She completed Columbia Engineering’s FinTech Boot Camp, was invited to the NYSE ETF Central Creator Summit, and is developing a patent-pending financial education system and method of use.
Crystal Evans is an EdTech founder, product builder, financial educator, and former banking professional. Her work connects financial education with technology, game-based learning, and real-world decision-making. She completed Columbia Engineering’s FinTech Boot Camp, was invited to the NYSE ETF Central Creator Summit, and is developing a patent-pending financial education system and method of use.
Will You Fumble The Bag?™: The Financial Literacy Competition Platform
Will You Fumble The Bag?™: The Financial Literacy Competition Platform
Students play together, answer real-world money challenges, earn points, and climb live rankings. Immediate feedback reinforces learning while the platform captures measurable performance data for educators, schools, and partners.
Students play together, answer real-world money challenges, earn points, and climb live rankings. Immediate feedback reinforces learning while the platform captures measurable performance data for educators, schools, and partners.
Play the Demo
Students can play individually, compete with others, participate in live school experiences, and continue building their financial knowledge digitally.
Play the Demo
Students can play individually, compete with others, participate in live school experiences, and continue building their financial knowledge digitally.
Educational, Not Gambling
No gambling. No cash wagering. Just financial education built around the energy and engagement of modern gaming.
Educational, Not Gambling
No gambling. No cash wagering. Just financial education built around the energy and engagement of modern gaming.
Bring a Financial Literacy Game Show to Your School or Community
Bring a Financial Literacy Game Show to Your School or Community
Bring a Financial Literacy Game Show to Your School or Community
Money Talks Edu works with schools, colleges, youth organizations, community programs, financial institutions, corporate partners, and local leaders to deliver interactive financial education. Programs can be customized by audience, age group, learning objective, event format, and partnership goal.
Money Talks Edu works with schools, colleges, youth organizations, community programs, financial institutions, corporate partners, and local leaders to deliver interactive financial education. Programs can be customized by audience, age group, learning objective, event format, and partnership goal.
Money Talks Edu works with schools, colleges, youth organizations, community programs, financial institutions, corporate partners, and local leaders to deliver interactive financial education. Programs can be customized by audience, age group, learning objective, event format, and partnership goal.
Schools & Colleges
Assemblies, workshops, cohorts, classroom experiences, demonstrations, and extended financial literacy programs.
Schools & Colleges
Assemblies, workshops, cohorts, classroom experiences, demonstrations, and extended financial literacy programs.
Schools & Colleges
Assemblies, workshops, cohorts, classroom experiences, demonstrations, and extended financial literacy programs.
Community Organizations
Interactive financial education for youth programs, workforce initiatives, community events, and family engagement.
Community Organizations
Interactive financial education for youth programs, workforce initiatives, community events, and family engagement.
Community Organizations
Interactive financial education for youth programs, workforce initiatives, community events, and family engagement.
Corporate & Financial Partners
Sponsor student programming, support school access, provide educational resources, participate in community activations, or support expansion.
Corporate & Financial Partners
Sponsor student programming, support school access, provide educational resources, participate in community activations, or support expansion.
Corporate & Financial Partners
Sponsor student programming, support school access, provide educational resources, participate in community activations, or support expansion.
Financial Literacy Game Show FAQs
Financial Literacy Game Show FAQs
Financial Literacy Game Show FAQs
Common questions about live financial literacy game shows, student competitions, digital gameplay, school activations, and Will You Fumble The Bag?™.
Common questions about live financial literacy game shows, student competitions, digital gameplay, school activations, and Will You Fumble The Bag?™.
Common questions about live financial literacy game shows, student competitions, digital gameplay, school activations, and Will You Fumble The Bag?™.
Will You Fumble The Bag? — Financial Literacy Meets Live Production.
Experience the signature card game, interactive app, and live financial literacy game show built to turn real-world money decisions into measurable learning.
Programs are primarily designed for middle school, high school, college students, and young adults, with formats that can be adjusted for different audiences.
No. It is a financial literacy educational game. There is no wagering or gambling requirement. The game uses competition and game mechanics to make financial education more engaging.
Yes. Schools can select the format that best fits their goals, including game demonstrations, assemblies, workshops, cohorts, or larger partnership programs.
Yes. Multi-school and community-wide partnerships can be developed for districts, sponsors, foundations, companies, and public-sector partners.
Yes. Corporate, banking, credit union, foundation, and philanthropic partners can support student access, school programming, live events, educational resources, and broader initiatives.
Yes. Money Talks University and the Will You Fumble The Bag? digital experience are being developed as part of the broader Money Talks Edu learning ecosystem.
Assessment options can include pre-, mid-, and post-program questions, knowledge checks, student reflection, and other learning measurements depending on the program.
Select the program or partnership option that best fits your organization and submit an inquiry. Money Talks Edu can then determine the appropriate program structure.
Programs are primarily designed for middle school, high school, college students, and young adults, with formats that can be adjusted for different audiences.
No. It is a financial literacy educational game. There is no wagering or gambling requirement. The game uses competition and game mechanics to make financial education more engaging.
Yes. Schools can select the format that best fits their goals, including game demonstrations, assemblies, workshops, cohorts, or larger partnership programs.
Yes. Multi-school and community-wide partnerships can be developed for districts, sponsors, foundations, companies, and public-sector partners.
Yes. Corporate, banking, credit union, foundation, and philanthropic partners can support student access, school programming, live events, educational resources, and broader initiatives.
Yes. Money Talks University and the Will You Fumble The Bag? digital experience are being developed as part of the broader Money Talks Edu learning ecosystem.
Assessment options can include pre-, mid-, and post-program questions, knowledge checks, student reflection, and other learning measurements depending on the program.
Select the program or partnership option that best fits your organization and submit an inquiry. Money Talks Edu can then determine the appropriate program structure.
Play Will You Fumble The Bag?
Experience our signature financial literacy game and see how competition, real-world scenarios, and immediate feedback turn money education into active learning.
Play Will You Fumble The Bag?
Experience our signature financial literacy game and see how competition, real-world scenarios, and immediate feedback turn money education into active learning.