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Pymetrics money exchange 2 game practice

Game 7 of 12 · about 3 min

You and your partner each start with $5, and one of you gets an extra $5. Whoever holds it decides what to move. Nothing is multiplied here and nothing comes back, so anything you hand over is simply gone.

Altruism Fairness Generosity

Unofficial practice. Not the real Pymetrics game and not connected to Pymetrics, Harver or any employer. Untimed, unlimited retries, nothing saved and nothing sent anywhere.

How the Pymetrics money exchange 2 game works

  1. You and your partner each start with $5. One of you is given an extra $5.
  2. In round one that extra $5 is dealt at random, so it may go to your partner instead of you. Whoever holds it decides.
  3. In round two the extra $5 is yours, and this time you can take from your partner as well as give.
  4. Anything you move is capped at $5, in 50 cent steps, so the even split of $2.50 is always reachable.
  5. Nothing is tripled and nothing is sent back. The total on the table is always $15.
  6. You rate how fair the transaction was, on a scale of 0 to 10.
  7. Two rounds, a different partner each time. There is no clock.
  8. Keyboard: arrow keys to set the amount, 0 to return to nothing, Enter to confirm.

What the money exchange 2 game measures

The headline is how much of a bonus you hand to someone who can do nothing for you in return. That is the whole reason this game sits next to Money Exchange 1: there, sending money might pay you back, so a transfer is partly an investment. Here it cannot be, which is what makes the number readable. The sharpest thing it watches is the gap between your two rounds, because round two adds the option to take. It also records whether you took at all, whether you landed exactly on the even split, and, if the first bonus went to your partner, whether you judge the same split differently depending on which side of it you were standing.

Or play all 12 in one sitting

This page is the money exchange 2 game on its own, practice only. The full run is the rehearsal. All 12 back to back in the order the real assessment most commonly uses them, timed, one attempt each, and no feedback until the end. About 35 minutes, and nothing is saved, so it needs one sitting.

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About the Pymetrics money exchange 2 game

Answered straight, including the parts people would rather hear differently.

That is the advice on almost every practice site and it is folklore, not scoring. Employers do not mark this against a right answer. They compare your pattern against a model built from people already doing the job, and there are real roles whose strongest performers are not the most generous people in the room. A strategy you had to fake rarely survives twelve games anyway. Play it the way you would actually play it.
Yes, in round two, and it is a real part of the game rather than a trap. Roughly a third of people in the published version of this task keep everything even when taking is not on the table. Taking is recorded and reported plainly here, without a verdict attached to it.
No, and this is the most common mix-up between the two games. Nothing is multiplied here and nothing is sent back to you. The total between the two of you is always $15, so every dollar you give is a dollar you no longer have. That is exactly what makes this game a measure of altruism rather than of trust.
Because it is dealt at random, which is what the real game describes. It is a coin flip, not a judgement, and round two always gives the extra $5 to you so you always get at least one turn holding the money. When your partner holds it, watching what they do with it is the point.
No, and they are not in the real assessment either. When a partner here has to decide something, their choice is drawn from the published results of hundreds of real runs of this task rather than invented, so the range of things they do to you is the range real people do.
This is the Dictator Game, which economists have run since 1986, and round two is the give or take variant of it. The $5 and $5 setup, the extra $5, the two rounds, the $5 cap, the take option in round two and the fairness rating are all documented for the Pymetrics version. The partner's behaviour comes from Engel's 2011 meta study of 616 published runs, where the average person gives about 28 percent of the pot, 36 percent give nothing at all, and 17 percent split it exactly evenly.

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