

Once you've made all your decisions for the day, you get to see your stand in real-time action. In other words, it's like running a business. Bad weather can keep customers away in droves. To turn your lemons into yellow gold, you'll need to tweak the recipe, buy enough (but not too many) supplies, decide whether to spend money on advertising, choose a location, add staff if necessary, buy upgrades when prudent, and so on. Hopefully Marketing can come up with something snappier.)

The goal: Build your neighborhood juice biz into a Starbucks-like lemonade empire. Indeed, what looks like (and is) a cute little kids game about running a lemonade stand is actually a clever course in sales, marketing, and management. Lemonade Tycoon is Electronic Arts' adaptation of the seminal Lemonade Stand, a business and economics lesson shrouded in an addictive turn-based strategy game. Now another PC classic (hell, Apple II classic) has made its way to the iPhone.

Got what it takes to run a successful lemonade stand? It's tougher than you think.Įarlier this week it was Myst.
