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Darren PohFinancial Advisor · Singapore

A learning game · about 10 minutes

The Long Game: from 21 to 65.

You have just finished studying. Forty-four years of earning lie ahead, and roughly five hundred pay cheques. Life will not go to plan — it never does. Let's find out what you are left with at 65, and more usefully, why.

Step 1 · Your starting point

Before CPF. A Singapore fresh graduate in 2026 starts around $3,500–$4,500.
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Your employer adds 17% CPF on top and 20% comes out of your pay. That happens automatically all game — it is the one part of a Singaporean's retirement that is not optional.

Step 2 · Where each month's money goes

Of your take-home pay, how much goes where? Whatever you don't assign becomes lifestyle — spent, and gone.

Step 3 · What you're protected against

Premiums come out of the same take-home pay, so cover costs you investing money. That trade-off is the whole point — see which side wins.

Step 4 · Which life do you get?

Every life runs on a seed. Keep the same seed and you get the same 44 years of luck — so when you replay with different choices, you are comparing decisions, not luck. That is the point of the game.

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Educational simulation, not financial advice. Assumptions are listed at the end.

21The starting line
$0Net worth
$0
Savings
$0
Invested
$0
Crypto
$0
CPF