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For Sale

bid for cheques with buildings

Earn money with real estate speculation! You try to acquire valuable real estate in auction and then sell that real estate again for profit.

Building cards and cheque cards are shuffled separately and stacked; you begin with 28-21-16-14 coins in case of 3-4-5-6 players. The game comprises two phases: Building Acquisition and Building Sales; both phases are resolved using auction mechanisms.

The Phase Building Acquisition is played in rounds until all buildings are taken. For each round one building card per participating player is displayed; all those cards are auctioned at the same time. Players in turn make or raise a bid or pass; if you pass you take the currently least valuable building on the table and retain half of your bid; the last one bidding pays his full bid for the most valuable building.

When all buildings have been auctioned, Phase II Building Sales begins. Again, one cheque per participating player is displayed in each round and you play until all cheques are taken: Each player bids one of his buildings, face-down, then bids are revealed und if you bid the most valuable building you take the most valuable cheque, and so on. When all cheques are taken you win with most money from cheques and left-over coins from the Acquisition phase.

A variant uses fewer building cards than there are players and also different cheque numbers during the game.

Nothing spectacular, but a continually favored game with lots of editions in many languages; a game that one likes to play again and again, which is quickly explained and whose clever bid/sale mechanism offers interesting tactics and fun to play.

Players: 3-6

Age: 10+

Time: 30+

Designer: Stefan Dorra

Artist: Catell-Ruz

Price: ca. 16 Euro

Publisher: Iello 2017

Web: www.hutter-trade.com

Genre: Auction, profit

Users: With friends

Version: de

Rules: de en fr it + 13 more

In-game text: no

Comments:

New edition of For Sale, Ravensburger 1997

Unusual use of cards won in auction

Compact edition

Compares to:

Games using cards won in auction for bids in other auctions

Other editions:

Iello (en fr) and many more

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 2

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0