Kuhhandel

Aim of the game is for all players to have complete quartets of animals on display, you win with the most valuable ones won either in auction or trade; animals have values 10, 40, 90, 160, 250, 350, 500, 650, 800, 1000. You begin with 2 0-cards and 5 cards of value 10; the current starting player turns up a card and offers it; all can bid. The highest bid wins and now the auctioneer can buy it themselves and pay the winner the bid; or the winner takes the card and pays the auctioneer. For a trade you make a secret offer for a card of another player that you also own yourself, the other player makes a counterbid, the higher bid takes the card from the other player. Donkey cards give money to all players before they are auctioned.

Nomination List Spiel des Jahres 1985.

New edition, first edition 01 018 e, 1985

Card and auction game * 3-5 players, ages 10+ * Designer: Rüdiger Koltze *Art: Josef Blaumeiser * ca. 60 min * 01 251 0, Ravensburger, 1988 ***  Otto Maier Verlag Ravensburg