Top 10 Favorite Auction/Bidding Games
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ส.ค. 2024
- Jamey discusses his favorite bidding-centric auction games! Games mentioned in the video are The Castles of Mad King Ludwig, Isle of Skye, The Estates, Power Grid, ShipShape, and Chinatown, and the top 10:
1. Ra
2. QE
3. Poker
4. For Sale
5. No Thanks
6. The Speicherstadt
7. High Society
8. Cursed Court
9. Going Going Gone
10. Karesansui
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My favorite auction game is Biblios. The first half of the game is limited information of getting a small hand of cards that determines hat you have to bid for in the second half of the game. I love how you can either bid money for cards that win the game or discard a certain number of cards to bid for more money to use for later in the auction. Super fun and a lot of great decisions.
Bidding for the favor of the gods in Cyclades, is still one of my favorite auction games.
Yeah this would be my number 1. The fact you can't immediately re-bid on the same god when you are outbid adds a whole extra layer of strategy
Good list. I do appreciate the distinction between auctions and “I price you choose”
I also like Modern Art as an auction game, with a variety of auction mechanisms, and Estates would have made my top 10.
I know it isn't the main thrust of the game but Dune's auction system is amazing.
Blind bidding with only one player(the Atreides) knowing what is on the card you are bidding on and able to sell that information to any other players and then the resulting money going to one player(the Emperor) is just bonkers. Along with one player(Harkonan) getting a bonus extra card if they win the bid just makes for a ludicrous system that somehow balances itself out almost perfectly.
I hadn't thought about that (and I've only played Rex), but I agree--it's a really clever system!
Rurik: Dawn of Kiev has a really cool auction programming mechanic to determine how strong of a turn you get along with what order you do your actions in. You bid up the stronger actions with coins.
It's nice to see the Cursed Court getting some love, it's so under rated for all the great mechanics that it blends together. I've used it as a gateway game to introduce social deduction and bidding and it really works great at a high player count!
The one auction game that immediately comes to mind from our collection is Biblios. Now that I've learned about the High Society money rule it makes me wonder how adding that as a house rule to Biblios would change things at the end. Sometimes you have money and there's nothing to do with it. Other times people will go all out because they know they only need that one card to complete their set and guarantee some kind of outcome. Would be cool to add this element of needing to not have the least amount of money left.
Great list! If you love auctions, Knizia is definitely the master on this genre! Medici, Blue Moon Legends are great but Ra is also my favorite!
New printing of Ra coming out from Dice Tree Games this year. They put out the Korean version of Modern Art with the gavel so I’m guessing their version of Ra will also be over the top
So glad to hear this! I’ve just been trying to find a copy and it’s tough!
It's been over a year now, and now Ra, yet.
Great video Mr. Stegmaier! At the start I predicted Q.E. would be your number 1. My game group loves For Sale, I think it's okay. My favorite bidding style game is Lost Cities: Rivals, which I like better than any other version of Lost Cities.
Medici. It's amazing.
QE sounds very interesting. Would like to give that a try. I haven’t played too many auction games but Keyflower has had a great auction and bidding mechanic in it.
I adore a small auction game called Exodus Fleet from TMG which smashes up a Puerto Rico style, role-selection game with an auction as to who gets to do the best version of that action. There are two wrinkles to this. 1) There are 1 less than the number of players available slots to take the action selected with a downward sliding scale of efficacy. 2) you can bid any number higher than the minimum bid (3 money) regardless of previous bids... so you can slot in to come in 2nd, if you want.
It's got the best amalgam of a medium-weight euro-style engine builder with a time-value-of-money element I've seen. Really great game and completely underappreciated.
Another one is Iberian Rails which is a mash up of a classic train auction game with Imperial where you don't take the turns, the company does and you are just trying to make as much money as possible using the auctions for shares and managing their treasuries as you can. It also has a very cool role selection mechanism which adds so much.
Two real gems in this area that not a lot of people know about.
Power Grid... love the power plant auctions in that one. :-D
I hope to one day play Hollywood Golden Age. Reviews seem to show that it’s not one of Knizia’s best but I love the theme.
Mister Jeeves Not sure what reviews you’re reading, but it’s definitely one of Knizia’s best!
I like Klondike Rush from RedRaven Games as well, it has a real nice auction mechanism and the theme fits perfectly with it.
Ra is fantastic. Itching to play it again. (At least I HOPE that’s the source of the itch.)
Ha! As a healthcare professional, I always get a little uncomfortable when people talk about games "scratching an itch".
i really want to see top 10 fight mechanics, good videos by the way
That's actually the video I'm considering for this or next week! :)
@@jameystegmaier Nice! lucky me :D
Cyclades And modern art are amazing bidding games too
Ra is fantastic. Itching to play it again. (At least I HOPE that’s the source of the itch.)
The turn order auction in a Five Tribes is great, especially at 2p!
Auction is my favorite mechanic and Container is my favorite auctioning game.
I'm not as enamored of auction/bidding games. But I do like when auctions are part of a game,i.e., Scoville, Biblio's, for turn order in Five Tribes and Hit Z Road. My favorite pure auction game is Lascaux, a Mayfair game.
Indonesia is my favorite board game with an auction mechanism. Auction is not in the whole core of the game but still it contributes a lot to the economical theme of the game. This game is very undermentioned.
The turn order auction in a Five Tribes is great, especially at 2p!
I think the other parts of Five Tribes are more interesting, but it's a pretty cool bidding too, since you basically bid with your victory points!
Jamey, what are your thoughts on CMON's version of Modern Art?
I've been wanting to get an auction/bidding game since it's seen under represented mechanic in my collection. I do have Skull which gets frequent play, but isn't very deep.
I haven't played it yet, but I'd like to!
High Society and QE are SOOOO GOOD!!!
I mainly play with only my spouse, so many auction games don't work. However, Ra is really good even at two. I can also play solo on the app, even if the AI is a little wonky. It is ridiculous how many times I can play that game and not get tired of it.
Have you played Medici? I find it so clever. I went years without playing it and then got given a copy. It sat on my shelf for a year and then I FINALLY learnt it. Imagine my surprise that it was awesome. Really clever interaction, really recommend it.
Oh yes, I love Medici!
I don't really know if it fits in that category, but Nidavellir is an awesome game that includes coin building AND a bid ! Not really and auction though...
I'd swap out Poker with Kobayakawa by Oink games. We play it with actual bets, along with High Society, Skull, For Sale and Forks, when we have a Tabletop Casino Night.
I just LOVED FOR SALE ! cant find another game with low complexity (even high) and SO NICE MECHANIC and STRATEGY !!!
I would love some complexity in a second version or something !
IF ANYONE knows an Economic game so good as for sale, please TELL MEE !! s2
The Speicherstadt auction mechanism is used by Feld again in Jorvik.
I'm pretty sure that Jorvik is just a re-theme of Speicherstadt, rather than a reuse of the mechanism. The description of Jorvik on BGG seems to confirm it. I enjoy Jorvik immensely.
Have you played "Felicity: the cat in the sack" by Friedemann Friese.
That is much fun with 4 or better 5 players.
It includes bluffing as most of the time all or all but one player dont know exactly what they are bidding for.
I haven't heard of that! Thanks for the recommendation.
still havent tried For Sale and keep hearing about it. At some point ill have to lol.
You can play for free on the board game arena website. One of my favourite bidding games for sure.
It's a fun warmup game. Scales well for up to six players but it isn't very deep
No Amun-Re? It has that great "leapfrog auction" mechanism. Not only a great game at 5 players, but it would have been yet another Knizia game on the list!
I like it, but not quite enough to pursue it again after my first play.
No Stockpile???
I am not a huge fan of Auctions though I agree that Ra does it best. I have a copy of QE on the way as well with the recent KS for it and On Tour. A few of your others were also on my list but I really like the auction mechanic in Stockpile of the bid only being over once all locations have been chosen. A big part of that though is the way that the goods/stocks being bid on are built by the players with a mix of public and secret information.
I think Amun-Re does something like that too. It's a really cool mechanism!
That type of bidding is also featured in vegas showdown and homesteaders
Poker 😑
Have you played Modern Art?
I haven't, but I need to.
Modern Art is my favourite.
I can't believe Biblios wasn't mentioned. It's my favorite auction/bidding game and it's a great thinky filler.
Believe it! :) I've played Biblios, and I enjoy it, but not enough for my personal top 10.
The auction in Going Going Gone! is for three lots (so three cups), if memory serves.