As an art agent in Bidding Room: Underground, you have been employed by powerful families to represent them in a secret underground bidding room for illegal artifacts. Your task is to spend their money wisely to get goods that are worth points. Additionally, you have secret tasks and privileges that will sway how you bid. To set up, one player takes the...
Bide is a combinatorial, abstract strategy game for 2-6 players played on a hexagonal or square board which is initially empty (hex-hex base 5 is recommended). Bide was designed by Alek Erickson in May 2020. Players can skip turns to get extra turns later: Players take turns placing stones of their color in the hexagonal cells. At the beginning of your...
"BIDittle [bi-DIT-tle] players are dealt 7 cards per hand. Using a simple bidding language based on high card points, partners work together to bid on the number of tricks the team intends to win and identify which suit or notrump the game will be played. The game board corners include bidding prompts to help the new player bid more easily. Once the final...
BidWiz is a trick-taking card game based on the ideas behind the popular bidding card games "Oh Hell" and "Wizard." What makes BidWiz unique, is that each player chooses his own hand by taking turns to select one of the top two cards of the draw pile, until the draw pile is exhausted. Each player must then bid how many tricks he thinks he can win, and must...
Big 6 is the fast-thinking bidding game. Rattle off your answers in this rapid response topics game. You've got just 30 seconds to give the number of answers you have predicted and successfully bid for - the tactic is whether to bid high or low. Dare you outbid your rivals and go for the Big 6? Fail to reach you target and you blow the lot. If you match...
INTRODUCTION: You are a newly hired store manager, eager to show your prowess to the corporate executives. You have been given two years to successfully generate as much profit as possible, and be moved up to an executive position at the corporate office. However, you have stiff competition from other store managers who are hoping to do the same....
Big Builder appears to be an educational game, as it was produced in part by the Ohio State University Research Foundation and is an "Industrial Art Curriculum Project," according to the box. In the game players move around a set of different tracks in an effort to bid on and complete major construction projects (e.g., a bridge, a dam, etc.). Each player...
An auction game in which players bid from their pool of "worker rats" to gain control of corporate projects. The workers from the winning bid are then are assigned to the project. Each turn, one worker is removed from each project. A project is complete once all workers have been removed. The value of a numbered project is only determined at completion by...
Big Deal is a game of corporate business deals. Players are big investors (and I mean big - the smallest notes are $50 million and billions of dollars change hands) and wheeler-dealers. Players acquire shares in companies, primarily randomly (picked up as cards), but also possibly through purchase of other players' previous sales. To form the companies...
A trick-taking game for traditional playing cards. Features 'boasting' - a push-your-luck mechanic. Each round, an auction is held for the right to be 'big fish', who will have a better hand and should win more tricks than any little fish. Unlike other card games, you bid points of your score - being a big fish carries a greater element of risk, since you...
From the publisher - "Big game hunting across the far reaches of the galaxy promises all the thrills you crave and the trophies you can show off. Seems everyone wants a Scutapid rug on the living room floor or a stuffed Bixan Norflunt in the reading room. Trouble is, it costs a fortune to bag these beasts. But now you've got a good thing going by leading...