bid for what is scarce

How it plays

1Four teams. The same budget each, and that is all any of you get.
2One lot at a time. Anyone can raise. Highest bid takes it.
3A losing bid comes back to you. A winning bid is gone.
4Your tower is your money. Watch what buying the third lot does to it.

Why it works: ask a room to rank what it wants and everything comes back important. Make them pay out of one pot and the ranking does itself — not by argument, but by what they let go past. The interesting moment is never the lot somebody wins. It is the lot a team wanted and sat out because they had already spent, and the room watching them sit out.

Open the sale

Say the lot out loud before you take a bid. The tension is in the pause where nobody wants to open, and you should let it sit.

lot 1
Lot 1

 

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the books

What the floor paid

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