Auction
Bid chasers and points to run the table
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A prize goes up for auction - a set number of chasers to divide among the room.
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The auction opens - bidding is in chasers (that you’d drink) and points at once.
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Raise the bid with the quick buttons or a custom amount - each new bid must beat the last.
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Every raise resets a 15-second clock.
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When the clock runs out, the highest bidder wins the prize and pays what they bid.
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The winner divides the chasers among everyone else.
Nobody bids before the clock runs out? The round is a wash - nobody drinks.
Auction winner, per chaser they bid
Whoever the winner picked
Nobody can be handed more than 2 chasers from the pool.
Auction winner, per point they bid
Auction is the big-room game. A prize goes up for bidding: a pool of chasers that the winner gets to hand out to everyone else. Bids are made in two currencies at once, the chasers you would personally take and the points you would pay, and every raise resets a 15-second clock. When the clock runs out, the highest bidder pays their bid, then shares the prize out around the table, never more than two chasers to any one player. It needs at least five players, because an auction with three bidders is just a conversation.
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Price the prize before you bid. The pool is worth handing out only if it is bigger than what you would drink to win it; a bid of three chasers for a pool of three is a losing trade.
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Points are the cheaper currency early in the night and the expensive one late. If you are ahead on the scoreboard, bid points; if you are behind, bid chasers.
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Every raise resets the clock, so a last-second bid is not a snipe, it is an invitation. The auction only ends when the room stops raising.
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Running up a rival is a real tactic. If someone clearly wants the prize, a raise that you do not intend to win forces them to pay more, but be sure they will actually outbid you.
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Sealed bids: everyone writes a single bid and reveals at once. No clock, no reading the room, just nerve.
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Points only: the table agrees that chasers may not be bid. Every auction becomes a pure scoreboard fight, and the prize is the only thing anyone takes on.
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Open books: bidders must say, before the clock runs out, why they want the prize. Lying is allowed, but the table remembers.
Auction is a bargaining game, and the bargaining is the fun. Bid and pay in points only, or agree that chasers mean sips of water, and the bluffing, the running up and the last-second raises all still work.