Leisure
We start the bidding at the Blue Highway Games board game auction and end it in an elevator! On our latest episode we welcome Amanda Erven, Blue Highway Games manager extraordinaire and board game auction coordinator to discuss the auction/bidding mechanic. We get a little bit of history and explanation on one of Amanda’s favorite mechanics and reflect on what makes this minimally abstracted mechanic so compelling! We talk about: Blue Highway Games, friendly local game stores, board game auctions, silent auctions, buying too many games, Twitter/IRL interactions, Modern Art, Five Tribes, combinations of bluffing and auctioning, Ra, auctions vs. hidden roles, Medici, open auctions, sealed auctions, fixed price auctions, once around auctions, For Sale, running up the price of something, No Thanks!, Skull, filler games, higher player counts, Isle of Skye, Goa, Smile, set collection, push your luck, meta, interactions, Monopoly, fixing Monopoly, Masterpiece, Princes of Florence, telephone rulebooks, Letter Tycoon, auctioning off information, book games, letters from mistresses, Keyflower, Mogul, Clue