How to play Subastas Dudosas

Every player arrives in a fictional region with €5,000,000 and a character. Over two, three or four years (four rounds a year) you buy art, vehicles, property, luxury goods and businesses at auctions and private offers, negotiate with the others and build projects.

At the end everything is revealed: everyone’s cash and the real value of what they own. The largest fortune among the players who have not gone bankrupt wins.

On your turn you throw the dart. It lands in one of the map’s eight districts and a card from that district is resolved: an open, blind or sealed-envelope auction; a private offer only you decide on; an Appraiser’s report; a classified tip about your rivals; a visit; an event, or a card you can keep for later.

Before you throw you can open your private desk: your cash, your files, your cards and your projects are yours alone until the final reveal.

Every asset is genuine, fake or stolen, and only its owner sees its file. The assets you own are public; what you know about them is not.

The system never lies to you: the Appraiser and classified information tell the truth. Your rivals, however, can lie. A correct accusation confiscates a fake or stolen asset and sends its owner to jail; a wrong one sends you.

Every player can bid and everyone’s balance is secret: nobody knows how much another can pay. Each bid resets the countdown and withdrawing is final.

In blind auctions the lot stays covered until it is awarded, and in sealed-envelope auctions each player writes an offer in private and all are revealed at once. The winner signs the lot in their character’s own way.

After the fourth round of each year there is a two-minute open negotiation round: you can propose deals (one asset per side and cash from one side only, in private), visit another player, or re-auction one of your assets.

The cards you can keep — Accusation, Business contact, Appraiser — give you options for when they suit you best.

With three assets of the same category, or three from the same district, you can build a project: it pays at every yearly close and adds to your final wealth. If you lose a piece, the project stops until another one takes its place.

Every year ends with a close: if you close in the red you get a warning, and if you do it two years in a row without recovering, you go bankrupt and are out. After the last year comes a Grand Final Auction and the reveal.

Winning with a character has a reward: finding out what happened in their past. The eight characters are purely cosmetic: they give no advantage.

On one screen, passing the device around: private things open after a hand-over. Or online: you create a private room with a code and each player joins from their own phone or computer. Free, no downloads and no account.