QE (Quantitative Easing)

This sounds pretty neat, actually.
And possibly satirical.

Real hyped for the Kickstarter to deliver on this one. It sounds like a mashup of Ponzi Scheme and High Society, which seems like a pretty great mashup imo.

This is an ok game which has some big fans here in the forum. Being able to just name a number is fun, though I don't think it's enough to make the game go beyond other "bid for VP tiles" games.

Personally, for me this will always be the game where people got upset at me for "distorting the game". Apparently bidding high should cause others to bid lower and I was wrong for thinking it would make bid higher. Oh well.

People bidding high should definitely push others to bid higher... You just need to spend $1 less than whoever spent the most, so you want to try to thread that needle (exactly like in High Society).

I see Legomancer playing this one quite a bit on the forum and social media... he has a few longer comments on it in the dark, murky depths of the boardgames played cursed thread.

It is a VERY simple auction game. Run through a bunch of closed bid auctions, and get points for various combinations of sets.

The twists are that the player who paid the most loses, and that the you can otherwise bid as much as you want. That's the game.

What makes it interesting is the group playing it. Different groups will have very different bidding patterns, and you have to play the people more than the game itself. The case mentioned above of one person "distorting" the game *IS* the game. Also the limited run versions are rough lasercut tiles, and a rather nice hand-oiled hardwood scoreboard. It is the best of Gavin's games, and he has been making these tiny runs of 50 for years now.

And yes. I have a copy. Like there was any doubt.

Also, I beat Dan Baden. By quite a bit.

I love the posts that bring moofrank out. Craft more wooden games, people! We need more moofrank!

I think I’m actually going to buy this. My gang is going to love it...I just wish it supported, like...8 players.

I was thinking about playing with my kids and then I realized every bid would be like a million billion dollars.

Which, actually, would be interesting on a meta-level of the point the game is sort of trying to make about monetary policy, based on what I've read in the rules.

Played 4 5p games of QE tonight, and it was pretty great. First couple games were tentative, feeling things out etc. Third game was good but pretty standard, bids getting to 3-400k and nothing totally nuts. The same player got the bonus 7vp for spending the least in the first three games, and announced their side game in the fourth game of not spending the least. Turns out. What he did (4th in turn order) was won the first auction with a bid of 10million, and raise each subsequent bid by a factor of 10. He won the first 6 tiles, and by the time anyone else decided they wanted some points it was too late. His first (at the time laughable!) bids of 1billion etc were basically rounding errors by the end of the game. The overall high bid in that game was 2.2 trillion. The player who won the first 6 scored 69 points to 2nd places 25, and also didn't spend even close to the most. Man that game is GREAT.

Ah_Pook wrote: Played 4 5p games of QE tonight,

DEATH TO ACRONYMS!

Sagrilarus wrote:

Ah_Pook wrote: Played 4 5p games of QE tonight,

DEATH TO ACRONYMS!

It's an acronym but it's also what the game is called? It's short for Quantitative Easing, but the game is named Q.E.