
Auction and economic board games
Friday, October 9, 2026 · 7:00 PM EDT · Gamers Geekery and Tavern · Cary, NC
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Let's play some games about auctions, stocks, making money, or turning one resource cube into another resource cube. Some examples we will have on hand are below: In [Modern Art ](https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/118/modern-art)buying and selling paintings can be a very lucrative business. Five different artists have produced a bunch of paintings, and it's the player's task to be both the buyer and the seller, hopefully making a profit in both roles. In [Vegas Showdown](https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/15364/vegas-showdown) players compete to build the most famous hotel/casino. Room tiles representing slot machines, lounges, restaurants, and other casino-related places appear on a central board and the players hold auctions to win the rights to have those rooms in their building, garnering them income, population, or fame. Bidding wars escalate, values fluctuate, and designers renovate until finally the hotel/casinos are put to the test to determine whose garners the most fame. ***[Art Society](https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/395375/art-society)***[ ](https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/395375/art-society)is an art collection game with easy to learn rules. In *Art Society*, you are an art connoisseur trying to impress your peers by putting together the most fashionable art collection of them all! Bid on the hottest works of art, then arrange them on your drawing room wall into a tastefully curated gallery that’s the envy of the local art scene. [Cyclades: Legendary Edition](https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/380619/cyclades-legendary-edition) features a strategic bidding system that defines the actions available to each player on their turn. You must balance your finances to optimize the various actions provided by the different gods, with each player gaining the support of only one god each turn. The game features a shorter and more dynamic bidding phase than the original *Cyclades* thanks to a new exponential bidding scale. Six gods are available…