The auctions
The auctions
When a player moves a commissioner from Central Park back to City Hall, the game is immediately interrupted for a set of auctions in the districts recently visited recently by this commissioner (shown by the matching commissioner markers) and Central Park.The auctions occur in the districts one at a time, starting with the first district visited, and continuing in the order visited until the Central Park auction.After each auction, the players return the matching commissioner marker from that district to the appropriate spot in City Hall. After the Central Park auction, the auctions end (for now) and the game continues from the point where it was interrupted.The moved commissioner and his markers are now back in City Hall and ready to be used again.
Note: when a player chooses option C and moves a commissioner from Central Pa rk to City Hall as his first action, his turn is immediately interrupted. This means that he does not take the 2 colored cards now, but must wait until the auctions he triggered are completed. Once the auctions are completed, the player continues with his 2nd and 3rd actions. If, as his 3rd action, he moves another commissioner from Central Pa rk to City Hall, he triggers another round of auctions.
when a commissioner is moved from Central Park back to City Hall, the game is interrupted for a set of auctions, which offer players the opportunity to build skyscrapers in the districts visited by the commissioner
The players use their bidding cards to bid in the auctions.These cards contain three features relevant to the auctions:
(1)color
There are colored and black cards. Each of the 5 colors match building plots in the districts.The black cards are jokers and can a lways be used with any colored cards without limit as to number of black cards.
(2)number
The number on the card is the card’s value (4, 5, or 6) in an auction. If a player bids several cards in an auction, he adds the numbers on the cards together to determine his total bid.
(3) skyscraper(s)
Each number 6 card has 1 skyscraper pictured on it. Each number 5 card has 2 skyscrapers pictured on it. Each number 4 card has 3 skyscraper pictured on it.The number of skyscrapers shown on the card with the fewest in his bid, is the maximu m number of skyscrapers the winner of the auction may build.The player does not add the skyscrapers shown on the cards together. He must use the card, among all the cards in his bid with the fewest skyscrapers.
In other words: if a player has only number 4 cards in his bid, he may build up to 3 skyscrapers. If he has at least one number 5 card (and no number 6 cards), he may only build up to 2 skyscrapers. And, if he has at least one number 6 card, he may only build up to 1 skyscraper.
Examples:
- Blue wins an auction with 2 gray and 2 black number 4 cards: he may build up to 3 skyscrapers on the gray building plot in the district.
-Yellow wins an auction with 2 violet number 4 cards, 1 black number 5 card, and
2 black number 6 cards: he may only build up to 1 skyscraper on the violet building plot in the district.
When a player wants to participate in an auction, he must decide which one bidding plot color he will use in bidding.With this color choice, he also decides which building plot in the district he will build on if he wins the auction.With this choice, there are three situations:
(1)The player already has at least 1 skyscraper in this district:
In this case, he may only choose to bid with the color of the building plot where he already has skyscrapers in the district. Of course, he can always use black cards in addition to the colored cards.
the bidding cards contain three features:
zcolor
(corresponding to the building plot colors plus black = joker)
znumber
(all played bidding cards numbers are added)
zskyscraper(s)
(the bidding card played with the fewest number of skyscrapers shown is the maximum number of skyscrapers the winning player may build)
each player may use only one color (+ black cards) in an auction
the building plot for this color
is either...
zoccupied with at least one skyscraper in this player’s color
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