Dealer's Choice
May. 6th, 2022 10:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearWe went to visit a friend last night, and he had purchased a board game he remembered from his childhood - Dealer's Choice, which had a fantastically 1970s vibe in terms of the box design and game compenents.
Each player has a set of cars on their used car lot, which have a list price printed on the card. The players also have a list of prices they can sell the cars for, if they still have them at the end of the game. The general structure of a round is that players can buy additional cars from the bank, buy different kinds of insurance or play cards that allow them to sell their cars, buy other players' cars, or sabotage other players. Each player then has the option to open their lot, for other players to bid on their cars.
The difficulty lies in negotiating with other players, in order to sell your cars at an overall profit, when you don't now how much each car is worth to them and they don't know how much each car is worth to you.
I had some difficulty getting my head around the mechanics and the strategy - and Dave totally screwed me over by causing my cars to crash or catch fire a lot (and I stupidly didn't have any insurance throughout the whole game). I also got massively taken in by our friend a couple of times, because he's so innocent-looking, but lied a lot, over the course of the game (very successfully!).
At about halfway through, I was doing extremely well and thought I was going to crush the other two. But Dave's seeming vendetta against me, along with a few bad deals towards the end of the game, saw me coming resoundingly last. But the whole experience was tremendously fun and I'd definitely play again.
Each player has a set of cars on their used car lot, which have a list price printed on the card. The players also have a list of prices they can sell the cars for, if they still have them at the end of the game. The general structure of a round is that players can buy additional cars from the bank, buy different kinds of insurance or play cards that allow them to sell their cars, buy other players' cars, or sabotage other players. Each player then has the option to open their lot, for other players to bid on their cars.
The difficulty lies in negotiating with other players, in order to sell your cars at an overall profit, when you don't now how much each car is worth to them and they don't know how much each car is worth to you.
I had some difficulty getting my head around the mechanics and the strategy - and Dave totally screwed me over by causing my cars to crash or catch fire a lot (and I stupidly didn't have any insurance throughout the whole game). I also got massively taken in by our friend a couple of times, because he's so innocent-looking, but lied a lot, over the course of the game (very successfully!).
At about halfway through, I was doing extremely well and thought I was going to crush the other two. But Dave's seeming vendetta against me, along with a few bad deals towards the end of the game, saw me coming resoundingly last. But the whole experience was tremendously fun and I'd definitely play again.
