Stock the Board

Cards flip face-up into a shared market. Everyone claims one in secret, into multiplier slots that turn a good card into a great one.

• 5 rounds · ~12–15 min
• 2–20 players
• Hidden simultaneous drafting
• Big reveal

How to play

1. Six cards flip into the market one at a time, synced on every screen. Values run 1–10, and high cards are rare.
2. You secretly claim one card into one of five private slots: ×3, ×2, ×2, ×1, ×1. Every round fills exactly one slot, so the ×3 you burn early is gone for good.
3. Claims aren't exclusive. Five people can draft the same card and nobody knows until the end.
4. Two once-per-game powers: scout a hidden card the market will never deal (only you can claim it, that round only), and swap a card already on your board for one from the current market — on top of your normal claim.
5. After five rounds, the reveal resolves one player's board at a time. Highest total takes the first pick.

The special cards

• Copycat scores equal to the best value card on the rest of your board. Place it early, pray later.
• Anchor is a flat 8 that ignores its slot multiplier. Safe points, wasted ×3.
• Volatile is a public coin flip at the reveal: 1 or 12, then your multiplier applies.
• Thief is worth 4× its slot, plus a 5-point bonus if you were the only player who claimed a Thief that round.

The agony

The slot economy creates real agony. Burn the ×3 on a 7 now, or hold it hoping a 9 shows up in a market everyone else is watching too? The board-by-board reveal, with Volatile flips landing live, is the noisiest finish of the five games — a draft lottery where you're allowed to feel clever about your luck. Boards settle from last place up, and the order they land in is your pick order.