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. 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.