Bidding

At the start of the Bidding phase, hide your bid board behind your player screen. Then secretly bid by placing tokens from your purse on the bid board spaces you hope to win.

The background colors of the bid board spaces indicate which tokens can be used to bid there.

Red spaces can accept Force tokens, black spaces can accept Balckmail tokens, and yellow spaces can accept Gold tokens.

Spaces with multiple colors indicate that they can accept multiple token types.

During the Bid phase, you must use all tokens from your purse to make your bids.

You cannot bid on more than six spaces.

There is no limit to the number of tokens you can use to bid on a space, and you can mix and match tokens on spaces that accept multiple types.

Players are free to negotiate, but deals made during the game are not binding (although anyone who breaks a promise will find it harder to negotiate in the future).

When you've finished bidding, do not move your player screen, but indicate to the group that you are ready (raise your hand, give a thumbs-up, or use some other agreed-upon signal).