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Flea Market box art
2015 Ranked #20,654

Flea Market

This auction game has buyer’s agents identify goods, bid with dice, and be first to earn forty-five dollars. A player can sell their own item to bidders for a bonus, while failed auctions let someone claim it free.

Dice Economic Auction/Bidding Dice Rolling

Players

3-5

Play time

20-40 min

Age

8+

Complexity

1/5

Rating

5.58

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.6/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.9/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

It's Market Day, so head down to the flea market to see what hidden treasures you can find. As a buyer's agent, you are trying to find popular items, buy them cheap, and sell them for a profit!

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It's Market Day, so head down to the flea market to see what hidden treasures you can find. As a buyer's agent, you are trying to find popular items, buy them cheap, and sell them for a profit! If you are the first player to earn $45 in Flea Market, you win! Game Summary Players start with some money and 2d6. The goods tokens are numbered 3-18 and placed on the board. Each turn, the current player rolls 3d6 and that item goes up for auction. If it's another player's item, that player becomes the Auctioneer. Bidders (non-Auctioneers) all roll 2d6 secretly, and are allowed one reroll. Then reveal your dice: from high to low, players get the option to buy the item for the sum of their dice, paying the Auctioneer. If the token belonged to a player, that player also gets a bonus $3-7 (depending on how far in the game you are). If no one buys it, the current player gets it for free (if it's another player's item, they keep it)! The game ends as soon as someone gets $45 = winner!

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Play and group

Players
3–5
Best with
4–5
Play time
20–40 min
Age
8+
Complexity
1.0/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Leo Colovini

Artists

1
Patricia Raubo

Publishers

1
Mayfair Games

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