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1992 Ranked #212

Modern Art

Modern Art is an auction game where players buy and sell paintings to finish with the most cash. You profit as both seller and buyer, while the market's shifting taste makes every auction a chance to inflate an artist or strand rivals with fading work.

Strategy Games Card Game Economic Auction/Bidding Auction: English

Players

3-5

Play time

Not listed

Age

10+

Complexity

2.29/5

Rating

7.49

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

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Teachability 2.8/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.9/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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Buying and selling paintings can be a very lucrative business. Five different artists have produced a bunch of paintings, and it's the player's task to be both the buyer and the seller, hopefully making a profit in both roles.

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Buying and selling paintings can be a very lucrative business. Five different artists have produced a bunch of paintings, and it's the player's task to be both the buyer and the seller, hopefully making a profit in both roles. He does this by putting a painting from his hand up for auction each turn. He gets the money if some other player buys it, but must pay the bank if he buys it for himself. After each round, paintings are valued by the number of paintings of that type that were sold. The broker with the most cash after four rounds is the winner. Part of the Knizia auction trilogy.

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Play and group

Players
3–5
Best with
3–5
Play time
45 min
Age
10+
Complexity
2.3/5
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Credits

Designers

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Reiner Knizia

Artists

4
Carole Carrion Manuel Carvalho Chen Cheng-po Mike Doyle (I)

Publishers

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Hans im Glück