QE (Quantitative Easing)
It's 2008, and the economy is crashing. You play as one of the largest nations in the world, and it is your job to save the economy by printing money to bail out companies.
There will be auctions for different companies you can bail out. Each will be worth victory points at the end of the game. And since you are the central bank, you own the money printer and you can bid whatever you want. You literally get dry erase markers and can write down any number for your bid. 99? Fine. 99 Billion? Also fine.
Win companies to get points, but be careful. If you are the country who spends the most during the game, you are eliminated.
Make sure you time the wave of inflation just right.
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And possibly satirical.
Personally, for me this will always be the game where people got upset at me for "distorting the game". Apparently bidding high should cause others to bid lower and I was wrong for thinking it would make bid higher. Oh well.
The twists are that the player who paid the most loses, and that the you can otherwise bid as much as you want. That's the game.
What makes it interesting is the group playing it. Different groups will have very different bidding patterns, and you have to play the people more than the game itself. The case mentioned above of one person "distorting" the game *IS* the game. Also the limited run versions are rough lasercut tiles, and a rather nice hand-oiled hardwood scoreboard. It is the best of Gavin's games, and he has been making these tiny runs of 50 for years now.
I was thinking about playing with my kids and then I realized every bid would be like a million billion dollars.
Ah_Pook wrote: Played 4 5p games of QE tonight,
DEATH TO ACRONYMS!
I looked at "QE" and tried my best to figure it out on my own and couldn't. It wasn't until I got to your reference to "trillion" that I figured it out.
At times this thread is impenetrable, because I don't read it consistently. Someone will just pick up in the middle of the three or four conversations that are going on and say "I really like the way the scoring works" as if that's enough footing to understand what their talking about. I try to mention the name of the game at the top of each post when I'm responding to someone.
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Note that one player making higher bids should also cause the other players to raise their bids. And note there's not any significant difference between bidding 1 Million, 10 Million and 100 Millions because bids are completely relative. A higher number just gives players more precision in their bids.
Quantitative Easing is an economic policy. Basically, a central bank increases the money supply (that is, "prints more money") to buy financial assets and drive their values up. The idea is that the Goverment can use these purcharses to stimulate the economy when all other venues have failed.Sagrilarus wrote: So why is this game called Quantitative Easing? It sounds like Russian Roulette would be as apt a title.
The idea of the game is that you can limitlessly increase the money supply to give worth to a series of assets. This kind of resembles Quantitative easing, though technically speaking, QE is about financial assets, not industries or anything of the sort.