Merchants of Andromeda Review

"Merchants of Andromeda is a meta-game featuring five different mini-games, all linked together through the use of drafting and bidding off action cards. On each player's turn, they draw three cards from the Event Deck that drives the action of the game. The player then chooses one card to discard (for a resource), one to keep (to complete an action), and one to auction off to the entire table (where the winning player gets the resource and gets to complete the action)."

"The player then chooses one card to discard (for a resource), one to keep (to complete an action), and one to auction off to the entire table (where the winning player gets the resource and gets to complete the action). The auction is a countdown Dutch auction where bidding starts at 25 and ticks down until it hits a price a player wants to pay for the card. This timer can be done by players at the table, or with an optional app."

Allplay's Merchants of Andromeda reimplements Merchants of Amsterdam as a meta-game composed of five interconnected mini-games. Each turn a player draws three Event cards, discards one for a resource, keeps one to perform an action, and auctions the third in a countdown Dutch auction. Auctions start at 25 and tick down until a price is accepted, with an optional app to run the timer. Event cards can advance an Event board that yields nothing, scoring, or Voting events that change rules or scoring. Five action boards present race or area-majority objectives with themes like terraforming, elections, and mining. Strategic bidding, card selection, and timing of scoring events determine success.

Read at Board Game Quest