Medici Review
Medici Player Count 3-6 Players (2 player variant) Game Length 45-60 minutes Designer Reiner Knizia (Ra, Colossal Arena, Ingenious) Publisher Grail Games Mechanics Auction, Press Your Luck I've got four florins. Do I hear Five? I really like Reiner Knizia’s games. I really dislike Auction-intensive games. Reiner Knizia makes quite a few Auction-intensive games, so what do I do? My disdain for the mechanic traces back to my unrivaled propensity to sit before what I deem “Chronic Passers” – players who always pass and never up the bid allowing the bid to be uncomfortably high by the time it comes back to me. Had they increased the bid instead, conceivably other players would have passed, but as a result the player that follows has little incentive to pass or increase…