Variants: 1830 Cardgame

Variants to consider for the new 1830 cardgame:

• Move the hand management to after the turn order auction:

  1. Players auction for turn-order before discarding their hands down to 3 cards.

• Address the turn order auction as well:

  1. First to pass will go last, second to pass will go second to last, etc with the last remaining bidder going first.
  2. Winning bidder pays their bid, all other bidders pay half their bid rounded up, except for the player last in turn order who pays nothing.
  3. After the turn order auction, players reseat in turn-order order.

• Remove and reduce the silly trackable information:

  1. Players keep their initial hands of action cards face-down on the table before them (but may of course inspect them freely).
  2. Drawn cards which are kept in the hand are put face-up on the table before them.
  3. All played cards in the discard piles may be freely examined and counted at any time.

• Increase the information level of the draft:

  1. In addition to the three cards for the action draft, also lay out the next three cards, face up, that will be drawn to replace drafted cards.