FAQ

No. Playing No Bid is not your action. You can cancel a card on somebody else’s turn and still take a completely normal turn of your own later. (Rules, section 5.)

Yes. Any player may play it at any time a card is played, and that includes your own. It is rarely a good idea, but nothing stops you.

No. The card was still played, so you have spent your action. That is the cost of walking into a No Bid, and it is why holding one back has weight.

Cards go onto a stack in the order they are played, and players keep responding until nobody adds another. Then the last card played resolves and everything beneath it is cancelled.

Only at the end of your turn. Holding more than 7 cards in the middle of a turn is fine, so you are never forced to discard a No Bid before you have had the chance to use it.

Yes. The win is checked continuously, not only on your turn. If an effect on another player’s turn takes your Book to 7 counting Positions, you win at that moment.

No, by nothing at all. It has the same timing as No Bid and is also not your action, but it cannot be stopped. There are only 3 in the deck against 10 No Bid.

Yes. It cancels any card that has just been played, and a No Bid is a card like any other.

No. A cancelled Position never enters the Book at all, so nothing that triggers on entering can fire. The same goes for a cancelled Leverage or Drawdown: it never attaches.

No. Leverage and Drawdown are not attached to any particular Position. They belong to the Book and stay in play when Positions come and go. Removing one takes a card that says so.

Yes, and both count normally. Direction and pair are only handles for other cards to target. They carry no rule of their own.

Shuffle the discard pile to form a new deck and carry on.

It stays empty for the rest of the game. Cards that fetch an Opening simply do nothing.

The active player, meaning whoever is taking the turn in which it happened.

Yes, at any time, and so can everyone else. Books and the discard pile are public. Only hands and the deck are hidden.

It plays 2 to 6. More players means more cards that can cancel yours, so the game gets louder and less predictable as the table grows. Lower counts are sharper and more targeted.

About 25 minutes once everyone knows the cards. The first game runs a little longer while people read.

Not a thing. The theme supplies the words and the artwork, never the rules. If nobody will quote you a price the trade does not happen, and that idea needs no finance background at all.

Not with the printed cards. The whole game is the threat of the card somebody else is holding, which does not survive being played alone. The browser version fills the empty seats with bots, so you can play on your own at /play/.

Yes, free and with no sign-up. Open a room at /play/, send the four-letter code to whoever you are playing with, and any seats nobody takes are filled by bots. Everyone plays on their own device.

When a card is played it sits in the middle of the table for a few seconds and everybody holding an interrupt is asked at the same moment. The first response the server receives is the one that counts, and then the window reopens so that response can itself be answered.

No. Positions can be taken from you and your Book can be dismantled, but nobody is ever eliminated and there is always a route back through the Openings pile.