Editing Round 10/Ruleset (section)

== The Auction Casino ==

=== Bidding ===

During an Auction Phase, players can bid as a secret action in #auctions with default maturation and revelation dates. Bid actions must contain an unambiguous mapping of bid amounts to lot numbers. When a bidder ceases to be a player, all of their bids on active auctions are withdrawn and cease to be bids, and the bidder ceases to be a bidder.

In addition to normal failure conditions for secret actions, bids fail if any of the following occur:
*If, when a player reveals their bids, one or more of those bids is not an explicit, unconditional, natural number greater than 0, or if more than one bid is assigned to a single lot, then all such bids fail immediately.
*If, at the revelation date for the bidding the set of a player's bids that would otherwise succeed add up to a number more than how many chips they have, then all of their bids fail.

Priority on a lot is a total order over bidders on that lot, considering only bids that are successful as of the revelation date, and is defined as follows:
*If two bidders have different bids, the one with the higher bid has priority over the other.
*Otherwise, the bidder whose most recent start or increase of their bid was least recent has higher priority over the other.

At the revelation date of each week's bids, after Prizes are given out for Hands and after it is decided which bids were successful, the auction concludes, and for each lot the following occur in the order listed:
*The lot is transferred to the possession of the sole bidder with the highest priority on that lot (if one exists).
*The player who received that lot loses the amount of chips they bid.

=== The Auction House ===
There is an entity called the Auction House, also known as the House. The House can own items and holds the weekly Auction. The weekly Auction has a number of House Lots and a number of Player Lots. If a player wins a bid on a lot, the House gives the items in that Lot to the winning player. If there is ever a Lot that does not contain any items, that Lot is removed from the Auction House.

House Lots can contain only exactly 3 cards. If, at any time during the Resolution Phase, the number of House Lots currently in the weekly Auction is less than the Participation value of the Auction Casino, any player may generate a new House Lot by generating 3 cards to fulfill that lot.

During the Resolution Phase a player may create a Player Lot entity in the Auction House, clearly assigning the items to be owned by that Player Lot. The items assigned are transferred from the Player to the Player Lot.

If a Player Lot is won at the Auction House, then a number of chips equal to the value of the winning bid is transferred from the player that placed the winning bid to the player that created the Player Lot. When an Auction Phase ends, any Player Lots that have no Secret Bid Actions awaiting their revelation date transfer all items they own to the player that created them, and then cease to exist. 

During any phase other than the Auction Phase, if there are fewer Lots than the number specified above, any player may generate a Lot by generating a set of cards to fulfill that Lot.

=== Bidding on Works of Art ===

During the Resolution Phase, so long as there is still at least one Secret Bid Action awaiting its revelation date, any player may generate the bid of a Third-Party Auctioneer on a given Lot containing a Work of Art. The bid of the auctioneer must be generated as a random integer between 75% of the Value of the Work of Art and 150% of the Value of the Work of Art.

If a bid for a Work of Art is won by a player other than the player that created the Player Lot and the Value of that Work of Art is less than the winning bid amount, then the Value of that Work of Art is increased to match the winning bid amount. If a Third-Party Auctioneer wins the bid on a Lot containing a Work of Art, then the Work of Art is removed from its Lot and gets placed in the Gallery, and the player that created the Player Lot gains a number of chips equal  to the value of the bid.

=== Submitting a Hand ===

During an Auction Phase, as a secret action with default channel, maturation date and revelation date, players can Submit a Hand. A hand submission action must specify a non-empty set of cards.

If, at the revelation date of the hand submission action, that action's submitter does not possess all the cards specified in the contents, then that hand submission fails.

=== Prizes ===

At the revelation date of each week's Hand submissions, before it is decided which bids were successful and lots are given out for auctions, but after it is decided which Hand submissions were successful, all players who have successfully Submitted a Hand in the week prior receive a placement according to the contents of their most recently Submitted Hands. Hand priority in a given week is a total order over hands submitted in that week; for two hands, if one has a higher score, that hand has higher priority than the other; otherwise, the hand submitted earlier has higher priority than the other. Hands with higher hand priority receive a lower rank number. Then:
*The cards the players revealed are destroyed.
*The players then gain the prize(s) corresponding to their placement.

:{| class="wikitable"
! Placement !! Prizes
|-
| 1 || 5 Trungs, 1 Standard Proposal Maker, and 35 chips
|-
| 2 || 4 Trungs, 1 Standard Proposal Maker, and 40 chips
|-
| 3 || 3 Trungs and 45 Chips
|-
| 4 || 2 Trungs and 50 Chips
|-
| 5 || 1 Trung and 55 Chips
|-
| 6 || 60 chips
|- 
| 7 or above || 20 Chips and the cards the player revealed during the Resolution Phase.
|}

=== Scoring ===

A hand's score is defined as ''crm'' + ''h'' where ''c'' is the number of cards in that hand, ''r'' is the number of rules-defined ranks for cards, ''m'' is the product of the value of all multipliers that hand qualifies for, and ''h'' is the number associated with the highest rank in that hand.

The following are multipliers for hands. A hand qualifies for a multiplier if everything in the ''Conditions'' column is true of the hand.

{| class="wikitable"
! Name !! Conditions !! Value
|-
| Paired || The hand is composed wholly of cards of ''x'' distinct ranks, and there are ''y'' of each such rank in the hand (where ''x'' &ge; 1 and ''y'' &ge; 2).
| ''x'' + ''y''
|-
| Running || All cards in the hand are in sequential order and the hand is at least 3 cards in size.
| ''h''
|-
| Senatorial || Among the cards of the hand there is at least one Knight, one Bishop, and one Rook.
| 3
|-
| Regional || The suits of the cards in the hand include at least one of each suit in one particular card tradition that isn't the Special tradition, and no other suits.
| 2
|-
| Monochrome || The suits of the cards in the hand include at least one of each suit in one particular card color that isn't the Special color, and no other suits.
| 3
|-
| Flushed || The suit of each card in the hand is the same and the hand is at least 4 cards in size.
| 4
|}

=== Participation ===

The '''"Participation"''' value of the Auction Casino is given by one of the following criteria, whichever is higher:

* 10
* 2 for every 3 players
* 2 for every player that bid in the previous weekly Auction