Editing Game mechanics (section)

===Auction or bidding===
Some games use an auction or bidding system in which the players make competitive bids to determine which player wins the right to perform particular actions. Such an auction can be based on different forms of payment:
* The winning bidder must pay for the won privilege with some form of game resource (game money, points, etc.). For example, ''[[Ra (board game)|Ra]]'' uses this mechanic.<ref name="rules">[http://www.bggfiles.com/viewfile.php3?fileid=11100 Rules quick summary] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051126153512/http://www.bggfiles.com/viewfile.php3?fileid=11100|date=2005-11-26}} [[Portable Document Format|PDF]] by Michael Weston on [[BoardGameGeek]]</ref>
* The auction is a form of a promise that the winner will achieve some outcome in the near future. If this outcome is not achieved, the bidder pays a penalty. Such a system is used in many [[trick-taking game]]s, such as [[contract bridge]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kantar |first=Eddie |author-link=Eddie Kantar |url=https://archive.org/details/bridgefordummies00kant_261 |title=Bridge for Dummies |publisher=Wiley Publishing, Inc. |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-471-92426-5 |edition=2nd |page=[https://archive.org/details/bridgefordummies00kant_261/page/n166 11] |url-access=limited}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Auction bridge |url=https://gambiter.com/bridge/Auction_bridge.html |access-date=31 July 2022}}</ref>