One cabinet, three nights

You stand at a closed auction with a fifty-two-card deck. A card is a lot when it is on the block, and it is money when it is in your hand. Suits and ranks are printed on the faces.

Three nights

Pick a floor in the foyer and enter. Each night lays several lots on the block. You may look a lot over before you bid. The card you raise leaves the cabinet, and its rank is the price. If the bid climbs past you, raise a higher card or let the lot go. Three counts, then the hammer falls. Two cards of one suit add a little after the lot is yours, three add more, and four add more again. The night compares the cabinet at the close with the cabinet you carried in.

The counter

This shorter table asks you to judge a lot. A closer look can be spent a few times. Three misses in a row replace you, and the round ends.

Clearance

This other short table asks you to change a price and list the lot. Sell enough and the run stands. Fall short of the quota and the table closes.

Still on the phone

The collection, the ledger, and the house rules remain on this iPhone, with or without a network. In the house rules the count can run quicker, the hammer can take a shorter swing, suit totals can be shown or put away, the reserve can leave the block, and the suit market can leave the rail. You do not sign in, you do not post a cabinet, and there is nothing to buy. Words on screen follow the language of the iPhone.