The Game History of Modern Art

Auction has always been a topic of great interest to mathematicians. The author of Modern Art holds a Ph.D. in mathematics and is very keen on creating desktop games with the theme of auction. In fact, if you want to, you should be able to get the optimal solution of the desktop game in mathematics, but you don't have time to do this and you won't do it. Imagine what it would be like if you took out a pen and paper to record the profits of other players. It's good to have a lively board game. Paying too much attention to winning or losing or making decisions will sometimes ruin the fun of board games.

Modern Art, published in 1995, is a classic work of German table game master Reiner Knizia, and it can also be said that it is the originator of this kind of auction table game. At present, most auction table games have its shadow.

If it weren't for some unexpected reasons, Reiner Knizia would have won the German Best Desktop Game Award with this set of works. Unfortunately, in the competition list of 1995, it met a respectable opponent, and this opponent was none other than Catan Island, the most popular German table game in history. I dare not say that modern art has been wronged, but that it is a prank of nature. Just as the European Renaissance suddenly flourished after a long period of brewing in the history of civilization, the German desktop game industry of 1995 is heading for the peak, challenging the American market westward for the first time. At the same time, the rise of Catan Island opened the glory of German board games in the next decade. Today, ten years later, the creativity of German desktop games is dying out, while the realistic style of American desktop games is waking up again. In retrospect, it was really interesting and emotional to see these two classic desktop games meet in the same year.

The theme of modern art is art hype, so it has nothing to do with art. As long as you can calculate money, even if you don't know the difference between impressionism and realism, you can have fun from it. In the table game, players play full-fledged gallery owners in major cities. You must sell the painting entrusted by the client within your own turn, or simply buy the painting by the client at your own expense. At the end of each period, the value of all the paintings in this period is settled, and players are required to realize the paintings they have invested. Finally, after four stages, the player with the most cash in hand is the winner of the table game.