Donald Trump is auctioning off trade deals among four great leaders. Each round you declare how many deals you'll close, then fight for them proposal by proposal — the highest tariff wins. Guess right to bank deals. Guess wrong and you pay a bribe into the pot that the top three share at the end.
Choose your leader:
Choose a game mode:
🎲 Who makes the first proposal?
The opener is drawn at random. It passes to the next leader each round.
⚔ TIE BREAK
How to Play — Tariff Wars
The story
Donald Trump is holding an auction. Four leaders — Vlad, Ursula, Modi and Xi — compete to walk away with the most trade deals. You play one of them; the other three are at the table too, as AI or as friends online.
Objective
Most deals across all rounds wins the auction, and the biggest share of the bribe pot. There is no target to reach — just finish on top.
Your proposals
Your cards are Proposals: a tariff of 10% to 100% on one of four goods — . The bar under each good shows its tariff: the fuller and brighter, the stronger. Forty proposals in all, ten per good. The highest tariff wins.
A round, step by step
You pick a mode first, so a game runs 5 to 19 rounds. The number of proposals each leader holds changes every round — from 1 up to 10. Each round: look at your proposals, open your deals, then negotiate them one at a time.
Opening deals
Say how many deals you will close this round — anywhere from 0 up to the number of proposals you hold. These are your Open Deals. The Deal Proposals Counter on the left shows whether the table has opened more or fewer deals than there are to win. The Trump Card is revealed before anyone opens.
Negotiating
The opener puts a proposal on the table; its good is the one being negotiated. You must play a proposal on the same good if you have one — if you don't, play anything. The highest tariff on the negotiated good takes the deal — unless a proposal on the Trump good is played: then the highest Trump proposal wins. Whoever closes a deal makes the first proposal of the next one.
The Trump Card
Each round the Auctioneer flips one proposal; its good becomes Trump for the round. Any Trump proposal beats any proposal on another good. The exception is the 10-proposal round: every proposal is dealt, so nothing is left to flip — no Trump that round. The Out of play box shows how many proposals stay face down, unused, this round.
Scoring
Guess right — close exactly the deals you opened — and you bank +1 deal for every deal closed. Opening 0 and closing 0 is right, but worth 0.
Guess wrong — over or under, punished the same — you lose 1 deal for every deal you are off, and pay a 💰 5 GRAMS bribe into the pot.
The bribe pot
At the end the pot is shared by final place: 1st 50%, 2nd 30%, 3rd 15%, 4th nothing; the house keeps 5%. Leaders tied on 2nd, 3rd or 4th split those places' prizes evenly. The pot and its split are shown under the Trump Card all game.
Tie break
If two or more leaders are tied for 1st when the last round ends, the auction goes on. The rounds keep climbing and falling along the same ladder — after a full game's last 1-proposal round come 2, 3, 4… — one round at a time until a single leader stands on top. Everyone plays every tie-break round, so the leader in 3rd can still steal the win. Wrong guesses keep feeding the pot.
Your 🤝 Won Deals and the running deals score are in the panel on the left; tap 👀 to review the last deal a leader closed.
