After a successful heist. Divvying up the bounty is always a fight. Who gets the largest portion? All Hands In but who will emerge victorious? In Bandits wager, bluff, double-cross your former allies, and win great riches in this game of skill and strategy for 2-4 Players.
Setup
All Blinks begin as Bandits, which swirl and pulse with their team color. Each player should take a single Bandit from the set of Blinks and set it to their chosen team color. Each time you double-click a Bandit, it will change team.
Once everyone has a Bandit in their color, take another Bandit and triple-click it: this will transform it into a sparkling diamond. Place the Diamond in the center of the table, then begin the game.
Gameplay (First Turn)
Bandits is played in turns, with each turn broken into three phases: Bidding, Results, and Cleanup.
Bidding
Each player secretly bids a number between 1 and 3 on their Bandit. To do this, single-click your Bandit to see the current bid. Once it’s revealed, you can single-click again to cycle through the three possible bids. A Bandit will automatically go back into its hidden state if you don’t click it for 2 seconds.
After everyone has chosen their bid, players take turns placing their Bandit onto the Diamond, starting with the first player and then going around the table clockwise. On the first turn, the player with the most money in their pockets goes first.
On the first turn, all players will attach their Bandits directly to the Diamond. When a Bandit is correctly attached, the face touching the Diamond will sparkle white.
Results
After all Bandits have been attached, it’s time to see the results. In Bandits, the highest unique bid is the winner. For example, if one player bids 3, another 2, and another 1, the player who bid 3 would be the winner. If, though, two players bid 3 and a third player only bids 1, the bid of 1 wins because it is the highest unique bid. If there is no highest unique bid, no player wins, and the turn moves immediately to cleanup.
To see the results, double-click the Diamond, which will begin calculating. After a few seconds, the winning Bandit will sparkle with victory, then receive their points. A Bandit that steals directly from the Diamond receives a number of points equal to 6 minus their bid, so 3 points for a bid of 3, 4 for a bid of 2, and 5 for a bid of 1.
Cleanup
After the results have been handed out, the losing players remove their Bandit from the Diamond. The winning player, if there is one, leaves their Bandit on the Diamond, extending the board outward. That player retrieves a new Bandit from the pile and sets it to their team color, and bids first in the next round..
Gameplay (Following Turns)
After the first round, there will be at least one Bandit attached to the Diamond permanently. This Bandit will display the number of points it earned, and will sparkle like the Diamond on its outside edge. This extends the Diamond itself, and changes the way that player
