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  2. Glossary of contract bridge terms - Wikipedia

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    The practice of introducing an additional round (or rounds) to the bidding to show extra information. Example: On a 1NT – 3NT auction, responder has gone quickly to the final contract. When instead the auction goes 1NT – 2 ♦ ; 2 ♥ – 3NT, responder has dawdled with the Jacoby Transfer to announce their 5-card heart suit before going to ...

  3. Auction bridge - Wikipedia

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    Auction bridge was the first form of bridge where players bid to declare a contract in their chosen trump suit or no trumps. It was first recorded as being played in Bath around 1904. [ 1 ] The Bath Club and Portland Club met in 1908 and issued a super-set of rules for Bridge that covered the bidding and penalty for failing to make a contract ...

  4. Penny auction (foreclosure) - Wikipedia

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    A penny auction is a collective action taken during the auction of a foreclosed property to force the sale of the property at a low price, with the intent of then returning the property to its previous owner.

  5. Contract bridge - Wikipedia

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    In auction bridge, bidding beyond winning the auction is pointless; for example, if taking all 13 tricks, there is no difference in score between a 1 ♠ and a 7 ♠ final contract, as the bonus for rubber, small slam or grand slam depends on the number of tricks taken rather than the number of tricks contracted for. [13]

  6. All-pay auction - Wikipedia

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    The most straightforward form of an all-pay auction is a Tullock auction, sometimes called a Tullock lottery after Gordon Tullock, in which everyone submits a bid but both the losers and the winners pay their submitted bids. [5] This is instrumental in describing certain ideas in public choice economics. [citation needed]

  7. List of games in game theory - Wikipedia

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    Dollar auction: 2 2 0 Yes Yes No No El Farol bar: N: 2 variable No No No No Game without a value: 2 infinite 0 No No Yes No Gift-exchange game: N, usually 2 variable 1 Yes Yes No No Guess 2/3 of the average: N: infinite 1 No No Maybe [4] No Hobbesian trap: 2 2 1 No No No No Kuhn poker: 2 27 & 64 0 Yes No Yes Yes Matching pennies: 2 2 0 No No Yes No

  8. English auction - Wikipedia

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    An English auction is an open-outcry ascending dynamic auction. It proceeds as follows. The auctioneer opens the auction by announcing a suggested opening bid, a starting price, or a reserve for the item on sale. Then the auctioneer accepts increasingly higher bids from the floor and sometimes from other sources, for example online or telephone ...

  9. Auction - Wikipedia

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    Rank auction is an extension of best/not best auction, where the bidders also see the rank of their bids. [75] Traffic-light auction shows traffic lights to bidders as a response to their bids. [76] These traffic lights depend on the position of the last bid in the distribution of all bids.