Since tableau-building today is very much what auctions were twenty years ago, we take a look at both in this week's episode. The Pax games continue ever onward, even as most of our favourite auction game were published 10+ years ago. Mark resists the urge to go off on a tangent about the Trolley Problem, which allows Walker to resist the urge to send Mark's teeth off on a tangent from his mouth. Compromise.AYURIS: 1m32s Hyperborea (Andrea Chiarvesio & Pierluca Zizzi, Asterion Press, 2014)Orleans (Reiner Stockhausen, dlp Games, 2014)Altiplano (Reiner Stockhausen, dlp Games, 2017)Games Played Last Week: -Thunderstone Quest: Barricades Mode 4m14s (Mike Elliott, Bryan Reese, & Mark Wootton, AEG, 2019)-Pax Pamir (Second Edition) 9m01s (Cole Wehrle, Wehrelegig Games, 2019)-Sol: Last Days of a Star 17m16s (Ryan Spangler & Sean Spangler, Elephant Laboratories, 2017)-Skip-Bo 21m36s (Hazel "Skip" Bowman, Mattel, 1967)-LAMA (aka Wrath of the Appliances: Rise of the Killer Kameras) 23m10s (Reiner Knizia, AMIGO, 2019)-Glen More 24m32s (Matthias Cramer, alea, 2010)-Among Thieves 26m53s (Floyd Pretz, Indie Boards & Cards, 2019)News (and why it doesn't matter):-Planned obsolescence in Quest for El Dorado? 31m50s-Pacific Rim could defy expectations? 32m35s-Tariff reprieve? 33m10s-Knizia's Babylonia shows promise? 33m45s-Will Mark sap the fun out of Principle Dilemma? 34m42sTopic: Auctions 36m46s