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Reiner Knizia’s Modern Art presents a deceptively simple game about the exclusive world of art auctions that is, in practice, a harsh simulation of uninhibited market economics and psychology. While its cards, depicting colourful abstract forms, suggest a light exercise in aesthetic speculation, its core mechanics construct a ruthlessly efficient engine for generating speculative bubbles and crashes: a playable lesson in economic causality.

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