20 Dollar Draft: Free Online Bidding Game
Everyone gets an imaginary $20, the options go up one at a time, and you bid for the five you want most.
What is the 20 dollar draft?
The 20 dollar draft is the bidding game from TikTok: every player gets an imaginary $20, options from one theme are auctioned one at a time, and each player tries to buy the best set of five. You can play it out loud with a list and a pen, or play it right here: the game deals the theme and runs the money and the clock for you.
Free on CPSCount, on one shared phone or on everyone’s own. No download, no sign-up, and the dollars are imaginary: no real money is ever involved.
How it works
A theme is revealed
Superpowers, a dream house, zombie survival or one of 57 more, dealt at random.
Everyone gets $20
Each player starts with an imaginary $20 and five empty slots to fill.
Bid on one option at a time
Raise in whole dollars. The first bid has 60 seconds, then each new bid resets the clock to 7. The highest bid buys it.
Fill five slots, then compare
When one player runs out of money, the other hands out what is left. Put your fives side by side and argue it out.
Try a random theme
Five options from one of the game’s themes. Which would you pay the most for?
Ways to play
- One phone on the table
- Pass-and-play for 2 to 5. With two, the screen splits and turns so you face each other, each with your own paddles.
- Friends on their own phones
- Create a private room and share the code, the link or the QR code. Get matched with random players instead, with a labelled AI offered if nobody turns up in 60 seconds.
- Solo practice
- Warm up against AI bidding buddies with their own tastes and budgets. They are always marked as AI.
- Custom rules
- Choose 2 to 5 players, a budget from $5 to $100, 1 to 10 picks and your own clocks, or write a theme of your own.
