Tiny Table Market — Printable Bidding Game for 4 Adults

Tiny Table Market

A printable bidding and collection game for exactly four adults.

Start with six pretend credits. Choose from an open market of imaginary finds, write a private bid and reveal together. Across four rounds, collect four items and combine their printed points with a collection bonus.

US$6 · English edition · Version 1.0 · Digital download only. No physical product or shipping.

Tiny Table Market, a printable bidding and collection game for exactly four adults, with A Pocket Garden shown as a sample item card.

Four players. Four rounds. One collection each.

The host is one of the four adult players, so no separate game master is needed. Everyone remains seated and uses a pencil and a shopper dashboard. All market cards, including future rounds, stay visible so you can consider your collection before choosing.

  1. Draw your priority. At the start of each round, mix that round’s four item cards face down and deal one to each player. Record its letter, then return all four cards face up before choosing. The draw sets priority only.
  2. Choose and bid. Privately write one current-round item and a whole-number bid from 0 to 3, within your remaining credits. Reveal together.
  3. Receive a card. The highest bid for each chosen item wins; tied highest bids use the drawn priority order A, B, C, D. Winners pay their own bids, even without competition. Players who lose pay nothing and choose remaining cards for free in reverse priority order D, C, B, A, skipping anyone who already has a card.
  4. Score your collection. After four rounds, add printed points and one collection bonus. Unspent credits are worth no points, and tied highest scores share the win.

Every player receives exactly one item each round. A bid of 0 is valid. Priorities are randomly drawn again each round and are not guaranteed to rotate evenly.

Collection bonuses: four different symbols, +5; two pairs or four matching symbols, +6; three matching symbols plus one other, or one pair plus two different single symbols, +3.

What your download includes

  • A4 Standard PDF
  • A4 Low Ink PDF
  • US Letter Standard PDF
  • US Letter Low Ink PDF
  • START_HERE.txt with printing, preparation, use and support information

All four PDFs contain the same complete game. Choose and print one version, not all four. Each PDF is eight pages: two uncut rules pages, four sheets of item cards and two sheets of shopper dashboards. One play set uses eight single-sided sheets, not 32.

The Low Ink versions use white backgrounds and high-contrast line art. Written symbol labels carry the information you need; color is not essential in either style.

Before you buy: printing, cutting and space

  • Players: exactly four adult participants, including the host. No three-player or dummy-seat variant is included.
  • Bring: a printer, eight sheets of matching paper, scissors for adult preparation and four pencils.
  • Print: single-sided at 100% or Actual Size, not Fit, using the PDF that matches your paper size.
  • Cut: each of the four item-card sheets into quarters and each of the two dashboard sheets in half. That makes 16 item cards and four dashboards: 20 cut pieces. Leave the two rules pages uncut.
  • Table space: the four-by-four-card market alone is 42 × 59.4 cm on A4 (about 42 × 60 cm), or 43.18 × 55.88 cm on US Letter (about 43.2 × 55.9 cm), before gaps. Add space for four player areas and the rules. This layout is not intended for a tiny cafe table.

At 100% print size, A4 item cards are 105 × 148.5 mm and A4 dashboards are 210 × 148.5 mm. US Letter item cards are 107.95 × 139.7 mm and US Letter dashboards are 215.9 × 139.7 mm.

No folding, glue, envelopes, dice, loose coins, app or timer is required. Use pretend credits only; no real money, prizes or gifts are needed.

Please note

This release is designed for adults and has not been human-playtested. Duration, learning burden, enjoyment, age suitability and game balance have not been validated. Adult design scope is not a verified age-suitability claim. No play-time or fairness guarantee is made.

If a player stops, pause and finish another time or end unscored. Do not replace the player with a dummy seat or have someone play two seats. The game requires exactly four willing adult players.

Use and support

The purchaser may make reasonable printed copies for their own personal, family, classroom, meeting, team and internal-event use within the exactly-four-adult scope. Organizational use is internal to the purchasing organization. Do not share or upload digital files or download links, redistribute, resell, repackage or sublicense the files, or use them for paid or client-facing facilitated events without written permission. Printed pages are for the purchaser’s hosted activity, not standalone resale. Editable files and development sources, and rights to them, are not included.

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Preview the game and printing options

Tiny Table Market play overview: draw and return priority cards, choose and bid privately, reveal and award cards, then score after four rounds.
Tiny Table Market contents: two rules pages, sixteen item cards and four shopper dashboards, printed from one eight-page PDF.
Four Tiny Table Market print versions: A4 Standard, A4 Low Ink, US Letter Standard and US Letter Low Ink. Choose one and print at 100% or Actual Size.