What the Heck?

What the Heck? strips bidding down to its bones. Everyone holds the same fifteen cards, numbered one to fifteen. Each round a prize tile is drawn, worth anything from minus five to plus ten points, and everyone secretly picks one card and reveals it at once. For a good prize, the highest card takes it. For a bad one, the lowest card gets stuck with it. If two players tie for highest or lowest, they cancel each other out and the prize slides to the next in line. It is a tiny game of bluffing and second-guessing that takes about twenty minutes, and it is never as simple as it looks.