Reading opponents — trusting bids by character · spotting bait · pressure bids

Three rivals' bids by round — a jump in an ability round · a jump after a Device · an unfounded high bid in round 1 (bait)

How to use a rival's character and the Devices and bids they used each round in Going, Going, Gone! to decide whether to trust their bid, whether it's bait, and whether to make a pressure bid. Annotated screens show the round each character gets information and the moments when bids suddenly change.

In one line

Less the amount than what they saw that round — a lone high bid with no ability or Device behind it is hope or bait

What a rival's card shows

Who bid (character) · how much (amount) · on what basis (Device) — all public in the rival's card

Player cards — under the nickname: the character name · this round's amount · the Device used this round ("No item used" if none)
Round log — each player's amount and Device for every past round. Read the change in amount together with what they saw that round
Everyone sees the Auctioneer Public Intel — if everyone moved the same way in the round right after an Auctioneer line, it's because of public information, not anyone's secret
If only one player moved a lot, they saw something only they saw — that character's ability round or a Device
A rival who has finished bidding gets a bid marker (gavel) above their portrait — amounts only show when the round ends, but who bid first and who thought for a long time shows during the round

Auction Simulator UIPearl · R2 — highlighter = the rival's character. ① more than tripled in the round they used Collectible (Large) ② used the same Collectible (Large) and went down ③ doubled after Size (Medium)

Every figure in this article is laid out this way — the left cards show who, the middle table shows when and how much it changed, and what they used

The round each character gets information

A sudden change in bid = the round that character gets information

Character abilities are public rules — the rival's character alone tells you what that player can know right now
Rivals you'll meet often in 1.4 — Chiz 25% · Hotori 16% · Blackbird 23% · Haniel 14%

Rival	When information arrives	What they learn	Jump you can trust
Haniel	Start · every round from R2	5 silhouettes + rarities at the start → 2 rarities each round	From R1
Chiz	Start · R3	8 silhouettes → the identities of those 8 in R3	R3
Daffodill	Start	Total count of Purple · Gold · Red	R1 (when the count is high)
Hotori	R1–R3 · R5	The silhouettes of one type each round (type included) → in R5, every silhouette of collectibles whose rarity is known	The round that type opens · R5
Blackbird	R1 · R3 · R5	One of the six Fate's Prophecies	R3 · R5
Jiuyuan	Start · every round	Silhouette of 1 top-rarity piece → rarity + silhouette of 1 each round	Little by little
Edgar	Start	Rarity + silhouette of every White · Green · Blue	R1 (the cells left once the cheap ones are ruled out)
Adler	R1–R4	Every silhouette: White → Green → Blue → Purple	R4
Hathor	R5	The rarity of every collectible	R5

Rivals who can change suddenly — Chiz in round 3 · Blackbird in rounds 3 and 5 · Hathor in round 5 · Hotori in round 5. If the bid moves a lot in these rounds, they saw something new
Rivals who know from the start — Haniel · Chiz (silhouettes) · Daffodill (counts) · Edgar (the cheap pieces) — their round-1 bids have a basis too
Rivals who can't see for themselves until the end — Adler can't see Gold or Red with the ability, and Hathor has nothing until round 4. Early high bids from these two are guesses

Rounds where a Device was used

A jump or drop after an identity Device is real — after a shape- or color-only Device, only half so

Device the rival used	What they saw	Weight of that round's change in bid
Collectible (Mini–Mega) · Top Collectible	The identities of a few random pieces	Heaviest — up means they saw something valuable, down means something cheap
Average price · Total · Count · Slots	Numbers	An amount with calculation mixed in — close to the value
Rarity (Mini–Mega) · Type rarity	The colors of a few pieces	They may have seen a Red — but not its size
Size (Mini–Mega)	The silhouettes of a few pieces	They saw a big shape — not its identity
No item used	Ability · Auctioneer only	Weigh it by the information that character gets that round

First figure ① and ② — both used the same Collectible (Large), but one more than tripled and the other went down. Collectible (Large) shows 5 random pieces, so the two saw different things — both moved according to what they saw
③ doubled after Size (Medium) — they only saw a big silhouette, not its identity. Watch whether they use an identity Device next round
If the bid stays the same after an identity Device, it overlapped with pieces they already knew, or what they saw matched their guess

When the bid jumps without a Device

A jump with no item used is real only in that character's ability round

Auction Simulator UIChiz · R3 — ① 398,970 → 857,471 with no Device ② the other Chiz raised in R3 too

Chiz in round 3 — the identities of the 8 pieces whose silhouettes were seen at the start are revealed. If the bid more than doubles without a Device, something valuable is among those 8. Conversely, if it drops in round 3, all 8 were cheap
Chiz's round-1 and round-2 bids are silhouette guesses — don't follow a high bid in rounds 1–2; wait for round 3

Auction Simulator UIBlackbird · R3 — ① 393,604 → 622,041 with no Device ② after big round numbers, checked with Collectible (Large) and went down

Blackbird in rounds 3 and 5 — one of the six prophecies arrives. With ③ (3 collectibles) or ⑥ (top-rarity value) they know the value exactly; with ① (collectible count) it hardly changes. If the bid rises a lot without a Device, assume they got ③ or ⑥
Blackbird's round-1 high bid rests on just one prophecy — see whether it holds in round 3

Auction Simulator UIHathor · R5 — ① R4 712,054 → R5 1,264,744 (no Device) ② the winner is Hotori, whose silhouettes open all at once in R5

Hathor in round 5 — rounds 1–4 have nothing, so those bids are guesses. If the bid rises a lot after seeing every rarity in round 5, the board has many Red pieces
Round 5 is highest-bid-wins — Hathor's round-5 bid is a real value that can become the winning price as is
Hotori in round 5 — the silhouettes of every collectible whose rarity is known so far open at once (including rarities the Auctioneer revealed). A big jump in round 5 means they saw a big Red shape

Telling bait apart

A high bid in a round with no basis + a pullback the next round = hope or bait

Auction Simulator UIPearl · R2 — ① alone at 833,696 in R1, 301,526 in R2 after seeing identities ② 481,605 → 481,660 even after Rarity (Large)

① Did they see anything new that round? — no ability round and no Device, yet alone at the top: be suspicious
② Big round numbers — calculated amounts have scattered last digits. Numbers like 800,000 · 1,000,000 are often a preset cap or a probing value
③ If they see identities the next round and go down, the earlier bid was hope (first figure ②, figure above ①)
④ If the player who was alone at the top in round 1 holds in round 2, they had a basis — then follow
⑤ A bid that holds with a tiny change (+55) means what they newly saw matched their guess — that player's value is nearly settled
The price of taking the bait — if you trust an unfounded high bid and follow it up, the moment the rival drops out only your bid is left

Pressure bids — raising others' price with a price you won't buy at

Pressure bid = raising the price to collect the Bonus when someone else wins at a loss — the cost is the risk of getting stuck with it

Bonus — when the winner takes a loss, the others each get 10% of that loss (30% under Bonus Bonanza)

Bonus — the money the other players receive in a match where the winner took a loss — In-game — Bonus — the money the other players receive in a match where the winner took a loss

When a pressure bid pays — when a rival is already bidding above what you think the board is worth. If they buy even higher, their loss grows and so does your Bonus
Never go past the line where your bid would win that round — if everyone else drops out, your bid is the winning price (round thresholds in Part 4)
A pressure bid in round 5 is the same as buying — round 5 is highest-bid-wins, so your pressure bid becomes the winning price as is. Pressure bids only through round 4
Pressure bids barely work on rivals who know the board value (Chiz after round 3, Haniel) — they know the value and won't follow above it
Rivals who bid on guesses (Hathor and Adler through round 4) may follow, or suddenly drop out — if they drop out, you're stuck with it
Probing is a kind of pressure bid too — a price to see how others react (800K on the Eternal Heart in Coral and the like, Blackbird advanced). If a rival follows, they know the same thingEternal Heart1,314,520

Blackout — reading without amounts

Even with amounts hidden, ranks and Devices used are public — a fold shows as last place and an instant bid the next round

Auction Simulator UIBlackout · R2 — highlighter in the header = the condition. ① 1st through R1 and R2 ② the Devices used still show

If the same player is 1st every round, they value the board highest — weigh it by what that character can know
A round where the ranking changed = a round where someone saw something new — match it against that player's ability round and Device
With amounts hidden, pressure bids and bait don't work — bid on your own information only
Folds aren't marked separately — a player who folded just shows as last place (4th in a 4-player match)
Instead, the player whose bid marker appears the moment the next round starts is the one who folded — they're already out with nothing to think about, so there's no delay
So in a Blackout, watch who bid when along with the ranking — if last place bid instantly, they folded; if they took their time, they're still in

Each rival at a glance

The rival's character alone sets which rounds to trust and which to doubt

Rival	Round to trust	Bids to doubt	When it changes suddenly
Haniel	From R1	—	A little every round
Chiz	R3	High bids in R1–R2	R3
Daffodill	R1 (count)	A jump in R2 with no Device	—
Hotori	The round that type opens	Jumps unrelated to the type	R5
Blackbird	R3 · R5	High bid in R1	R3 · R5
Jiuyuan	A little each round	High bid in R1	—
Edgar	R1	—	—
Adler	R4	High bids in R1–R3	R4
Hathor	R5	All of R1–R4	R5

The table is a starting point — in a round where a Device was used, reweigh by that Device regardless of character