Our expert plays a satirical art-sales game that leaves him feeling both rich and nostalgic Going, Going, Gone! is a Monopoly-style art collecting board game that came out before Covid-19 struck.
It seemed like something the family could happily spend a few hours playing together in lockdown, so I’ve just given it a test run with my wife – a former auction-house specialist in 19th-century paintings – and she has beaten me hands down.
The blurb asks you to imagine yourself as a billionaire who, as billionaires do, wants to assemble a more valuable collection than anyone else.
To compete, you buy and sell works of art, each one represented by a card with a picture and the name of the artist on it. There are 36 cards, split into nine