Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Easier to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
More strategic control
How it plays
How does it play?
Bid for African art while every number you play restricts which bids you may make in the auctions that follow.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Read the full game description
Serengeti is a compact auction game in which collectors compete for sets of African art cards. Players pay the winning bid to their opponents, so money continually circulates around the table. The twist is a restrictive bidding system: numbers visible in a player’s collection can make matching bids unavailable later, forcing the table to read both cash and card displays. Every lot changes the value of future opportunities, and a cheap purchase may be more useful for the bid it blocks than for the set it completes.
