The young monarch has no talent for governing. Take advantage of the king by taking on all the most prestigious government duties! Share cards, choose the most high-profile jobs...then experience an auction phase as belligerent as it is clever!

In For the King (and Me), you wish to become the most valuable minister by getting the right cards while lowering the value of your opponents' objectives. The game plays the same as the designer's earlier game Biblios, while permitting play with up to five people at once.

The game lasts multiple rounds with players first getting cards, then bidding for cards. During the collection phase, as the active player you take cards one at a time, keeping one for yourself, placing one in an auction pile, and placing the others face up for the other players to draft. Once you take a card, you can't take another, so sometimes it's difficult to decide when you want to take something. Once you've had multiple collection phases, the cards in the auction pile will be auctioned one at a time.

Some cards are worth points depending on their color, some are worth gold, and some allow you to manipulate the value of the various colors. Once all the cards have been auctioned, players will reveal their hands and tally their points to see who wins.