Gamehelpfortheking

Setup

There are 5 offices in 2-4 player games and 6 with 5 players.
Each office's primary value start at 3 and their secondary value start at 1. There are no secondary values with 2 players.
Remove 22 cards with 2 players, 13 cards with 3 players and 8 with 4 players.

The game consists of 2 phases: share influnce and gain esteem.
Government cards represent the offices you can occupy. Their values range from 1 to 4.
At any time if you gain a king card, you must immediately use it to adjust the primary value of a office to a new value between 1 and 6.

Players take turns to be the advisor.
The advisor draws the top card from the deck and decide whether to put it in front of himself, in the middle, or on the favor deck.
Each place can only hold 1 card, except the middle can hold one card per opponent. The advisor draws until all places are full.
Then, each opponent gains one card in the middle of the table and add it to their hand.
If the deck is empty, start the gain esteem phase.

Reveal the top card of the favor deck. Starting with the first player, each player bid on the card.
The number bidded must be at least 1 and larger than the last bid value. If you pass, you cannot bid on the card.
The last bidder remaining must pay their bid. If the card is a king or government card, you pay with gold. Else you pay by discarding cards.
If you cannot pay, one of your cards is instead randomly discarded.
Repeat until the favor deck is empty. Then scoring takes place.

For each office, each player adds up the value of their respective government cards.
The player with the highest value gains the office's primary value while the second highest gain the secondary value (1/2 of the primary value, rounded down).
Ties are broken by alphabetical order on the cards.
The player with the highest score wins. In case of a tie, the tied player with the most gold wins, then the most blue cards (diplomancy).