Dad's artwork

dad's artwork

There will be a game played sometime during July 4th after 2pm. The result of the game will be possession and ownership of dad's artwork

I have catalogued dad's artwork in a this spreadsheet. Not included are pieces in which alive family members are the subject. My assumption is those pieces will go to their subjects. Currently there are twenty six pieces in the catalogue. Megan will forward me photos of dad's work at the Copiague house and I will add them. So the catalogue will be of dad's artwork that could potentially be selected and given to family members. Then you will get a new version of this email with an updated link and siblings will get new invitations to edit.

If you know of any other of dad's artwork that should be in this catalogue please let me know and if possible send me a photo of it. Maybe there we be yet another version of the catalogue.

the game play

Ideally each sibling would get their first choice of artwork. Probably for that to happen we need to communicate with each other and try to have first picks that are not already coveted by another sibling. But that may not be the case. If, in a given round of choices, there are multiple people who want the same piece then some kind of coin toss will occur. The losers would somehow have their choices re-ordered (2nd becomes 1st, etc) until they get to an available piece. Once everybody has a piece from round 1 we go to round 2. Then we repeat until all the artwork has been distributed.

Jim's grandchildren

The spreadsheet has just the siblings names and is only editable by them but I hope that grandpa Jim's artwork will be available to his grandchildren. Grandchildren have viewing access to the catalogue. Grandchildren should let their parents know which pieces they would like. I would suggest that the siblings keep their first won choice and then rank their remaining choices to reflect the pieces your kids love. And then win them and give those pieces to them.

help

I NEED HELP IN FIGURING THIS OUT. Like how to do the math and how to do the coin toss.

the technicalities

There will be a number of rounds. A round is complete when each sibling bidding has a peice.

a sibling can sit out a round and not bid (maybe)

If a sibling has no additional choices then that sibling is no longer bidding

Round start with everyone's 1st choice. The next round uses the next choice

a typical round

For all the pieces with only one bidder

you keep that piece

tie breaking, random number generator

We will agree on one person to deal with the deck of cards. Shuffles then deals one card to each of the tied. Then the dealer turns them over one by one and the winner is the one with the highest value card AKQJ1098765432 with ties broken by SpadesHeartsDiamondsClubs.

The process will be repeated for all the other pieces of artwork with multiple bidders.