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Designed By	Henry Stern
Art By	David Hudnut Peter Whitley Scott Okumura
Published By	Avalon Hill (Hasbro)
Year Published	2005
# of Players:	3 − 5
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 5 players Recommended with 3, 4, 5 players (67 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	75 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	12 and up
User Suggested Ages	10 and up (10 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence	Moderate in-game text - needs crib sheet or paste ups (15 voters) [poll]
Category	Economic
Mechanic	Auction/Bidding Route/Network Building Tile Placement
Primary Name	Vegas Showdown
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Build your own hotel/casino by bidding against the other players to acquire tiles that represent slot machines, lounges, restaurants, and other casino-related places. Put those tiles on your player board, which represents your own customized casino. The tiles will allow you to increase your revenue, services, and fame.

The player who builds the most famous hotel/casino wins the game.

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Awards:

2007: Games Magazine Game of the Year

Online Play

http://www.gametableonline.com (Java)

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1	Sessions WBC final report	2009-11-01	efreeman	0
0	General Quality Control - Box Damage?	2009-10-28	Ahiksking	6
2	Rules Video - Instructions on how to play Vegas Showdown (In Hebrew)	2009-09-17	koby_shachar	0
6	Sessions 2-Player 2 Markers Per Player variant	2009-09-07	Osirus	2
26	Reviews A terrific auction game	2009-08-24	thepackrat	0
8	Variants More options in Vegas Showdown - External Facilities, Entertainers	2009-07-07	chrisbrandt	8
1	Variants Using Event deck to determine Starting Premier Tiles	2009-06-25	TaleSpinner	5
37	Reviews The game that I always walk away from satisfied...win or lose	2009-06-23	Blott	6
1	Rules Drawing Event Cards	2009-06-20	historyguy71	3
19	Reviews A Girlfriend's Perspective On: Vegas Showdown	2009-06-15	cerenycus	4

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PLAYER AID

Vegas Showdown small player aid in english

Sentieiro

2009-05-19

Teaching aid for Vegas Showdown - in Hebrew

המערך אינו הסבר ממצה של חוקי המשחק אלא אמצעי עזר לשחקן המסביר את חוקי המשחק לשחקנים חדשים

koby_shachar

2009-04-28

Customized Vegas Showdown Player Boards (HALVES) v1.0

These are both sides (10.25" x 8.25") of customized Vegas Showdown Player boards including bonus requirements, round action order, compressed income and occupancy grid, and building prerequisites. They are intended to be cut along the grey line and attached in the center. Designed for printing on standard 8.5" x 11" paper. Do not "fit to margins"

badgeguy

2008-11-08

Customized Vegas Showdown Player Boards (FULL) v1.0

These are full sized (10.25" x 16.00") customized Vegas Showdown Player boards including bonus requirements, round action order, compressed income and occupancy grid, and building prerequisites.

badgeguy

2008-11-08

Vegas Showdown Tuckboxes

This is a multi-page document with tuckboxes for the cards and all the tiles for the game. The boxes were created using graphics from here on BGG and the generator at http://tuckbox.gameupdates.com/.

Verkisto

2008-09-29

VS_Chinese Reference

Reference Card and Turn Order Card in Chinese.

wildjcrt

2008-08-10

VS_Chinese Card Translation

All Cards in Chinese.

wildjcrt

2008-08-10

VS_2 player variant in Chinese

Vegas Showdown 2 player variant in offical website article, I translate in Chinese. It's unoffical variant ,but great.

wildjcrt

2008-08-10

Vegas Showdown Scorecard

This is a sheet to tally up final fame points.

sigtaulefty

2007-12-05

Vegas Showdown Player Aid (1 page; version 2007-10-25)

One page summary of Vegas Showdown game rules needed once game is setup and play begins. Version 2007-10-25.

LetsGoRed

2007-11-02

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1637	The Definitive List of Board Game Videos and Interactive Tutorials	2007-08-12
750	Plays best with 2? 3? 4? 173? You tell me! Ultimate Optimum # of Players List (BGG Top 288)	2007-02-09
709	Board Games with Scott - Video Explorations	2007-02-21
622	The Generic Geeklist	2008-04-25
616	Top 150 Availability (updated 5th December '07)	2007-01-30
556	2008 Edition of Look what my Secret Santa sent me...	2008-10-29
436	A Tribute to Ameritrash	2006-09-19
431	"You Never Told Me That Rule!" -- Rules You Most Certainly Told Them.	2006-05-16
410	2007 Edition of: My Secret Santa Sent Me... (only received gifts)	2007-11-20

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Board Game Rank:	123
Num Ratings:	2896
Average Rating:	7.30
Standard Deviation:	1.11
Num Views:	83086
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Avg. Game Weight:	2.3
Fans:	19

Personal Comments:	1214
Users Owning:	3410
Users Wanting:	108
Users Trading:	207
Has Parts For Trade:	1
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Blog entry at Beware the Gazebo	http://www.dreadedgazebo.com/2008/12/vegas-showdow...	2009-10-15
English review from Gamers Alliance	http://www.gamersalliance.com/Winter%202006/vegass...	2009-09-18
Board Games with Scott - Vegas Showdown	http://www.boardgameswithscott.com/?p=4	2008-12-26
Played / Reviewed on The Spiel Episode #42	http://thespiel.net/?q=node/167	2008-02-18
Bruno Faidutti's ideal game library	http://www.faidutti.com/index.php?Module=ludothequ...	2007-05-15
Vegas Showdown Demo	http://www.wizards.com/avalonhill/vegas_showdown_d...	2007-03-18
Westpark Gamers review (in German)	http://www.westpark-gamers.de/Reviews/bericht235.h...	2007-01-14
Vegas Showdown: cartas de evento en castellano	http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dctx3933_625gnrf...	2006-11-04
Review on www.GoodGameGuide.de (in German)	http://www.superfred.de/vegasshowdown.html	2006-06-29
2 Player Variant	http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=ah/article/ah...	2006-05-12

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