Vegas showdown board game

Put the reference charts near the game board in easy reach of all players. Shuffle the Event deck and put it face down next to the board. Choose a player to serve as the banker for the game.

That player puts all the money chips within easy reach. This pile of chips is the "bank". When a premier tile goes up for auction, put a Minimum- Bid marker on the matching space of its bidding track. This represents the number of patrons you can comfortably accommodate in your hotel-casino, based largely on the food services you offer.

Fit tiles with these symbols together to create diamond or partial diamond shapes, earning you bonus Fame at the end of the game. The first player the player with the Turn Order Button starts each turn by dropping the prices of each premier tile on the game board. To do so, move the Minimum-Bid marker for each premier tile on the board to the next-lower circular space skipping the next-lower square space.

For example, lower a marker that's on 18 to 12, not to For a 3-player game, leave the space marked " Players Only" empty for the entire game. In all other cases, fill an empty premier space on the game board by drawing 1 card from the Event deck.

Then, follow the instructions on that card, completing any actions it says to take. If an Event card says you can't bid on a certain type of tile or take a particular action this turn, put a No-Bid marker on the affected tiles or action as a reminder.

If you can't complete an action immediately, leave the card in play until you can complete it. Flip the top tile of the premier stack indicated by the symbol and fill an empty premier space with it. Then put a Minimum-Bid marker on the circular bidding- track number that matches the starting- bid price of the newly placed tile.

Repeat the tile-flipping process for each empty premier space. Discard completed Event cards face up next to the deck. If you can't replace a tile because no tiles of the indicated stack remain, then the game ends.

Starting with the player with the Turn Order Button, each player in clockwise order chooses one of the following actions:. Once you've chosen an action, you can't change that action unless you are outbid for a tile. To bid on a tile, put your Bid marker on the bidding-track space that shows the amount of money you want to bid for that tile. To bid for a premier tile, you must bid an amount equal to or greater than the price indicated by the Minimum-Bid marker for that tile.

To bid for a non-premier tile, you must bid an amount equal to or greater than the price indicated by the minimum-bid space in yellow. If another player has already bid on a tile you want to bid on, you must bid higher than that player. You can't bid a higher amount than your cash on hand, and you can't bid higher than the highest space on the bidding track. It's okay, however, to make a bid that's higher than the minimum-bid price to try to "lock out" other players from the tile.

Green bids 25 for a premier tile. Yellow outbids Green with a bid of Green has to wait until his turn in the player order before he can bid again or choose a new action. Each time you are outbid on a tile, you must wait for your turn to come up again in the player order. Then you pick up your Bid marker and choose an action again including bidding higher for the tile you were outbid on, if you want.

Bidding is complete once each player has taken an action and no players have been outbid for a tile. The second bidding track for Slots is used only in a 5-player game.

The two tracks are independent of each other and bids are made separately on them, making it possible for two players to purchase a Slots tile in a turn. Once bidding is completed, each player with a bid on a tile pays the bank the amount of the bid, then either places the tile on his or her hotel-casino sheet, or puts it to the side for later placement.

There's no limit to the number of tiles a player can have off to the side. If you purchase a tile but don't place it because you choose not to or you don't meet the prerequisites for it , you may instead place a tile onto your sheet that you had earlier put off to the side.

You can't place a premier tile if your hotel-casino sheet doesn't have any of the tiles shown above the premier tile on the Building Prerequisites reference chart.

On the chart, a tile and its prerequisites are connected by a white line. For example, to place a Fancy Slots tile, you must have a Slots tile on your hotel- casino sheet. The number next to each premier tile on the reference chart is the number of copies of that tile included in the game. You must be able to trace a route along an uninterrupted path of tiles from your yellow casino entrance to each yellow tile you place without passing through any tile walls.

The same rule applies for blue hotel tiles, but hotel tiles must connect to the hotel entrance. The same rule applies to green tiles, but green tiles must connect to either entrance. The Fancy Restaurant can't go next to the Lounge. It must be connected to the blue hotel entrance by an uninterrupted path of tiles without passing through any tile walls.

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