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Lords of Vegas UP!

Building and managing Casinos

Players are managers and build casinos, trade building lots, play in other players' casinos and administrate their own. You win with most points and score when the colors of you own casinos are drawn, larger casinos yield higher scores.

In rounds roughly corresponding to a year a player turn consists of Drawing and Playing. At the start of the turn you draw a card and take over the corresponding lot. Such transfers are marked with dice set on tiles; their values correspond to influence values. Then you earn money from all lots you own and points from casinos mentioned on the card. It is interesting to know that you can only score in increments of two; that is if you score 3 points you advance one level, scores of 1 cannot be marked and not be added. In the Playing Phase you can build, sprawl, reconstruct, reorganize and play, in any order and everything more than once with the exception of play. After each action you must check casinos for ties in highest dice values, these dice must be rerolled. Anytime during the game you can trade with other players, with all commodities except points, casino tiles or promises for further actions.

The expansion introduces components for a 5^th and 6^th player and also tiles to add levels to casinos for more prestige and points. For 15 $ per tile you place a raise, you must always raise all parts of a casino.

Mechanisms and topic still fit together perfectly, a well-made mix of luck and tactics demands careful risk assessment, which in turn nicely transports the Casino flair, with additional challenges being provided by the trading and negotiations strengthening the Casino feeling.

Players: 2-6

Age: 12+

Duration: 90+

Designer: James Ernest, Mike Selinker 

Artist: Franz Vohwinkel

Price: ca. 26 Euro

Publisher: Mayfair Games 2014

Web: www.mayfairgames.com

Genre: Development, expansion

Users: With friends

Version: en

Rules: en

In-game text: no

Comments:

Expansion for Lords of Vegas

Needs Lords of Vegas to play

Now for up to six players

Casinos can now be given additional levels

Compares to:

Chinatown and other games on ownership of allotments

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 1

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0