Vegas was one of the original Cheapass Games, #029.
Release Year: 2000
Game Type: Board Game
Designer: James Ernest
Players: 3 to 6
Playing Time: 1 to 2 Hours
Components to Print: Board, Rules
You Also Need: A pawn and several counters for each player, three six-sided dice, approximately $10k in play money or chips, and one or two poker decks without jokers.
Welcome back to your favorite urban playground: Las Vegas, USA. You’ve got a free weekend, a free plane ticket, and five hundred hard-earned American dollars to toss around like Mardi Gras beads.
You know this city’s bright lights and mega-hotels are financed with the blood of a million suckers just like you. In fact, you’re looking a little pale yourself. But this weekend you’ll do whatever it takes to reclaim your long-lost wealth, even if it means staying up all night, downing a gallon of free gin, and even cheating once in a while when the casino isn’t looking.
So what if you get your knees broken. It beats another day at work.
James Ernest Writes Off Another Trip to VEGAS was Cheapass Games #029, and to be clear, it is not the brightest bulb in the marquee. But it did let James Ernest write off a few trips to Vegas, long before he planted hisself there for good.
Players run around this fanciful map of Vegas getting into trouble and playing casino games. As an added bonus, each casino lets you buy sweepstakes tickets, which is how they give away all their profits at the end of the game. This is the second-least reaslistic part of the game, next to cheating at all the games by playing the right cards from your hand.
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