Lords of Vegas FAQ
102 questions players ask · Updated Nov 13, 2026 · Full rulebook
Components, Setup and General
Who Owns What
Step 1: Draw
- If you draw a card for a lot an opponent sprawled into, what pip value does your die show?
- Must you take over a sprawled space when its card is drawn, or can you pass?
- If your drawn lot already has a tile but no die on it, must you place one of your dice there?
- What happens when you draw a lot you already own, with your own die on it?
- Do owned lots pay on every turn, including other players' turns and whatever card is drawn?
- When a Pay The Strip card is drawn, are whole casinos paid or only the tiles touching the Strip?
- What do the dice pictures on the casino cards mean?
Scoring
- In what order do you score several casinos paid on the same turn?
- How do points move the scoring marker past the breaks on the track?
- Can points from several casinos be combined to pass a scoring break?
- If a smaller casino cannot reach a scoring break, does it stop larger casinos from scoring?
- When a casino colour is drawn, who gets money and who gets victory points?
- What counts as the Strip when deciding which casinos are on it?
- On the End of Game turn, do owned lots pay before casinos score?
- On the End of Game card, do casinos that do not touch the Strip pay money or points?
Step 2: Play
Action - Build
Action - Sprawl
Action - Remodel
- Can a casino be remodelled more than once in a turn, even when another player pays for the remodel?
- Can the boss remodel a casino that contains other players' dice?
- Can you remodel only some tiles of a merged casino, or a casino you do not control?
- Where do the tiles go when a remodel swaps them out, and can they be placed again the same turn?
Action - Reorganize
- Can a die ever return to a casino tile that was emptied earlier in the game?
- After a reorganize, who decides which tile each rerolled die goes back on?
- Can you reorganize the same casino twice in one turn, or reroll the same die twice?
- Can you reorganize a merged casino if one of its dice was already rerolled this turn?
- Can you reorganize two separate casinos at once and redistribute their dice between them?
- Can you reorganize a casino where you have only one die, or where all the dice are yours?
- During a reorganize, can you look back through the played cards to remember where your sprawled lots are?
Action - Gamble
- How much can you bet when you gamble?
- If the boss cannot fully pay a winning gamble, what does the winner receive?
- Can a gambler bet more than the casino boss has in cash?
- Can you gamble at a casino where you own dice but are not the boss?
- How does the boss's lay-off of half a gamble bet work?
- Is laying off half a gamble bet part of the standard rules?
- Do the two gambling dice have to be your own?
- How much do you win on a gamble roll?
After Each Action: Reroll if Tied
At Any Time: Trading
- Can players trade with each other on another player's turn?
- What can players trade, and can you trade for another player's casino die?
- When a die is traded, does it keep its pip value, and can it come from outside a casino?
- Can you trade or sell an empty casino tile to another player?
- Can you trade an action, for money or for help funding a build or reorganize?
- Can you trade promises of future actions, exchanges or payments?
- Can several players each pay toward one action on the same turn?
- Can you trade for a lot, build on it, and trade the lot back in the same turn?
Winning
- If players are still tied on points after the money tiebreaker, who wins?
- Does a player who reaches 90 points win immediately during scoring?
- Are points and money paid when the End of Game card is drawn?
- When the End of Game card is turned up, does the active player still take actions?
- If two players both reach 90 points on the same scoring turn, who wins?
2-Player Rules
Lords of Vegas: AmericanaExpansion
- In a Tombstone showdown, who wins, and who draws replacement cards?
- In a Tombstone showdown, must each player beat the previous hand to play cards?
- Do poker kickers count when a Tombstone showdown is played with fewer than five cards?
- If a starting Tombstone property card is a blank during setup, what happens?
- In Tombstone, do the third and later blank cards drawn also pay out?
- Where do discarded poker cards go, and what happens when the poker deck runs out?
- Do several Atlantic City monopolies stack into a bigger sprawl discount?
- In New Orleans, when a boat-joined casino has stacks of different heights, how many risers does a sprawl add?
- How do players place their starting dice on the riverboats in Lords of New Orleans?
- What do the casino symbols on the New Orleans scoring track mean?
- In New Orleans, can the captain move the boat when the captain die is rerolled but captaincy does not change?
- How is a tie for boss between a joined land casino and a riverboat resolved?
- Can you pay the Ante in Tombstone partly with money and partly with poker cards?
- Does the Americana expansion work with the Mayfair edition of the base game?
- How do you set up Johnnie's starting casinos in Reno when a Strip or F card is drawn?
- Can Johnnie Reno reorganize a casino when only his dice are in it?
- Do Americana boats pay out twice, and can you move a boat before it pays?
- In New Orleans, can a casino sprawl from a riverboat, and when is a casino attached to the boat?
- Can a single new lot start a separate casino next to a taller casino of the same colour?
- Does sprawling off a casino that has a riser cost extra for the riser?
Lords of Vegas: UnderworldExpansion
- Can you own several copies of the same Underworld card?
- Can Underworld cards that let you roll dice roll any player's dice?
- How does the Time Share card's blank tenth casino tile work?
- Do risers count as tiles for The Big Score's bonus?
- Can points from a Private Jet count toward a casino's scoring barrier?
- Does the $1m taken off a Blackmail card go to the player or back to the bank?
- If you discard an Underworld card that has points printed on it, do you still score those points?
- What happens if a player cannot pay the Loan Shark?
- Do Luxury Casinos add to a casino's size for scoring, and how do they interact with score barriers?
- Can I pay another player to use their Private Jet card to score a point for me?
- What is a parking lot in Lords of Vegas: Underworld?
- Are the points on Underworld cards at game end subject to the scoring track's breaks?